FIDE and the Georgian Chess Federation are organizing a match between top Ukrainian players Mariya and Anna Muzychuk and local stars Nino Batsiashvili and Meri Arabidze. The games will take place at the Hotel Legend in Batumi, Georgia, on June 5-11. Each of the matches will consist of six classical games. | Photos: International Chess […]
Monthly Archives: May 2023
Gennadi Sosonko was born in and grew up in the Soviet Union, in a golden age of chess. He emigrated in 1972, became a successful player and then an even more successful chess journalist and author. On 18 May he celebrated his 80th birthday. | Photo source: livelib
Women’s world champion Ju Wenjun scored a second consecutive upset win to go into round 3 of the Sharjah Masters sharing the lead with Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu (pictured). Ju got the better of third seed Vidit Gujrathi with the black pieces, while Pragg defeated Raunak Sadhwani with white. A total of 25 players stand a half […]
Kateryna Lagno and Tan Zhongyi are sharing the lead with 2½ points each after three rounds at the Women’s Grand Prix in Nicosia, the final stage of the series. The co-leaders kicked off the event with back-to-back wins and then drew their direct encounter on Thursday. Three players stand a half point back: Harika Dronavalli, […]
With 78 grandmasters, the Sharjah Masters kicked off on Wednesday. Most favourites scored victories, but there were a few upsets: seventh seed Ray Robson was defeated by Denis Kadric, while women’s world champion Ju Wenju got the better of Murali Karthikeyan. Ju’s win was not without ups and downs, as she first got a clear […]
The 56th edition of the Capablanca Memorial took place in Havana, Cuba on May 3-11. Danish grandmaster Jonas Buhl Bjerre, aged 18, won the tournament with a remarkable 7/9 score, following in the footsteps of Danish legend Bent Larsen, who won the event back in 1967. As ever, our in-house expert Karsten Müller followed the […]
The 6th Sharjah Masters is taking place from May 17th (first round) to 26th (departure). Participating are over 75 grandmasters, including 22 of the world’s top 100 players. There are a lot of young talents, players in their late teens and early twenties, all with ratings around 2700. | Follow the games live with computer-assisted […]
Exhibitions to feature star-studded and historically significant pieces connected to musical, chess and literary figures including Katy Perry, Bobby Fischer, Julian Casablancas, Garry Kasparov and T. S. Eliot premiere at the World Chess Hall of Fame on May 17. “Sound Moves: Where Music Meets Chess” and “T. S. Eliot: A Game of Chess” are the […]
The tournament starts today, in the world’s biggest chess club. The 6th Sharjah Masters 2023 is taking place from May 17th (first round) to 26th (departure). Participating are around 100 grandmaster, among them at least 30 of the world’s top 100 players, making this the strongest open in history. There are a lot of young […]
The fourth and final stage of the Women’s Grand Prix series kicked off in Cyprus. All six round-1 games finished decisively. The biggest shocker was Dinara Wagner’s victory over Aleksandra Goryachkina — the latter entered the tournament in second place in the series’ overall ranking, only behind Zhu Jiner, who is not playing in Nicosia. […]