Last Tuesday, 30 November 2021, the English Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose died at the age of 88. In the 1950s and 1960s Penrose was the best British player, and he became internationally famous when he defeated the reigning World Champion Mikhail Tal at the Chess Olympiad in Leipzig 1960.
Monthly Archives: December 2021
Traditionally, small presents are made on Saint Nicholas Day, 6 December. A nice custom, and today we’re giving away a 60 Minutes course by Robert Ris on a current and sharp variation in the Vienna Game. Anyone who has a ChessBase account and logs in or creates a ChessBase account today will find the 60 […]
Magnus Carlsen now has a two-point lead at the World Championship match in Dubai, after beating Ian Nepomniachtchi’s Petroff Defence in Sunday’s game 8. Nepo made a couple of inexplicable moves in positions that seemed to be all but forcefully heading to an inevitable draw. Find here the crucial encounter analysed by elite grandmaster and […]
Wonder how it looks inside the arena where the World Championship match is taking place? In a big pictorial report, correspondent Venkatachalam Saravanan lets us feel the ambience surrounding the most important chess event of the year. Not to be missed! | Photo: Eric Rosen / FIDE
After a gruelling fight on Friday, Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi played a rather uneventful game at the World Championship match in Dubai. The 41-move draw they signed marks the halfway point of the event, as Nepo now has seven games tu surmount the one-point deficit on the scoreboard. Saturday’s encounter was analysed by Dutch […]
Magnus Carlsen is leading the World Championship match against Ian Nepomniachtchi after scoring a memorable win. In our fourth and final instalment of Carlsen’s previous matches, we look at his 2018 confrontation against Fabiano Caruana. For the first time in a match for the crown, all the classical games finished drawn. The defending champion won […]
In what will surely be remembered as a highlight of World Chess Championship history, Magnus Carlsen defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi in a 136-move marathon which included missed chances, deep time trouble and a number of subtle manoeuvres worthy of a combat for the highest prize in the world of competitive chess. Find here the fantastic encounter […]
Game number 6 of the World Championship in Dubai, left Carlsen with two rooks against Nepomniachtchi’s Queen. Such material imbalances occur frequently. But do you know how much better two rooks are against a queen? What about a rook against two minor pieces in the middle game? Or even three minor pieces vs. a queen? […]
As part of the Expo2020 in Dubai, the Spanish Pavilion organised a large tournament with schools from all over the world. The best teams of the online preliminaries were invited to Dubai. Favourite to win was the team Velammel Nexus from India that started with three grandmasters. The Indians won indeed but in the final […]
World Champion Magnus Carlsen is currently playing in Dubai to defend his title, but in this episode of “Svitlana’s Smart Moves” we will talk about another World Champion: Garry Kasparov, Svitlana’s favourite player. With two fine games by Kasparov – against Anand and against Bareev – Svitlana shows us why good old gambits are still […]