Chess Blog

German Bundesliga 2019-2020 - Games and Results 13/10/2021
The German Bundesliga was due to place 23rd November 2019 to 2nd May 2020. The Coronavirus caused havoc and although a limited final event took place in 2020 the league season will now be completed in Berlin 13th to 17th October. There is a single round 13 match on the 13th - Rounds 9 and […]
Mark Crowther
US Chess Championships 2021 - Games and Results 06/10/2021
The US Chess Championships take place in Saint Louis Tue 5th Oct to Tue 19th Oct 2021. Men's Championship: Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Sam Shankland, Jeffery Xiong, Ray Robson, Samuel Sevian, Dariusz Swiercz, Lazaro Bruzon Batista, Daniel Naroditsky, Aleksandr Lenderman andJohn M Burke. Nakamura explained his absence as wanting to focus completely […]
Mark Crowther
Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Final 2021 - Games and Results 24/09/2021
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Final takes place on Chess24 24th September to 4th October 2021. The culmination of the online chess tour that started with the Skilling Open in November last year. The event is a 10 player single round robin where the points come from 4 game rapid mini-matches. There are three points […]
Mark Crowther
TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament 2021 - Games and Results 22/09/2021
The TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament takes place Thu 23rd to Wed 29th September 2021 in Malmo Sweden. This is the 26th edition of the tournament. The event was postponed from earlier in the year due to the coronavirus. Players: Jorden Van Foreest, Gawain Jones, Nils Grandelius, Etienne Bacrot, Nihal Sarin, Nigel Short, Vincent […]
Mark Crowther
36th European Club Cup 2021 - Games and Results 17/09/2021
The 36th European Club Cup takes place in Struga, North Macedonia 18th-24th September 2021. World Champion Magnus Carlsen, Alexander Grischuk, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov are the top players. The women's event is in the same town but different venue.
Mark Crowther
9th EY Norway Chess 2021 - Games and Results 17/09/2021
The 9th Norway Chess tournament, this year sponsored by EY, took place 7th to 17th September. As in the last edition an Armageddon game was played if the main classical game is drawn. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Richard Rapport, Sergey Karjakin, Alireza Firouzja and Aryan Tari. The event was a 6 player 10 round […]
Mark Crowther

ECF

British Junior Rapid & Blitz – call for arbiters 22/10/2021
The British Junior Rapid & Blitz is taking place on 13th-14th November in Milton Keynes. If you would like to be an arbiter at this...
WebAdmin
AGM Card Votes results (updated 19/10/21) 18/10/2021
The detailed results for the card votes on the Report of the Non-Executive Directors and the Report of the Governance Committee can be found here
WebAdmin
Staff leave / office hours 25/10 – 29/10/21 18/10/2021
Owing to staff leave during the half-term break, the office phones will only be manned between 0930 and 1330 Monday to Thursday next week (25th...
WebAdmin
ECF AGM Election Results 18/10/2021
At the recent AGM it was not possible to announce the results of the elections due to shortness of time and also because of considerable...
WebAdmin
England at the European Youth Hybrid Championship 15/10/2021
From the 15th – 21st October 2021. Follow the results here – http://chess-results.com/tnr582081.aspx?lan=1&art=25&fedb=ENG&turdet=YES&flag=30 Pictures by Matthew Carr Name Group George Zhao U8 Open Kushal Jakhria...
WebAdmin
British Chess Championships 2021 14/10/2021
WebAdmin

Chessbase

A review: The Saemisch Variation by Jan Werle 23/10/2021
The Saemisch Variation is a very stable response to the King’s Indian Defence. And the Benoni can also be answered with the same setup and the same underlying ideas. Jan Werle presents the white setup thoroughly on his DVD. Philipp Hillebrand has looked at the FritzTrainer just as thoroughly!
Icelandic isolani 23/10/2021
In the diagram position White's knight is about to occupy the blockade square in front of the pawn d5. How would you react with Black?
DuoBeniaján wins Spanish Team Championship 22/10/2021
The Spanish Team Chess Championship ‘División de Honor’ took place on October 11-17 in Toledo. DuoBeniaján, a team from Murcia headed by David Antón and Parham Maghsoodloo, got first place after obtaining 12/14 match points in the 8-team single round robin. Bosch Serinsys (Anton Korobov, Alexei Shirov) and Andreu Paterna (Paco Vallejo, David Howell) finished […]
Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Tactics 22/10/2021
In this week’s show, GM Daniel King, looks at tactical positions from the recent Bundesliga rounds. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.
Were Tal, Korchnoi and Geller 2200 rated players? 22/10/2021
This was the question that a friend, grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky, posed after being inquired about a comment by another grandmaster. It was meant as irony, but was the logical result of a series of questions and comments that led to him posing this. He had explained with hard data how one could even ask this. […]
Mongolian team wins Online Chess Championship for prisoners 22/10/2021
Team Mongolia became the winner of the first Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners after defeating Team Zimbabwe in the final of the biggest ever chess event among correctional facilities. In the women’s section, the Georgian team won all three matches and finished in clear first place.

