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Leon Luke strikes again!
Chess News Apr 23, 2024 | 18:00 PA couple of weeks ago Leon Mendonca turned 18. After many spectacular successes — like a 9.0/9 score in a very strong GM Open a year ago and winning the Challegers group in Wijk aan Zee — Leon just won the Spring Chess Classic 2024 at the Saint Louis Chess Club – outright. The round robin event had ten grandmasters with an average rating of 2625. This remarkable young player has recorded a very interesting FritzTrainer for us. | Photos by Austin Fuller
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Grivas on the Mad Rook
Chess News Apr 23, 2024 | 11:30 PDuring the endgame, stalemate is a resource that can enable the player with the inferior position to draw the game rather than lose. In more complex positions, stalemate is much rarer, usually taking the form of a swindle that succeeds only if the superior side is inattentive. Chess Trainer GM Efstratios Grivas shows us how a "mad rook" can complicate matters for the superior side.
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FIDE Candidates: The closing ceremony
Chess News Apr 23, 2024 | 09:40 PThe FIDE Candidates Tournament, which captivated audiences for three weeks, is in the books. The closing ceremony was held at 1 Hotel Toronto, the residence of the players for almost a month. The champions, Gukesh D and Tan Zhongyi, were honored with unique trophies crafted from reclaimed Toronto wood, symbolizing their achievement and the enduring connection with the city they’ll carry home. | Photo: FIDE / Michal Walusza
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Tan Zhongyi is the clear winner of the Women's Candidates 2024 - 14
The Week in Chess Apr 22, 2024 | 01:56 PTan Zhongyi will challenge Ju Wenjun for the World Chess Championship in 2025. The 32 year old player was not the favourite for the event but her confident play dominated with only a round 8 loss to her closest challenger Lei Tingjie as a blemish in the event. In the final round Tan played a very sharp Sicilian against Anna Muzychuk. Tan secured a big advantage but steered the game to the draw she needed. Lei needed a win and played an amazing Queen sacrifice against Humpy Koneru. Eventually her compensation disappeared and she subsided to a loss.
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Gukesh is the youngest ever winner of the Candidates at 17 years old - 14
The Week in Chess Apr 22, 2024 | 01:43 PDommaraju Gukesh won the FIDE Candidates at the age of 17 years old. He comfortably held a draw against Hikaru Nakamura in the final round of the event. Fabiano Caruana built up a winning position against double defending champion Ian Nepomaniachtchi but a blunder on the first move after first time control allowed a draw and Gukesh's victory. Gukesh should play Ding Liren later in the year for the World Title. Ding seems to have had some kind of personal crisis since taking the title and has hardly played, and when he has it's not been very good play.
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Tan Zhongyi on the verge of winning the Women's Candidates tournament - 13
The Week in Chess Apr 21, 2024 | 13:35 PTan Zhongyi could not ask for a better chance to win the Women's Candidatesin Toronto going into the final round. Tan hardly played the mostcritical continuation against Aleksandra Goryachkina but a quiet gamesuited her and a draw by repetition was agreed on move 29. She nowleads the Lei Tingjie by a point with no-one else able to catch her.Tan faces Anna Muzychuk with the black pieces in the final round, Muzychukhasn't won a game yet, although she generated enough chances to have beenin contention.The key result of the day was Rameshbabu Vaishali's fourth win in a row,a streak that followed four losses in a row and which started witha game she probably should have lost also. Today she took downLei Tingjie and practically ruined her chances of winning the event.This was a 3.Bb5+ Sicilian 12...Bf8? (12...Be7=) was too passiveand white was better for some time, some inaccuracies from Vaishalimeant that black was back in it by move 25 and after firsttime control black had equality. The game was decided by a single moveblunder, 61...Kf7? (61...h6 was equal) when 62.g5! meantall king an pawn endgames were winning for white, and there really was no escaping that.Nurgyul Salimova had a lucky escape[…]
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Rubichess wins TCEC League 1 convincingly
Chessdom Sep 4, 2023 | 20:55 PThe league stage of the Top Chess Engine Championship (Season 25) reaches the pinnacle of the event – the Premier Division. The defending champion Stockfish will meet its main competitor Leela Chess Zero, as well as six more of the strongest chess engines: four seeded participants – KomodoDragon, Ethereal, Stoofvlees, Slowchess – and the two […]
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Ronaldo and Messi playing chess #TweetOftheDay
Chessdom Sep 4, 2023 | 02:49 PFIFA World Cup 2022 is about to start in Qatar and Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi chose to prepare for the event by playing a chess game. “Victory is a State of Mind“, wrote Ronaldo on his twitter account and shared the photo taken by Annie Leibovitz at the Louis Vuitton shooting. Read more: Carlsen […]
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Nepo – Ding 2023, game 14 LIVE
Chessdom Sep 3, 2023 | 10:10 PIan Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren, aka Nepo – Ding is the final of the World Chess Championship 2023. The Nepo – Ding match will take place in Astana, Kazakhstan, from April 7 to May 1, at the elegant St. Regis Astana hotel. All the games start at 15:00 local time (GMT+6), and there is a […]
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Leon Luke strikes again!
A couple of weeks ago Leon Mendonca turned 18. After many spectacular successes — like a 9.0/9 score in a very strong GM Open a year ago and winning the Challegers group in Wijk aan Zee — Leon just won the Spring Chess Classic 2024 at the Saint Louis Chess Club – outright. The round robin event had ten grandmasters with an average rating of 2625. This remarkable young player has recorded a very interesting FritzTrainer for us. | Photos by Austin Fuller -
Grivas on the Mad Rook
During the endgame, stalemate is a resource that can enable the player with the inferior position to draw the game rather than lose. In more complex positions, stalemate is much rarer, usually taking the form of a swindle that succeeds only if the superior side is inattentive. Chess Trainer GM Efstratios Grivas shows us how a "mad rook" can complicate matters for the superior side. -
FIDE Candidates: The closing ceremony
The FIDE Candidates Tournament, which captivated audiences for three weeks, is in the books. The closing ceremony was held at 1 Hotel Toronto, the residence of the players for almost a month. The champions, Gukesh D and Tan Zhongyi, were honored with unique trophies crafted from reclaimed Toronto wood, symbolizing their achievement and the enduring connection with the city they’ll carry home. | Photo: FIDE / Michal Walusza