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

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