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- 1st European Online Chess Club Cup will be played within three stages: Qualification phase (27th-28th of March) – Groups consisting of 8 or 10 teams, each, play the Robin round event of 7 or 9 rounds. Groups will be divided according to the average rating of the four (4) basic players, with FIDE March 1st, 2021 list taken in account.
- GM IM Norm Invitational Chess Tournament. Grandmaster and International Master Norm Invitational - Chess Tournament - Charlotte Chess Center. Norm Invitational is round robin tournament for players who has rating closed each other, and for GM/IM Invitational is where some player mayget norm for thier title.
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2021
US Chess / ICC Rapids February 6-7 - Online Event via ICC (chessclub.com)
Contact: Pete Karagianis, pete.karagianis@uschess.org
2021 U.S. Amateur Team Championship - East February 13-14 - Online Event via ICC (chessclub.com)
Contact: NJSCF - Noreen Davisson email: noreenchess@gmail.com or esdoyle@aol.com
2021 U.S. Amateur Team Championship - North February 20-21 - Online Event – via chess.com
Contact: Chess Weekend, Glenn Panner email: glenn@chessweekend.com Register online at: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/usatn2021
2021 U.S. Amateur Team Championship - South February 27-28 - Online Event - Online provider ICC.com
Contact: Texas Chess Association, Inc., Franc Guadalupe flguadalupe@aol.com or Renate Garcia renategarcia1@gmail.com
2021 All-Girls National Championship April 23-25 (CANCELLED)
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
Chicago, IL 60616
(312) 567-1234 or (877) 803-7534
HR: $169 Single/Double/Triple/Quad
SUPERNATIONALS VII May 7-9 (CANCELLED)
Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center
Nashville, TN 37214
(615) 889-1000 or (888) 777-6779
2021 U.S. Junior Open Championship June 4-6
Sheraton Fairplex Hotel & Conference Center
601 W. McKinley Ave.
Pomona, CA 91768
(888)627-8074 - refer to 'US Chess Junior/Senior Tournament' if calling
HR: $169 single/double - Cutoff date: May 12, 2021
2021 U.S. Senior Open Championship June 4-6
Sheraton Fairplex Hotel & Conference Center
601 W. McKinley Ave.
Pomona, CA 91768
(888)627-8074 - refer to 'US Chess Junior/Senior Tournament' if calling
HR: $169 single/double - Cutoff date: May 12, 2021
2021 National Open - June 16-20 - Las Vegas, NV - additional details coming.
2021 U.S. Women's Open - June 16-17 - Las Vegas, NV - additional details coming.
2021 U.S. Game/10 Championship - July 16 - Charlotte, NC - additional details coming.
2021 U.S. Game/30 Championship - July 17 - Charlotte, NC - additional details coming.
2021 U.S. Game/60 Championship - July 18 - Charlotte, NC - additional details coming.
2021 U.S. Class Championships July 23-25
DoubleTree by Hilton
15747 John F. Kennedy Blvd.
Houston, TX 77032
(855) 610-8733
HR: $89 (plus applicable taxes) until June 21, 2021
2021 U.S. Open July 31-August 8
Crowne Plaza Philadelphia-Cherry Hill
Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
(888) 233-9527
HR: $119
2021 62nd Annual US Armed Forces Open Chess Championship - October 8-11
Great Wolf Lodge
100 Great Wolf Drive
Grapevine, TX 76051
(844) 554-9653
Event Contact: Jim Hollingsworth, texasarmedforceschess@gmail.com, (817) 779-0640
NOTE: Restrictions since this is not open to just anyone: Active Duty, Military Retirees, Cadets, Midshipmen, College ROTC, Mobilized, and all other honorably discharged veterans. Show military ID card, DD 214, or Veterans Affairs ID card.
2021 National K-12 Grade Championships December 3-5
Rosen Shingle Creek
9939 Universal Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32819
(866) 996-6338 or (407) 996-6338
HR: $129 - Cutoff date: November 8, 2021
2022
2022 National High School (K-12) Championship, April 8-10
Memphis Cook Convention Center
Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel
250 N. Main St.
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 527-7300
HR: $151 - Cutoff date: March 11, 2022
2022 National Junior High (K-9) Championship, April 29-May 1
Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center
1501 Gaylord Trail
Grapevine, TX 76051
(817) 778-1000
HR: $159 Single/Double/Triple/Quad
2022 National Elementary (K-6) Championship, May 13-15
Playing Site: Greater Columbus Convention Center
400 North High Street
Columbus, OH 43215
Tournament hotels:
Columbus Hyatt Regency
Hilton Columbus Downtown
Crowne Plaza Columbus-Downtown
Drury Inn & Suites Columbus Convention Center
(all are attached to GCCC).
