Anish Giri: 'People are taking the World Champion title too seriously'
Dutch no. 1 Anish Giri was in fine form when he played Banter Blitz yesterday, both with his blitz chess – he won all 16 games against chess24 users – and with his banter, where topics ranged from humour in chess to the likely future World Chess Champion and whether the title still matters. It’s “a golden era of Banter Blitz”, as Anish said, and today, to mark chess24’s 7th Birthday, we’ve got Hand and Brain shows with Radjabov & Giri and Nepomniachtchi & Dubov, as well as a special show with chess24’s own Jan Gustafsson and Laurent Fressinet.
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Tkachiev on Carlsen-Anand, Game 1: Hotchpotch
The first game of the 2014 Carlsen-Anand World Championship match already seems a long time ago. Events were only simmering back then, before the knockout blow in Game 2, but it’s worth revisiting the first day’s play in Sochi fo...
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Tkachiev previews Carlsen-Anand 2
The new World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand starts tomorrow in Sochi. On the eve of that hugely anticipated encounter Vlad Tkachiev takes a comprehensive look at what we can expect. His starting ...
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Kasparov’s worst defeat
Round 9 of the Chess Olympiad coincided with the FIDE Presidential Election. Garry Kasparov was aiming to take over from Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, but what was intended to be a new highpoint in his glorious career ended in disaster for ...
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Chess in Siberia, anyone?
Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson continues to provide a warts-and-all account of events in the chess world. His latest update is (loosely) dedicated to the tournament that just got underway in Poikovsky, Russia while he also harks back to...
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Reaction to Anand’s victory
After a lean few years and a painful defeat against Magnus Carlsen few were predicting great things from former World Champion Viswanathan Anand in the Candidates. Instead the 44-year-old led from start to finish, winning with the s...
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Men, women and chess skill: The whole truth (2)
German grandmaster and chess24 author Ilja Zaragatski wants to solve one of life's great mysteries - why are most strong chess players male? In Part 1: The story so far, he set out the facts showing the overwhelming domina...
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Carlsen: "Most of them are a tiny bit desperate"
With two rounds of the Candidates to go World Champion Magnus Carlsen has produced a new YouTube video giving his thoughts on who his next challenger will be and on the tournament in general. He responds to Vladimir Kramnik's commen...
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Men, women and chess skill: The whole truth (1)
German grandmaster and chess24 author Ilja Zaragatski, who has a degree in Economics and Sociology as well as considerable expertise in (evolutionary) psychology, takes a scientific but light-hearted look at a delicate but intriguin...
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Sutovsky on the Candidates so far
GM Emil Sutovsky has written a fascinating progress report after the first three rounds of the Candidates Tournament gave us some clues as to the form of the players. He spots danger signs for Kramnik, thinks Svidler is ready to ...
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Vugar Gashimov passes away at age 27
Vugar Gashimov is dead. The chess world received the sad news on January 11th that Vugar had died overnight of a brain tumour in a hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. Jan Gustafsson remembers "one of the nicest guys around".
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