Four players are sharing the lead with 2 out of 3 points after the first day of rapid games in the men’s section of the Tata Steel India tournament. Dommaraju Gukesh, Teimour Radjabov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (pictured) and Vincent Keymer are the co-leaders. Remarkably, 18-year-old Keymer beat two of his contemporaries, Arjun Erigaisi and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. […]
Monthly Archives: September 2023
1993 was a particularly memorable year in chess history. Short and Kasparov had decided to leave FIDE and organise their World Championship match on their own, and FIDE, with its then President Campomanes, then organised an alternative World Championship match with Karpov and Timman. But this was not under a good star. During the opening […]
Tuesday is the official start of the Women’s World Cup in Bydgoszcz. The first two rounds will be played on Wednesday. 12 teams are taking part and the tournament will be played with a preliminary round in two groups, followed by a knockout system. FIDE has announced the line-ups and the draw for the groups.
Dommaraju Gukesh is currently world number eight, with an Elo of 2758. The most amazing thing is that he has just turned seventeen years old! His strongest points are the attack and deep calculation. Vidit Gujrathi, who won the U14 World Championship in 2008, is currently rated 2716. His strengths are similarly advanced tactics and […]
On 1st September FIDE published its new rating list. Magnus Carlsen is still the clear number one, although he only gained 4 rating points by winning the prestigious World Cup. Carlsen tops the list with a rating of 2839 points, 53 points ahead of Fabiano Caruana, who has replaced Hikaru Nakamura as world number 2.
On August 6th, to celebrate GM Helmut Pfleger’s eightieth birthday, octogenarian puzzle master Werner Keym submitted two very clever little problems in two German newspapers. The puzzles, which had a unique form of birthday greetings encoded into them, were not at all easy to work out. Today we bring you the solutions.
After beating Alireza Firouzja by a convincing 3-0 score in the winners’ bracket final of the Generation Cup, Magnus Carlsen saw the youngster setting up a rematch by winning the losers’ bracket. In the Grand Final, a much more hard-fought encounter was also won by Carlsen, who defeated Firouzja with black in the Armageddon decider.
In this week’s column, violence and subtlety are presented side by side — violence from the Düsseldorf Rapid Team Championship, and subtlety from the sophisticated concept of zugzwang. Find here examples from games by Dommaraju Gukesh and Nihal Sarin, plus remarkable zugzwang positions, including the ‘Immortal Zugzwang Game’. | Photos: FIDE / Niki Riga
Presented by the Saint Louis Chess Club, the highly anticipated ‘2023 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX’ returns this September 8-10, 2023 at the World Chess Hall of Fame with another exciting line-up featuring the top players from the United States, including World No. 3 and reigning World 960 Champion GM Hikaru Nakamura and World No. 2 […]
Divya Deshmukh, a late replacement and the lowest-rated player in the field, won the rapid section of the Tata Steel India tournament. The 17-year-old from Maharashtra outscored some of the strongest women players in the world to finish in sole first place with 7 out of 9 points. Ju Wenjun, who entered the last round […]