The WR Chess Masters is taking place in Düsseldorf on February 15-25. A 10-players single round-robin, the event features a mix of established, elite players and young, ambitious talents. A prize fund of 130,000 Euros is up for grabs. Ian Nepomniachtchi, Anish Giri and Wesley So are the top seeds. | Follow the games live […]
Monthly Archives: February 2023
Yesterday, the ceremonial and stylish opening of the WR Masters took place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Düsseldorf. After a press conference and a small show programme with a simul and “chess doubles”, the lots were drawn. | Photos: Lennart Ootes
The name Erich Eliskases is familiar to only a few chess enthusiasts today. However, the Austrian was one of the best players in the world in the late 1930s. In 1941 he was supposed to play for the World Championship with Alexander Alekhine. But things turned out differently. 15 February 2023 is the 110th birthday […]
Johannes Zukertort is one of the great but tragic figures of chess history. A former title contender, he was as brilliant as he was misunderstood. On the 137th anniversary of the first World Chess Championship Match, his life, career, and legacy are worth re-examining.
Top Iranian chess player Sara Khadem has gone into exile, like many other Iranian chess players before her, and now lives with her family in Spain. Yesterday, the BBC published a podcast in which Sara Khadem talks about her motives for leaving Iran. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
The Kasparov Chess Foundation organized the third annual KCF University Cup. This event was played on lichess.org and hosted on chessstream.com on the weekend of February 4 and 5, 2023. The tournament attracted well over 500 university students from every continent and from nearly thirty countries. The event was a resounding success.
Grandmasters Anish Giri and Sandipan Chanda gave master classes on the same day (21 Oct 2022) in ProChess, and I got to witness the interesting chess lessons being discussed in those sessions. Any chess fan would be thrilled with it, and my experience was absolutely fascinating! In this article, I share a few interesting positions […]
Wednesday evening will see the official opening of the WR Masters at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Düsseldorf. The tournament starts on Thursday at 14:00 with the 1st round. A number of players from the next generation will face the current world elite. For Ian Nepomiachtchi, the tournament is also a dress rehearsal for the […]
At the Women’s Grand Prix in Munich, chess goddess Caissa smiled on Alexandra Kostenuk. Before the last round Kosteniuk was one point ahead of her closes rival Humpy Koneru and only needed a draw to win the tournament. However, Kosteniuk lost against Zhu Jiner, but still won the tournament because Koneru only drew. Ullrich Krause, […]
In November 2022, the OpenAI company released ChatbotGPT and since then, this programme has been making headlines. It can write poems and stories, reports, articles, computer code and much more. It will, experts seem to agree, change the world. Apparently, the chatbot has now tried its hand at chess. On YouTube, the well-known streamer Levy […]