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...Then, England were three times silver medallists behind the Soviet Union at the biennial Olympiads....
...’s best-known commentator David Howell; and Lichess, where England’s Matthew Sadler leads the team....
...At the London Classic in December, he finished third behind England’s Michael Adams....
...The only British player with a possible chance of 2725 is the new England No1, the former Russian Nikita Vitiugov, 37, who is currently rated 2685 but had a peak rating of 2751 in 2019....
...In past decades the top boards would sometimes be future England players showcasing their talents, though not always successfully: in both 1929 and 1930 the Cambridge top board hung his queen in the opening...
...There were also two significant successes at Cambridge for England’s fast rising pre-teen girl talents....
...Carlsen had prepared specially for the event with a training camp in Spain along with England’s David Howell, so was disappointed with his early results, but he did win a 19-move brilliancy of his own....
...For Hastings to make more progress towards its former eminence, the participation of some or all of England’s Olympiad quintet of 2700 and 2600 GMs is important....
...England women finished 13th, their seeding position, at Budva....
...The best of them, Shreyas Royal, 14, is closing in on an age record as England’s youngest grandmaster....
...England are seeded fourth, higher than usual, at the European teams that have just begun at Budva, Montenegro....
...In the penultimate round, Sivanandan defeated an IM for the first time when she beat the England women’s coach Lorin D’Costa....
...In particular, the event is an opportunity for England’s new No1 Nikita Vitiugov, who emigrated from Russia two years ago and now has his home in East Anglia....
...As seniors, they led England’s over-50 and over-65 teams to gold medals at the 2022 world championships....
...England women beat Finland 2.5-1.5, while China women, paired up to England 1, lost 0-4 — a swing of 6.5 points that gave England women victory by just half a game point....
...Long ago in the 1970s England had a similar model and reached No2 nation behind the former Soviet Union....
...Additional reporting by Andrew England and Joe Daniels...
...Meanwhile, England has hopes of two world champions in the Fide world seniors, now in progress at Terrasini, Sicily, Italy....
...Despite all these successes, England women’s chess still lacks numbers, with typically 5-10 per cent of tournament entries....
...Nikita Vitiugov, the current world No 25 and the 2021 Russian champion, has transferred to England....
...The group’s best players became England’s first grandmasters, won Olympiad silver medals behind Soviet gold and wrote dozens of books....
...England over-50 women’s team also won gold, England over-65 silver, and England over-50 B bronze in the tournament at Swidnica, Poland....
...The world body Fide ranks England only 18th among the strongest nations in the open category, and 24th among women....
...In this weekend’s semi-final (Saturday and Sunday at midday on major chess websites, with live commentary by England’s David Howell) Carlsen faces the World Cup’s giant-killler and hometown favourite Nijat...
...Fernandez, 28, Grieve, 22, and Wadsworth, 23, are England’s rising stars. Grieve won the championship in 2022, while both Fernandez this year and Wadsworth last year had near-misses....
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