Weekend three (rounds five and six) of Britain’s 4 Nations Chess League (4NCL) 2016-17, took place 11-12 February. Division one would play at the Park Inn, Northampton. The Division contains sixteen teams, which are split into two ‘pools’ of eight. The same goes for Division Two, who also played at the same […check it out!]
The FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship opened yesterday, Friday 10th February, in Tehran, Iran. The tournament, which runs until March 4th, is a knockout format, played over six rounds. Round one will be played on Saturday 11th February (15:00 local time, 11:30 GMT — check your time here.) . Top […check it out!]
We’re not going back very far at all for this week’s annotated game. It is taken from this year’s Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Round eight of the Masters group, saw World Champion, Magnus Carlsen, paired against Richard Rapport. It was their first ever meeting and to be fair, one which […check it out!]
Yesterday saw the resumption of Chess.com’s ‘Titled Tuesday’. The elite competition, sees titled players battling it out for cash prizes in a series of 3|2 blitz games. The competition is a 9-round Swiss and is held on the first Tuesday of each month. With it’s $1,500 prize fund, (€1,402 / […check it out!]
Sometimes, the truth really is stranger than fiction and chess really is a funny old game. While the fight was going on to decide the outcome of this year’s Gibraltar Chess Masters, another board was unfortunately taking centre stage, for totally different reasons. This was namely the game of Yifan […check it out!]
The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Masters 2017, has been won by America’s Hikaru Nakamura. That makes it a hat-trick of triumphs on the rock, having won the previous two also, and his fourth Gibraltar title in total. I guess that makes him a rock star … sorry, couldn’t resist! Nakamura had […check it out!]
Veselin Topalov must have been feeling pretty good going into the penultimate round of the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017. In the previous round, he had won with Black in order to join the leaders. Unfortunately for him, his bubble was to burst, as in this round he lost with White […check it out!]
Round eight of the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017, belonged to Bularian Grandmaster Veselin Topalov. The former World Champion took advantage of draws among the leaders in order to close the gap. Veselin played Black against Israel’s Emil Sutovsky and got down to business in a Caro-Kann. Both players were trailing […check it out!]
The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Masters 2017, was beginning to get down to the nitty-gritty. Defending Champion, Hikaru Nakamura shared the lead with David Anton Guijarro and Michael Adams going into this seventh round of ten, but there was still some time for other hopefuls to try to take some points […check it out!]
Round six of the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017, saw the leaders cut in half (from six to three) as some had a bad day and some a very good one. Having a good day, was defending Champion, Hikaru Nakamura, who faced fellow leader, Maxime Lagarde. Nakamura obtained an egde in […check it out!]
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