Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin have drawn the second game in their World Chess Championship match, currently underway in New York City. After Karjakin’s solid resistance of Carlsen’s Trompowsky in game 1, the chess world waited in anticipation to see what he could bring to the board with the white […check it out!]
The World Chess Championship 2016, began in New York City, on Friday 11th November, with Norway’s Magnus Carlsen beginning the defence of his title against Sergey Karjakin of Russia. The World Champion had the White pieces in game one, and set tongues a-wagging by opening with the Trompowsky. Of course, […check it out!]
The World Chess Championship 2016, will begin tomorrow (Friday 11th) in New York City. Reigning Champion, Magnus Carlsen, will begin the defence of his title against Sergey Karjakin of Russia. It will be a 12-game match, with the first to 6.5-points being declared the World Chess Champion. In this opening […check it out!]
The week of the World Chess Championship 2016, has arrived. There are only a few days to wait before Magnus Carlsen begins the defence of his title against Sergey Karjakin. Carrying on the countdown to the event, we look at another of their decisive games. In the first, we saw […check it out!]
In a week’s time, Magnus Carlsen will begin the defence of his world title, against Sergey Karjakin in New York City. In a 12-game match, the first to 6.5 points will be declared the winner. Many fancy the World Champion to retain his title, with his challenger being regarded as […check it out!]
The Hoogeveen Masters Tournament was not the only thing going on in Hoogeveen, the Hoogeveen Open also concluded on Saturday 22nd October. It saw Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta take victory with an impressive 7½ points from the 9 rounds. Gupta had performed very consistently throughout the tournament, and really had […check it out!]
The final round of the Hoogeveen Masters tournament was played on Saturday 22nd October. It saw Ivan Sokolov seal victory over Jorden Van Foreest, with a very comfortable draw. Being a point ahead going in to this round, Sokolov only needed to avoid losing in order to decide things in […check it out!]
Round five of the Hoogeveen Masters Tournament was held on Friday 21st October. It saw British Grandmaster Nigel Short seal victory over Yifan Hou of China. With wins in rounds three and four, Short was two points ahead of his opponent and only needed to draw in this penultimate round. […check it out!]
The Hoogeveen Masters Matches, paused for a rest day on Wednesday 19th October. The players came out fresh the day after, however, and resumed with gusto! Nigel Short and Jorden Van Foreest must have had their Weetabix, because they each played a very fine game and allowed their opponent nothing. […check it out!]
The Hoogeveen Masters matches continued on Tuesday 18th October with Round 3. The scores between Nigel Short and Yifan Hou and Ivan Sokolov and Jorden Van Foreest had been level at 1-point each. However, this would change as both games saw the younger players being outplayed as Black. Revenge is […check it out!]
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