Davide Nastasio loves chess – and when he had a weekend off to play, he was delighted to have the new Fritz 19. In a review he describes what you can do with the engine: “The new Fritz 19 has given me endless hours of fun, thanks to games played against it, as well as […]
Monthly Archives: December 2023
D Gukesh drew his final-round game against Pentala Harikrishna. Arjun Erigaisi defeated Sanan Sjugirov. Both Gukesh and Arjun ended up with the same 4½/7 score. Gukesh won the Chennai Masters on tie-breaks, Arjun was placed second. Pavel Eljanov drew against Levon Aronian. Thus, Harikrishna and Eljanov finished with 4/7 each. Harikrishna secured third place. The […]
The chess year 2023 will end with a particularly exciting event: the World Rapid and Blitz Championships, which will take place from 26 to 30 December in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Almost the entire world elite will be competing, with Magnus Carlsen the favourite in both tournaments. | Photos: Lennart Ootes, Maria Emelianova/Chess.com
It is totally accepted that the 20th FIDE World Champion Magnus Carlsen makes any ending look like a piece of cake! And this is simply based on good knowledge and understanding, two great assets that are wrongly interpreted as intuition and sometimes, even magic! A world leading chess trainer and analyst, GM Efstratios Grivas, shows […]
The German Masters was exciting right up to the final round. Alexander Donchenko, Dennis Wagner and Rasmus Svane battled it out for victory in the open tournament, while the women’s Masters saw Dinara Wagner and Hanna Marie Klek fighting for firs place in a direct duel. In the end, the Wagners were declared victorious in […]
The name “Hastings” has a very special ring to it in the chess world. In 1895 one of the most important tournaments in chess history took place in the seaside resort on the south-east coast of England, and chess tournaments are still regularly held there today – no tournament in chess history has a longer […]
As it is already well-known, chess is a game of repeated motifs; a game of repeated knowledge! Once you carefully and correctly learn a motif, a pattern or an opening, your subconscious carefully stores it for use when time comes and demands! Here is a valuable lesson from a world-class chess trainer on the subject. […]
This month marks the birth anniversary of Viswanathan Anand. The phenomenal rise of the Indian super talent created a chess wave in his own land that shows no sign of diminishing. Vishy has been an inspiration for many young players, and today he is an ambassador for the game. Here our columnist recalls the early […]
D Gukesh scored his second win in-a-row, against Sanan Sjugirov, in the fifth round of the Chennai Grand Masters. Gukesh seized his advantage and synthesized an attack on the kingside. Sjugirov had no proper answer to it and succumbed. The Arjun Erigaisi-Levon Aronian saga continues. Arjun had a great opportunity to beat Aronian for the […]
The Max Euwe Centre in Amsterdam is an institution. It offers training courses, houses a huge library with more than 10,000 books and helps to support the wide interest in the cultural, social and academic aspects of chess. After 32 years, the Centre must now leave its location, but will be given new premises on […]