1. As clearly stated in Article 1 of FIDE's statutes, FIDE rejects discriminatory treatment for national, political, racial, social or religious reasons or on account of gender. According to the same statutory provision...
In round 1, the two Dutch participants in this year's Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Anish Giri and Jorden Van Foreest, lost with the white pieces. No problem: they promptly won with the black pieces in round 2.
The first round of the 2019 Tata Steel tournament ("Wijk aan Zee") was a good one: there was plenty of fight, and the oddest statistic is that the two shortest games in the round were the wins. Viswanathan Anand crushed bottom seed Jorden Van Foreest...
Ian Nepomniachtchi caught Anish Giri completely by surprise in using the Pirc Defence and Giri never seemed comfortable.
That's tomorrow for those of you in the U.S. of A., though not for long, and it's already today for most of the world. More precisely, the games (or at least the broadcast) of the 2019 Tata Steel Chess Tournament begin at 1:30 p.m. local time in the Netherlands...
Seven-eighths of the qualification procedure remains in place for the next Candidates event, which will take place in 2020. Fabiano Caruana is still qualified as the loser of the last World Championship match...