Anish Giri won the Tata Steel Chess Masters 2023 ahead of all the top players in the world – Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Ding Liren, Fabiano Caruana. He played some phenomenal chess throughout the event to win it with a rating performance of 2849, scoring 8.5/13 and gaining 16 Elo points. Anish has been very […]
Monthly Archives: February 2023
The play-in phase of the Airthings Masters is taking place on February 3 and is open to all grandmasters. A total of 54 players will qualify to the knockout stage set to start on Monday. A 9-round Swiss tournament will be followed by 2-game matches to decide who qualifies and to which division of the […]
Inspired by her months of lonely forest trips in the north of Scandinavia German actress and singer has launched a new album of 14 songs, in the style of German pop, cine-classic and Nordic noir. It is music into which everything from love, laughter, separation and death flows. So what is the chess connection: well […]
The second stage of the 2022–23 Women’s Grand Prix kicked off in Munich, the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. Four out of six games finished decisively, with Tan Zhongyi (pictured), Alexandra Kosteniuk, Nana Dzagnidze and Elisabeth Paehtz grabbing wins in the first round of the two-week event. | Photo: […]
From 1 to 13 February Munich will host the second Women’s Grand Prix tournament of the 2022-23 series. The two best players from four tournaments will qualify for the Candidates Tournament. The first round starts at 15.00 CET. Follow the games live, with commentary by Stefan Kindermann and Veronika Exler. | Photo: David Llada
Today, chess legend Svetozar Gligoric, who passed away in 2012, would have turned 100 years old. In World War II he fought as a partisan against the Germans, and after the war he became one of the world’s best chess players. He was very popular among his peers and even managed to be friends with […]
Who doesn’t know Sesame Street, the American educational children’s television series that premiered in 1969 and runs on animation and puppetry. It is one of the longest-running shows in history. And it has been adapted for dozens of other countries. In a must-read new book Natasha Lane Rogoff describes the harrowing conversion to Ulitsa Sezam […]
Since the early 21st century, the consensus among specialized historians is that the birth of modern chess took place in the ancient Kingdom of Valencia. Francesc Vicent was the author of the first known treatise on modern chess, the ‘Llibre dels jochs partits dels scachs en nombre de 100’, printed in Valencia on May 15, […]
At the beginning of February FIDE published the new world ranking list. Magnus Carlsen, who continues to be clear number one, lost a few rating points in Wijk, but increased the Elo gap to Ding Liren, who lost even more rating points in Wijk and is now the world’s number three while Ian Nepomniachtchi is […]
Most of all grandmasters were born under the sign of Aquarius. Among them romped the legends Taimanov, Eliskases and Sveshnikov. There is also a world champion – Boris Spassky. With Abhimanyu Mishra, we have not only the youngest grandmaster, but also had Yuri Averbakh, the oldest, who died at the age of one hundred.| Photo: […]