The 2021 World Chess Championship aka known as the Carlsen – Nepomniachtchi 2021 match will be held 24 November – 16 December in Dubai. The battle for the most important title in the sport of chess will be between the reigning champion Magnus Carlsen and his challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi. Live games Live games from the FIDE World […]

The fourth and final leg of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix will take place from May 22 to June 2, 2021, in Caleta Hotel, Gibraltar. Twelve players will compete in a round-robin event in Gibraltar, fighting for the qualification spot for the FIDE Women’s Candidates Tournament 2022. Two best ranked players on the list with […]

The African Individual Chess Championship 2021 is going to take place 17-28 May in Lilongwe, Malawi. The event has separate sections for men and women. Both tournaments will be 9 rounds Swiss. The stakes at the African Individual Chess Championship are high as the 4 top placed players in the open section will qualify for […]

The Africa Individual Chess Championship 2021 is going to take place 17-28 May in Lilongwe, Malawi. This is the participants list for the open section. Africa Individual Chess 2021 full information / Participants Open / Participants women Africa Individual Chess Participants 1 GM Amin Bassem  EGY 2701 2 GM Adly Ahmed  EGY 2615 3 GM […]

The African Individual Chess Championship 2021 is going to take place 17-28 May in Lilongwe, Malawi. This is the participants list for the women section. Africa Individual Chess 2021 full information / Participants Open / Participants women African Individual Women Chess Participants 1 WGM Wafa Shahenda  EGY 2145 2 WIM Latreche Sabrina  ALG 2076 3 […]

ClassicAra continues to impress at TCEC S21 QL. After eight rounds ClassicAra is still undefeated with 6 wins and 2 draws. The only engine that stopped ClassicAra’s rampage is the other revelation of QL – Koivisto. In an interesting and imbalanced Queen’s Indian, where white possibly missed a decisive chance, the two engines finished with […]

The Owen’s Defence with 1…b6 is a popular choice at club level because it throws White out of ‘book’ (well probably) and needs little theory to play. Some years back I did a DVD on this opening and decided that the line with 1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Nd2 was difficult for Black, who could at … Continue reading "Obliterate ’em with the Owen’s" The post Obliterate...

“I no longer have any fear of pain because I’m the one inflicting it and can decide when it stops.” Maude Julien, The Only Girl in the World Last year we lost a vote chess game by misjudging the position. We all have such games where for some reason we get stuck believing we are … Continue reading "Self Inflicted Wounds (2)" The post Self Inflicted Wounds (2) appeared first on The...

So I’m playing the black pieces in a training game against Little Maggie. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Play the Four Knights if you want, Maggie, but I keep on showing you games with Bb5 and Bc4. Either of those moves or 3. d4 will give you a much more interesting game. … Continue reading "Little Maggie" The post Little Maggie appeared first on The Chess Improver.

Swedish WFM Anna Cramling played her last over-the-board chess event in January 2020, but now she showed us how close she is to continue with Over-the-board chess! We certainly laughed with Anna’s good humor, but we really do hope to see her over the board soon!

Uganda World Cup Qualifiers Chess Tournament 2021 has started today in Kampala. The best six Ugandan chess players compete in the event fighting for the World Cup 2021 ticket and the top seed is IM Ssegwanyi Arthur. Read more: Arthur Ssegwanyi wins FIDE zone 4-2 qualifiers for Baku World Cup Starting rank list of players: […]

Belarus Chess Championships 2021 launched today in Minsk! 23 participants play a 9 rounds Swiss tournament in the Open section event, and the battlefield is led by GM Aleksandrov Aleksej, GM Fedorov Alexei and GM Stupak Kirill. Read more: Belarus Chess Championship 2018 Full list of participants- Belarus Open Chess Championship 2021: No.   Name […]

Season 21 of the Top Chess Engine Championship is starting this May 10th at 17:00 UTC. The event will start with the Qualification League, progress through L4, L3, L2 and L1 stages, and culminate with the Premier Division and the Superfinal. One of the key elements of TCEC is the opening book. Playing at a […]

The 78th Polish Individual Open and 73rd Polish Individual Women Chess Championships 2021 took place from April 24- May 8, 2021 in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The Open section event was played as a 16 players knockout tournament, where Wojtaszek Radoslaw and Moranda Wojciech entered the finals. After a tied result in the regular two games match, Wojtaszek took […]