The inaugural edition of the Global Chess League is taking place in Dubai from June 21 to July 2, 2023. The league, which introduces the franchise format to the sport of chess, also brings a mixed-team format to the fore featuring the best from the ecosystem among men, women and U21 players. Six squads headed […]
Monthly Archives: June 2023
The Prague Chess Festival kicked off on Wednesday. Both the Masters and the Challengers saw four draws and a decisive game each. In the Masters, top seed Wang Hao was defeated by German star Vincent Keymer, who got a superior endgame out of a sharp, theoretical variation, and converted it proficiently. In the Challengers, 13-year-old […]
“I am thrilled to share some exciting news with you,” wrote us ChessBase sysop Angom Nongsha, who had just won the title. Not in chess, but in a related field. “I have emerged victorious in both the Asian Chessboxing Championship and the Chessboxing World Cup 2023!” he wrote. This sport has a long tradition (we […]
The second edition of the Colònia de Sant Jordi International Chess Festival came to an end last Sunday in Mallorca. English CM Ankush Khandelwal, a 4-time Pentamind world champion, was proclaimed champion of the International Open. Famed streamer Anna Cramling was the strongest woman player in the open, and successfully streamed her games on Twitch. […]
The fifth edition of the Prague Chess Festival is taking place on June 21-30 in the Czech capital. The Masters Tournament is a 10-player single round-robin with Wang Hao, Sam Shankland and defending champion Pentala Harikrishna as the top seeds. Follow the games live with computer-assisted analysis starting at 15.00 CEST (9.00 ET, 18.30 IST)
Dommaraju Gukesh continues his incredible ascent at the elite chess circuit. In an interview given to World Chess, the 17-year-old talks about his development as a chess player, his strengths and (many) weaknesses and his opinions on the best players of all time. Referring to Bobby Fischer, Gukesh states: “It feels like he’s just the […]
It has almost become a tradition: at the end of the school year, a thousand primary school students once again played an outdoor chess tournament on Bremen’s market square! The project “Schach macht schlau” (Chess makes you smart) has been running since 2018, with 43 schools now participating and offering one hour of chess per […]
The junior chess championships of various age categories serve a very important purpose. The talented medal winners get the limelight they need — with the adequate amount of support, these kids go on to do great things in the chess world! One such example is 2014-born Thehas Rithmitha Kiringoda, gold medallist in the Under-9 World […]
After a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the long-running ASEAN Age Group Championships have resumed. The 21st ASEAN+ Age Group Championship is currently being held in Bangkok, Thailand from 17-26 June 2023 and has attracted 328 players from 15 countries. As in the previous 20 editions, classical, rapid and blitz tournaments will be played […]
You are the kind of chess player who likes to analyse passionately, perhaps directly on the screen, using ChessBase. You regularly save your analyses and to make sure that you can find them again you have a list of 30 chapters which systematises the games with the help of a text entry on the first […]