Top German player, IM Elisabeth Pähtz, was recently invited to speak at the Digital Demo Day in Germany, in English, where she was asked to discuss the application of quantum computing on chess. She was later interviewed about her life as a chess player with questions on how it compares to Queen’s Gambit, but the […]
Monthly Archives: October 2021
The quarrel between Georg Meier and Elisabeth Paehtz last year turned into a serious dispute within the German Chess Federation. As a consequence, Georg Meier has transferred to the Uruguayan Chess Federation, as he had previously announced. | Photo: Grenke Chess
In a press release the organisers of the Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee 2022 just revealed the names of 13 of the 14 participants. It is a fantastic line-up with Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana as top seeds and exciting and young players such as Richard Rapport, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Andrey Esipenko, Daniil Dubov […]
On 10 October Nick Pert won the British Over-the-Board Championship 2021. In a video he nw walks us through the games he played in the Championship, explaining key positions, tactics and why and how he chose the openings he played. A fascinating look into the mind of a modern Grandmaster – including the first game […]
The 2021 FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss is set to take place from October 27 until November 7 in Riga, Latvia. An open tournament and a women’s tournament will take place concurrently, each an 11-round Swiss event. The participants’ main focus will be to finish in the top two places, as the tournaments grant two spots […]
On 26 November Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi will play the first game of their World Championship match in Dubai. A good opportunity to ask Daniel King about his work for the updated ChessBase Master Class about Carlsen, about Carlsen as a person, King’s favourite Carlsen game, and of course, King’s predictions for the match. […]
The Danish Championship, played in Svendborg on the island of Funen, ended on Sunday with the victory of Allan Stig Rasmussen. With a score of 7.0/9 the 37-year-old Grandmaster finished half a point ahead of Sune Berg Hansen and Jesper Søndergård Thybo, who shared second place. It was the fifth time Rasmussen won the title. […]
The Dutch Championship will be played in two stages this year. On Saturday, the three-round knockout phase was completed in the town hall of Hoogeveen. The field of participants was thereby reduced from 16 to 4, who will determine the new champion in a double round-robin quadrangular in Rotterdam at the end of November. The […]
The Saemisch Variation is a very stable response to the King’s Indian Defence. And the Benoni can also be answered with the same setup and the same underlying ideas. Jan Werle presents the white setup thoroughly on his DVD. Philipp Hillebrand has looked at the FritzTrainer just as thoroughly!
The Spanish Team Chess Championship ‘División de Honor’ took place on October 11-17 in Toledo. DuoBeniaján, a team from Murcia headed by David Antón and Parham Maghsoodloo, got first place after obtaining 12/14 match points in the 8-team single round robin. Bosch Serinsys (Anton Korobov, Alexei Shirov) and Andreu Paterna (Paco Vallejo, David Howell) finished […]