Referring to Boris Gelfand’s style, Vladimir Kramnik wrote: “What impresses me most is his ability to create games, where all the moves, from the first to the last, are as though links in a single logical chain”. GM Sundararajan Kidambi analyses Gelfand’s win over Vishy Anand at the 2012 World Championship match in Moscow, a […]
Monthly Archives: March 2023
Facing the mighty Baden-Baden in the Bundesliga, Jon Speelman was paired up against Etienne Bacrot (pictured) with black. The English grandmaster thus describes the start of what turned out to be a miniature win for Bacrot: “I then made the mistake of fairly quickly sleepwalking along the moves which you play against the supposed main […]
After the second round of the European Championship, a 56-player leading group has emerged. Gabriel Sargissian, David Navara, Jules Moussard, Boris Gelfand and Ivan Saric are the five highest-rated players who have won their first two games in the Serbian city of Vrnjacka Banja. | Photos: European Chess Union
The 9th edition of the London Chess Conference will take place on 17-19 March 2023. The theme of the 2023 London Chess Conference is Chess and STEM — exploring the ways in which chess relates to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The objective of the conference is to bring together all those involved in the […]
The last time Svitlana played chess, was summer 2022. The Canadian club championship of Svitlana’s chess club was another chance to finally move the pieces on the board again. The Canadian WIM is studying most of her time now, but this doesn’t mean that she got worse in chess. It seems, the opposite was the […]
The European Individual Chess Championship (EICC) started on Friday in the Serbian town of Vrnjačka Banja. Since the top half of the ratings list was paired against the lower half for the opening round, there were predominantly wins by the favourites, although there were also some exceptions to this ‘rule’. The symbolic first move in […]
Sayantan Das won the sixth edition of the Cannes Chess Open. He defeated top seed Alexander Motylev in the final round to become the outright winner with 7½/9 points. This win also helped him to cross 2500 in the ratings list and become India’s 81st grandmaster. Sayantan had fulfilled all the norm requirements in January […]
“Armageddon Championship Series: Americas”, the first event of the cycle developed by World Chess, will take place on March 6-12 in Berlin. Wesley So, Jose Martinez, Ray Robson, Leinier Dominguez, Sam Shankland, Andrew Tang, Renato Terry and Eric Hansen will play a double-elimination blitz knockout, as they battle for €50,000 in prize money and two […]
The European Chess Championship is taking place on 2-14 March 2023 in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. The event features more than 480 players from 40 federations, including more than 125 Grandmasters and 104 International Masters. The top 23 players in the final standings will get a spot in the next edition of the FIDE World Cup. […]
Yochanan Afek (Hebrew: יוחנן אפק), born 1952 in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli chess player, composer, trainer and arbiter. He is the only person to possess international titles at five different facets of chess: International Master, International Grandmaster of chess composition, International Arbiter, FIDE master in problem solving, and International Judge for chess compositions. CHESS […]