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Study of the Month - A short history of endgame study castling II
Chess News Jun 25, 2022 | 13:00 PFree association is an interesting mechanism to make up introductions for articles. Let us try: "Music was my first love and it will be my last", John Miles sang many years ago. The "Children" of Caissa rather would see their "Circle of Life" in Chess, where the WCCT-7 theme might have been predicted by Phil Collins in "Against All Odds" (who also performed the song named in the previous quotation): "Take a look at me now! There's just an empty space!", the bishop in the Kozłowski study might say this. | Photos: Pixabay
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FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 – R7 preview
Chessdom Jun 25, 2022 | 11:10 PThe FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 reaches its halfway. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Fabiano Caruana separated themselves from the rest of the field, scoring 4.5 and 4 points, respectively. While chess statisticians evaluate Nepo with almost 55% chance to win the event, Anish Giri shares his opinion that the World Championship Match will be played between […]
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Endgames from Madrid (2)
Chess News Jun 25, 2022 | 02:30 PEight of the strongest players in the world are fighting in Madrid to get a shot in the next match for the world crown. Deep opening preparation and maximum focus often lead to slightly better (or worse) endgames. GM Karsten Müller aims his attention at the last stage of the game, as he compiles the most salient and instructive endings from the Candidates Tournament. | Photo: FIDE / Stev Bonhage
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FIDE Council: No rating fees for OTB Rapid and Blitz events held in 2021-2023
Chessdom Jun 24, 2022 | 22:27 PFIDE Council decided to waive rating fees for Rapid and Blitz over-the-board tournaments held in 2021-2023. The Financial rules of the FIDE Handbook have been updated accordingly, says FIDE, adding that FIDE constantly works on reducing various fees.
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Stockfish sues ChessBase; The Court Hearing scheduled for Monday
Chessdom Jun 24, 2022 | 22:16 PLeading Stockfish developers have filed suit against ChessBase to enforce their license termination claiming Chessbase has “repeatedly violated central obligations of the GPLv3 license”. The court hearing in the case Tord Romstad and Stéphane Nicolet vs. ChessBase GmbH will take place on Monday, July 4th, and Stockfish calls all interested parties to attend the hearing. […]
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Daniel King Special Live Broadcast: "From Ukraine With Love For Chess"
Chess News Jun 24, 2022 | 20:55 POn Friday 24th June at 18.00 CEST (12.00 ET, 16:00 UTC) Daniel King will be hosting a special live broadcast on his YouTube channel to publicise a new book: "From Ukraine With Love For Chess" published by "New In Chess". Daniel will be joined by Ruslan Ponomariov (former FIDE World Champion) and Remmelt Otten (Publishing Director of New In Chess) to discuss the book. Join the broadcast to learn more about the book, Ukrainian chess, and to put your questions directly to Ruslan Ponomariov.
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Nepomniachtchi and Caruana win in Candidates Round 6 - 6
The Week in Chess Jun 23, 2022 | 22:25 PIan Nepomniachtchi leads the FIDE Candidates tournamentin Madrid with 4.5/6 half a point clear of Fabiano Caruana.Hikaru Nakamura and Richard Rapport are a distant joint thirdon 3/6. As the tournament enters its second rest day andis almost at the half way stage it already looks like astraight battle between Nepomniachtchi and Caruana for firstplace and perhaps indeed we'll see these two fight the next World Championship matchif Carlsen doesn't defend his title.Nepomniachtchi beat the hitherto undefeated Jan-Krzysztof Dudain convincing style. It's hard to know where Duda went wrong,they followed a known game Svidler-Karjakin in a Reti and the computersthink black is fine but it looks really not very nice for blackat all. Nepomniachtchi won a piece for several pawns and alsogot an open black king, Duda tried to hide behind his opponent's pawnon h7 but this was probably not the right idea, by which I mean it is possible capturingalso loses but not capturing definitely loses.Fabiano Caruana beat Alireza Firouzja to relegate the youngster to thetournament basement. It was always unrealistic to think Firouzjawould win this event, he's clearly a massive talent but hasn't played nearlyenough elite events yet. Magnus Carlsen's statement that he'd probablyonly defend his title against Firouzja[…]
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Jammy Nepomniachtchi escapes with a draw against Nakamura in Candidates Round 5 - 5
The Week in Chess Jun 22, 2022 | 21:31 PIan Nepomniachtchi had an extremely lucky escape against Hikaru Nakamurain Round 5 of the FIDE Candidates tournament in Madrid. His drawmeans that he still leads the event alone on 3.5/5 half a point clear ofFabiano Caruana.Nakamura played a very popular line against Nepomniachtchi's Petroff Defenceand they followed an old game of the American's until 14...Bf8 deviated.The first real key moments were 16...Qe4? a mistake played after a remarkable14 seconds of thought, 17.Bf1 Qg4? (after 1 minute 23 seconds of thought, 17...Qb1is better). After the game Nepomniachtchi explained that he'd confused thisposition with a similar one where these moves work.Essentially now Nepomniachtchi had wrecked his position and therewas nothing to be done but hope that Nakamura messed up, and mess it up he dideven though it took quite a few inferior moves to do it. 23.Re3 is nota bad move but the computers think 23.Nh4 is better, 25.Nd2? was the moveNakamura pointed to as the real culprit ("I Am Disgusted" is the titleof his channel's video on the game) but even then it took one more 28.Na5?for equality to be restored. In the last Candidates which he won Nepomniachtchi playedtwo very poor games and lost them both alongside a generally very[…]
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Nepomniachtchi brushes aside Firouzja to lead alone after four rounds of the Candidates - 4
The Week in Chess Jun 21, 2022 | 22:39 PIan Nepomniachtchi leads the Candidates on 3/4 after beating Alireza Firouzja.The remaining round 4 games were drawn. Fabiano Caruana is half a point behind the leader.Firouzja has struggled to get into the tournament due to the really quite terribledraw he's got, starting with two blacks and now today black again for the thirdblack in four games. Of course the games with the white pieces will come eventually butthis is as trying a start as it's possible to have. Today was a razor sharp Najdorfwhere Firouzja tried to surprise Nepomniachtchi with the uncommon but alsonot highly regarded 15...Bc4. We won't really know if Nepomniachtchi knew anydetailed lines but although clearly thinking he played his moves reasonably quicklyand the position went from no fun for Firouzja to lost with no possibilityof any fight back in very short order. Most likely 20...Bxf1 isn't that good (maybe 20...Kh8 is slightly better),21...a3 also may well not be the best and 23...Nd6? (23...Qc7 looks uncomfortable butit has the merit of not losing immediately) pretty much ends the game, there's just nothing for black, no realattack anymore while white is going to get to black's king when he's good and ready. If onesubscribes to the theory that[…]
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