The eleventh round of the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2016, took place on Thursday 24th March. It would see quite an eventful round with two decisive games. Among them, would be Peter Svidler’s first full point of the tournament. The Russian played the black side of a Slav Defence against Levon […check it out!]
Round 10 of the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2016 took place on Wednesday 23rd March. Fabiano Caruana, came out obviously refreshed after the rest day and took his second win of the tournament. Following up his round eight win over Hikaru Nakamura, he took a point from former World Champion, Viswanathan […check it out!]
The ninth round of the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2016 took place on Monday 21st March. It would be the final round before the rest day. The round would see Viswanathan Anand take his third win of the tournament, at the expense of joint-leader, Levon Aronian. The Giuoco Piano was Anand’s […check it out!]
Round 8 of the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2016, took place on Sunday 20th March. A bit of a buzz was starting around the chess world, with the feeling that there had been something of a change of atmosphere, that the players were beginning to stake their claims. Would this be […check it out!]
The FIDE Candidates Tournament 2016, resumed after the second rest day, on Friday 19th March, with the seventh of fourteen rounds. Of course, Hikaru Nakamura had had a tough day at the office in the previous round, and so needed to regain some confidence. And this is what he seemed […check it out!]
The sixth round of the FIDE Candidates Tournament, 2016, took place on Thursday 17th March. It would be the final round before the second rest day. I think it’s fair to say that Viswanathan Anand has been lacking some confidence as of late. A couple of World Championship defeats, and […check it out!]
The FIDE Candidates Tournament 2016, is currently underway in Moscow, Russia. Round 5 was held on the 16th of March. So far the tournament had seen a pattern of one decisive game among three draws, but in this round the pattern would be broken and all points would be halved. […check it out!]
The 2016 FIDE Candidates Tournament, resumed on Tuesday, following Monday’s rest day. Chess fans around the world hoped for fighting chess, and were not to be disappointed in the main. As has been the case so far in the tournament, there was one decisive game among three draws. The full […check it out!]
The FIDE Women’s Grand Prix, concluded in Tehran, Iran, on the 23rd of February, 2016. Going in to the final three games of the tournament, Nana Dzagnidze led with 6½ points from 8 games. Unfortunately she was unable to build on this lead. Having a bad final stage, the Georgian lost her final […check it out!]
The 2016 Candidates Tournament, continued with round 3 on Sunday the 13th of March. It would be the last round before the first rest day. These can always be unpredictable, with some players looking to make the extra push in anticipation of a recovery day; or to consolidate their position; […check it out!]
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