Two players have 6/6 match points at the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals 2022. Magnus Carlsen and Jan-Krzysztof Duda both won their first two matches without needing tiebreaks and are now sharing the lead. Anish Giri and Le Quang Liem stand two points back. Duda and Giri will face each other in Wednesday’s third round.
Monthly Archives: November 2022
The Meltwater Tour Finals kicked off on Monday, with four out of eight participants playing on-site in San Francisco. The all-important clash between Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So saw the former getting a 2½-1½ victory in a match not exempt of blunders. Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Anish Giri also won in the event’s first […]
The 16-year-old Eline Roebers from the Netherlands is an outstanding talent. She has already attracted attention with several successes and now fulfilled all the requirements to get the IM-title. On her way to the necessary norms, Roebers even skipped several other FIDE titles. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
Peter Svidler has been Russian Champion eight times, and no other player in the history of chess has won so many Russian or Soviet championships. In Chess Olympiads Svidler has played for Russia 10 times, winning gold five times and silver twice with the team. But as the site ChessTech reports, Svidler has now left […]
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals is a seven-day long all-play-all round robin in San Francisco starting on November 14 and concluding on November 20. Eight elite chess stars take part in the third and final major of the tour, including Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa. | Follow the games live with expert […]
Dai Changren and Tan Zhongyi (pictured) are the new champions of China. The 2022 Chinese Championships took place in Xinghua, Jiangsu province, on November 2-11. Both tournaments, open and women’s, were 12-player round robins with classical time controls. | Photos: Chinese Chess Federation
Anil Kumar and IM V. Saravanan invite you to the Houseboat Chess Tournament in Kerala, which will take place in January for the second time after 2020 in the fairytale backwaters of the Indian province and will be played partly on a houseboat. Registration is still open until 15 November. | Photo: Cottages at ‘Waterscapes’, […]
Akiba Rubinstein was one of Polands greatest chess players. Svitlana is showing us two of his incredible games. In the first game, Rubinstein achieved a small tempo advantage with the Black pieces, and quickly unleashes a beautiful, tactical combination to crush his opponent. Furthermore, in the second game, his endgame skills shine, and we can […]
The final episode of our series, in which we discuss something critical – the final round of a tournament. The last round often decides your fate. Will you avoid a rating loss? Can you qualify? Or even fight for a medal? Lilit has played hundreds of tournaments, and can give us some good advice. Furthermore, […]
How do you feel when you have to play against an opponent whose rating is some hundred points better than your own? The bold among us will see this as a special incentive. For most of us, however, unease will probably prevail. In the third part of his video series “Practical Tips for the Tournament […]