Rauf Mamedov and Gunay Mammadzada triumphed in the 2025 Azerbaijani championships, claiming their seventh and third national titles, respectively. The 2025 Azerbaijan Championships took place in the country’s capital, Baku, from February 1-14. Both open and women’s competitions were knockout tournaments (2-game matches with a tiebreaker if needed) with classical time control. The total prize…

World Championship Matches are the pinnacle of chess, and this year we will witness the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, featuring a highly anticipated rematch between two of China’s top Grandmasters: the reigning Champion, Ju Wenjun, and the Challenger, Tan Zhongyi. With regulations set to be finalized soon, here is all the information you…

Opening Master and FIDE Education Commission are calling all out STEM graduate degree students who would like to author an interesting BIG DATA chess science project. With a massive chess database like Opening Master OTB with 10.3 millions official human games, we are selecting three predictive analytics projects that could yield interesting results for further…