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We have just reached the halfway mark of the TCEC Season 22 Superfinal. Defending champion Stockfish leads Komodo Dragon by 12 points (+17 -5 =28), a dominant performance that all but ensures that it will win the Superfinal. Stockfish signaled its intent straight from the get-go by winning the first opening with its signature move g4!, […]

This week, we are going to wrap up the last six weeks of work on tactics. I’m actually spreading out the end of this part of our middle-game studies through next week because we covered so much information. This week, I’ll summarize what we have covered so far, to give those of you having trouble … Continue reading "A Foundation for Beginners Fifty Seven" The post A Foundation...

After the Airthings Masters 2022 and the Charity Cup 2022, both won by Magnus Carlsen, the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour breaks new ground next week with the launch of the first fully in-person esports event in chess – the Oslo Esports Cup. A star-studded gala event will open the tournament as Norway’s World Champion Magnus Carlsen goes […]

Financial Times has published an article, dedicated to the just finished Reykjavik Chess Open and the win of Praggnanandhaa. “Half a century ago, Bobby Fischer captured Boris Spassky’s world title in Reykjavik and sparked a global chess boom,” starts the analysis of FT and continues: India, the fastest-rising chess nation, has a quartet of teenage […]

The Doeberl Chess Cup 2022 is going to take place 14-18 April in Canberra, Australia. GM Hrant Melkumyan, the winner of the 2019 Deoberl Cup, is the top seeded in the event. Scroll down for full participants list. Throwback: Nisipeanu and Vajda share first place in 2014 Live games Doeberl Chess Cup 2022 Doeberl Chess […]

For this week’s show we managed to arrange another special guest, the British chess legend Raymond Keene. Besides being a Grandmaster, Keene was awarded an OBE by the Queen herself. He currently spends his time organizing mind sports events, as well as writing for The British Chess Magazine and The Article. In the show we … Continue reading "Master Chess Web Show (9)" The post Master...

The Mitropa Cup 2022 will be held from 27th April – 8th May in the Sports complex (COSEC) of Corte, Corsica, France. The following chess federations are entitled to take part in the Mitropa Cup 2022: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland. Replay: Mitropa Cup 2021 information / Mitropa Cup 2021 […]

The VI Open Internacional de ajedrez Semana Santa en Torrevieja (Alicante) 2022 is going to take place 13-17 April in Spain. A total of 450 players from 41 countries will participate in the event, including 19 GMs and 23 IMs. Top seeded is GM Karen Grigoryan, while the young U18 star GM Daniel Dardha is […]

The Grand Chess Tour (GCT) has confirmed the seven wildcard players for the Grand Chess Tour Chess Classic Romania and the Grand Chess Tour Rapid & Blitz Poland. The first leg of the GCT, the Chess Classic Romania will include all nine full tour players and one wildcard player, Romanian Grandmaster Bogdan-Daniel Deac. The Superbet Chess Classic Romania […]

An eventful Kvika Reykjavik Open came to an end yesterday as 245 players from 39 countries played their final moves of the event. The Indian sensation Praggnanandhaa was the soler winner clocking in with an impressive 7½ pionts in the 9 rounds. The prize giving ceremony was held at the Reykjavik Ciy Hall and Pawel Bartoszek, member of […]

“American Chess Magazine has been launched in November 2016 to help readers keep in touch with all the most significant happenings in the exciting world of present-day chess, both at home and abroad.” The month of February contained an increased number of nice puzzles. This is going to be the subject of another blog entry … Continue reading "Chess 2022 – February Exotic...

How would you assess this position, with Black to move? Perhaps you think White can look forward to playing on the f-file against Black’s doubled pawns, with moves like Bc4 and Qf3 to come. I could imagine thinking like that myself if I had this position in a blitz game. It comes from an old … Continue reading "Four Knights Fiasco" The post Four Knights Fiasco appeared first on The...

Norway Chess 2022 is going to take place May 31st to June 10th in Stavanger. It is going to be a 10 player round robin with Magnus Carlsen (who recently won Airthings Masters and Charity Chess Cup), Richard Rapport (who won the Grand Prix Belgrade and qualified for the Candidates Chess 2022), Wesley So (recent […]

Matthias Bluebaum is the winner of the European Individual Chess Championship 2022 that concluded in Terme Catez, Slovenia. After 11 played rounds with more than 300 participants, German Grandmaster Matthias Bluebaum (GER, 2642) won the Championship scoring 8 points. Bluebaum maintained the leadership from the 5th round and in the end tied for the first […]