This week’s episode of the Master Chess Web Show featured an interview with GM Jon Levitt, who these days makes a living on what might be described as ‘cricket arbitrage’. With cricket on hold, during the Covid lockdowns, he turned his attention to writing a book entitled Contemplating Comedy, a reflection on different types of … Continue reading "Master Chess Web Show...

The Romanian Grand Prix Super Chess Rapid 2022 aka GP Romania is going to start this April 30 at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest. GP Romania 2022 will consist of 5 open qualifying tournaments – three tournaments will consist in classic chess and two in rapid chess – and a grand final – […]

The Grand Chess Tour 2022 in magnificent fashion with $1.4 million total prize fund allocated between 5 events. It will once again feature 2 classical chess tournaments and 3 rapid & blitz tournaments spanning across Europe and United States. With the addition of an new event in Warsaw, Poland, fans can look forward to another entertaining and thrilling season...

The Superfinal for the highest title in computer chess starts today at 17:00 UTC and you can follow it live at the official site and TCEC Twitch TV. The TCEC S22 Superfinal will be 100 games match between the reigning champion Stockfish and the challenger KomodoDragon. The opening book is created by Jeroen Noomen and […]

Magnus Carlsen has commented the situation with FIDE’s 6 months ban on Karjakin. The World Champion is unsure whether it was right to exclude Karjakin from all competitions under the auspices of FIDE. More on Sergey Karjakin’s case: Karjakin ban by FIDE announced / Karjakin posts comments on the ban, decides not to appeal, but Kremlin supports Karjakin /...

The last battle of the entire 2022 FIDE Grand Prix series organised by World Chess has finished on the 4th of April. In the final match tiebreaker, Wesley So outplayed Hikaru Nakamura by a score of 1½:½ and won the third leg of the Grand Prix in Berlin. The tournament winner and the runner-up looked happy at the closing ceremony […]

“What is the object of playing a gambit opening…? To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game.” The Queen’s Gambit series If you do a Google search for the Queen’s Gambit opening, you find out it is one of the oldest known chess openings. It was first … Continue reading "Need sure points? Queen’s Gambit Declined Edition" The post...

Russian Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin is developing his own online chess platform. In his telegram channel, he shared, “Together with the largest Russian IT company, I am participating in the development of a chess portal! We have an excellent symbiosis between professional programmers and chess players.” Karjakin added that the portal aims to hold online competitions […]

Hikaru Nakamura and Welsey So drew their second game in the final match of the third stage of the FIDE Grand Prix organised by World Chess. The winner of the event will be determined tomorrow in a tiebreaker. Hikaru Nakamura picked White for the first rapid game against Wesley So during the drawing of lots procedure. It was […]

Game 32 of Chernev’s Logical Chess Move by Move, Canal – Capablanca Budapest 1929, is a strange one. A classic example, I think, of annotation by result and reputation. We’ll whizz through the opening quickly to reach the crucial part of the game. 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Bb7 … Continue reading "Logical Chess (4)" The post Logical Chess (4) appeared first on The...

Ding Liren needs to paly a total of 26 classical games to qualify for the Candidates 2022. After Nakamura and Rapport qualified from the Grand Prix, only one spot remains open – that of Sergey Karjakin, who was banned by FIDE for 6 months. Ding Liren has just completed 12 out of the 26 required games, […]

I am excited to see my book Think Like a Super-GM written with Philip Hurtado…

A brief excerpt from my lecture to Camberley Chess Club, the full content is available…

Bharat Singh Chauhan and Arkady Dvorkovich signed the contract for the Chess Olympiad 2022 in Chennai. Here is the video of the moment of the signing of the Chess Olympiad Chennai contract. Read the full news here