Chess Base

• FIDE World Cup QF - Live!

  The FIDE World Cup is taking place from 1 to 26 November at the Resort Rio in Goa, India. The knockout tournament features 206 participants, including world champion Gukesh Dommaraju alongside rating favourites Vincent Keymer, Anish Giri and Arjun Erigaisi. The top three finishers will qualify to the 2026 Candidates Tournament. | Follow the action live with expert commentary starting at 10.30 CET (5.30 ET, 15.00 IST)

• World Women’s Team Championship

  The 2025 FIDE World Women’s Team Championship will be held in Linares, Spain, one of the most iconic cities in world chess, from November 17 to 24, 2025. Just three days before the official opening ceremony of the championship, FIDE has confirmed the composition of the two competitive pools. The average ratings of the teams range from 2207 (Peru) to 2496 (FIDE).

• Pictorial: Anand-Kasparov showdown

  Ashwin Subramanian, Software Engineering Leader at Intel and lifelong chess enthusiast, was inspired to take up competitive chess after watching the 1990 Kasparov–Karpov match, with Anand becoming a huge inspiration from the very beginning! After Kasparov retired in 2005, he never imagined he’d get to watch him and Anand play competitively again... until St. Louis happened! Armed with his camera and decades of admiration, Ashwin captured the Anand–Kasparov showdown from just a few feet away and sent us these magnificent pictorial impressions from the Clutch Chess event.