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Victorija Cmilyte: Grandmaster and Politician
Chess News Mar 1, 2021 | 20:25 PVictorija Cmilyte is a top chess player and a successful politicain. She is a Grandmaster, Lithuania's number one women player and number seven on the World's Women Ranking List, and since 2015 she has been a Member of the Lithuanian Parliament. She was leader of the Opposition and in 2020 the elected Speaker of Parliament. Cmilyte is married to GM Peter Heine Nielsen and has four children. A portrait. | Photo: Clément Bucco-Lechat
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Chess and Artificial Intelligence (2)
Chess News Feb 17, 2021 | 12:29 P"It's just a machine. It has no consciousness or feelings as we understand them. We have specific connections in our brain that make us react according to the circumstances, the situations we are experiencing. We interpret them as pleasure, pain and all other kinds of emotions. We would have to invent a new word to express what computers 'feel'." Here's the second part of the Europe Échecs discussion with Frederic Friedel on the subject of Artificial Intelligence.
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Wesley So wins the Opera Euro Rapid 2021 - Day 9
The Week in Chess Feb 14, 2021 | 23:23 PWesley So won the Open Euro Rapid beating World Champion Magnus Carlsen 2.5-1.5 in thesecond set to take the mini-match 1.5-0.5. This is the second time thatSo has beaten Carlsen in a final of a Meltwater Champions Chess Tour event havingwon the Airthings Masters in December. So was clearly the most convincing and consistent playerin this event.Carlsen felt he "missed quite a lot of chances today and that's the frustrating part","at several points I did not trust my intuition and I trusted him more because he wasplaying so quickly and confidently." Carlsen felt that he had particularly good opportunitiesin the third and fourth games.Carlsen "messed up the opening" in the first game and his piece sacrifice was completelyunsound and he went down to a loss in just 28 moves.The second game Carlsen got some chances towards the end.So said he considered trying to play for a quick draw in game three with white, but wantedto keep the pressure on, this nearly backfired as Carlsen got winning chances out of theopening with Bxh3. In the final game Carlsen said that his intuition was "screaming that 23.Kh1 wins"and is does - 23. Kh1 axb3 24. Rg1+ Kh8 25. e6! - it was[…]
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Shared first set in the final of the Opera Euro Rapid between Carlsen and So - Day 8
The Week in Chess Feb 13, 2021 | 21:19 PMagnus Carlsen and Wesley So drew the first set of their final 2-2 in the Opera Euro Rapid.Game one saw a draw in a Nimzo-Indian where Carlsen didn't get much if anything but thegame remained complex throughout. Game 2 was a complex Two Knights where So seemed tobe far better prepared than Carlsen. So has released a course on 1.e4 and they followedhis suggestions until Carlsen's 21...Qxd4? which isn't good but So forgot the correctreply 22.Bc4 and immediately got into trouble, Carlsen won in 55 moves. Carlsentook a quick draw with the white pieces in game three leaving So in a must winsituation in the final game. Carlsen was doing fine in the final game in one of thevery most common Giuoco Piano positions, 20...Bc7?! (20...fxe5 kept hispawn structure straight) was the start of Carlsen's troubles and he justcouldn't hold this extremely difficult position together.In the 3rd fourth playoff there was a lot of action after the first drawn game. Radjabovwon game two, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave struck back in game 3 and Radjabov won game 4 totake the set.The final day of the event starts on Sunday 14th Feb at 4pm with the second set and a thirdtie-break set if necessary.
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Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So to meet in the final of the Opera Euro Masters - Day 7
The Week in Chess Feb 12, 2021 | 22:08 PMagnus Carlsen had to win an Armageddon tie-break to get past Maxime Vachier-Lagravein his Opera Euro Semifinals. Carlsen had won the first set so MVL needed to strikeback. After two draws MVL won the after Carlsen yet again made a simple tacticalblunder, he cut the final retreat square from his bishop and after MVL attacked itwith a pawn it was lost. In the fourth game of the set Carlsen needed to win, insteadin an equal position he again blundered simply with 23.Nd4 overlooking 23...Qe4which caused his position to collapse. Carlsen has at least shown his fighting abilitybecause in the first blitz game he scored a very smooth victory. In the secondgame Carlsen could have finished things quick after MVL's 13.b5? 13...Bxc3 won a lot ofmaterial, instead 13...axb5 happened and the game continued, Carlsen did achievean equal position according to the computer after 26...dxc3 but it was a really horribleposition to defend and MVL went on to win. In the final Armageddon game Carlsen gota very nice position out of the opening, MVL's position was the one that was hard toplay and after 19.Qb3 Carlsen was practically winning and was soon objectivelyso too - the game ended on move 40. Carlsen's[…]
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CHESS Magazine puzzles (solutions)
Chess News Feb 8, 2021 | 12:45 PIt's a little late for New Year's celebrations, but never too late to have some fun. In the January issue of the UK CHESS magazine readers were challenged to solve eight unusual problems, which we shared with you last week – with live diagrams on which you could work things out. Today we have added full annotated solutions.
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World champion Carlsen in Wijk aan Zee
Chessdom Dec 10, 2020 | 18:34 PWorld champion Magnus Carlsen will once again be one of the participants when the Tata Steel Chess Tournament starts in January 2021. It is the first over the board tournament in which Carlsen will participate since reaching the age of 30. And it is only the second international classical chess tournament to be held since [...]
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Green Light Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021
Chessdom Dec 8, 2020 | 00:06 PThe directors of Tata Steel have announced that the 83rd edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament will take place in January. The COVID-19 crisis has led to the cancellation of many events, also in the world of chess. After thorough consultation with the Dutch Chess Association, NOC*NSF (Dutch Olympic Committee – Dutch Sports Federation) [...]
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Hikaru Nakamura wins thriller to storm into Skilling Open semis
Chessdom Nov 27, 2020 | 00:24 PThe Champions Chess Tour, launched by the Play Magnus Group, replaces the hugely-popular Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour put on earlier this year.
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