Two rounds featuring turnarounds and missed chances left Richard Rapport atop the standings of the Grenke Chess Classic with a 1-point lead over Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren and Vincent Keymer. Rapport drew Keymer and beat Daniel Fridman in rounds 3 and 4, while both Carlsen and Keymer obtained big advantages which they were unable to […]
Monthly Archives: March 2024
At the beginning of 2017 Siegfried Hornecker, who later wanted to be called Sarah, published his first “Study of the Month” on the ChessBase website, which has appeared regularly ever since. These were knowledgeable and entertaining columns in which Hornecker introduced a wide audience to the world of studies, compositions and problems. However, it has […]
The first two rounds of the Grenke Chess Classic were played on Tuesday at the Congress Centre in Karlsruhe. Richard Rapport emerged as the sole leader after beating Magnus Carlsen and drawing Ding Liren. Carlsen bounced back from his loss in round 1 by beating the tournament’s underdog, Daniel Fridman. | Photos: Grenke Chess
The FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024 is set to take place in Toronto, Canada, on April 3-23. This event marks a historic occasion as it is the first time the Candidates and the Women’s Candidates are organized together under one roof and on the same dates. The opening ceremony will take place on the evening of […]
The GRENKE Chess Classic is taking place from March 26 to April 1 in Karlsruhe, Germany. The tournament is a 6-player double round-robin with a time control of 45 minutes for the game plus 10-second increments per move. World champion Ding Liren and world number one Magnus Carlsen are joined by Vincent Keymer, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, […]
Svitlana dug deep to find some outstanding, beautiful tactics, by all the men’s candidates, who will compete in Toronto soon. Arne is trying hard to solve all the puzzles, and get 8 out of 8. Will he succeed? And how will you do, dear viewer?
Yochanan Afek, International Grandmaster of chess composition, has been providing us with articles for decades. He lives in Amsterdam, where Sagar Shah caught up with him and conducted a 90-minute interview, discussing some of the great problem compositions that we have from him. We have the puzzles in a replay board, where you can follow […]
A young Chinese girl, Lu Miaoyi, made a big impression in the Reykjavík Open 2024. Her mother, Yu Yuanyuan, is also a Woman Grandmaster. It is already clear that her 14-year-old daughter will soon overtake her and win the IM title and then the title of grandmaster. | Photo: Hallfríður Sigurðardóttir / Reykjavik Open
“Everyone has been waiting for this chess festival”, writes Alex Winkler in a press release from the organisation of the GRENKE Chess Classic and the GRENKE Chess Open. Six international stars, including Magnus Carlsen and Vincent Keymer, will compete in the Classic, which starts tomorrow, Tuesday 26 March, while over 2500 players will take part […]
Take a look at this picture. It is not a Hollywood star, but a chess celebrity. Can you recognize him? Capablanca, Nezhmetdinov, Frank Marshall? No, not any of them! The answer is Andor Lilienthal, an extraordinary chess grandmaster, born in Moscow, but moved to Hungary. In his career, he played against ten world champions, and […]