Howard Staunton (April 1819 – June 22, 1874) stands as a controversial figure in chess. Not only did he establish himself as the strongest player in the 1840s, but also elevated the comprehension of the game as the most prominent analyst and author of his generation. His influence as a player and organizer contributed to […]
Monthly Archives: August 2023
Gukesh is one of the most promising youngsters in the world of chess. He is no longer just a talent, but has confidently marched to the very top of the chess world, where he is currently ranked no. 11, with an Elo of 2751. In March 2023, Gukesh visited the ChessBase India studio in Mumbai […]
Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Dommaraju Gukesh were the highest-rated players to start their participation at the FIDE World Cup with victories. Gukesh’s win prompted him to join the world’s top 10 in the live ratings list, while Praggnanandhaa and Wei Yi scored brilliant wins. In the women’s section, more than half the […]
ChessBase Magazine Extra is the ideal addition to ChessBase Magazine for all ambitious chess players who want to know more than their opponents. In the new issue, for example, the up-and-coming Indian grandmaster Leon Mendonca shows a tricky variation in the Queen’s Gambit Declined (from White’s point of view), while Romain Edouard continues his video […]
FIDE has informed us that they have put the youngest chess player ever on their rating list. The lad has participate in five national tournaments and won a number of titles in his age category. Last March, for example, he won his stat’s Under 8 Championship. Like to guess how old Tejas Tiwari is? Wrong, […]
Round 1 is over at the World Cup in Baku. A total of 33 matches (24 in the open and 9 in the women’s section) were decided in rapid and blitz tiebreaks. Now that the first round has been completed, all the players who received byes — the rating favourites — will join the fray […]
At the beginning of August FIDE published its new rating list. Magnus Carlsen remains the only player with a rating of more than 2800 and is still the clear number one. Hikaru Nakamura follows in second place, five points ahead of world number 3 Fabiano Caruana. Indian juniors Gukesh D. and Praggnanandhaa gained a lot […]
Weird History is a YouTube channel that provides chronicles of history in a form never covered in high school. It looks at the extreme, the unexpected, the untold and the flat-out weird parts of history. “Because as weird as people seem today, we don’t hold a candle to history,” they claim. They have 4.31 million […]
A few major upsets left rating favourites out of the World Cup in the first round of the multitudinous competition. In the open category, Gianmarco Leiva (Peru) and Pablo Salinas (Chile) gave the biggest surprises. In the women’s section, Qianyun Gong (Singapore), Turmunkh Munkhzul (Mongolia) and Maili-Jade Ouellet (Canada) pulled off the biggest stunners. | […]