Halfway through the 10-round main tournament in Sitges, Kirill Alekseenko and Karthikeyan Murali still have a perfect score, after beating Abhimanyu Puranik and Aditya Samant respectively. Five players stand a half point back, including second seed Hans Niemann, who on Friday drew Karen Grigoryan with the black pieces. | Pictured: The great-looking analysis room in […]
Monthly Archives: December 2022
In the second semi-final of the Speedchess Championship on chess.com Magnus Carlsen meets Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and that gives the World Champion the opportunity for a little revenge. After all, in the semi-finals of the Speedchess Championship 2020 Carlsen had lost to “MVL”, who then lost to Hikaru Nakamura in the final. This time Carlsen wants […]
Hikaru Nakamura defeated Nihal Sarin by a 14½-10½ score in the first semifinal of the Speed Chess Championship. Naka, who won every edition of the online event since 2018, will face either Magnus Carlsen or Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final match, which is set to take place on December 20.
Viktor Korchnoi ( 1931 – 2016 ) was undoubtedly one of the most fascinating personalities in the chess world. The two-time World Championship finalist played successful and attractive chess, even into old age. We have a great Korchnoi bundle for you in our ChessBase Shop. The Fritztrainer – My life for chess, and the Masterclass […]
After four rounds, six players still have perfect scores in Group A of the Sunway Chess Festival. Among the co-leaders is Samant Aditya, rated 2470, who defeated Adhiban (2611) in round 4. Two players from the top ten in the starting rank list are also among those with perfect scores — i.e. Hans Niemann and […]
In the first semi-final of the Speedchess Championship on chess.com, defending champion and blitz specialist Hikaru Nakamura will meet the young Indian grandmaster Nihal Sarin, who is also considered to be a blitz chess specialist. The eagerly awaited match starts today, 15.12., at 15.00. The winner of this encounter will meet Magnus Carlsen or Maxime […]
Nineteen players are sharing first place on 3 out of 3 points in the main event of the Sunway Sitges Festival. Kushal O, a 17-year-old Indian player with an 1801 Elo rating, is among the leaders, as he stunned players in the 2250-2500 rating bracket on the first three days of competition. Big guns Yu […]
Hikaru Nakamura, Nihal Sarin and Magnus Carlsen already qualified for the semi-finals of the chess.com Speedchess Championship. Today Wesley So and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will play in the last quarter-final. Here live from 19:00 CET (10:00 am PT) with video commentary from chess24 and chess.com. | Graphics: chess.com
The result of the eagerly awaited rematch of the 2018 World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana in the quarterfinals of the chess.com Speedchess Championship was one-sided. Caruana didn’t take his chances, Carlsen took them all and demonstrated world championship level chess in 5+1 blitz, in 3+1 blitz and in bullet. He even […]
The recently released ChessBase 17 offers a wealth of new and interesting functions. In the last weeks IM Sagar Shah from ChessBase India took a closer look at the program to understand the features deeper. To share his insights he made a video that covers most of the new features of ChessBase 17 and explains […]