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May 11
The Budapest Gambit pack is now live in AmberChess.
After 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5, Black immediately fights for the initiative and takes White out of familiar territory.
Inside the pack:
⚔️ 600 annotated positions
♟️ practical plans for Black
🎯 coverage vs 4.Nf3, 4.Bf4, 4.e3 and 4.e4
📚 declined lines included
🔥 train it directly in AmberChess
A little chaos. A lot of initiative.
You can import it for free (1 free pack per user), or help us support AmberChess with $4.
amberchess.app/openings/buda…
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Jun 12
🇨🇳 IM Kong Xiangrui wins the Asian Individual Chess Championship 2026!
A huge result in a very strong field: 34 GMs, 51 IMs and players from 30 countries.
Kong scored 7/9 and took gold on tiebreaks after a four-way tie at the top, ahead of names like Xiao Tong, Tsydypov and Vetokhin.
Top seed Yu Yangyi finished half a point behind.
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Jun 11
🇮🇹 The Budapest Gambit pack is now available in Italian!
Il nostro pacchetto di aperture sul Gambetto di Budapest è ora disponibile in italiano: puoi importarlo gratis, modificarlo e allenarlo direttamente.👉
amberchess.app/it/aperture/g…
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Jun 10
Savitha Shri B is the new Asian Women’s Individual Champion 🏆
A huge result in Ulaanbaatar: 7.5/9, the title, and qualification for the Women’s World Cup 2027.
She "e4'd" all the way through the title, but, as an exception to the rule, in this tournament, with 400 games, 1.d4 was played more than 1.e4
Opening snapshots ofnthe winner and torunament:
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Jun 10
🇺🇸 Sam Sevian wins the Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2026
A strong 10-player field, average rating around 2657, with names like Nihal Sarin, Ray Robson, Artemiev, Aravindh, Sargissian and Donchenko.
Sevian finished on 5.5/9, tied with Artemiev but ahead on Sonneborn-Berger.
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🇺🇦 Anastasiia Hnatyshyn produced one of the standout stories of the 2026 European Women’s Championship.
Starting as the 76th seed, the 15-year-old Ukrainian scored 9/11 to win the title outright. Her tournament included a 6/6 start, a strong recovery after her only loss, and a key penultimate-round win that put her in control before the final day.
Beyond the title, her result earned her the WGM title, an IM norm, and a place in the Women’s World Cup.
A remarkable breakout performance, built on 1.e4 throughout the whole torunament.
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🇰🇿 Bibisara Assaubayeva wins Norway Chess Women 2026!
A very solid tournament: 6/10 and first place in one of the strongest women’s events of the year.
Her opening snapshot is also interesting:
As White, she was flexible:
• 1.d4 structures: 3/5
• 1.Nf3: 1/5
• 1.e4: 1/5
As Black, she faced 1.d4 in 4 of her 5 games and replied mostly with King’s Indian setups.
A practical, resilient repertoire for a very important win.
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Confirming the opening hypothesis from Norway Chess Men & Women 2026:
When elite players are strongly incentivized to win, 1.e4 may actually go down .
Small sample, yes. But now large enough to be interesting.
Now the women's torunament snapshot in the same line:
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Hans finally makes it into the Olimpiad. This year will be extremely interesting... USA, India, Uzbekistan (!!)...
Anybody else ? China maybe?
Jun 6
Looking forward to the UZ Chess Masters which starts tomorrow. I am also happy to announce that I will also represent the United States of America in the Olympiad later this year in Samarkand! Honored to finally represent my country!
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A first look at the Norway Chess 2026 Open openings under the new scoring system, where wins are heavily rewarded and draws clearly less attractive.
And the first result is… 1.d4 was played more often than 1.e4.
Contrary to the usual “1.e4 is the fighting move” narrative, when elite players really needed to play for a win, they seemed to trust 1.d4 a bit more.
Small sample, of course. But interesting
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🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa wins Norway Chess 2026!
From last place after Round 6 to tournament champion… with 4 consecutive classical wins to finish the event.
Firouzja. Carlsen. Gukesh. Keymer.
Nice comeback. Nice scoring system. Here goes Pragg's opening snapshot:
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On more important topics, we have now investigated the second major controversy of the match: Shirtgate.
Hans said Nepo wore “the exact same shirt and hoodie every single day.”
I’m not sure Hans got this one right either... Apparently the hoodie was not there in Day 1
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The issue is not only whether Nepo accepted the contract.
The promo video showed “$100,000” very clearly to me... Not an Aeroflot rumour. Not a misunderstanding.
Maybe Nepo knew the terms. But the audience was sold a different story.
That is not how you build trust. Not good.
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True, but Hans has just recognised that there was no 100kUSD even if Nepo had won.
As far as I know the real figure has not been published yet (?)
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Just two rounds to go, and finally the big comeback was from Pragg, who was last two rounds ago and now has good chances of victory playing white tomorrow. Great tournament so far
Only bad part... the confession room is barely used. Maybe mandatory next year?
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Wow...and Pragg goes for the Nh6 variation! Like we say in our course of French Defense in Attack Mode, this is perfectly playable at ALL levels, even vs Magnus in classical format!
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Magnus thinking... he should have taken our opening pack... it is free in our app!
This option is quite interesting. A practical, unconventional approach: develop the knight to h6 and accept structural imbalances for activity. If White avoids capturing, Black often gains fast central and kingside play with clear attacking plans.
Let's see how it goes!
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Pragg goes for the french vs Magnus and Magnus was clearly not expecting it, as he is taking some time to consider his options
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Opening snapshot of Norway Chess 2026 after round 7
Let's see if the different scoring format (3 points/win) does have an impact on the openings used
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Norway Chess 2026: 4 rounds to go.
Things can change fast with this Norway format!. Pragg was second 2 rounds ago and
All still with real options as there are up to 12 points still available for each player.
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