There is something very special about playing chess. During a game your heart often races and your blood pressure rises. Evolution has set this up: in times of stress, pour out adrenaline and prepare the individual for a physical fight – or a lightening retreat. Can it be healthy for chess players to experience this […]
Monthly Archives: June 2024
For a chess player, chess pieces are like specific tools in a toolbox. We need to know how best to use them, just as a craftsman knows his tools. We shouldn’t use a screwdriver to hammer in a nail; and we shouldn’t position the knights on the edge of the board. Knights are mysterious creatures. […]
All five games ended drawn in round 5 of the Cairns Cup, with Alice Lee (pictured) and Alexandra Kosteniuk escaping with half points from clearly inferior positions, against Nana Dzagnidze and Irina Krush, respectively. The results left Tan Zhongyi as the sole leader with four rounds to go. Mariya Muzychuk and Harika Dronavalli are tied […]
Arjun Erigaisi continues to impress: after a strong performance at the French Team Championships, he won the Stepan Avagyan Memorial in Jermuk, Armenia, with 6.0/9, finishing 1.5 points ahead of his closest rivals. With a live rating of 2778.1, he is now ranked 4th in the world. | Photos: Chess Academy Armenia
FIDE has announced the venue for the 2024 World Rapid and Blitz Championships. The tournament will take place in New York in the last week of December this year. | Photo: FIDE
The new ChessBase Books series offers quick and easy access to all content: read, watch videos explaining the ideas, replay sample games, take tests. It’s that easy to learn openings with the opening tutorial in CB Books format.
The Madrid Chess Festival came to an end on Saturday. Two 10-player closed tournaments and a 48-player Swiss open took place concurrently. The main event was won by Spanish IM Julio Suárez, who beat former sole leader Levy Rozman in their round-8 encounter. The Closed B tournament was won by Venezuelan FM Pedro Martínez. Argentine […]
Our beloved WIM from Canada picked up streaming chess games online a couple of months ago, and became a Twitch partner in no time. Thousands of chess friends are watching her, playing blitz and bullet games, or solving puzzles. Svitlana gained nearly 6000 followers, who she even plays against on stream, at times.
When you begin your journey to build an opening repertoire, wouldn’t it be nice to get a glimpse of what each opening looks like – through the eyes of a super-grandmaster?. That would certainly help your understanding of the vast world of chess openings. It is exactly with this thought that “A Supergrandmaster’s Guide to […]
The Stepan Avagyan Memorial is taking place in Jermuk, Armenia on June 10-18. A 10-player single round-robin, the tournament includes five Armenian representatives and five international grandmasters. Top seed Arjun Erigaisi is the sole leader with two rounds to go, as he stands a full point ahead of a three-player chasing pack consisting of Amin […]