Top 5 from 2019: Chess Stories

As we start 2020, it’s time to look back at some of the highlights of 2019. First up is the top 5 chess stories of the year (according to me); 5. Grand Chess Tour comes to Africa Grand Chess Tour expanded with several new stops this year, and maybe the biggest new development was the

FIDE BERLIN CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT 2018: Round 10-12

The candidates tournament really took fire after Saturdays 12th rounds as what seemed to be a two-horse race suddenly have 5 players fighting for a win with just 2 rounds remaining. The story of the tournament, even outshining the terrible showing of Aronian and the ups and many downs of Kramnik, is of course Sergey

FIDE BERLIN CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT 2018: ROUND 7-9

We’ve passed the half-way point of the candidates tournament, and after 9 rounds the field is pretty well dispersed into a leader group, a middle section and the tailenders. As action picks  up today (Thursday 22.) with a highly interesting round 10 let’s first take a look at what transpired the last three rounds before

FIDE BERLIN CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT 2018: Round 4-6

Today round 7 of the Berlin  candidates tournament kicks of after the second rest day, so before the action again picks up here’s a short recap of round 4 through 6 and a look at what’s in store in the upcoming rounds. One thing is certain, the candidate tournament has lived up to the hype

FIDE Berlin Candidates Tournament 2018

The candidate tournament to determine who will be the next challenger for Magnus Carlsen kicks of in Berlin on Saturday.  Let’s have a quick preview of what’s in store for chess fans the coming few weeks. The format The grueling 14-round robin tournament goes from March 10 to March 27 and pits 8 of the

Chess News: two months since last update

My last post about chess was back in October 2 when Carlsen finally won a classical tournament by winning on Isle of Man. Since then there hasn’t been any typical super tournaments with eyes now finally turning towards London and the final leg of the Chess Grand Chess Tour (I’ll try to do a preview

Chess World Cup round 3 & 4

Again it’s time for a summary of the previous two rounds before the players today move on the quarterfinals of the Chess World Cup in Tbilisi. As expected the predictions in the last post bombed  ad the two rounds delivered plenty of upsets and controversies. Let’s take a look at the action in round 3