Race to the FIDE Candidates 2020

In the autumn of 2020 Magnus Carlsen is again set to defend his World Chess Champion title, but for we get there, the chess world will need to find the next challengers. As usual this is done via a candidates tournament with 8 players playing in a double round robin tournament with the winner getting

GCT in Croatia, does Norway Chess need fixing and Carlsen staging a chess coup?

A lot is happening in the chess world so here’s a update of some of the biggest headlines. Fixing Norway Chess? As expected Carlsen won this year’s edition of Altibox Norway Chess, and as expected the new format with armageddon in the case of ties in the classic games was controversial en sparked a lot

Carlsen wins again – next stop Abidjan

Fresh of his stunning performance in Shamkir, scoring 7.0/9 Carlsen continues his hot streak by cruising to a equally impressive victory in Grenke Chess Classic, scoring 7.5/9 and winning the tournament with 1.5 points down to Caruana. Carlsen began the tournament facing the young German talent Vincent Keymer, and after a not particularly convincing win

Tata Steel Chess 2019: Only 3 rounds remain

Today is the third and last rest day for Tata Steel Chess 2019 and over the five rounds since last update several things have happened. Here’s a rundown of what has happened in both the Challengers and Masters group and what we have in store for the remain 3 rounds. The Challengers: a three horse

World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2018

This year the rapid and blitz world chess championship takes place in St. Petersburg between 26 and 30 December (opening ceremony on 25 December). Originally planned to be held in Saudi Arabia, it was changed to Russia very late as the Saudi Arabian federation could not guarantee that all players would be allowed to participate.

A chess update

Haven’t done a chess post since July, and as the World Championship match is fast approaching I thought I’d do a short update on what has been happening in recent weeks and what’s coming up just around the corner. Chess Olympics In the Open section USA was the favourite as the top ranked team (no

FIDE Berlin Candidates tournament wrap-up & Grenke Chess Classic

By now everybody interested in chess (even just a tiny bit) should now that Fabiano Caruana won the candidates tournament and get to face Carlsen in November. With two rounds remaining the previous challenger, Karjakin, was out in front but an excellent finished pushed the young american ahead. As usual I’ll give a short recap

Thoughts on the Fischer Random Chess: Carlsen – Nakamura

On Tuesday January 13. the match between Carlsen and Nakamura ended after 5 days, with a 14-8 score in favour of the home favourite . The match was marketed as the unofficial world championship in Fischer Random Chess (maybe better known as Chess960 among chess fans) and in this post I’ll try to sum up

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 2017

The Chess World Cup starts on Sunday with 128 players fighting over the board in the first 64 matches of the tournament. The tournament is hosted in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia and is one of the ways in to the very important candidates tournament (challenger Karjakin won in 2015 to qualify) but also boasts