New FIDE: first 100 days
Tournaments
• Smooth organization of major FIDE events, including both World Classical Championships (London and Khanty-Mansiysk)
• Successful relocation and organization of...
Tournaments
• Smooth organization of major FIDE events, including both World Classical Championships (London and Khanty-Mansiysk)
• Successful relocation and organization of...
Finally! After a crazy 21-game drawing streak, Magnus Carlsen once again did what world champions do: he won a game. More precisely, he won a classical game, and with it pulled to within half a point of the leader - now leaders - in the 2019 edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.
Magnus Carlsen ended...
Michael D. Tanner
In the Broadway musical Chess, KGB agent Alexander Molokov rejects the West’s choice of consumerism and individual choice over communal solidarity: “It’s the weak who believe tawdry untruths about freedom.
Looks like I was wrong about Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik. After Kramnik's first three games I assumed he'd be ripe for the picking by Carlsen, but where Kramnik's suicide streak only extended to three games (and two in which he was successful)...
The implosion of Vladimir Kramnik continues apace, and today's grateful recipient was Ian Nepomniachtchi. The 5.Re1 Anti-Berlin rarely leads to interesting positions, but it did this time. Kramnik got a bit carried away looking for queenside counterplay...