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Monthly Archives: March 2022
Richard Rapport and Anish Giri will enter the last round of the preliminaries at the Belgrade Grand Prix with 1-point leads in their respective pools. Rapport scored a crucial win on Sunday, as he got the better of Vidit Gujrathi with the black pieces. In the same group, Alexei Shirov obtained his first win of […]
For those who haven’t recently done any calculation training, there is the Calculation Training Booster. After all, every chess brain needs regular stimulation, as you don’t want to become a lazy player – avoiding calculating critical variations or simply failing to calculate properly.
In the opening rounds of the Belgrade Grand Prix there were two splendid instances of defensive queen sacrifices. These remarkable efforts set Jon Speelman thinking about defence in general. He thus turned to one of his favourite books, The Middlegame by Max Euwe and Hans Kramer, and cherry-picked a couple of games from the chapters […]
Seven out of eight games finished drawn in Friday’s fourth round of the preliminaries at the FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade. The only winner of the day was Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The Frenchman’s win was the first one of the event in pool D. With two rounds to go in the double round-robins, MVL and Anish […]
With the start of the 2022 Reykjavik Open just over a month away, it’s time to take a little stock and remind chess players about the upcoming event. Perhaps some people are hesitant to make a decision on participating in a chess tournament due to the current Covid situation. We can however give you some […]
The world is witnessing a catastrophe in Ukraine. Many of us are also anxious over the safety and well-being of chess players in the war-torn land. News on their current situation is coming in, but it is not enough to address all our concerns about them. We would be better placed to offer sympathy and […]
In an appeal to Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, a large number of prominent Russian chess players call for a ceasefire and peace in Ukraine. “It is unbearably painful for us to see the catastrophe that is happening these days to our peoples.” The courageous appeal appeared on the Russian sports site “Championat”.
The only winner of the opening round in the A-tournament of the Saint Louis Spring Classic 2022 was Jeffrey Xiong. He won against Mikhail Antipov and will play Dariusz Swiercz today. In the B-tournament three games ended with a win. Round 2 starts at 13:00 local time (20:00 CET, 19:00 UTC) with live commentary from […]
Whether for in-class work or for homework, worksheets help students review and practice chess. Creating worksheets—then printing, formatting, and sharing them—are tasks that every chess coach undertakes. In this article, National Master Jeffrey Ashton shows how ChessBase makes these tasks easier.