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Vincent Keymer competes in the European Club Cup
The European Club Cup (ECC) is the chess equivalent of the Champions League in football. The strongest teams in Europe and the best players in the world compete in the seven-round race in order to...

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Lasker Chess Foundation Senior World Champion
From September 19th to September 28th, 2023, the Senior World Team Championship took place in North Macedonia, divided into 2 age groups, Seniors 50+ and 65+. A number of German teams were present...

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Keymer defeats Niemann, loses to Caruana
From September 25th to 29th, the AI Cup will take place online as part of the Champions Chess Tour. The Champions Chess Tour is the most important online tournament or tournament series, for whi...

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Hans Niemann controversy enters the next round
At the end of August, news broke that the dispute between chess.com/Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann had been settled. But the issue seems to be moving into the next round. In September 2022, Niema...

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Schach in die Kitas!
Es ist nie zu spät, um mit Schach anzufangen - aber auch nie zu früh! Kitakinder, die die Grundzüge des Schachspiels lernen, profitieren in vielerlei Hinsicht davon. Schach fördert nicht nur die a...

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Reinhard Ahrens new Vice-President of the German Chess League
Reinhard Ahrens is an institution in Hamburg chess. Treasurer of the Hamburg Chess Club since 1991, and team captain of the first Bundesliga team since 2008, he and Christian Zickelbein are the de...

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German national players in Polish Ekstra Liga
There are two highlights for the German national players in October and November. The first will take place at the end of October on the Isle of Man. The strongest Swiss system tournament in the w...

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Prinzen, Powergirls - und danach?
Nach der Schacholympiade in Dresden 2008 wurde die Prinzengruppe gegründet. Hanna Marie Klek, Filiz Osmanodja, Matthias Blübaum, Dennis Wagner, Rasmus Svane und Alexander Donchenko waren die erste...

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Junior World Championship in Mexico with 4 German participants
If you look at the youth world championships internationally, they are divided into three categories: Cadet World Championship (U8 to U12), Youth World Championship (U14 to U18) and the supreme dis...