Wesley So becomes the first Fischer Chess World Champion, and other chess news

The final of the inaugural world championship in Fischer Random Chess concluded on Saturday, crowning Wesley So as the first official world champion in this chess discipline with a crushing victory of Magnus Carlsen. As usual Carlsen entered the final being the favourite, but was basically outplayed by the strong American and only raking up

World Fischer Random Chess Championship: Carlsen vs So

After three days of semifinals and a rest day, today (Thursday) we move on to the main event of this year’s first official Fischer Random Chess Championship. Three days of games to decide who will become the first Fischer champion (and who ends up grabbing the bronze). The format stays the same, but we got

World Fischer Random Chess Championship starts Sunday 27.

Last year Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura played an unofficial fischer random chess world championship match in Norway. It was broadcasted on the state broadcaster NRK and was a surprising success. With the new leadership of FIDE and teaming up with Chess.com this year FIDE started an official world championship cycle to crown another chess

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

FIDE Grand Prix Moscow – round 1

The first leg of this candidates cycle FIDE Grand Prix kicked off on Friday. Today (Sunday) the first tiebreaks begin, but out of 8 mini-matches just 2 return for the tiebreak day. Here’s a short recap of what has happened so far and my initial impressions. Round 1 – game 1 One big question going

Standings: Tata steel Chess after 5 rounds

Today is the first rest day in Tata Steel Chess so it’s an appropriate time to give an update on how things are going. Let’s begin by taking a look at Challengers tournament; Challengers: Things are as expected After 35 games and 5 rounds the top ranked players before the event, Kovalev and Korobov, also

PREVIEW: TATA STEEL CHESS 2019 (PART 2 of 3)

In the second part of the preview for the upcoming Tata Steel Chess Tournament (January 12-27) we take a look at the players in the Challenger group and the next batch of players from the Masters group. Please check out part I and part III for the complete preview. Tata Steel Chess Challengers Besides having

Preview London Chess Classic (Grand Chess Tour)

London Chess Classic is becoming a modern Christmas tradition as the 9th edition kicks off on Friday December 1. As was the case last year, this year it again act as the final leg of the Grand Chess Tour. Grand Chess Tour standings With just 1 tournament remaining most of the field is already out

Preview Sinquefield Cup (Grand Chess Tour)

After two blitz & rapid tournaments in Europe, the Grand Chess Tour heads to Saint Louis for the first of two classical chess tournaments on the tour. After winning the two tournaments Magnus Carlsen is of course the clear favourite in the overall standings, but his last classical chess performance was the shaky Altibox Norway