One hundred ninety-seven teams have registered for the open section of the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest. With FIDE currently encompassing 201 national federations, the registration numbers fall short by just four federations. As is often the case, not every registered team will make it to Budapest for various reasons. Nevertheless, this Olympiad is set […]
Monthly Archives: September 2024
Surya Shekhar Ganguly defeated Sam Shankland in their 8-game online match with the unique scoring system devised by Venceslav Rutar – which changes the scoring of draws into three categories based on the material disparity. Surya won the match by a 26-11 score, after grabbing 5 wins. Shankland collected 1 win, and 3 games ended […]
On Friday 6th September at 20:00 CEST in Paris an explosive duel that the chess world has been waiting for for weeks will begin: Hans Niemann will face Magnus Carlsen in the semi-finals of the chess.com Speedchess Championship. After his defeat against Niemann in the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, Carlsen indirectly accused Niemann of cheating, which […]
In the final round of a Dutch tournament (in Waddingxveen 1979) World Champion Anatoly Karpov beat the second-placed GM Vlastimil Hort. But could the world-class Czech grandmaster have prevented this happening? This was the question we asked in our last Riddle. Today we provide you with the answer.
Ju Wenjun will face Kateryna Lagno in the second semifinal of the Women’s Speed Chess Championship. Ju and Lagno knocked out Alice Lee and Valentina Gunina in Tuesday’s quarterfinals, respectively. The women’s world champion got a clear victory over Lee in the 5-minute and 3-minute sections, while Lagno outscored Gunina in the 1-minute segment of […]
Ernst Cassirer was a prominent and important German philosopher, who was born 150 years ago on July 28, 1874, in Breslau. In 1919, he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the newly founded University of Hamburg, but after the Nazis rose to power, Cassirer emigrated to England, where he taught philosophy at Oxford. […]
Shortly after his 97th birthday Andreas Dückstein, one of the oldest FIDE title holders, passed away. Over the course of his long career, Dückstein played against countless chess legends, beating some of the greats and drawing with others. Dückstein possessed grandmaster strength and was only denied the title for formal reasons. FIDE finally made him […]
On Friday, September 6th, there is going to be a touchy encounter between former World Champion and World number one Magnus Carlsen, and upstart GM Hans Niemann, 21. The pair will meet for the first time across the board since the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, where their game sparked cheating allegations and a $100 million lawsuit. […]
The first two matches of the quarterfinals in the Women’s Speed Chess Championship took place on Monday. Polina Shuvalova (pictured) and Vaishali Rameshbabu advanced to the semifinals after knocking out two former women’s world champions, Hou Yifan and Alexandra Kosteniuk, respectively. Both matches were really hard-fought, with Shuvalova only beating Hou in the bullet tiebreaker. […]
Last week we showed you three positions, miniatures with five or six pieces that looked simple enough. But finding a a clear and forced win was anything but trivial – you needed to work out some unusually subtle strategy to solve them. Today we present the solutions, in the form of videos by Gauri Shankar, […]