By winning game 4 of the rapid tiebreakers — after three draws — Ding Liren became the 17th undisputed world chess champion! Ian Nepomniachtchi seemed to have things under control in the deciding game, and even a bit of an advantage at times, but he overestimated his chances and allowed Ding to get a dangerous […]
Monthly Archives: April 2023
Ding Liren boldly tried to create winning chances with white in game 14 of the World Championship match, the last classical encounter of the confrontation. The strategy backfired, as the Chinese GM misplayed the position and needed accurate defence to hold a draw in a game that ended up lasting over six and a half […]
Svitlana is finally back, and brought us one of her games of the Canadian Women’s Closed, which she won! In the example, she played against the Giuoco Piano with Black, and presents us plenty of opening ideas, plans, and strategies, on how to win against this opening with the Black pieces. You need to watch […]
A new world chess champion is about to be crowned. Game 14 of the match facing Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren will be played on Saturday. The score is tied, so a draw will lead to a rapid playoff on Sunday. As a preview to what is likely to become a memorable weekend for chess […]
The last free day of the Astana World Championship: time to take another look at the two previous games. Once again we have deep, instructive commentary for you to study, kindly provided to us by grandmaster Efstratios Grivas, trainer and FIDE international organizer. Our replay app makes it very easy to follow the annotations. You […]
Recently the brillant Grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Champion Ruslan Ponomariov visited Hamburg to record his first FritzTrainer, and Arne Kähler used the chance to interview him. Throughout the conversation Ponomariov offered invaluable insights into his chess journey and the key moments that have shaped his career, but he also talked about his personal […]
The penultimate classical game of the World Championship match finished in a 39-move draw. Ding Liren got good chances to go for the win with the black pieces, failed to handle them well, and ended up needing to play accurately to hold the draw. This was Ian Nepomniachtchi’s last game with white in the classical […]
Grandmaster Chris Ward found an interesting Sicilian Dragon game, in which the recent strategy of castling queenside early on is used. This variation is actually old, but due to recent popularity, it is considered a modern line. How to defeat the white pieces now? Chris shows us how, and gives us plenty of helpful tips!| […]
GM Bartosz Soćko and WFM Michalina Rudzińska are the 2023 Polish chess champions. Michalina successfully defended her title from last year, while Bartosz won his third national chess crown. The open event was a 16-player knockout tournament, which attracted the best Polish players, except for Jan-Krzysztof Duda. The women’s event was a 10-player single round-robin. […]
The wild ride continues. Ding Liren defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi in a game full of ups and downs to level the score in the World Championship match. Ding had a good position out of the opening, but soon lost the thread, leaving Nepo with a real chance to all but secure overall match victory with a […]