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Why Chess Players Blunder
Chess News Apr 16, 2024 | 16:00 PWe have seen them, haven’t we? The howlers? Amateurs and professionals alike in the aftermath of a game, trying to explain their blunder, shaking their heads in disbelief, scratching their brows, sighing while trying to come up with a rational explanation. Blunders happen because humans are fallible and ill-founded impulses prove stronger than the ability to abort them – as is explained in this scientific paper.
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Candidates R10: Nakamura and Caruana grab crucial wins
Chess News Apr 16, 2024 | 12:40 PU.S. grandmasters Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura collected vital wins in round 10 of the Candidates Tournament, as they now stand a half point behind co-leaders Ian Nepomniachtchi and Gukesh D. Nakamura got the better of a struggling Nijat Abasov, while Caruana defeated Alireza Firouzja out of a double-edged Sicilian Najdorf. The participants will get rest days on Tuesday and Friday, as there are only four rounds to go in Toronto. | Photo: FIDE / Michal Walusza
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Anish Giri: A Supergrandmaster's Guide to Openings Vol.1 & 2
Chess News Apr 16, 2024 | 12:30 PWhen you begin your journey of building an opening repertoire, how nice would it be to get a glimpse of what each opening looks like through the eyes of a super GM. It would help building your opening repertoire and understanding the vast world of chess openings. It is exactly with this thought that "A Supergrandmaster's Guide to Openings with Anish Giri" was made. Pre-order now! Delivery on 18 April 2024.
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Tan bounces back with a win over Vaishali to regain the Women's Candidates sole lead after 9 rounds - 9
The Week in Chess Apr 15, 2024 | 11:12 PTan Zhongyi scored a quick victory against Rameshbabu Vaishali in Round 9 of the Women'sCandidates tournament in Toronto and that eventually proved to be enough to leadalone on 6/9.Tan claimed to have surprised Vaishali with her choice of opening, I'm not sureat what move that was but after Vaishali's 11.Ng5 the position became trickyto handle for both sides. 13.h4?! (13.Na3) was ambitious but the key momentcame with 16.c4? (16.Bxd6 is only a tiny bit worse for white) f6! andwhite was already in dire straits. 18.c5? was another error andthe collapse was complete with 19. ...Nxd4 20. Qe3? Nxc2.Lei Tingjie looked to be heading for a quick victory herselfagainst Nurgyul Salimova. The choice of the Philidor'sby Salimova was probably in the name of unpredictability,she's been changing her openings pretty much every round,but her position was just bad. The key moment came whenLei played the obviously passive 16.Bd2 when 16.g6 or 16.Rg4would have been much better and the position was soon leveland the game finished in a draw by repetition.Humpy Koneru and Kateryna Lagno drew a Ragozinin 57 move. Koneru was pushing for some timeafter the opening but after 36.Rd1?! (36.Ra2)she dropped a pawn but the resulting rook and pawnendgame was still[…]
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Nepomniachtchi saves a difficult position against Firouzja and retains the lead of the Candidates with Gukesh after Round 9 - 9
The Week in Chess Apr 15, 2024 | 09:38 PThe ninth round of the FIDE Candidates in Toronto saw just the one decisive game when Santosh Viditbeat Hikaru Nakamura but the joint leader Ian Nepomniachtchi looked to be in trouble againstAlireza Firouzja. In the end Gukesh and Nepomniachtchi share the lead with 5.5/9 half a point clear of Praggnanandhaa.Hikaru Nakamura seemed to have moved into contention with his round 8 victory against Caruanabut went backwards again today by losing for the second time against Santosh Vidit. Nakamura'sRound 2 loss was an unmitigated disaster, this one he was just outplayed, twice. Nakamura was equalout of the opening, 20...Rc8 (20...Nf4=) was the start of a bad plan, 21.Ra3 c5? (21...Nf4 slight advantageto white was best) was really bad and white should have been a lot better, but only if Vidit found 22.Ng4.After 22.dxc4?! the position after 22...Nf5 was equal. Nakamura was fine again but soon went wrong 24.b4 Rc8?! (24...axb4=)and Vidit grabbed an important a-pawn.With 27...Nxe5? (27...Rcd8) Nakamura made what turned outto be the decisive error as Vidit played accurately until the end of the game giving no further chances at all.Alireza Firouzja put Ian Nepomniachtchi under great pressure. He chose a very slow doublefianchetto setup with white and managed to[…]
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Gukesh joins Nepomniachtchi in the lead after beating Vidit in Round 8 - 8
The Week in Chess Apr 14, 2024 | 12:36 PThe FIDE Candidates in Toronto is heating up nicely after eight rounds. Gukesh joined Ian Nepomniachtchiin the lead and Hikaru Nakamura moved into contention alongside Praggnanandhaa.Fabiano Caruana's loss to Nakamura took him back to 50% and is surely a major blow.Gukesh recovered from his loss in Round 7 with a win against SantoshVidit in a Two Knights with 4.d3. Superficially it mighthave seemed like it was Vidit who had the initiative afterthe opening, he was pushing pawns and making breaks, butGukesh had the a-file and white's position was deterioratingwith almost every move. Gukesh crashed in down the a-file, took a leftturn towards Vidit's King and checkmated it.Hikaru Nakamura beat Fabiano Caruana in 35 moves from a quiet Ruy LopezBerlin. You would scarcely believe it possible for a playerof Caruana's class to lose the position he had at move 24 butstarting with 24...Qg5?! (24...Re7 is to be preferred and the chosenmove turns out to be messy) it seemed like black was on the back footto the end. After 28...Nf8?! (28...Qd7 was better) black was in serioustrouble. 29...Qd8?! (29...Qd7) 30.h5 (30.Qf4 is better) 30...Bd7? (30...Qb6 wasnot so bad for black) left black lost and 33...b5? ended the game to a trivialtactic. According[…]
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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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Rubichess wins TCEC League 1 convincingly
The 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 […] -
Ronaldo and Messi playing chess #TweetOftheDay
FIFA 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 […] -
Nepo – Ding 2023, game 14 LIVE
Ian 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 […]