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!]
Sergey Karjakin has won the 2016 edition of the FIDE World Blitz Championship. The event was held after the conclusion of the World Rapid Championship, (won by Vassily Ivanchuk). It saw Magnus Carlsen as top seed, with Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswanathan Anand and defending Champion, Alexander Grischuk, among […check it out!]
FIDE’s World Rapid Championship was held in Doha, Qatar, between December 26th and 28th. It saw defending Champion, Magnus Carlsen as top seed. All the usual suspects were also present, however, including Nakamura, Karjakin, Mamedyarov, Anand, Aronian, Grischuk. Five rounds would be played on each day, making fifteen rounds in […check it out!]
Round seven of the 8th edition of the London Chess Classic, was held on Friday 16 December, 2016. For the third time this tournament, Hikaru Nakamura was the only player to pick up a point — and what a point it was. The American Grandmaster played a game against France’s […check it out!]
The London Chess Classic 2016, paused for a day of rest on December 14th, with play resuming on December 15th. There has been a lot of fighting chess in this tournament so far, and there was great excitement as round 6 began. All hoped that the players would be feeling […check it out!]
Round five of the London Chess Classic 2016, took place on December 13th, in Olympia, London. It would be the last round before the one and only rest day. At such times, one never really knows what to expect, the players could come out looking to do something with a […check it out!]
Round-4 of the London Chess Classic 2016, was held on December 12th. It saw only one decisive game, from American Grandmaster, Hikaru Nakamura, just as the in previous round. His victim is this round was Bulgarian Grandmaster, Veselin Topalov, who is not having a pleasant time of things at all […check it out!]
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