An action-packed third day of action at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament left French representatives Alireza Firouzja and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the shared lead going into the blitz section of the event. Sam Shankland beat Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura to climb to sole third place, while Shakhriyar Mamedyarov scored three wins in […]
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Arjun Erigaisi won his final-round game against David Anton to clinch first place at the 28th Abu Dhabi Masters. He played with the sole purpose of winning the game, as he kept manoeuvring until his opponent broke and made a mistake. Javokhir Sindarov and Jorden van Foreest claimed second and third place, scoring 7/9 and […]
Alireza Firouzja has played in four out of the nine decisive games seen so far at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament. On Saturday, the 19-year-old lost to Fabiano Caruana and defeated Leinier Dominguez to keep the sole lead he had attained on the first day of the competition. Ian Nepomniachtchi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and […]
On 30 June 1908, just after 7 AM (all dates correspond to our Gregorian calendar), an explosion occurred in the harsh forests in Siberia near the Tunguska river. The explosion happened over an area that is nearly unpopulated, so apart from an estimated 80 million trees (and, we suppose, the wildlife in that area of […]
The fourth leg of this year’s Grand Chess Tour, the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, will be played on August 26-30. The last rapid and blitz event of the series will host ten top players from around the world, including wunderkind Alireza Firouzja, World Championship challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi and defending champion Hikaru Nakamura. Follow the […]
Svitlana is showing us some more smart moves from Chennai. We learn a lot about the two openings, plans in the middle game, and some endgame knowledge. The Canadian WIM was able to win against Jenny Astrid Chirivi Castiblanco from Colombia, and achieve a draw against Gulenay Aydin from Turkey.
Nick Pert won the British Over-the-Board Championship 2021. This year, he participated again as the title defender. And although he even scored half-a-point more than last year, it wasn’t enough to repeat the triumph. His analysis of the most interesting games were very popular, so we walk through the tournament one more time, thanks to […]
İş Bankası, one of the biggest commercial companies in Turkey, is celebrating its 98th anniversary on 26th August 2022. It was established by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic (now known as Türkiye), on 26th August 1924. The Bank became the sponsor of the Turkish Chess Federation on 24th December 2005.
After draws in games 14 and 15, Fischer still had a three-point lead in the World Championship match, and the Spassky side was getting nervous. The Champion was fighting hard, but not getting any points. Suspicion arose that Fischer might be using secret weapons: hypnosis, devices planted in the lights or the chairs, and even […]
The well-known grandmaster and author Lubomir Kavalek passed away last year in January. A prolific writer, he penned dozens of well-read chess columns, including one he shared on ChessBase over the years. Here we reproduce one from February 2017, in which Kavalek shows us a failed queen sacrifice by Jan Timman against him, and Caruana’s […]