FIDE World Senior Team Championships Begin Monday in Prague
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new.uschess.orgHere are the latest publicly available highlights on the World Senior Chess Championship.
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The 2024 FIDE World Senior Championships were won in Porto Santo, Portugal, with four overall champions: Alexander Shabalov (Open 50+), Rainer Knaak (Open 65+), Masha Klinova (Women 50+), and Brigitte Burchardt (Women 65+) [source: Chess.com article on the 2024 event]. This event typically runs annually in late fall, with 50+ and 65+ age groups for open and women’s sections [FIDE pages and coverage around the 2024 edition].[1][2]
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Mid-2024 coverage noted the event progressing through its halfway mark, with leaders in the 50+ category (Shabalov and Krasenkow) highlighted as atop the standings during the Porto Santo Championship [FIDE update on Nov 21, 2024; ]. Final results were reported subsequently, confirming the four senior champions at the end of the tournament [Chess.com recap; ].
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Related team events (World Senior Team Championship) occurred earlier in 2024 in Krakow, where the United States won the 50+ team event and England won the 65+ team event, illustrating the broader senior chess competitive landscape around these championships [Chess.com team event recap; ].
What you may want next
- If you’d like, I can pull the latest official results from FIDE or the event’s dedicated pages for 2025 or 2026 (dates, venues, age-group winners, and final standings) and present a concise update with direct citations.
- I can also provide a short timeline of recent World Senior events (2019–2024) and how the winners have trended over time.
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- A quick snapshot table of recent Open 50+ and Women 50+ winners from the past two editions can be useful, but I’ll wait for your preference before generating a chart or table.