Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis, the 101st seed at the European Championship, is sharing the lead with Anton Korobov after beating Eltaj Safarli with the black pieces. The 25-year-old IM from Greece will again get the black pieces in his seventh-round encounter against Korobov. Eight players, all on 5/6 points, make up the chasing pack. | Photos: European […]
Monthly Archives: March 2023
Chess was among the topics discussed at the 17th edition of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which took place on March 3-4 at the Hynes Convention Centre in Boston. The panel brought together some of the biggest names in the game, including Danny Rensch, Jennifer Shahade, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, and Daryl Morey.
Anton Korobov won the all-Ukrainian matchup against Ruslan Ponomariov to take the lead at the European Championship in Serbia. Korobov is the only player to have won his five first games at the extremely competitive event. Four players, including two underdogs, stand a half point behind. | Photos: European Chess Union
With close to 250 games being played daily, the European Championship is one of the strongest opens in the chess calendar. Moreover, the players are fighting for an entrance to the World Championship cycle via the World Cup, which makes for very competitive struggles. Karsten Müller is keeping an eye on the games, and has […]
After Sara Khadem, one of Iran’s top women players, played without headscarf at the World Blitz and Rapid Chess Championships 2022, she left Iran with her family for fear of reprisals and now lives in Spain. The Spanish magazine Elle now published a portrait of Sara Khadem and made some chic fashion photos with her. […]
Magnus Carlsen played three classical games over the weekend, as he helped Offerspill win the Norwegian League title for the first time. These three encounters were Carlsen’s last rated classical games before the World Championship match, where either Ian Nepomniachtchi or Ding Liren will take the world crown. If Carlsen does not choose to fight […]
Today the players of the group “Americas” start the Armageddon Championship series with a seven-day double-elimination tournament that begins today in Berlin. They hope to qualify for the finals of the series, which will be played in September in Berlin. Today Wesley So vs Sam Shankland and Renato Terry vs Eric Hansen will play. Start: […]
While a number of Russian chess masters have publicly spoken out in favour of stopping the Russian war of aggression, hardly anything has been heard from others. For example, from Vladimir Kramnik, the 14th World Champion (2000 to 2007). Martin Breutigam, author and International Master, asked Kramnik about the long silence – and received a […]
Bobby Fischer is certainly the most famous of the Pisces chess players. But other top players include Bent Larsen, Veselin Topalov, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Teimour Radjabov, Hou Yifan, Anna Muzychuk and David Bronstein. Those who are Pisces can sometimes be as brilliant as Albert Einstein. With the Pisces-born, the circle of the twelve signs of the […]
After three rounds, eleven players still have the maximum number of points at the European Championship in Vrnjacka Banja. The young Czech player Nguyen Thai Dai Van has the best tiebreak and nominally leads the field. | Photos: Tournament page