The cosmopolitan city of Almaty saw Magnus Carlsen adding two world titles to his collection, while Tan Zhongyi and Bibisara Assaubayeva took home gold medals in the women’s events. With so much chess being played in a span of five days, Karsten Müller had no trouble finding remarkable endgames to share with us. Find here […]
Monthly Archives: January 2023
When we see a child playing chess, it is easy for us to associate such activity with the development of important cognitive skills. Chess is perceived as a way to improve logical reasoning and the ability to solve complex problems. However, what level of scientific verification have we obtained so far on this issue? Peruvian […]
The Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) celebrated its 20th anniversary this year with a gala on November 16th. However, the gala event was not the last event of the year as there was one more work session left. In the week before Christmas, from December 16-18, Garry Kasparov trained six talented youngsters, who had an average […]
At the beginning of 2023 FIDE published its new ranking list. With a rating of 2859 Magnus Carlsen continues to be clear number one, and apart from Ding Liren he is the only player with a rating of 2800+. 40 players have a rating of 2700+. Hou Yifan remains number one the the women’s list, […]
Today, ChessBase India CEO Sagar Shah wants to touch on a subject that has been playing around on his mind, and to which he has no concrete answers. Is chess levitating towards shorter time formats. Are sponsors driving this trend? And will classical chess be abandoned? “I just want to put the question out there, […]
At the beginning of 2023 FIDE published its new ranking list. With a rating of 2859 Magnus Carlsen continues to be clear number one, and apart from Ding Liren he is the only player with a rating of 2800+. 40 players have a rating of 2700+. Hou Yifan remains number one the the women’s list, […]
For Magnus Carlsen, 2022 ended well: in the last week of the year he first won the World Rapid and then the World Blitz Championship. In an interview with Sagar Shah Carlsen spoke about the pleasure of winning both titles, explained interesting moments from the games he played in the two tournaments and talked about […]
I’m not a particular devotee of Westerns, but I’ve seen enough to know that at the end there’s normally a shoot-out in which the protagonists have to be at their best to avoid losing their lives. Games of chess are thankfully not fatal, but in many of them there is a final tactical shoot-out, and […]
We have been trying to keep track of incredible playing strength and title wins at a very early age. It started with Capablanca and Reshevsky, and today we are seeing full grandmasters aged thirteen — and in two cases even just twelve! Most recently it was Abhimanyu Mishra who achieved the title at twelve years […]
There are currently 40 female chess players worldwide who have been awarded the grandmaster title. Nine of them are Capricorn! Then there were the two legendary elite players Paul Keres, and world champion Emanuel Lasker. Capricorn doesn’t mess around, works hard and never gives up. That’s why his strategy seems easy to see through, but […]