First Move Announces Initial One Million Dollar Commitment for Magnus Carlsen Critical Thinking Grants SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — How will Magnus Carlsen top 2013, the history-making year he became World Chess Champion and holds the highest rating of all time? He’s joining forces with America’s Foundation for Chess (AF4C) to bring [...]

The 13th Rochefort Chess Festival is set to take place on 22th-28th February 2014 at the Congres Palais, in Rochefort, France. Just days before the huge Cappelle-la-Grande Open, the Rochefort Open is an excellent occasion for the players to test their preparation and use the perfect training opportunity. Over 100 players, of which more than [...]

The headliners had the day off to help them recover from traveling (the venue changed, and will change again later in the event), but the Challengers' Group was in action for round 5 of their tournament in Wijk aan Zee. Their event has been exceedingly hard-fought with heaps of decisive games; in fact, there was only one draw there in round 3 and no draws at all in round 4. After five rounds...

At club level a very popular approach is to set up a particular formation regardless of what the opponent plays. A triangle of pawns on e3, d4 and c3 is one example, and White might also put a pawn on f4 to produce a Stonewall Attack. The fact that this can also be used as […]

The 16-years old Russian junior Vladislav Artemiev won the Andranik Margaryan Memorial that was held on 8-16th January in Armenia. The round robin tournament, organized by the Chess Academy of Armenia, gathered ten young and promising players from China, Russia, Serbia, Iran, Denmark and Armenia. Artemiev finished clear first with 6,0/9 points, half a point [...]

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Grandmaster and Commonwealth champion Abhijeet Gupta won the title after an easy draw with Eldar Gasanov of Ukraine in the 10th and final round of 12th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess Tournament that concluded here at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex. On what turned out to be an easy victory, Gupta won six and drew four [...]

Live games with Houdini, Komodo, and Stockfish

The Estonian Chess Federation organized the Paul Keres Memorial Festival 2014 on 10-16th January to celebrate the 98th birth anniversary of Grandmaster Paul Keres who was elected the Estonian Sportsman of the 20th century. 67 players from 13 federations competed in the 9-round Swiss event. Russian Grandmaster Alexandre Danin emerged clear winner with 7,0 points. [...]

The Tata Steel Masters tournament continued after a rest day with a fourth round that was played in the Rijksmuseum (Dutch National Museum) in Amsterdam. Top seed Levon Aronian declined a peace offer from Hikaru Nakamura and went on to win a nice game where the Knight dominated the Bishop. The victory puts him in [...]

Unfortunately, the lateness of the hour and the busyness of my day prevent me from offering a real report, so I'll just give the results, standings and pairings for round 5, with apologies. Giri - So: Drawn. Gelfand - Naiditsch: Drawn. Aronian - Nakamura: Won by Aronian, after some strange endgame play by both players. Aronian would have made his life easier with 34.Nxb7, while Nakamura's...

Not long ago, I wrote a post about imagining that you can play ten moves in a row from the initial opening position. I never thought I would be writing about this same theme from the point of view of starting from a non-opening position. But I just saw an astounding game fragment in the […]

Arjuna awardee Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta moved closer to clinching the title with a quick draw with Grandmaster Alexander Evdokimov of Russia in the 9th and penultimate round of 12th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess Tournament now coming to a close here. On what turned out to be a very easy outing as black, Gupta blitzed [...]

The best chess players in the U.S. will gather in Saint Louis once again to fight for the title of U.S. Champion and U.S. Women’s Champion. For the sixth consecutive year Saint Louis will host the top chess tournaments in the nation. GM Gata Kamsky will defend his title at the 2014 U.S. Championship while [...]

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