The media left and right has reported the sudden hospitalization of former World Champion Analtoly Karpov after he was found unresponsive in front of the Duma, upon which he was rushed to intensive care. The reports are all over the place as of this post, with some reporting an assault, and others saying he has […]
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Last Wednesday, 26 October, British International Master Michael Basman died of cancer at the age of 76. A prolific chess writer, he left his mark in the chess world as an uncompromising, inventive player. Among other endeavours, he will be remembered as a founder and organizer of the UK Chess Challenge, a tournament for juniors […]
It was a tiebreak that was worthy of the importance and drama that had led up to it. While Humpy Koneru and her fans will lament how it ended, the fact is the tiebreak was incredibly entertaining and had a bit of it all. Even the quiet start was crucial in setting up the very […]
Have you ever faced an opponent, who you played against many times, and lost the majority of the games? Well, Lilit had to face the player who was the favourite to win the European Women’s Championship – Nana Dzagnidze. But how do you prepare against a stronger opponent? Maybe surprise them? Play for a draw? […]
In the semi-finals of the Fischer Random World Championship in Reykjavik Hikaru Nakamura (pictured) came to a clear win against Nodirbek Abdusattorov: Nakamura won 3-0 and will face Ian Nepomniachtchi in the final. Nepomniachtchi lost the first game in his match against Magnus Carlsen but then hit back: He won all of the remaining three […]
The Petroff has never had a reputation for decisive games, so deliberately entering into one in a must-win situation would seem not a little mad, yet for Ana Muzychuk at least her persistence paid off when she broke her higher rated opponent’s resistance with a brilliant exchange sacrifice. Here sister was not so fortunate and […]
This month, I planned to write about chess composition in Japan, but it turned out that not much information was obtainable. The situation in Singapore is even worse regarding sources. So instead, in this month’s column we have a small mix of shorter articles again. | Photo: Pixabay
Once more both the Muzychuk sisters tried their best to break through to match equality, and once more the games ended in draws, but there was a lot more to the story than the game result. Ana Muzychuk and Humpy Koneru followed the tense Sevian-Niemann game for 18 moves, while Mariya Muzychuk came ‘oh, so […]
In the last several weeks, the world of chess has been rocked by the accusations and allegations of cheating with the help of a computer. The idea is not new of course, but it might shock you to know the very first case of surreptitiously using a computer in a game against a grandmaster dates […]
The world champion Svitlana is talking about today, is one of the world’s best chess players, since the late 80s. The five-time world chess champion has played some gorgeous games, and we will take a look at two of them. Anand beat Aronian with the Black pieces in 2013, and it is one of Svitlana’s […]