Fabiano Caruana drew a sharp game against Richard Rapport to finish in clear first place in the Superbet Chess Classic, taking the $100,000 top prize and the maximum 13 Grand Chess Tour points. His pursuers could all only draw, though that was a good result for Anish Giri after he stumbled into a lost position against Ian Nepomniachtchi. Ding Liren regained the world no. 3 spot after ending with a fine win over Bogdan-Daniel Deac.
Bent Larsen (1935-2010), the famous Danish Grandmaster, was a fearless player with an original style of play. He could beat anyone on his day, as proved by his victories against various World Champions, including Mikhail Botvinnik, ...
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...
Vishy Anand once had to resign on move 6 of a serious tournament game, while Magnus Carlsen was lost in 7 moves against Ian Nepomniachtchi in the first Magnus Carlsen Invitational. Such accidents are incredibly rare for the best,...
Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908) is one of the founding fathers of Russian chess. He lost two matches for the World Chess Championship title against the first official champion Wilhelm Steinitz, in 1889 and 1892. A highly creative pl...
On Saturday, Tata Steel Chess will begin in Wijk aan Zee and Magnus Carlsen will attempt to increase his record 7 tournament wins. In a candid interview on a Norwegian podcast conducted shortly after appearing in the Dutch town for ...
Daniil Dubov got to deliver checkmate against none other than World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in the recently finished Airthings Masters. Sean Marsh, a chess writer and Chief Trainer for Chess in Schools and Communities, take...
For the past several years the Russian chess historian Andrey Terekhov has been working on a biography of Vasily Smyslov. The first volume of this work, focused on the beginning of the chess career of the seventh World Chess Champ...
IS318, the New York school featured in the film Brooklyn Castle, is a shining example of #ImpactChess. But times have changed since its teachers and children warmed the hearts of the world in 2012.
Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) is considered to be one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century, but he was also a great chess fan. Marc Lopez, of the radio program Cooltura Escacs, sent us this article.
Juga, a Chilean songwriter, recently presented a song that reflects her emotions during a chess game. Every chess player that has ever competed will find at least some segments of the song relatable to their experience. "Oh Capablan...
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