On Tuesday, November 12th, I had the pleasure of attending a press conference at Tata Steel’s headquarters in Velsen-Noord, The Netherlands. The purpose of the press conference, was to announce the players for the Masters group of the 2020 edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. That is of course […check it out!]
The semi-final of the FIDE Hamburg Grand Prix 2019, was played between the 11th and 13th November. The venue for the event, which had opened on November 4th, was the Kehrwieder theater in Hamburg, Germany. The semi-final saw the following pairings: Alexander Grischuk (RUS 2764) vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA 2777) […check it out!]
The second round of the FIDE Hamburg Grand Prix 2019, was played between November 8th and 10th, in Hamburg Germany. The first round of this knockout tournament, had seen Ian Nepomniachtchi, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Hikaru Nakamura, Wei Yi, Teimour Radjabov, Nikita Vitiugov, Pentala Harikrishna, and Dmitry Jakovenko eliminated. That left the […check it out!]
The FIDE Hamburg Grand Prix 2019, got under way on November 5th. It is the 3rd leg of 4 in this year’s cycle. Competing are (in no particular order): Alexander Grischuk (RUS 2764), Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS 2773), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA 2777), Radoslaw Wojtaszek (POL 2728), Hikaru Nakamura (USA 2741), Peter […check it out!]
The FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss international chess tournament, opens today, on the Isle of Man in the United Kingdom. The venue is the superbly located Comis Hotel & Golf Resort, just a short hop from the island’s capital, Douglas. Over recent years, chess has been no stranger to the Isle […check it out!]
The second day of Blitz at the 2019 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament, was also the final day of play. It took place on Wednesday 14th August. Leading the event, was French Grandmaster, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, half a point ahead of Levon Aronian of Armenia. Unfortunately for Maxime, he did […check it out!]
After three days of rapid chess, the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament, switched it up a notch and moved to blitz chess. This section of the event would see the 10 players playing a double-round-robin, held over two days. Unlike the rapid section, which saw 2 points for a […check it out!]
Day three of the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz 2019, took place on August 12th. It was the final day of play for the rapid section. Going into day three, the tournament was being led by Armenian Grandmaster, Levon Aronian, with his score of 10-points. (Grand Chess Tour Scoring is […check it out!]
Day two of play at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz 2019, took place on August 11th. It saw Levon Aronian, (who had dominated play on day one, with a 3/3 score), consolidating his position at the top of the standings. The Armenian drew his first and last games of […check it out!]
After the opening ceremony on the 9th of August, the action at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz 2019, kicked off in Saint Louis, United States of America, on August 10th. The fourth event in the current cycle of the Grand Chess Tour, the event left classical chess behind, in […check it out!]
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