Round 3 of the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament 2016 was held on Thursday 21st April. Going in to the round, there was a three-way tie for the lead. By the end of it, this would be reduced to one. Swedish Grandmaster, Nils Grandelius, has only scored a half point so […check it out!]
Having got his campaign in this year’s Norway Chess Tournament off to a good start with a win in round-1, Anish Giri suffered a setback in this round. The Dutchman would have his +1 wiped out by his French rival, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. They debated the Sicilian Najdorf, in which Vachier-Lagrave’s […check it out!]
The opening round of the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament 2016 was played on Tuesday, 19th April. One is never quite certain how such things will go, as players can take a little time to settle in to their rhythm. However, perhaps the blitz round from the day before had fired […check it out!]
The United States Chess Championships are underway in Saint Louis. The event, which sees America’s top male and female players fighting for their respective national titles, began on April 13th and will run until the 30th. Each section is a 12-player round robin. Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So, […check it out!]
The 4th edition of the Norway Chess Tournament, is underway, in Stavanger, Norway. It is a round-robin event, played over 9-rounds. The event will be played under classical time controls (100 min for 40 moves + 50 min for 20 moves, + 15 min for the rest of the game […check it out!]
Magnus Carlsen’s challenger for the Chess World Championship will be Russia’s Sergey Karjakin. Karjakin, 26, claimed his place opposite the World Champion, by winning the FIDE Candidates Tournament in Moscow, which has just recently been completed. Karjakin was in joint lead of the tournament, going into the final round, which […check it out!]
Round 13 of the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2016, was played on Sunday 27th March. The players had enjoyed their final rest day, (some more than others I imagine), the day before, and there was an air of excitement going in to this, the penultimate round. The tournament was looking like […check it out!]
Round 12 of the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2016, was played on Friday 25th March. The tournament was in its closing stages, and this round would really turn the heat up somewhat. Going into the round, Viswanathan Anand was joint leader. His victory over Sergey Karjakin in the previous round, gave […check it out!]
The eleventh round of the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2016, took place on Thursday 24th March. It would see quite an eventful round with two decisive games. Among them, would be Peter Svidler’s first full point of the tournament. The Russian played the black side of a Slav Defence against Levon […check it out!]
Round 10 of the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2016 took place on Wednesday 23rd March. Fabiano Caruana, came out obviously refreshed after the rest day and took his second win of the tournament. Following up his round eight win over Hikaru Nakamura, he took a point from former World Champion, Viswanathan […check it out!]
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