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. Jeffery Xiong […]
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Beating weaker opponents is important for having success in chess, and the better you play, the more important this skill is. However, even Magnus Carlsen (pictured), the world’s number one since July 2011, sometimes goes wrong when facing much lower-rated opponents. In the 13th installment of his “Winning Academy” Jan Markos takes a look at […]
The 2022 European Women’s Chess Championship is taking place on August 20-31 at the Don Giovanni Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. The tournament is an 11-round Swiss open with 123 participants from 28 different countries. After four rounds, eight players are tied for first place with 3½/4 scores. Azerbaijan, with three players, is the country […]
Studying endgame theory can seem like one of those necessary evils, and about as fun as watching paint dry, but sometimes it is all about the teacher. Teachers such as GM Karsten Mueller or Mark Dvoretsky make all the difference, bringing magic and wonder into the lessons. Enjoy this shared moment of discovery.
Jules Moussard claimed his first French championship while Almira Skripchenko (pictured) won a record seventh women’s national title at the French championship which was held from August 13 to August 21 in Albi, southern France. Skripchenko, who was tied on six national titles with Sophie Milliet prior to this year’s championship, defeated Natacha Benmesbah in […]
The video course presents a fine selection of 33 classic chess games, played between the 18th century and the beginning of the second world war. Starting with François-André Danican Philidor through to Mikhail Botvinnik, these significant games, played by the greatest players of their times, are treasures of chess history. They are also a part […]
GM Ivan Sokolov is well-known for taking on challenging projects as a trainer. This year he turned his attention to the Uzbekistan team, a team that, like Iran (which Sokolov trained before), was very young. How did it so happen that the team surpassed all expectations and clinched the gold in the Chennai chess Olympiad? […]
In chess, you learn best by making mistakes. And best of all, through the mistakes of others – because that hurts less. That is the concept of Nicholas Pert, the English grandmaster, who is an experienced trainer and knows the problems at every chess level. In 3 Fritztrainer courses he presents the typical mistakes categorised […]
Ever since the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) emerged as chess’ governing body, the Candidates’ Tournament has been vital to the selection and making of the game’s world champion. Remade more than a few times in the seventy-two years that it has been running, the tournament has been a story on its own. Eugene Manlapao […]
Robocop. This was what GM Yermolinksy dubbed IM Conor Murphy as he followed his superlative result. While the 2022 Olympiad was dominated by the performance of the youthful and brilliant Gukesh, and other stars on the rise, it is also much more than a collection of super grandmasters, so let us sing the praises of […]