Isidor Gunsberg (1854-1930) was born in Hungary but later became a British citizen. His chess career began as remote operator to the chess machine ‘Mephisto’. Confirming himself as one of the chess elite at the time, Gunsberg would challenge World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz for his title. Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900), […check it out!]
When we last visited the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix, after the first rest day, Russia’s Natalia Pogonina, was leading the event with 3½/4. Now, as the players enjoy their second (and final) rest day, things have changed a bit. Natalia Pogonina has scored 2-points from the 4-games since that stage, which has not been […check it out!]
Playing chess is great, isn’t it? There’s nothing better than sitting opposite an opponent and luring them in to our favourite opening lines, out thinking them and out playing them; taking their pieces, and launching a merciless attack on their King. And then, delivering that mating move, the ultimate reward […check it out!]
Hi there! I’m going to start a new feature, to tie in with #ThrowbackThursday on social media — you know, being in with cool stuff like that, and all. Basically, what I am going to do, every Thursday, is post a game from the archives, a classic. I’ll explain a […check it out!]
The Women’s FIDE Grand Prix is being held in Tehran, Iran, until the 23rd of February. Competing are: Natalia Pogonina, Nana Dzagnidze, Xue Zhao, Humpy Koneru, Wenjun Ju, Natalia Zhukova, Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, Valentina Gunina, Harika Dronavalli, Antoaneta Stefanova, Nino Batsiashvili and Pia Cramling. The tournament will be played over 11 […check it out!]
The final day’s play had arrived at the 2016 Tradewise Gibraltar International Chess Tournament. It would begin with the tenth round – the final scheduled round of play. Should it be needed, there would be play off games, and for this reason the action started at an earlier time of […check it out!]
Round Nine would see the leaders doubled from four to eight. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Etienne Bacrot had a bit of a tame draw with each other. The Queen’s Pawn game never really looked like amounting to anything, White was comfortable but so was Black. The position became very quickly simplified, […check it out!]
In round eight, the sole leader, David Anton Guijjaro had a draw against Li Chao. The game was a Petroff, so was never really looking hopeful as of move two, to be perfectly honest. It was not a feeble affair, the players did show willing, but there was just nothing […check it out!]
When Benjamin Gledura of Hungary sat down to play his round-seven game against Viswanathan Anand of India, all the confidence in the world will probably not have removed all the nerves and slight trepidation with regard to his task. However, for the second time in the tournament, it would be […check it out!]
Round 6 of the Tradewise Gibraltar International Chess Tournament 2016, took place on Sunday 31st of January. It would see the number of leaders raised from four to ten. One of the four, Etienne Bacrot of France, would opt for a day off and take a half-point bye. The other […check it out!]
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