On the final day of action at the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Tournament in Zagreb, world champion Magnus Carlsen never relinquished his lead. It did not matter that the World Champion lost his game against Alireza Firouzja shortly before the end of the tournament. Firouzja and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave shared second and third place. | Photo: […]
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Dmitrij Kollars, who only joined the tournament after Vladimir Kramnik had to withdraw due to Covid-related issues, was the surprise winner of the No-Castling World Masters. The 22-year-old beat Daniel Fridman in the final round to catch Vishy Anand atop the standings. Kollars was declared champion on tiebreak criteria, as he scored one more win […]
Usually, when discussing former chess prodigies, the talks will gravitate around the accomplishments while young, and then shift towards their accomplishments as a mature player. Among the most unusual stories of such in chess is that of a little girl whose feats were worthy of the fictitious Beth Harmon, yet never bloomed into the tale […]
Viswanathan Anand goes into his last game with a half-point lead over direct opponent Michael Adams and Dmitrij Kollars at the No-Castling World Masters in Dortmund. Meanwhile, Pavel Eljanov leads the Deutschland Grand Prix after beating Matthias Blübaum on Saturday. Bogdan-Daniel Deac also won and still has a chance of winning the tournament | Photos: […]
Today we offer readers a glimpse of what had been happening behind the scenes of “The Match of The Century”, especially in the Russian camp, exactly fifty years ago. A tense Boris Spassky, cajoled by seconds Efim Geller and Nikolai Krogius, nevertheless failed to perform, to the dismay of his friends and admirers. It’s also […]
Chess is one of the most-played sports in the world. In the first official Chess Awareness Barometer, World Chess, a London-based long-term commercial partner of FIDE, is conducting a survey in the UK and USA to find out how many people know the name of the current World Champion and where he is from. 7% […]
Thanks to a draw against direct rival Andrey Esipenko, Le Quang Liem grabbed the Grandmaster Triathlon title at the Biel Chess Festival. Le came from winning three games in a row in the classical section, and got a well-deserved first place as he was also the top scorer in the rapid section. Yongzhe Zhuang from […]
Years back, when the first iteration of the Fritz Online app came out, it was a barebones deal: Attractive, and good for a game, but not the most compelling option to train against. A bit problematic as this was its purpose, but it has undergone many revisions since, and revisiting it you will be surprised […]
In the third episode of the series “Olympiad stories with Saravanan”, IM Sagar Shah and IM Venkata Saravanan discuss Judit Polgar’s flabbergasting 12½/13 performance in the 1988 Thessolanki Olympiad. Judit was rated 2365 FIDE at the time, with rating lists coming out every six months. Not only did Hungary sweep the championship to take gold […]
Both the Grandmaster Triathlon and the Women’s Quadriathlon in Biel will feature direct encounters between the first and second placed participants in final-round battles for the respective titles. Le Quang Liem has a 3-point lead over Andrey Esipenko (a win is worth 4 points) in the GM Triatholn, while Iris Ciarletta has a 1-point lead […]