The 2018 Sinquefield Cup, opened at the Chess Hall of Fame, in Saint Louis, United States on August 17th. It is a ten-player round robin, with World Champion, Magnus Carlsen, heading the field. Also among the hopefuls, are (in no particular order): Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, […check it out!]
Hello again! The classic game for this week features a game between Bobby Fischer and Bent Larsen. The game was played during the Portoroz Interzonal Chess Tournament, Slovenia in 1958. The tournament had a huge field, of 21 players, with the top six finishers qualifying for the upcoming Candidates Tournament. […check it out!]
Nine-year-old chess player, Shreyas Royal, has just finished playing in the 2018 British Chess Championships in Hull. His final score of 5.5/9 in the ‘Open’ section, (just two points behind the winner), is not to be sniffed at. This is especially so, when we consider the fact that young Shreyas, […check it out!]
Grandmaster, Michael Adams, was just seventeen years old when he won his first British Chess Championships. That was in 1989, the year in which the Lexus car was launched, George Bush Snr. was sworn in as 43rd President of the United States and Microsoft released its Office suite. The years […check it out!]
The 2018 edition of the Norway Chess Tournament, has been won by American Grandmaster, Fabiano Caruana. One of four players leading the tournament going into this final round, Fabiano beat countryman Wesley So to take first place outright. The game was not the best we have seen from either player […check it out!]
The penultimate (8th) round of the 2018 edition of Norway Chess, was held on Wednesday 6th June in Stavanger. It saw two decisive games out of the four, with points going to Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura. The Petrov’s Defence tends to make many groan in pain, the likes of […check it out!]
Norway Chess 2018 resumed after the final rest day, with round seven on Tuesday 5th June. The players had been taken for a bit of R&R by boat the previous day, so it was interesting to see who would be feeling fresh and who would still be a bit green […check it out!]
Norway Chess 2018, had been something of an eventful affair so far, but mostly away from the board. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov had been suffering from toothache and had to experience Norwegian dental care. And then, Ding Liren had injured himself while out on a bike ride and was forced to withdraw […check it out!]
Round five of the 2018 edition of Norway Chess, was held in Stavanger on the 2nd of June. It saw all games drawn bar one, that of Fabiano Caruana against Sergey Karjakin. There was interest around this game, not least because it was the current challenger to Magnus Carlsen’s World […check it out!]
Play resumed in Norway Chess after the first rest day, with the field minus one player. It turns out that Ding Liren had fallen off of his bike while out for a ride with his Father. Ding had taken part in the rest day activities (more on that shortly) with […check it out!]
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