Carlsen, Sjugirov, Firouzja & Narayanan reach semis
Magnus Carlsen takes on Sanan Sjugirov in today’s first Banter Blitz Cup semi-final and finds himself in an unusual position: the World Champion has played two, lost two against his Russian opponent, blundering a piece in both the 2010 Olympiad and the 2017 World Blitz Championship! The other semi-final sees a clash between perhaps the two fastest players in the event, 16-year-old Alireza Firouzja and Indian GM S.L. Narayanan.
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Alekseenko: “The Candidates wild card should be abolished”
22-year-old Russian Kirill Alekseenko is the clear outsider for the Candidates Tournament that starts in Yekaterinburg in just over one month’s time. While the other players are established Top 15 stars he’s currently live-rated jus...
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Cairns Cup 2: Win the beauty prize, lose the game
Valentina Gunina played the move of Round 2 of the Cairns Cup in Saint Louis only to go on to lose a second game in a row, this time to her Russian compatriot Alexandra Kosteniuk. There were also impressive wins for Mariya Muzychuk,...
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Cairns Cup 1: Koneru and Dzagnidze take the lead
Humpy Koneru edged above Ju Wenjun into the women’s world no. 2 spot after 16-year-old Carissa Yip’s brave decision to play the King’s Indian Defence backfired in Round 1 of the Cairns Cup. The day’s other winner in St. Louis was Na...
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2020 Chess Calendar
Can Magnus Carlsen extend his 7-year reign as World Chess Champion? That will be the main chess question of 2020, though first the big question is who will qualify to play him from the Candidates Tournament that starts in mid-Mar...
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Jan's Opening Clinic 25: Part 1
Jan Gustafsson starts his first weekly show of Season 25 of Jan's Opening Clinic by wondering if he's being trolled with questions on 1.f4!? and 1.d4 d6 2.Bf4 f5!?, since he's never been a great fan of early pawn advances in front o...
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Aronian: "I’m more talented, but some people push harder"
Levon Aronian was spending a lot of time in airports today and decided to answer questions from his followers on Instagram. “The Chess Prophet”, as he currently styles himself there, provided some predictably entertaining but also s...
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The week ahead: 4-9 February 2020
With Tata Steel Chess and the Gibraltar Masters behind us it’s a quiet week for watching top level chess, but from Friday onwards Yasser, Jennifer & co. will be commentating live from Saint Louis as the Cairns Cup women’s superto...
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Jan’s Opening Clinic 25: Ask your question!
Magnus Carlsen second and all-round chess openings guru Jan Gustafsson is back to answer your questions in Season 25 of the long-running Jan’s Opening Clinic show. Don’t miss the chance to get personal tips on any aspect of chess...
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The 16 best 16-year-olds of all time | Part 1
Alireza Firouzja recently threatened to win the Tata Steel Masters at the age of 16, and even though he hit the wall of Carlsen, Caruana and Anand he still starts February with an extraordinary 2726 rating. He’s clearly one of th...
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Paravyan & Tan Zhongyi win 2020 Gibraltar Masters
21-year-old Russian Grandmaster David Paravyan is the surprise winner of the 2020 Gibraltar Masters after defeating Andrey Esipenko and Wang Hao in tiebreaks. Seven players had tied for first place on 7.5/10 but only four could b...
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