After yesterday's rest day, everyone expected some action at the 2019 Sinquefield Cup! But round six saw an anti-climatic end to a round where once again all six games ended in draws. Joint leader Viswanathan Anand had Anish Giri on the ropes but failed to put the ball in the back of the net. The two winners of round five, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren played each other and drew after a good fight.
Caruana vs. Vachier-Lagrave was the most followed game of the day. | Photo: Lennart...
On Thursday, the Indian super-grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi survived one of the strongest brackets of the knockout qualifier stage to reach the quarterfinals of the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship.
In a bracket that featured four players rated above 2700 FIDE in the quarterfinal stage, Vidit defeated the non-titled qualifier Deniz Tasdelen, grandmasters Sergey Grigoriants, Matthias Bluebaum and former world championship challenger Sergey Karjakin.The strong...
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Whenever you learn an opening, you need to know the common traps and tactics that arise from the position. In this review of the Tarrasch, find out what you need to look out for as you add the opening to your repertoire.
Welcome to this Intro of the Alekhine Defense (Main Line), a rather offbeat counterattacking opening, and definitely one worth looking at.
1...Nf6! looks like a strange move allowing 2. e5 gaining space, but black has the idea to allow white to build a nice center and then attack it with pawns and piece play. In this video we look at the first ten moves of the main line and discuss the ideas involved.
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What a difference a day makes at the 2019 Sinquefield Cup! After most players in this elite round-robin started with four consecutive draws, the field decided to make the tournament an "open" with all kinds of fun in round five.
Both Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren got their first wins, while Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin played yet another draw, but unlike any of the ones seen at their 2016 world championship match. Karjakin stalemated himself with 10 pieces left on the board.
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If you have seen the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, you may remember one of the Washington Square Park hustlers who held a sign offering a photograph or a game with the man who beat Mikhail Tal.
Just like most of the movie's chess characters, this guy really existed. His name was Josif Israel Zilber.
Vasek Simek as Josif Israel Zilber in the 1993 film Searching for Bobby Fischer.
Here is what the movie's Wikipedia page says about him:
The Russian player in the park...
With an open qualification process that began in April, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship continues the final qualification phase as it plays down to the final six players who will qualify for the quarterfinals in early October.
The third of six knockout qualifiers will be hosted on Chess.com this Thursday, Aug. 22, featuring some of the strongest players in the world including 2016 world championship challenger Sergey Karjakin, who will be playing during the rest day of...
When we talk about blitz chess, we usually think about tactics, blunders and opening surprises that force our opponents to spend their precious seconds. I doubt that many people would mention good endgame technique as an integral element of blitz.
Indeed, most times when a blitz game reaches an endgame, both players have just seconds on their clocks and usually have only two rules to play by: Do not lose on time and do not blunder too much.
Here is a very recent example. Just watch the last...
