For the second straight day at the 2018 Sinquefield Cup, the chance of an all-draws round loomed. But just like yesterday, a 6.5-hour game produced the day's only winner (yesterday, 88 moves; today, 89 moves).
Alexander Grischuk used a healthy space advantage in round three to pick off three extra pawns against Hikaru Nakamura. The American saw the specter of a fortress, but it wasn't there.
Hikaru Nakamura offered some improvements to Alexander Grischuk right after the game, but the ending...
Magnus Carlsen wanted to know what constituted a draw; he just didn't want one himself. After more than 6.5 hours of pressing, he finally edged Sergey Karjakin in the dwindling seconds of the game.
Long before that, prior to the start of the second round of the 2018 Sinquefield Cup, a closed-door players meeting took place to discuss the tournament's procedures on draws.
Maybe some of the players took it too literally. The first four games ended without a winner, with two lasting less then two...
Everyone knows the story about the Trojan Horse that helped the Greek army win the Trojan War. Since chess is a model of a war on 64 squares, can't we use this 3,000-year-old trick on the chessboard?
Just think of it: Your opponent hides his king behind the rock-solid walls of his castle, when a beautiful steed appears right in front of the gates. Can he possibly resist the temptation to open the door?
A Trojan Horse in Turkey.
Let's see how this concept works in the so-called "Fishing...
You might know the Polish-Argentine GM Miguel Najdorf for his popular opening variation in the Sicilian, but did you know he played one of the most beautiful attacking chess games ever? GM Simon Williams shows you Najdorf's immortal game, one of his favorite games ever.
One of FM Dalton Perrine's first video courses, Forcing Moves & Critical Squares is 20% off this week. This course provides instruction on forcing moves and critical squares for chess players who have an over-the-board Elo rating between 800 and 1200 or an online rating between 1000 and 1400.
This course covers the essentials of what every beginner and intermediate player must understanding when analyzing positions and thinking about the next move. In fact, forcing moves is one of the single...
Goodbye short films, hello "The Godfather." After today's transition to classical chess, the final game took 36 times as long as blitz thanks to some long, technical endings. Better get a bigger tub of popcorn.
The opening round produced two early leaders at the 2018 Sinquefield Cup: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Levon Aronian. There could have been a third, but Fabiano Caruana finally admitted the win was gone after six hours and 15 minutes of trying (in Godfather-speak, that's right about when Fredo...
Chess is a rich game, dating back over a millennia. On Chess.com alone, over 2,000,000,000 games have been played!
Which games are the very best ever played? No one can answer that conclusively, but we are going to give you Chess.com's opinion.
We asked Chess.com staff and contributors to give us their top 10 lists, and then we ordered each list, awarding 10 points to their top game and one point to their 10th game.
Here's our top 10!
1: Kasparov vs. Topalov, Wijk Aan Zee 1999
Despite losing...
Three Grand Chess Tour events are in the books, and one book just came out. A lot has happened in the last 48 hours in St. Louis since Hikaru Nakamura won his second leg of the GCT season to lead the tour standings.
To wit:
The Saint Louis Chess Club released a comprehensive book on the five years of the Sinquefield Cup, with unique authors for each of the tournaments.
The annual "Ultimate Moves" battle was contested with Rex and Randy Sinquefield filling their usual roles as player-captains.
The...
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