Round two of the Speed Chess Championship starts today as Alexander Grischuk (@grischuk) does battle with Jan-Krzysztof Duda (@polish_fighter3000). After breaking the brackets by defeating Sergey Karjakin in round one, can the young and talented Duda pull off another upset against a Russian chess legend?
Grischuk is one of the most experienced blitz players in history, but Duda is rising quickly. You'd be surprised how close a match-up our statistical predictions think it...
The last six weeks were full of top-level events like the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, the Sinquefield Cup, the World Junior Championship, and many Speed Chess Championship matches.
The "In Other News" tidbits have been piling up, but today, the dam is released with 13 stories from the chess breadbasket that you may have missed:
Google honors a pioneering female chess player
David Llada, new editor-in-chief of "American Chess Magazine"
Football players try out chess
Death at U.S. Open
Death...
Chess openings have been analyzed for centuries and yet even today it is still not easy to identify the best and worst first moves. According to Fischer, 1.e4 is "best by test."
From the other side, when the famous theoretician GM Ernst Gruenfeld was asked why he always started the game with his queen pawn, he answered that he would never make a mistake on the very first move! Statistics from the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship seem to agree with Gruenfeld; through the tournament's first half,...
When selecting your opening repertoire as a beginner, you have to choose lines you like to play. Watch this introduction to the Pirc—if you like fast development and imbalanced action, it might be the opening for you.
Hi friends. Today, I am going to give a few Mate-in-2 puzzles and this will serve as a small test for your imagination in chess.
Don't take these lightly, some can be quite hard! The difficulty level increases after every puzzle. Are you ready for the challenge?
First I present three puzzles in each section- Warm Up, Medium and Difficulty. Then there five problems in the Expert section which understandably are beyond level of many. I recommend everyone to take out time at least for the first three...
Stunning the chess world with a 9.5/10 score before losing in the last round, Iranian GM Parham Maghsoodloo won the World Junior Championship in Gebze, Turkey. Aleksandra Maltsevskaya of Russia won gold in the girls section.
The World Junior Championships (open and girls) were held September 5-15 in the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Gebze, Turkey. The Open section had players from 59 different federations, including 25 GMs and 40 IMs and no less than 30 players rated above 2500.
The...
One of the most important things in chess is willpower (a branch of chess psychology).
Most players glance at a possibility, shrug it off as too risky or just plain bad or boring, and toss out some generic move instead. This, of course, is just plain wrong.
So what should you do when you see something interesting or red hot if it works, but fear that it might lead you to destruction? Well, you certainly should not just do it. No, no, no; you need to calmly look at its pluses and negatives...
Although he finished with two wins, Garry Kasparov ended up losing his match with Veselin Topalov at the Champions Showdown in St. Louis. With a 6/8 score on the final day, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was much too strong for Sam Shankland.
The last day saw eight blitz games, totalling 20 games in each match. Besides MVL, also Nakamura and So finished on a plus score.
Garry Kasparov vs Veselin Topalov — Final Score: 11.5-14.5
Although Kasparov had his chances in the match,...
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 guaranteed prize pool of $55,000.
See the round one results here.
NEXT MATCHES:
Sept. 18, 11 a.m. PDT: Grischuk vs Duda
Sept. 20, 10 a.m. PDT: Giri vs Aronian
Oct. 9, 9 a.m. PDT: So vs Vidit Gujrathi
Oct. 11, 10 a.m. PDT: Nakamura vs Vachier-Lagrave
You can find important information on the event below.
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