Today, 15.00 local time, the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament begins in Malmö, Sweden. An exciting 8-player line-up mixing veterans and rising stars compete in a round-robin event. Peter Svidler and Boris Gelfand face 2700+ rated youngsters Dammaraju Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi and Vincent Keymer. Former tournament champions Jorden van Foreest and local hero Nils […]
Monthly Archives: May 2023
Almost immediately after playing a gruelling three-week match, world champion Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi will play a 9-round single round-robin in Bucharest, the Superbet Chess Classic. The first event of this year’s Grand Chess Tour, it will also see Richard Rapport, Ding’s second in Astana, among the participants. A star-studded field includes the likes […]
Do you like to play elephant takes horse in the Ruy Lopez? Or promote your farmer to a virgin in the endgame? Did you know there are players who do this all the time? In an interesting article Frank Jacobs has vividly traced the diversification of piece names from the original Sanskrit to modern day […]
The 28th edition of the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament will take place on May 4-10 at the Elite Plaza Hotel in central Malmö. An exciting 8-player lineup mixing veterans and rising stars will compete in a single round-robin event. The likes of Peter Svidler and Boris Gelfand will battle it out against 2700+ […]
The most exciting world championship match in recent history has come to an end and has produced the first Chinese World Chess Champion in Ding Liren. Ding is the 17th World Chess Champion and the new figurehead of world chess. We are sure to hear many more background stories about the course of the match […]
World Chess continues its Armageddon Championship Series with the Women’s Week, featuring eight of the world’s top female chess players in a high-stakes tournament to be held in Berlin from May 8 to May 14, 2023. This seven-day event promises to be a thrilling showcase of skill, strategy, and nail-biting drama.
After his surprise win of the 2023 World Championship in Astana, Chinese GM Ding Liren spoke to 15 different Chinese media outlets, and “did not sleep a minute all night.” He also spoke to the British newspaper The Guardian and the Spanish El País. As did Ian Nepomniachtchi. Here are some revealing excerpts from those […]
During the World Championship match against Ian Nepomniachtchi the new World Champion Ding Liren had a number of helpers in Astana. But as Ding revealed in an interview with Leontxo Garcia in the Spanish newspaper “El País”, in critical moments of the match Ding also received help by thoughts and words of Louise Glück, American […]
One of Robert Ris long-time students is Eline Roebers, who advanced from a chess beginner to an International Master. Ris has a clear message – if you are new to chess, and want to get better – learning how to calculate is key! This is why his calculation Fritztrainers are so popular. Two new ones […]
Last week we presented a Computer Challenge. It’s a position in which even the best chess engines will not find the solution — even if you run them for a very long time. Our readers were asked to come up with the logic and strategy of the solution themselves, and then confirm everything with the […]