With his performance against Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand qualified for the 2014 Candidates tournament, set for next March in balmy Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. He will be joined by Vladimir Kramnik and Dmitry Andreikin (World Cup qualifiers), Veselin Topalov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Grand Prix qualifiers), Levon Aronian and Sergey Karjakin (qualified by rating) and Peter Svidler (organizer's...

On behalf of all the contributors at The Chess Improver I’d like to congratulate Magnus Carlsen on beating a great Champion and winning the World Championship! Nigel Davies

Magnus Carlsen of Norway became the new World Chess Champion after defeating the previous champion Viswanathan Anand of India by 6,5-3,5 in the match that was held from 7th November 2013 in Chennai, India. The last 10th game (out of 12 possible) finished in a draw, with which Carlsen accumulated the necessary 6,5 points to [...]

FIDE Master V R Aravindh Chithambaram (8.5) scalped one more Grandmaster and moved into sole lead after the tenth round of the Chennai Grandmaster International Open Chess tournament held in celebration of the FIDE World Championship Match 2013 at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today. World Youth 2012 Silver medalist Aravindh Chithambaram, who is on a [...]

Σε ζεστή ατμόσφαιρα, στην αίθουσα «Μαργαρίτα» του Ξενοδοχείου Τέλης, η Ένωση Σκακιστών Αιγιαλείας διοργάνωσε το 4ο Σχολικό πρωτάθλημα σκάκι Αιγιαλείας, με συνδιοργανωτή την Ένωση Σκακιστικών Σωματείων Πελοποννήσου...

Starting today!

Chennai, 21 Nov: A full house and an enthusiastic response greeted the award winning documentary Algorithms about young blind chess players from India, screened at the FIDE World Chess Championship on Thursday evening. Directed by British filmmaker Ian McDonald and produced by Geetha J for the South Indian production house AkamPuram, Algorithms is the first [...]

When I was a youth, all of the chess books and chess magazines used descriptive notation. Algebraic notation didn’t really appear much until the 1980s and 1990s. There was a time when I preferred descriptive notation. That was simply because I was unfamiliar with algebraic notation and I found the symmetry of descriptive notation appealing. […]

Round 1 results

The ninth game of the FIDE World Championship Match, sponsored by Tamil Nadu state and currently ongoing in Chennai, finished in Magnus Carlsen’s favour after 28 moves of play. More: Official website / Live games / Live games 2 / Live games 3 / Photos / Play online at Chessdom Arena / Watch TCEC Stage [...]

14-year-old FIDE Master V R Aravindh Chithambaram (7.5) earned his maiden nine game GM norm defeating fellow Indian Grandmaster M R Lalith Babu in the ninth round of the Chennai Grandmaster International Open Chess tournament held in celebration of the FIDE World Championship Match 2013 at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today. Thus far, Aravindh Chithambaram [...]

Με μεγάλη επιτυχία ολοκληρώθηκε το 1ο Σχολικό Πρωτάθλημα Σκακιού Αγρινίου και ευρύτερης περιοχής. Τους αγώνες οργάνωσε η ΓΕΑ με το ΕΜΙΛΕΟΝ. Συμμετείχαν συνολικά 84 μαθητές παίζοντας πέντε γύρους ο κάθε αγωνιζόμενος...

It was the most exciting game of the match by far. Viswanathan Anand had enough of the Berlin and switched to 1.d4. Magnus Carlsen played the Nimzo-Indian, and when the champ replied with the aggressive 4.f3 it was already clear that there would be no quiet positional battles. The Neo-Saemisch, like its older brother with 4.a3, aims to build a big pawn center and then use that space advantage for...

A position came up during a session with a young student in which I wanted to illustrate to him the power of gambits, because he has a materialist bent and likes to snatch Pawns. While showing him a gambit, we happened to reach one of those positions in which Black has a Pawn on d5 […]

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