For the past two days at the 2018 Sinquefield Cup, four draws have preceded a lengthy decisive game that has gone into the dinner hour.
In round four, that script seemed to be getting Xeroxed, but after a quartet of draws, Fabiano Caruana was able to finish off Hikaru Nakamura without a protracted ending. Bad for fans, but a huge relief for the vocal cords of the commentators.
His game lasted just over four hours and now exactly half the field (five players) are at the top of the standings with...
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...
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.
Here is a look at the main line of the Icelandic Gambit. This variation comes from the Nf6 Scandi 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. c4 e6! and provides black with quick and easy development for the cost of a pawn. Let's have a look and see what we can learn. Enjoy!
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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...
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...
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...
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