When we last visited this year’s British Championships, which was after round-three, (read here), there was a four-way-tie at the top between David Howell, Gawain Jones, Daniel Gormally and Chris Ward. In the three rounds that have followed, there have been some big changes in the standings. The most notable, is […check it out!]
Hou Yifan is certainly having an interesting 2017, isn’t she? In February, she was causing controversy in Gibraltar; in April she caused a storm of a different kind at the Grenke Classic in Baden-Baden, defeating Fabiano Caruana and holding Magnus Carlsen to a draw in a game many felt she […check it out!]
This week’s annotated game is a real gem. It was played between Bobby Fischer and Donald Byrne and if you have not yet seen it, you are in for a treat. The game took place at the Rosenwald Trophy in New York, way back in 1956. At the time, Fischer […check it out!]
The British Chess Championships run from July 28th until August 6th 2017. The venue is the Promenade, Llandudno, Wales. The main event is played over nine-rounds, Swiss format, with the following time controls: 40 moves in 90 minutes, followed by 30 minutes to finish the game, with an increment of […check it out!]
Many congratulations to Georgian Grandmaster, Baadur Jobava, who has won the 2017 Xtracon Chess tournament. The event was held in Helsingor, Denmark between July 22nd and 30th. Along with Jobava himself, Nikita Vitiugov, Krishnan Sasikiran, Nigel Short, Alexander Motylev, Jon Ludvig Hammer, Ivan Sokolov, Simen Agdestein and Alexander Shabalov, were also among […check it out!]
Today I would like to bring you an annotated game that is proving very popular online. It is between two well known names in chess, Vassily Ivanchuk and Baadur Jobava. The game was played during the matchup between Ukraine and Georgia, during the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk. Jobava, playing […check it out!]
Many congratulations to Polish Grandmaster, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, who won the 2017 edition of the prestigious Dortmund Sparkassen tournament over the weekend. The tournament was held between July 15th and 23rd, in Dortmund, Germany. The Grandmaster tournament saw Vladimir Kramnik (2812) as top seed, just ahead of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2791). Along with […check it out!]
The 2017 Geneva Grand Prix, has been won by Azerbaijan’s Teimour Radjabov. The event was held between July 6th and 16th. The strong field was made up of, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Harikrishna Pentala, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Pavel Eljanov, Michael Adams, Peter Svidler, Alexander Grischuk, Ernesto Inarkiev, Boris Gelfand, […check it out!]
Round four of the FIDE Grand Prix in Sharjah, was played on February 21st. It saw Shakhriyar Mamedyarov winning against Michael Adams to join Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the lead. Chao Li also won in this round, taking a point from Evgeny Tomashevsky, after the Russian got himself into a bit […check it out!]
Round three of the FIDE Grand Prix 2017 in Sharjah, was played on Monday February 20th. It saw Maxime Vachier-Lagrave retain his lead of the tournament with a draw against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Hikaru Nakamura was the sole winner of the round, taking a point from Richard Rapport. Rapport opted for Chigorin’s Defence […check it out!]
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