Puzzle Rush
After hearing Chess.com's "Puzzle Rush" mentioned approximately 6,543 times on recent chess broadcasts - and not always on Chess.com, either - I decided to give it a shot myself. It's a pretty straightforward setup...
After hearing Chess.com's "Puzzle Rush" mentioned approximately 6,543 times on recent chess broadcasts - and not always on Chess.com, either - I decided to give it a shot myself. It's a pretty straightforward setup...
"Buying nerds" was Jon Stewart's and then Magnus Carlsen's line after Fabiano Caruana, following Wesley So, paid/had paid for him the fees necessary to switch federations to represent the United States.
How can someone write such a thing with a straight face? Here's a bit of ad copy (received by email; I haven't managed to find it on the web) promoting Jan Timman's new book, The Longest Game: The Five...
World Strongest Chess Players to Arrive in Saint Petersburg
The King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2018 will be held in Saint Petersburg on December 25-31.
Real chess stars are going to take part in the events.
Running alongside the London Chess Classic, and following the same format for the semi-finals and finals, was the British Knockout Championship. Their final four saw Mickey Adams take on Luke McShane in one semi-final, and David Howell battle Gawain Jones in the other.
It's becoming nightmarish, but at least we can console ourselves with the fact that five of the six games between Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian had a winner, and it wasn't a whitewash either: Caruana won three of those games and won their third-place match.
Three of the four games weren't so bad, though none of them are likely to be particularly memorable. But the fourth one was pretty awful, as Levon Aronian reacted to a slight opening surprise by Fabiano Caruana by heading for a quick repetition to kill the game...
5th Sunway Sitges Open 4 games Update
68th Greek Championship 20 games Update
41st Greek Women Championship 20 games Update
3rd NTUA Chess Tournament 80 games Update
10th London Chess Classic...
The last great Soviet Championship took place in 1988, and finished in a tie between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. (There was supposed to be a 4-game playoff, but it never happened, and contrary...
The last great Soviet Championship took place in 1988, and finished in a tie between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. (There was supposed to be a 4-game playoff, but it never happened, and contrary...
5th Sunway Sitges Open 2 games Update
68th Greek Championship 15 games Update
41st Greek Women Championship 15 games Update
3rd NTUA Chess Tournament 80 games Update
10th CSC London Chess...
Toia returns to RSL having started his pro career at the club in 2011.
I'm still not completely sold on the draw problem, but I am sure that blitz chess is garbage chess, and it should have as little place as possible - preferably none - in events with a classical component.