2022 U.S. Open, July 30-August 7
Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort & Spa
71333 Dinah Shore Dr.
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
(888) 627-7086 or (760) 328-5955
HR: $139/139 Cutoff date: July 8, 2022
2022 National K-12 Grade Championships, December 9-11
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
201 Waterfront St.
National Harbor, MD 20745
(301) 965-4000
HR: $159/159 Cutoff date: November 12, 2022
2023
2023 National High School (K-12) Championship, March 31-April 2
Washington Hilton
1919 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 483-3000
HR: $179 single/quad - Cutoff date: March 13, 2023
2023 National Junior High School (K-9) Championship, April 21-23
Kalahari Resorts & Conventions
3001 Kalahari Drive
Round Rock, TX 78665
Rate: $179 single/double/triple/quad
2023 National Elementary (K-6) Championship, May 12-14
Playing Site: Baltimore Convention Center
1 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Tournament hotels:
Hilton Baltimore
Sheraton Innter Harbor Hotel
Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor
Note: all are attached to Baltimore Convention Center
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2023 U.S. Open Championship, July 29-August 6
DeVos Place
Amway Grand Plaza Hotel
187 Monroe Ave. N.W.
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
(800) 253-3590
HR: $144 single/double/triple/quad - Cutoff date: June 26, 2023
2023 National K-12 Grade Championships, December 15-17
Washington Marriott Wardman Park
2660 Woodley Rd. NW
Washington, DC 20008-4106
(202) 328-2000
HR: $149 single/double/triple/quad - Cutoff date: November 20, 2023
2024
2024 National Elementary (K-6) Championship, April 26-28
Playing Site: Greater Columbus Convention Center
400 North High Street
Columbus, OH 43215
Tournament hotels:
Columbus Hyatt Regency
Hilton Columbus Downtown
Crowne Plaza Columbus-Downtown
Drury Inn & Suites Columbus Convention Center
(all are attached to GCCC).
2024 National Junior High School (K-9) Championship, May 10-12
Hyatt Regency Atlanta
265 Peachtree St. NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
HR: $169 single/double/triple/quad
2024 U.S. Open Championship, July 27-August 4
Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel
777 Waterside Drive
Norfolk, VA 23510
(757) 622-6664
HR: $144 single/double
2024 National K-12 Grade Championships, December 6-8
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
201 Waterfront St.
National Harbor, MD 20745
(301) 965-4000
HR: $159/159 Cutoff date: November 12, 2024
2025
SuperNationals VIII, May 9-11
Playing Site: Orange County Convention Center, West Concourse
9800 International Drive
Orlando, FL 32819
Tournament hotels: (all attached to the OCCC)
Rosen Centre
Rosen Plaza
Hyatt Regency Orlando
Hilton Orlando
2025 National K-12 Grade Championships, December 12-14
Washington Marriott Wardman Park
2660 Woodley Rd. NW
Washington, DC 20008-4106
(202) 328-2000
HR: $155 single/double/triple/quad - Cutoff date: November 17, 2025
2026
2026 National High School (K-12) Championship, March 27-29
Sheraton Grand Chicago
301 E. North Water St.
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 464-1000
HR: $179 single/double/triple/quad
Measuring Impact: US Chess at a Glance
Magnus Carlsen will defend his world chess championship title against the challenger in 2021.Results Club Cup Chess 2021 Tournament
The 2020 World Chess Championship match was postponed until 2021. It has now been announced for November 24-December 16, 2021, and will be held alongside the World Expo in Dubai, UAE.
The championship will be played between reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen and a challenger, coming from the 2020 Candidates Tournament. Unfortunately, the second half of the Candidates Tournament was postponed on March 26, 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's travel restrictions. FIDE currently plans to complete the Candidates Tournament in the second half of April 2021.
In this article, you will find all of the information that is known so far.
