Round two of the 43rd Chess Olympiad, being held in Batumi, Georgia, was held on Tuesday 25th September. It began somewhat unpredictably, when Indian chess journalist, Niklesh Jain decided to propose to his Colombian girlfriend, Angela Franco. A surprised Angela accepted and the couple are now engaged — congratulations to […check it out!]
As expected, the opening round of the 43rd Chess Olympiad, being held in Batumi, Georgia, saw some quite barbarically mismatched pairings. For example, the United States of America vs Panama, saw 2776 (Wesley So) with white against 2391 (Robert Carlos Sanchez Alvarez) on board one. Things did not even up […check it out!]
Round nine of the Sinquefield Cup 2018, was played in Saint Louis, United States, on Sunday 26th August. The penultimate round of the tournament, it would see another clean sweep of shared points. This meant that home hero, Fabiano Caruana, would remain in the lead going into the final round. […check it out!]
When it came to round seven of the Sinquefield Cup 2018, there is no doubt that the clash of reigning World Champion, Magnus Carlsen and his current challenger, Fabiano Caruana, was the one getting most attention. With their World Championship match in London now just 75-days away, this would be […check it out!]
The Sinquefield Cup 2018, resumed on Friday 24th August following the one and only rest day. With five rounds played, four remained. Leading the tournament were Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk and Magnus Carlsen. Each of these players had three-points from the five rounds so far. In […check it out!]
In every round of the Sinquefield Cup 2018, there had been at least one decisive game. Different victors had meant that five players were at the top of the standings table, with 2.5/4. These were, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alexander Grischuk and Levon Aronian. Round five was the […check it out!]
After round three of the Sinquefield Cup 2018, four players were leading with 2/3. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Levon Aronian, led after round one and since that round, there has been one decisive game per round, with a new victor joining them. Magnus Carlsen did it in round two and Alexander […check it out!]
The third round of the 2018 Sinquefield Cup, was played in Saint Louis, United States on Monday 20th August. Just like round two, (which had been held the day before), it saw four draws and one very lengthy decisive game. On that occasion, Magnus Carlsen had treated us all to […check it out!]
The Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz was held from the 11th to 16th of August 2018, in Saint Louis, United States. The field of ten players consisted of: Alexander Grischuk, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Sergey Karjakin, Viswanathan Anand, Wesley So and Leinier Dominguez Perez. […check it out!]
Round two of the Sinquefield Cup 2018 was played on Sunday 19th August. The round belonged to Magnus Carlsen. Taking on Sergey Karjakin, the World Champion achieved the only full point of the round against his former challenger. He did it in quite some style too. Playing White, Magnus chose […check it out!]
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