When the FIDE Candidates Tournament resumes on Monday one of the highlights will be seeing Alexander Grischuk back in action. The Russian grandmaster is a dark horse to win the event and reach a match against Magnus Carlsen - he starts a point behind the two leaders after drawing all his games in the first half - but whatever happens he’s sure to entertain us, during and after the games. In one of his pre-tournament interviews he referred to the film "In Bruges" to sum up his career so far.
Praggnanandhaa continued his march on Day 2 of the Polgar Challenge as he racked up 8 wins in a row to take the sole lead on 8.5/10. The last of the wins was a formality, as Dinara Saduakassova unfortunately had to drop out due to i...
15-year-old Praggnanandhaa stormed back from a 1st round loss to Volodar Murzin to win his next four games and lead after Day 1 of the Polgar Challenge, the 1st event on the $100,000 Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour. He’s joined o...
14th World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik and all-time women’s no. 1 Judit Polgar captain 20 young stars as the $100,000 Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour starts this Thursday with the Polgar Challenge. The likes of Praggnanandhaa...
In top level chess, dubious openings will generally lead only to your own pain and suffering, but at less exalted levels they can be a great way to catch out unwary opponents. In this week’s crop of checkmates, Sean Marsh takes a...
Vincent Keymer posted a 2812 performance as German club Deizisau won the 1st ever European Online Chess Club Cup ahead of Clichy from France and Mednyi Vsadnik from Russia. Keymer’s colleague Georg Meier posted an even better 289...
14th World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik has hit out at players trying to win games on time by “flagging” their opponents, calling it “a loser’s mentality”. “Try to win a game because you are better than your opponent - that is...
When did you last attend a buffet? It has certainly been a while. Chess players tend to behave well at buffets, because they know the buffet rules: 'touch move' and 'touch take.' Until we can attend standard buffets again, you...
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was unable to help Baden-Baden as the top seeds for the European Online Club Cup finished bottom of their playoff group. The 90 teams that began the event have been reduced to 9 (joined by women’s champions...
Iulija Osmak scored 4.5/5 in the final of the Women’s Rapid section of the 1st FIDE World University Online Chess Championship, but her score has now been changed to 0/5, with Julia Antolak declared the winner. 23-year-old Osmak,...
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