Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know that since a few weeks I do have my own Youtube Channel: RobertRisChess. So far I have mainly been covering the World Championship match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, but please make sur...
Hi everyone! On Wednesday my long-term student Eline Roebers (The Netherlands) managed to win the World Championships online Girls U14! In the final she managed to defeat her Hungarian opponent Zsoka Gaal with 1.5-0.5. In the first game Eline...
Hi everyone! While enjoying my spare time on the warmest day of the year in The Netherlands, I'm proud to announce another release: The Killer Scotch! It has been only two months since my DVD on the Killer Scandinavian has been launched and I...
Hi everyone! Good news: my recently published book, The Modernized Sveshnikov is now also available as an e-book on Forward Chess ! In the following 30-minutes video I explain the structure of the book and give you an overview what is it all ...
Today I received some copies by mail of the newly published The Modernized Sveshnikov. Of course, I will be very interested hearing from you what do you think of this work, but for now I just only want to express my happiness. Holding your own boo...
Hi folks! I'm proud to inform you about my newest publication: The Modernized Sveshnikov! For more than one year I have been working on this fascinating opening, which used to be my childhood's favorite and recently became part of ...
Hi everyone! For quite some years I'm doing regular group training sessions for several clubs, mainly in Amsterdam area but also other clubs have shown interest in my services. Due to the pandemic outbreak these sessions have temporarily been...
Hi everyone! Hope you all are still doing fine in this time of pandemic! I have been incredibly busy with online training. Being now officially listed at the coaching page certainly helped me to get some new students from the US, India a...
Hi everyone! Hope you all are doing fine during these crazy times! It's a long time since I have done some blogging. Lately I have been shifting all my trainings to the online scene. I already had quite a number of online students all ar...
Hi everyone, Today I received a copy of the newly released Vol.2 of The Chess Player's Mating Guide series I recorded for ChessBase. I'm quite happy with the result and would recommend any ambitious club player and fan of attacking chess to ha...
Semi Final: Norway-Stockholm: 9-7 STL-Montreal: 8.5-7.5 Final: Norway-STL: 7.5-8.5
Gorky-Norway 7-9 Marseille-Stockholm 9-7 Montreal-Buenos Aires 7.5-8.5 STL-Webster 9.5-6.5
Delhi-Norway 7-9 Budapest-Gorky 9.5-6.5 Marseille-London Lions 10-6 Stockholm-London Towers 9-7 Montreal-Montclair 9.5-6.5 Buenos Aires-Miami 7-9 San Jose-Webster 7-9 STL-San Diego 9-7
Norway-Mumbai 10-6 Gorky-Riga 6-10 Cannes- London Lions 9-7 Amsterdam-London Tower 9-7 Toronto-Miami 7-9 Montclair-Philadelphia 9-7 Dallas-San Jose 7-9 San Diego-Rio Grande 7-9
Eastern Division: Mumbai-Gorky: 9-7 Johannesburg-Shymkent 7-9 Budapest-Delhi 9.5-6.5 Belgrade-Riga 6-10 Ljubljana-Norway 7-9 Central Division: Hamburg-London Lions 10-6 Dublin-Abuja 10-6 Amsterdam-Marseille 7-9 Lagos-Reykjavik 5-1...
Eastern Division: Odisha-Gorky 10-6 Shymkent-Budapest 5-11 Amaravati-Johannesburg 9-7 Mumbai-Riga 7-9 Norway-Delhi 10-6 Ljubljana-Belgrade 9-7 Central Division: Abuja-Cannes 5-11 Lagos-Apeldoorn 4-12 Stockholm-Marseille 7-9 Dub...
Hi guys! Apparently last week I bet on a match between two teams who didn't face each other. Hopefully I will fare better this time :) Great to see the big guys Magnus, Fabi, MVL, So and good old KingLoek in action! Hats off to PRO chess l...
Eastern Division: Shymkent-Delhi: 4-12 Amaravati-Riga: 7-9 Mumbai-Belgrade: 10-6 Budapest-Odisha: 7-9 Ljubljana-Johanessburg: 13-3 Norway-Gorky: 10-6 Central Division: Amsterdam-London Lions: 7-9...
Hi all, Check out my predictions for Week 3 here below. Too busy with my regular work, so unfortunately no time to go more into detail. So far I haven't been brilliant at predicting the results, but I'm sure I will close in on the other...
Here my predictions for week 2. Hope you all enjoy the matches! Eastern Division: Delhi-Mumbai: 9-7 The Dynamite is too explosive in the all Indian match! Amaravati-Odisha: 6-10 looks a decent result for both teams to me. Gorky-Shymkent: ...
For Dutch chess players the best time of the year is certainly January when the annual Tata Steel Chess Tournament is taking place in coast village Wijk aan Zee, a 30 min drive from Amsterdam. This year it's the 79th edition, a fantastic tradition...
Hi guys I am looking forward to the most exciting online event ever: the PRO chess league. And yes, it's no joke and I mean that as we will get to see some of the world's best players facing much lower rated opposition. I think we will ...
Just got back home from a team match in 2. Bundesliga West. My team SF Katernberg suffered a painful defeat against Dortmund: 1.5-6.5. Against Polish GM Heberla I obtained a comfortable position out of the opening and could start thinking to ...
Hi all! It's December so I do offer special discount for online training again! This year the December discount will 20% of my regular fee. So instead of $50/hour you will only have to pay $40/hour. Not bad, right? :-) The offer is val...
A lot of criticism was heard after the quick draw in the 12th game of the World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin. "Death of Classical Chess'' was a message spread on Twitter by several chess fans. Personally I don'...
