Hello from London my dear reader! For the next few weeks, this city is not only the United Kingdom’s capital, but also chess’s capital! And we will get to that after a slight digression… I would like to start with an apology, namely for the halt in blogging these last […check it out!]
When Fabiano Caruana takes on Magnus Carlsen for the World Chess Title, there are many around who feel that he will be victorious. Of course, a high percentage of them are from the American’s home country, but that does not make them wrong! Let’s be perfectly honest, Fabiano has every […check it out!]
Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, begins the defence of his World Title at the weekend. He will play Fabiano Caruana of the United States of America in a twelve game match. The first to 6.5 points will be crowned World Chess Champion. Carlsen won the World Title in 2013, when he defeated […check it out!]
In a week’s time, the chess World will be gearing up for game one of the World Chess Championship 2018. The match will be contested between reigning World Champion, Magnus Carlsen of Norway and his American Challenger, Fabiano Caruana. This match is one of the most keenly anticipated chess World […check it out!]
They say that the hardest thing to do in chess is to win a won game. In round six of the Isle of Man International tournament, Jeffery Xiong was to experience its frustration. The American Grandmaster was paired against China’s Wang Hao, who was one of his co-leaders after round […check it out!]
The Isle of Man International Chess Tournament, was being led by Wang Hao and Arkadij Naiditsch going into round five. The two played each other in this round and notched up a rather quiet draw. The Queen’s Gambit Declined didn’t see much action and soon reached a structure in which […check it out!]
With six players on three wins from three games, the parings going into round four of the Isle of Man International Chess Tournament 2018, were rather straight forward, with the leaders playing each other. This would produce a draw and two decisive games. The draw belonged to Jeffery Xiong of […check it out!]
After two rounds of the Isle of Man International Chess Tournament, there were nineteen players with a perfect score of 2/2. At the end of round three, those with a perfect score would be reduced to just six. These would be led by French Grandmaster, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2780), to whom […check it out!]
Round 2 of the Isle of Man International Chess Tournament 2018, picked up where round 1 had left off. There were no shocks among the big names, but they were not having it all their own way either. Viswanathan Anand (2771), Sergey Karjakin (2760), Alexander Grischuk (2769) and Pavel Eljanov […check it out!]
The Isle of Man International Chess Tournament, kicked off in Douglas, on the Isle of Man, over the weekend. The Isle of Man (also called simply ‘Mann’) is a self governing British territory, located in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland. It is an island of around 221 […check it out!]
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