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U.S. champion Sam Shankland couldn’t get much from his home advantage against Richard Rapport in an intense opening day of the 2019 Champions Showdown in St. Louis. The 22-year-old Hungarian superstar had it all too easy in the first four rounds of the rapid match and could have been on full score hadn’t Sam held a pulse-pounding rook endgame on round four.
Fabiano Caruana redeemed team America as he outplayed India’s Pentala Harikrishna and brought home three convincing wins.
The...
The Austrian chess master Heinrich Wolf (1875-1943) is not exactly a household name for most chess players these days. Yet he is father to one of the most profound concepts in modern opening theory.
If people have heard of Wolf at all, it is usually for the reason that he was the angstgegner of the great Mikhail Chigorin, holding a crushing 7-0 record against him. He did have some decent tournament results in the first quarter of the 20th century, and he also was a second to Emanuel Lasker...
Anatoly Karpov was not only a world champion. He was also one of the most solid chess players to ever pick up a piece. So how do you beat such tough champion? Find out how Ulf Andersson did it in this exciting game.
Hi everyone. I had seen this game before, as they were playing the Olympiad. I didn’t analyze it too much in that moment, but today that game came to my mind; I found it again and analyzed it with some engine. The lines here are spectacular, and it’s really tough to understand what is happening. That’s why I decided to write about it.
In the game between Shen Yang and Melissa Castrillon Gomez they got this position. It was round 2; match China vs Colombia in women’s category....
Shortly after the start, the first round of the Aeroflot Open has been canceled due to a bomb threat at the venue, Hotel Cosmos in Moscow. The round has been postponed until tomorrow.
The traditional Aeroflot Open, the super-strong open tournament sponsored by the Russian national airline company, started today at 3 p.m. local time. With top seeds Wei Yi (China), Vladimir Fedoseev (Russia) and Wang Hao (China), the top 10 boards of the round looked like this:
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Rtg
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51
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The recently concluded Tata Steel chess tournament was very memorable for the U.S. grandmaster Sam Shankland.
From now on he will be forever remembered as a chess player who the beat the former world champion Vladimir Kramnik in his last professional classical game. But Sam will also be remembered as a grandmaster who resigned in a book-drawn position.
Sam Shankland. | Photo: Alina l'Ami/Tata Steel Chess.
I bet you've already seen that game:
A resignation in a dead-drawn position is so unusual...
Anish Giri and Ruslan Ponomariov are among the players to make their debut in the 2019 season of the PRO Chess League. Week seven is another Battle Royale week, played on Tuesday beginning at 8:00 a.m. PT and on Thursday beginning at 7 a.m. PT.
Preview by IM Greg Shahade.
This week marks the second Battle Royale of the 2019 PRO Chess League Season and the first time that all four divisions will be mixed together and be competing with one another. Lots of points will be up for grabs as...
In a continuation from the last article, Is Classical Chess Dead From Draws, we will be comparing different time controls in the Grand Chess Tour (GCT). Mike Klein just wrote a recent piece highlighting the new 2019 format and the players on the invite list.
Last month we analyzed the classical chess draw rate by year when both players were rated over 2750. In the past couple of years, that rate has increased above 70%!
Data CollectionThe data for this article contains all Grand...
