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The tournament will be played at Chess.com's most popular time control, 10|0.
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Three weeks after the three candidates for the FIDE presidential elections became known, the key word for some of the candidates seems to be "corruption." An anti-corruption committee has been established, and Makropoulos ticket members have accused Dvorkovich of bribery.
Anti-corruption committee
At the second quarter 2018 presidential board meeting that took place in Bucharest, Romania last week, FIDE established a brand new electoral integrity committee. The committee will "investigate...
The 2018 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship will feature 16 of the world's best chess players in an innovative eSports bracket tournament and a starting (guaranteed) prize pool of $55,000.
Check out the new 2018 Speed Chess Championship hype video to get you psyched up for the tournament.
NEXT MATCH:
Caruana vs Aronian: Tuesday, July 24, 10 a.m. PDT. Watch live on www.Twitch.tv/Chess.
You can find important information on the event below.
Broadcast and streaming
Bracket
Matchups...
If you're trying out real-life tournament chess after playing just online, there are certain things you need to know. One of the most important concepts is reaching the time control over the board, and GM Ben Finegold is here to explain with hilarious examples like Hikaru Nakamura's "orange juice game" and even one from Magnus Carlsen.
The other day, I was perusing through Tartakower's "500 Master Games of Chess" (which, by the way, is a masterpiece of a chess book!) and I discovered one of Morphy's games, which has a pattern similar to one that occurred in one of my games.....
(By the way, this book is available, dirt cheap, in Amazon.com. It is in descriptive notation, not algebraic, though- http://tinyurl.com/y9twwhfd )
The Morphy game is the following (notes by Lowenthal)
Now, here is...
Kings don't usually work this hard, but with tomorrow (July 20) being International Chess Day, "The King" is making an exception.
Burger King's iconic mascot has been a longtime chess fan for years, but he's just now entering the arena of competitive chess. Some customers even claim to have seen his Chess.com app open while working the drive through.
On Friday he will turn off his flame grill and focus on the royal game. For six hours, The King will play all comers on Chess.com's live...
Some 20 years ago I had a conversation with a grandmaster who grew up in a bad neighborhood. He was recollecting his youth years when street fighting was pretty common.
I don't remember much from his stories, but one of his phrases has stuck in my mind: "It is not the strongest who wins the fight but the craziest!"
A game that was played almost 170 years ago by two of the best Russian players of that time clearly proves the point. Carl Jaenisch developed his Jaenisch Gambit...
On Wednesday, Vladimir Kramnik scored his first win in Dortmund, and it was a big one: The 14th world champion beat the tournament leader, Jan-Krzysztof Duda. The two are now sharing the lead at the Sparkassen Chess Meeting together with Vladislav Kovalev and Ian Nepomniachtchi.
To say that our headline of yesterday's news report jinxed it would be too much. Still, Duda lost his very next game after he made such a strong impression in the first three rounds.
In round four,...
The Game of the Century is one of the greatest chess games in all of chess history and likely the greatest game ever played by a junior. The 26-year-old international master Donald Byrne took on the young, 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in what would become one of the most famous chess games ever played.
The Game
White: Donald Byrne
Black: Bobby Fischer
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7
Throughout Fischer's career he liked to fianchetto his kings bishop in such openings as the King's Indian Defense...
