Round 2: More Fierce Fights on Day 2 of Candidates Chess Tournament in Berlin
Round 2 of the 2018 Candidates tournament in Berlin was not nearly as explosive as Round 1, which featured three decisive results...
Round 1: Fireworks Kick Off Candidates Chess Tournament in Berlin
The 2018 Candidates tournament in Berlin got off to a flying start as three of the four games ended decisively. Fabiano Caruana...
No warm-up round today! Three of the four games finished with a winner, and it should have been four out of four. Interestingly, all three of the wins came in the "collusion pairings": one Russian beat another Russian, an American beat another American, and one very good friend beat another.
No warm-up round today! Three of the four games finished with a winner, and it should have been four out of four. Interestingly, all three of the wins came in the "collusion pairings": one Russian beat another Russian, an American beat another American, and one very good friend beat another.
Full House!
With four matches today in the SCCU County Championships, it was busy day for Essex! With a varied spread of results, the day ended with the best news of all: a full house of all six Essex teams qualified for the national stages of the ECF County Championships.
Stockfish continues to lead, maintaining its stable 1.5 point advantage over Houdini after seven cycles in the eight engine duodecuple-round robin that is the penultimate stage of Season 11 of the Top Chess Engine Championship.
Associated with the Aeroflot Open, and as a helpful de facto warm-up for the Tal Memorial, there was a very strong Aeroflot blitz event on March 1. There doesn't seem to be a PGN file of the games, which is a pity as the player list included Mamedyarov...
Round 1 starts in about 31 hours - Saturday at 3 p.m. local time in Berlin, 9 a.m. ET - and here are the first round pairings for this eight player double-round robin:
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who very, very nearly qualified for the Candidates (by several different means) has written up his own preview of the event, singling out Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian as his favorites.
In case you haven't been following the Wednesday extravaganzas comprising the 2018 season of the Pro Chess League, yesterday's finished the regular season. (There are more Wednesdays to come, for the playoffs.) The top four teams from each division survived to the playoff stage...