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 2018

2018 starts with one of the highlights  of  anyone’s chess calendar, namely the 80th edition of Tata Steel Chess. Besides being one of the the tournaments with the longest history, it’s a13 round-robin format is pretty unique among the top tournaments. It’s also well-known to get some of the biggest stars (Magnus Carslen is playing

Chess World Cup round 1 & 2

It’s time for a summary of the two first rounds of the 128-player big Chess World Cup knock-out tournament. We now have reduced the field to 32 players going into the 1/16-finals on Saturday (starts on 15:00 PM local time, 13:00 CET) and seen some pretty big upsets. At the end I’ll take a look