Chess24 acquires broadcast rights to FIDE events until 2026
When Magnus Carlsen joins David Howell and Tania Sachdev to commentate on the Candidates Tournament today he’ll do so with full live video coverage of the players in Yekaterinburg. Those rights are part of a 6-year agreement with the World Chess Federation FIDE for footage of the most important events. The deal sees our sister site Chessable become sponsors of the Candidates Tournament and the full World Championship cycle, while also contributing to a new chess talent development program, the FIDE Chessable Youth Development Fund.
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Korchnoi vs. Uhlmann, two legends in Zürich
On the sidelines of the Zürich Chess Challenge, we also witnessed a duel of four games between the chess legends Viktor Korchnoi and Wolfgang Uhlmann. The event gave International Master Pablo Almagro an excuse to pay tribute to the...
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Memory lapses and elite synapses
After Hikaru Nakamura defeated Sergey Karjakin in Round 3 of the Zürich Chess Challenge, the Russian tweeted his frustration at forgetting his opening preparation. That prompted us to ask sport psychologist Carlos Martínez, who spec...
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Battle of the chess generations
When 24-year-old Magnus Carlsen won the recent Tata Steel Masters in Wijk aan Zee the next four players in the table were the same age or younger than him, while the Challengers was won by 15-year-old Chinese prodigy Wei Yi. In a ...
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Carlsen’s incredible supertournament record
The GRENKE Chess Classic starts on Monday and will see Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand meet for the first time since their World Championship match in Sochi. Carlsen is fresh from winning the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in W...
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Is Ivanchuk a genius?
Vassily Ivanchuk lost only one game in Wijk aan Zee, and in an interview afterwards mentioned it might have been because he failed to read enough Philippine folk-tales to understand his opponent, Wesley So. That's the kind of eccent...
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Tkachiev on Tata Steel: Preview
How will Carlsen cope with the young(er) generation? What’s actually financially at stake in Wijk aan Zee? What’s the venue like for the players and fans? Who should we bet on? Vlad Tkachiev’s preview of the 2015 Tata Steel Chess...
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7 reasons you’ll love Tata Steel Chess 2015
The Tata Steel Chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee is the traditional curtain raiser of the chess year and in 2015 it promises to be sensational. All eyes will be on the clash between World Champion Magnus Carlsen and his hottest ch...
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5 chess articles you might have missed in 2014
Although it’s hard to claim having Magnus Carlsen as a photogenic World Champion has catapulted chess into the limelight in anywhere other than Norway there’s been no lack of mass media interest in the royal game in 2014. Hugely ...
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2014: The Chess Year in Review
Whose year was 2014? How does Fabiano Caruana’s incredible performance in St. Louis match up against Magnus Carlsen’s triple World Championship triumph? What about the rising stars Yu Yangyi and Wesley So, or the resurgent Vishy ...
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Jan & Lawrence on the World Championship
Our commentary dream team of GM Jan Gustafsson and IM Lawrence Trent spent most of the World Championship trying to avoid each other, broadcasting live or recapping events in different languages and countries. Finally, however, w...
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