How To Watch On Chess.com
Chess.com acquired the rights and is an official broadcast partner. A special page will be created on Chess.com where you'll be able to follow the live moves with computer analysis, live chat, and video commentary by (grand)masters and special guests.
Daily news recaps will be posted on the Chess.com news pages with an in-depth grandmaster analysis of the games. Further recap videos will be published on YouTube with more GM analysis.
On Facebook and Twitter, we will provide the latest news, photos, rumors, and more from the world championship.
Players
One player is known already. Magnus Carlsen (Norway) is the reigning world champion, who will be defending his title. He is 29 years old and has held the title since 2013 when he defeated then world champion GM Viswanathan Anand of India.
Carlsen is known as one of the biggest chess talents that ever lived. He became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days. He has won numerous tournaments and has been the world number one player continuously since 2011.
Carlsen's challenger will be the winner of the 2020 Candidates Tournament, originally scheduled for March 11-April 5, 2020 in Yekaterinburg, Russia. As mentioned, the Candidates Tournament was postponed after seven rounds. At the halfway point, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi are leading the event with 4.5/7. Here are the current standings:
| # | Fed | Name | Rtg | Perf | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Score | SB |
| 1 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 2767 | 2876 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 4.5/7 | 15.25 | ||
| 2 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | 2774 | 2875 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 4.5/7 | 14.25 | ||
| 3 | Caruana, Fabiano | 2842 | 2764 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 3.5/7 | 12.25 | ||
| 4-5 | Giri, Anish | 2763 | 2775 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 3.5/7 | 11.25 | ||
| 4-5 | Wang Hao | 2762 | 2775 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 3.5/7 | 11.25 | ||
| 6 | Grischuk, Alexander | 2777 | 2773 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 3.5/7 | 12.25 | ||
| 7 | Ding Liren | 2805 | 2667 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 2.5/7 | 8.25 | ||
| 8 | Alekseenko, Kirill | 2698 | 2683 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 2.5/7 | 9.25 |
(Tiebreaks: 1. Mutual score, 2. Number of wins, 3. Sonneborn-Berger.)
Fabiano Caruana (27)Fabiano Caruana (2842, USA) qualified as the runner-up in the 2018 World Championship. He won the Candidates Tournament in 2018 and eventually lost to Carlsen in the title match. Caruana came second in the 2016 Candidates Tournament behind Sergey Karjakin. |
Ding Liren (27)Ding Liren (2805, China) qualified as the runner-up in the 2019 FIDE World Cup. This is his second time he will play a Candidates Tournament; in 2018, the Chinese GM came fourth with 13 draws and one win. |
Alexander Grischuk (36)Alexander Grischuk (2777, Russia) qualified as the winner of the 2019 FIDE Grand Prix. He played Candidates Matches in both 2007 and 2011. In both the 2013 and 2018 tournaments, he tied for fifth place with 6.5/14. |
Ian Nepomniachtchi (29)Ian Nepomniachtchi (2774, Russia) qualified as the runner-up of the 2019 FIDE Grand Prix. He is playing his first Candidates Tournament. |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (29)Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2767, France) is a replacement for Teimour Radjabov, who withdrew from the tournament after his request to postpone the tournament due to the coronavirus was not granted. MVL is playing his first Candidates Tournament. |
Anish Giri (25)Anish Giri (2763, Netherlands) qualified as the player with the highest average rating for 12 rating periods from February 2019 to January 2020. It's the second Candidates Tournament for the Dutchman; he tied for fourth place in 2016 with 14 draws. |
Wang Hao (30)Wang Hao (2758, China) qualified as the winner of the 2019 FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss. He is playing his first Candidates Tournament. |
Kirill Alekseenko (22)Kirill Alekseenko (2704, Russia) is the wildcard. He was eligible to be selected as a wildcard due to placing third in the 2019 FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss. He is playing his first Candidates Tournament. |
The regulations state that if the world champion or the challenger withdraws from the 2020 title match, he will be replaced by the runner-up of the Candidates' tournament. If any further replacement is needed, the average rating from the 12 FIDE standard (classical) rating lists from August 2019 to July 2020 is used, and the player with the highest average rating qualifies.
Dates And Location
The match will be held November 24-December 16, 2021 alongside the Dubai World Expo. It was supposed to start on December 20, 2020, in Dubai, UAE but got postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The match was originally planned to be held alongside the Dubai Expo, which was postponed.
