FIDE confirms the World Team Championship (Open and Women sections) to be staged in Astana, Kazakhstan. The event will take place between March 4 (arrival) and March 15 (departure). FIDE President...
Jokes about Gennadi Sosonko as a sort of chronicler for the grim reaper have been going around for at couple of decades now. If Sosonko writes about you, there's a kind of good news, bad news to it...
Some games are still going, but the first (and second) places in the 2019 Gibraltar Masters have been decided. Youngster Vladislav Artemiev won the tournament, defeating Yu Yangyi in a very complicated battle to take clear first.
With a good result tomorrow, Vladislav Artemiev will produce the greatest achievement of his young life. (He's 20.) With one round to go, Artemiev is the solo leader of the Gibraltar Masters, reaching 7.5/9 (and a 2905 TPR!)...
Vladislav Artemiev drew with Levon Aronian in round 8, the antepenultimate round of the 2019 Gibraltar Masters, allowing two other players to catch up to him. One was David Navara, who put the brakes on what had been an outstanding tournament for Nils Grandelius...
More here. (HT: Allen Becker) The tournaments in Paris, St. Louis, Kolkata, and London continue for the 2019 Grand Chess Tour, and to these have been added events in the Ivory Coast, Croatia, and Romania.
I guess this explains his kamikaze performance at Wijk aan Zee, though why he preferred to go out showing insane chess rather than making an all-out effort to remind the world of his best chess is hard to understand.