The Grand Chess Tour will hold its last two tournaments in Saint Louis in mid/late November, a Rapid & Blitz event and the Sinquefield Cup. Ding Liren was supposed to take part in both tournaments, but the tour has recently announced his withdrawal. The world champion has been completely out of the limelight lately. What’s […]
Monthly Archives: November 2023
With only two rounds to go on the Isle of Man, six players are sharing the lead in the open section of the FIDE Grand Swiss. The latest additions to the leading pack are Hikaru Nakamura and Parham Maghsoodloo, who scored crucial victories on Friday, over Ivan Cheparinov and Alexey Sarana respectively. Meanwhile, Vaishali Rameshbabu […]
The FIDE Candidates is scheduled to be held in April 2024 in Toronto, Canada. There are eight spots in the open section and one of them will be decided by the FIDE circuit 2023 – on the 1st of January 2024. What is the FIDE circuit? Who are the players who have the best chance? […]
Four players are sharing the lead with three rounds to go in the open section of the FIDE Grand Swiss after Fabiano Caruana, Bogdan-Daniel Deac and Andrey Esipenko scored full points on Thursday to join Vidit Gujrathi atop the standings. Nine players stand a half point behind, including second seed Hikaru Nakamura and Indian prodigy […]
The new Fritz is coming soon – Fritz 19, the World Chess Software Champion 2023, will be available on 14 November and offers a variety of useful tools. It is a good sparring partner, you can improve your openings by playing against (memorising) your opening repertoire, you can do calculation training for a quick Elo […]
A win over Javokhir Sindarov with black allowed Vidit Gujrathi to emerge as sole leader in the open section of the FIDE Grand Swiss. The Indian grandmaster is the only player in the open to have scored five wins, as he began the event with a loss against Erwin l’Ami. Eleven players stand a half […]
After the sixth round of the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss, every chess player should know all participants who remain in the top 20. Unless, Ramaza Zhalmakhanov shows up! The young talent from Kazakhstan is probably playing his best tournament ever, with draws against Giri, Sevian, Sarana, and Firouzja, and two wins against Pichot and Bassem! […]
Magnus Carlsen is still the clear world number one, but his lead over the other world class players has shrunk somewhat, although it’s still impressive. World number two Fabiano Caruana is the only player in the top 12 to have gained Elo in the last month, and with a good result in the Grand Swiss […]
A very strong field, including many grandmasters, will be competing for the title of Senior World Champion in the age groups 50+ and 65+ (in an Open and a Women’s tournament) from 25 October to 5 November in Terrasini, Sicily. The field includes renowned players such as Michael Adams, Klaus Bischoff, John Nunn, Rafael Vaganjan, […]
World-class chess explained in video: Dorian Rogozenco shows two win by Magnus Carlsen from the World Cup 2023 – From a surprise weapon to a fashionable variation: Luis Engel shows why 6.Rg1 is being used by more and more top players against the Najdorf Variation (video) – Analyses of Nijat Abasov, Anish Giri, Vidit Gujrathi, […]