Leon Mendonca recently won the HSK GM Invitational tournament, with 7 out of 9. Lawrence Trent played in the very same tournament, and reached the 50% mark, with 4.5 out of 9. Their game ended in a draw. Since Leon was still in Hamburg, we managed to have a Trent’s Tactics show together. Maybe Lawrence, […]
Monthly Archives: June 2022
The International Chess Festival Prague will start on 7 June and promises to be a highlight in this year’s chess calendar. The event includes three invitational tournaments, the Masters, the Challengers and the Futures and several Opens, and the line-ups of these tournaments are exciting. | Photo: Vincent Keymer | Photo: Grenke Chess
Vishy Anand is still the sole leader at the Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger. The Indian beat Wang Hao in Armageddon, while his closest chaser, Wesley So, also won in the sudden-death decider against Anish Giri. Magnus Carlsen and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won their classical encounters to grab three points in Thursday’s round. | Photos: Norway […]
Anatoly Karpov and Tigran Petrosian are two Gemini world champions with outstanding positional and defensive skills. Alireza Firouzja and Hans Moke Niemann are also Gemini but will they be able to follow the path of Karpov and Petrosian and become world champion? Gemini are sometimes the fastest thinkers of all the signs of the zodiac, […]
Viswananathan Anand is the man of the hour. He got his second three-point win at the Norway Chess tournament on Wednesday, as he beat Veselin Topalov and now leads the standings table with 6 points. Wesley So won in Armageddon after drawing his classical encounter against Magnus Carlsen. | Photos: Norway Chess
At the beginning of the month, FIDE published the new world ranking list. Since there have been more FIDE-rated tournaments recently there has been some movement on the list but Magnus Carlsen, Hou Yifan, Alireza Firouzja and Zhou Jiner are still the best players in the various categories.
Wesley So and Vishy Anand grabbed an early lead at the Norway Chess super-tournament in Stavanger. So beat Teimour Radjabov, while Anand got the better of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov drew their classical encounters and went on to win the Armageddon. All five decisive games seen on Tuesday favoured the […]
The claim to be the best ever in chess, in any category, is usually backed up by either hard numbers (Karpov’s number of grandmaster tournament wins is not open to debate), or strong opinions such as the best absolute player. But the debate on the greatest prodigy seems to lie somewhere in between, depending on […]