We arrived! 🇭🇰🌏 WR Chess Team is ready to fight for the World Championship in Hong Kong. On 16 June at 09:45 AM, the Rosewood Hotel will host the only official press conference featuring Magnus Carlsen during his stay in Hong Kong. For the first time ever, World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and World Championship Challenger Javokhir Sindarov will appear together at the same press conference. In addition, the entire WR Chess Team will be present: ♟️ Magnus Carlsen – Five-time World Champion and the highest-rated player in chess history. ♟️ Fabiano Caruana – Former World Championship Challenger and one of the strongest players of his generation. ♟️ Javokhir Sindarov – Official World Championship Challenger and one of the brightest young stars in world chess. ♟️ Wesley So – Fischer Random World Champion and one of the world’s leading grandmasters. ♟️ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave – Former World Blitz Champion and one of the most dynamic attacking players in modern chess. ♟️ Jan-Krzysztof Duda – World Cup winner and one of the strongest players in the world. ♟️ Alexandra Kosteniuk – Former Women’s World Champion and one of the most recognizable ambassadors of chess. ♟️ Aleksandra Goryachkina – Women’s World Championship Challenger and one of the strongest female players in the world. ♟️ H.E. Zandanshatar Gombojav – 34th Prime Minister of Mongolia and member of the WR Chess Team. ♟️ Jan Gustafsson – Team Captain, Grandmaster, commentator, and former second to Magnus Carlsen in World Championship matches. ♟️ Wadim Rosenstein – Founder of WR Chess and Chairman of WR Group Holding. Hong Kong is set to become the global capital of chess as the world’s best players gather for the FIDE World Team Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships 2026. We look forward to welcoming media representatives, partners, and chess fans from around the world. See you in Hong Kong. 🇭🇰🌏♟️ @MagnusCarlsen @FabianoCaruana @GMJSindarov @Zandanshatar @Vachier_Lagrave @GMJanGustafsson @chessqueen @WesleySo_ @GM_JKDuda

It is a great honor for me to have been nominated today as Germany’s Delegate within the German Chess Federation and to represent our country at the FIDE elections. 🇩🇪 Together with the new leadership of the German Chess Federation, we will represent Germany with strength, unity, and international visibility. Germany must serve as a model of structure, professionalism, and sustainable development in chess - while also helping other federations build strong structures and long-term perspectives for the future. Germany possesses one of the strongest school chess systems in the world, outstanding coaches, excellent tournament organization, and an infrastructure that sets international standards. With such strength also comes responsibility. Our goal must be to take a leading role in international chess - not only through sporting achievements, but also through organization, education, youth development, and international cooperation. We want to use Germany’s more than 150 years of chess tradition and experience to further develop chess worldwide, create new momentum, and actively help shape the future of our sport together with other nations and continents. Chess unites. Chess educates. Chess builds the future. 🇩🇪

Your experience in chess deserves a bigger stage! WR Chess is expanding globally - and we are building one of the strongest professional structures in international chess. We are looking for people who understand elite competition, international events, operations, partnerships, and the responsibility of moving our sport forward at the highest level. Our international team is already more than 50 professionals strong and continues to grow rapidly across the world. If you want to help build the future of chess — not watch it from the sidelines — we want to hear from you! Send your CV to jobs@wr-chess.com or contact me directly. Let’s talk!

Some of the most important lessons in my life didn’t come from business meetings or boardrooms. They came from sport. My father introduced me to boxing at a young age - not just how to throw a punch, but how to control myself. Discipline. Respect. Self-control. Focus under pressure. Later, I trained in karate, and over time developed a real passion for MMA. What always struck me was this: the best fighters are usually the calmest people in the room. They understand control, responsibility, and limits. Combat sports teach something many people forget: strength is not aggression. Real strength is discipline. You learn to stay composed when emotions rise. You learn to respect your opponent. And you learn that success comes from consistency - not excuses. It took me time to realise that the same principles apply far beyond combat sports. In chess, like in fighting, the biggest mistakes happen in moments of lost control. One second of impatience. One emotional decision. And the position changes completely. Different arena - same discipline. These lessons have stayed with me in business, leadership, and everyday life. Sport builds character. Combat sports reveal it. Chess tests it.

Dear Chess Friends, It gives me great pleasure to introduce the new WR Chess team for the 2026 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championship in Hong Kong. Since the founding of WR Chess, our vision has always been to bring together not only the strongest chess players in the world, but also outstanding personalities who truly believe in the educational, cultural, and unifying power of chess. This year, our team is led by World No.1 Magnus Carlsen and includes some of the greatest names in modern chess: Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Hou Yifan, and Alexandra Kosteniuk. I am especially pleased to welcome the newest member of WR Chess - the 7th Speaker and 34th Prime Minister of Mongolia, Arena International Master H.E. Zandanshatar Gombojav. His long-standing support for chess development and intellectual education in Mongolia reflects values that we deeply respect at WR Chess. I am confident that his presence will bring additional inspiration and international attention to our team and to the global chess community. With this exceptional lineup, WR Chess enters the 2026 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championship in Hong Kong this June as the No.1 ranked team in the competition. Please join me in warmly welcoming H.E. Mr. Zandanshatar Gombojav to the WR Chess family.