Dadian Revisited
A little over 5 years ago I published an article called Lesser Known Games of Prince Dadian in which I presented 29 games absent from all of the databases I consulted. I had found them in and transcribed them from va...
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Fabiano Caruana: What Went Wrong?
The world championship match is over and now it is a part of chess history. Just like any big chess event, it has provided a lot of food for thought. For many chess fans the main takeaway from the match is that something should be changed so we ...
Speed Chess Championship 2018 | Official Information
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. Congratulations to Hikaru Nakamura, the 2018 Speed Chess Champion. ...
How To Watch The Speed Chess Championship Final 4 This Weekend
It's what you've been waiting for all year: The Speed Chess Championship semifinals and finals are this weekend. With three action-packed matches in three days, you'll want to tune in Friday, Saturday and Sunday. SCC final four sched...
Speed Chess Championship: The Final 4 Footrace!
After a year of exciting chess, this weekend is the culmination of the 2018 Speed Chess Championship. Who will survive the final four and emerge as the champion after 12 hours of grueling blitz and bullet chess? Tune in to Chess.com/TV and Twitch....
Pavey
From September 2-21, 1957 the first International Women's Team Tournament (i.e. the first Women's Chess Olympiad) took place in Emmen, Holland. The U. S. team, comprised of Gisela Gresser and Jacqueline Piati...
How To Watch The World Chess Championship: Carlsen vs Caruana
It's the biggest chess event of the year as World Champion Magnus Carlsen will try to defend his title against the American challenger Fabiano Caruana. The 2018 world chess championship will run November 9-28, and you can follow it all on Chess....
Garry Kasparov's Brilliancy Prizes
In March 2017, I looked to see who made the most official brilliancy prizes. This led to three articles. Mikhail Tal was number one with 15 brilliancy prizes: Tal's brilliancy prizes Anatoly Karpov and Rashid Nezhmetdinov both had 10, putti...
13 Things To Know About The Carlsen vs Caruana World Chess Championship
GM Jonathan Tisdall writes a preview of the world championship from a variety of perspectives. 1. The view from Norway The shopping app for my corner grocery store announced today that there is a special on chess books this week. Of course the...
Carlsen vs Caruana: CAPS Predicts The 2018 World Chess Championship
The much-anticipated 2018 world chess championship between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will take place from November 9-28 in London. On the Chess.com homepage poll, 83 percent predict Carlsen will win the match. Jus...
What If Carlsen And Caruana Were Martial Arts Fighters?
One of the leading Russian newspapers, "Izvestia," has published an interview with the president of the Russian Chess Federation and captain of the Russian Olympic team, Andrey Filatov. This interview got my attention when Filatov claimed tha...
How To Watch Hikaru Nakamura vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Speed Chess Today
The next match of the Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals is Thursday as Hikaru Nakamura (@hikaru) faces Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (@lyonbeast). The match winner will play Levon Aronian in the Speed Chess final f...
Speed Chess Championship: Can MVL Ride Nakamura's Red Bull?
It's "only" a quarterfinal, but it's a matchup worthy of much more. On Thursday, October 11 at 10 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Central Europe) Hikaru Nakamura and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will go toe-to-toe to decide the last semifina...
How To Watch Wesley So vs Vidit Gujrathi Speed Chess Tuesday
The next match of the Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals is Tuesday as Wesley So (@gmwso) faces Vidit Gujrathi(@viditchess). The match winner will play the Polish prodigy Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the Speed Chess final fou...
How To Watch Giri vs Aronian Speed Chess Today
The next match of the Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals is today as Anish Giri (@anishgiri) faces Levon Aronian (@levonaronian). The match winner will play the winner of Hikaru Nakamura vs Maxime Vachie...
How To Watch Grischuk vs Duda Speed Chess Today
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...
How To Watch Giri vs Mamedyarov Speed Chess Today
It's the final opening-round match of the Speed Chess Championship today as Anish Giri (@AnishGiri) faces Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (@azerichesss) for the right to advance in the Speed Chess bracket and play Levon Ar...
How To Watch Andriasyan vs Vidit Gujrathi Speed Chess Today
In what should be one of the closest Speed Chess Championship matches yet, Zaven Andriasyan faces Vidit Gujrathi for the right to advance in the Speed Chess bracket and play Wesley So in round two. Although An...
How To Watch Nepomniachtchi vs Grischuk Speed Chess Championship Today
It's an all-Russian battle in the Speed Chess Championship this week as two of the world's best grandmasters face off. Ian Nepomniachtchi is the higher seed, but he could be the underdog against his countryman Alexander Gr...
Russian Crushin' At Next Speed Chess Championship Match
If numbers don't lie, then this next Speed Chess Championship match is a draw. But since ties aren't possible in Chess.com's blitz and bullet series, we're going to play it out anyway. On Tuesday, August 7, GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Alexander G...
How To Watch Vachier-Lagrave vs Dominguez Speed Chess Championship Today
The Speed Chess Championship continues this week as two seasoned blitz grandmasters face off in what could be the closest match yet of the tournament. The French number-one (and world number-eight) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave t...
Speed Chess Championship: The Cubano vs The Croissant
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave against GM Leinier Dominguez Perez: The "man with three names" meets yet another man with three names. But only 2800s get hyphens, it seems. The two sesquipedalian chess players are the next two to face off in the openi...
How To Watch So vs Wei Yi Speed Chess Championship Sunday
The Speed Chess Championship rolls into Sunday to conclude a star-studded opening week. The American number-two (and world number-six) Wesley So takes on the Chinese chess prodigy, the 19-year-old Wei Yi. Both of these young ...
So vs Wei Yi: Who's More Immortal?
With two of the opening matches of the 2018 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship now in the books, fans are still waiting for the first competitive match. GM Levon Aronian and Hikaru Nakamura were simply too strong for GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hou ...
Lyudmila Rudenko, The First Soviet Chess Queen
A great surprise for all chess fans happened today. Google honors our game with a doodle in the style of 1950s, when the talent of World Women's Champion Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko (1904-1986) was shining at its brightest. Never heard of her na...