The draw for the ‘Challengers’ group of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2017, took place on Thursday 12th January. It resulted in the following playing schedule. Round 1 – Saturday the 14th Jones – Grandelius; Guramishvili – Lu; Smirin – Dobrov; Tari – Hansen; Bok – Tingjie; Ragger – Xiong; […check it out!]
Round one of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2017, begins in a couple of days time. To mark the occasion, I thought it would be rather nice to take a look back at last year’s tournament — you know, as if we needed any reminder of the kind of chess that […check it out!]
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2017, will be held from January 13th (opening — round 1, January 14th) to 29th in Wijk aan Zee, Holland. This blog is continuing on from part 1 of my preview, which gave some background information on the event. If you have not already read part […check it out!]
As one year rolls into another and January dawns, chess enthusiasts everywhere start to get a bit dreamy — Wijk aan Zee is just around the corner! That’s how it is for this chess enthusiast anyway. I have been making my annual trip to the small Dutch seaside village for the […check it out!]
The inaugural Chess PRO League kicks of tomorrow, Wednesday 11th January and will run until March. Formerly known as the US Chess League, which saw teams from the 50 states of America taking part, the event has now been expanded to include teams from 5 continents around the world. Teams […check it out!]
The 2016 edition of the London Chess Classic, has been won by American Grandmaster Wesley So. Having taken a grip on the tournament early on, he secured victory with a solid draw with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round. As for the round itself, Veselin Topalov was the winner of […check it out!]
The penultimate (8th) round of the London Chess Classic 2016, took place on December 17th 2016. It saw Veselin Topalov have yet another bad day at the office. Topalov played White against Viswanathan Anand, who achieved equality rather comfortably in the Queen’s Gambit Declined. The Bulgarian’s 24.Be2 was rather too quiet, and […check it out!]
FIDE’s Women’s World Rapid and World Blitz Chess Championships, were held between December 25th and 30th 2016. The event was staged in Doha, Qatar. Top seed for the rapid event, was Russia’s Kateryna Lagno, but this was an extremely wide open competition, with the likes of Alexandra Kosteniuk, Anna Muzychuk, […check it out!]
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