Prize Fund
The prize fund will be $2 million. The winner will earn 60 percent of the prize fund, and 40 percent will go to the runner-up. If the match ends in a tie after 14 games and a tiebreak will decide matters, the winner receives 55 percent and the runner-up 45 percent.
Before the start of the match, each player receives two hundred thousand euros as an upfront payment of his eventual prize money. If the match is played in the country of one of the players, then the foreign player receives one hundred thousand euros of the prize fund and the remaining prize money is shared as stated above.
Live Games
Chess.com will relay the games live on a special landing (to be announced) and provide a live video broadcast at Chess.com/TV, Twitch.tv/chess and Youtube.com/Chess where a team of (grand)masters will bring you the latest insights, instructive explanation of the moves, interviews, behind the scenes and more.
After each game, you will find detailed news reports by our authors @MikeKlein, @PeterDoggers and our photographer Maria Emelianova (@misslovalova).
Regulations
The official regulations can be found in PDF here. These are most important things to know:
- The match will be played over 14 standard games. When someone reaches 7.5 points, he wins.
- At the opening ceremony, a drawing of colors determines who will start with the white pieces.
- The time control is 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 61.
- If the scores are level after the regular 14 games, four tie-break games will be played. These are rapid games with 25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds after each move.
- If it's still equal, two blitz games will be played (5 minutes plus 3 seconds increment). If it's still equal, a second pair of two blitz games will be played. If there is still no winner after five such matches, one sudden-death game will be played. The player who wins the drawing of lots may choose the color. The player with the white pieces shall receive 5 minutes, the player with the black pieces shall receive 4 minutes whereupon, after the 60th move, both players shall receive an increment of 3 seconds starting from move 61. In case of a draw the player with the black pieces is declared the winner.
- The players cannot draw a game by agreement before Black's 30th move. A claim for a
draw before Black's 30th move is permitted only through one of the arbiters in
the cases of a threefold repetition.
History Of WCC
The world championship of chess has a long tradition. The first official match was held in 1886 between Johannes Zukertort and Wilhelm Steinitz. The latter won and became the first official world chess champion in history. Emanuel Lasker (Germany), Jose Raul Capablanca (Cuba), Alexander Alekhine (Russia/France) and GM Max Euwe (Netherlands) subsequently took the titles by beating the reigning champions in a match.
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Alekhine won back the title but due to his death in 1946, it became vacant. FIDE organized a tournament in 1948 which was won by GM Mikhail Botvinnik (Soviet Union), who then lost his title but successfully won it back in matches against compatriots GM Vasily Smyslov and GM Mikhail Tal. After losing to GM Tigran Petrosian, Botvinnik lost the right for an automatic return match and stopped participating in the world championship cycle.
GM Boris Spassky defeated Petrosian, but with him the Soviet hegemony ended as GM Bobby Fischer (USA) famously won the Match of the Century in 1972 in Reykjavik.
Because FIDE didn't accept all of Fischer's demands for a match with GM Anatoly Karpov in 1975, Fischer refused to play and forfeited his title. Karpov was declared world champion. The Russian GM remained world champion for 10 years, when he lost his second match to GM Garry Kasparov in 1985 after the first had been terminated a year earlier by FIDE when there was still no decision after 48(!) games.
Kasparov won three more matches with Karpov but then stepped away from FIDE and played three matches under the newly founded Professional Chess Association (PCA). He defeated GM Nigel Short and GM Viswanathan Anand but lost to GM Vladimir Kramnik in 2000, who thus is considered to be the 14th classical world champion.
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Karpov, GM Alexander Khalifman, Anand, GM Ruslan Ponomariov, GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov and GM Veselin Topalov won world titles in official FIDE events in the 1990s and 2000s, but these titles have been disputed because e.g. Kasparov and Kramnik did not participate, and they didn't follow the tradition of one-to-one matches.
Meanwhile, Kramnik defended his title in 2004 against GM Peter Leko and then won a 'reunification match' against Topalov in 2006. Anand took over the title from Kramnik in a tournament in 2007 in Mexico, and subsequently defended it successfully in matches against Kramnik in 2008, Topalov in 2010 and GM Boris Gelfand in 2012.
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated Anand in 2013 in Chennai and successfully defended his title against the same opponent in 2014, against GM Sergey Karjakin in 2016 and against Fabiano Caruana in 2018.