After playing five-rounds, the competitors of the 42nd Olympiad, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, had a rest day on Wednesday 7th September. Rest days can be strange things, helping some players no end, while really being detrimental to others. I was very curious to see how this one would work out […check it out!]
The 42nd Chess Olympiad is currently underway in Baku, Azerbaijan. 150 teams are competing in the Open section, with 140 in the Women’s section. For this report I will concentrate on the Women’s section, with a separate report for the Open section. Round 1: Just as in the Open section, […check it out!]
The 42nd Chess Olympiad is currently underway in Baku, Azerbaijan. 150 teams are competing in the Open section, with 140 in the Women’s section. For this report I will concentrate on the Open section, with a separate report for the Women’s section. Round 1: The opening round saw no surprises […check it out!]
The 42nd Chess Olympiad will open on September 1st, (round-one, September 2nd), in Baku, Azerbaijan. Staged in the city’s Crystal Hall, (a $350-million, 25,000 capacity stadium, built to host the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest), the event will consist of two sections, Open and Women. 180 teams will contest the Open […check it out!]
The eighth round in the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament 2016, very much belonged to Levon Aronian. The Armenian Grandmaster came in to the round and would dash the hearts of the home crowd by beating their chess hero, and World Champion, Magnus Carlsen. Carlsen had of course beaten Vladimir Kramnik […check it out!]
Round 7 of the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament, saw home player, Magnus Carlsen, take a big step towards winning the event for the first time. The World Champion, had a disaster here at last year’s event, of course, winning only two games and losing four, finishing on 3½-points and 7th […check it out!]
Round 6 of the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament, was played on Monday the 25th April. It was the last round before the second and final rest day. It was an exciting round, seeing two decisive games, but it could well have been four, with Magnus Carlsen and Veselin Topalov both […check it out!]
The 3rd leg of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix being held in Batumi, Georgia, between the 19th April and May 3rd. The event follows on from the first and second legs, which were held in Monaco (October 2015) and Tehran (February 2016) respectively. Following this event, there will be a […check it out!]
Round 5 of the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament 2016, was the first after the rest day. These can always be unpredictable affairs, with some players coming out all fresh and with their sleeves rolled up, while others can try to take a second day off and go for a quick […check it out!]
Round 4 of the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament 2016 took place on Friday 22nd April. It would be the last round before the rest day and would see all games drawn. The Berlin Defence of Vachier-Lagrave–Kramnik was quite interesting. It was Vachier-Lagrave’s second white game on the spin and it […check it out!]
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