lichess.org

Announcing the Personal Opening Explorer 23/10/2021
Indexing RandomMoverBot ...We’re pleased to announce the general release of the new personal opening explorer. It has long been one of the most popular feature requests - and for good reason: being able to investigate your personal strengths and weaknesses in various lines and openings is really useful for learning! Through the analysis board you […]
@Lichess
FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Will Proceed Despite Lockdown in Latvia 22/10/2021
FIDE announced on Thursday that the Grand Swiss and Women’s Grand Swiss tournaments will proceed as planned despite a strict lockdown order from the host country of Latvia. The Lockdown order includes shutting down all schools, stores and other places where people might gather. Between the hours of 20:00 and 05:00 all people are required […]
@NoJoke
IM Minh Le Wins October Bullet Titled Arena 18/10/2021
The October Lichess Bullet Titled Arena was won on Saturday by IM Minh Le from Vietnam. A very solid performance put him 9 points clear of US Grandmaster Andrew Tang, who is a legend for his bullet and hyper bullet speed. In the end, Tang was just one point ahead of former European Blitz champion […]
@Kingscrusher-YouTube
Anonymous IM Wins Titled Arena in Climactic Final Game 04/10/2021
The October Lichess Chess960 Titled Arena was won on Saturday by anonymous IM "Mlchael". They were only 2 points ahead of GM Rasmus Svane in 2nd, and 3 points ahead of GM Nihal Sarin in 3rd. Sarin started the 3 hour event 2 hours late and still almost won it by amassing an incredible score. […]
@NoJoke
FIDE Picks Breast Implants as a Sponsor for Women's Chess 30/09/2021
Last year, the FIDE Council decided that 2022 would be the “Year of Women in Chess”. And a few months before this banner year, they announced their sponsorship deal with a “global medical technology company” - words carefully chosen, presumably, so as not to have to type out the words “a company specialising in breast […]
@Lichess
Sparrow Chess Catches Streamers Team Battle Victory 22/09/2021
The September edition of the Streamers Team Battle with all of Lichess' top streamers ended the day before yesterday with a surprising and close victory for the Spanish team Sparrow Chess with 1106 team points and its 167 team players. For every team, the best 20 player results of each team counted for the final […]
@Jeffforever

Chess24

Vitiugov and Gunina win Russian Championship titles 21/10/2021
Nikita Vitiugov has won the Russian Championship Superfinal at his 15th attempt, after playing in all but one event since he made his debut as a 19-year-old in 2006. Nikita scored an unbeaten +3 to finish half a point above Maxim Matlakov in 2nd place and a point ahead of Vladimir Fedoseev and Dmitry Andreikin […]
Wesley So wins his 3rd US Chess Championship 20/10/2021
Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana and Sam Sevian in rapid playoffs to win the 2021 US Chess Championship, becoming the first player to defend the title since Gata Kamsky in 2014. “I think Fabi should have won today considering how well he played,” said Wesley, but despite getting into a close to lost position against […]
US Chess Champs 11: Caruana miss means 3-way playoff 19/10/2021
Quick draws for Wesley So and Sam Sevian meant that Fabiano Caruana could complete a fairytale US Chess Championship comeback if he beat Sam Shankland in the final round. When Sam gave up his queen based on what he later admitted was a miscalculation glory beckoned for Fabi, but in the end he had to […]
US Chess Champs 10: Carissa triumphs | Fabi hits the front 18/10/2021
18-year-old Carissa Yip has won her first US Women’s Chess Championship, with a round to spare, after scoring a 5th win in row while Irina Krush was held to a draw. The Open event sees six players go into the final round with a chance of clinching the title, with Fabiano Caruana suddenly leading alongside […]
Praggnanandhaa wins Challengers Chess Tour with stunning 8.5/9 17/10/2021
16-year-old Indian prodigy Praggnanandhaa was in supreme form as he defeated Christopher Yoo 3:0 to win the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour, taking the top prize of $12,500 and earning a regular spot on the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. 14-year-old Christopher Yoo took the $7,500 second prize and impressed by making each game of […]
US Chess Champs 8-9: Caruana back in the hunt 17/10/2021
Fabiano Caruana moved to within just half a point of the leaders with two rounds of the US Chess Championships to go after defeating Dariusz Swiercz in Round 9, while his key rivals only drew. Wesley So missed a great chance to take the sole lead by beating Daniel Naroditsky, while Leinier Dominguez was a […]

thechessworld

Thinking in Chess: 7 Must-Know Tips 21/10/2021
Thinking in Chess is something not very well covered in the chess literature. There are plenty of materials on the openings, tactics, and endgames. Yet, when it comes to something as fundamental as chess thinking there is a huge gap. In today’s article, I will cover the seven must-know tips when it comes to thinking […]
Yury Markushin
Sicilian Dragon: Complete Guide 14/10/2021
The Dragon variation of the Sicilian Defence is one of the most complex lines of this opening. Black aims for a sharp, aggressive play and puts white under pressure right from the start. It is a line full of tactical ideas, perfect for those who want to play for a win with the black pieces. […]
Jesus Gonzalez
How to Learn Chess Openings: The Complete Guide 12/10/2021
How to learn chess opening? One important step in improving your level as a chess player is having a solid, well-developed opening repertoire that stands the test of time. You shouldn’t have to change your repertoire often, but rather improve and update the lines you already have. A good repertoire will help you get good, […]
Jesus Gonzalez
How to Calculate in Chess: Complete Guide 08/10/2021
How to calculate in chess? First, let me ask you… How many chess positions can possibly arise on the board? Well, let’s count. White can choose between 20 first moves. Black can reply in 20 different ways too. This already creates 400 possible positions. White’s next turn can increase this number approximately up to 8 000. […]
Yury Markushin
Slav Defense Exchange Variation with GM Sipke Ernst [TCW Academy] 04/10/2021
Dutch GM Sipke Ernst will teach you how to win with the Exchange Slav. Many chess players tend to underestimate the Exchange version of Slav. They believe, quite incorrectly, that Exchange Slav is very drawish and has no winning ambitions whatsoever. Although there are some lines that lead to “safe positions” if white chooses to… […]
Yury Markushin
Top 10 Differences Between Club Players’ and Grandmasters’ Thinking 01/10/2021
Chess is a complex game that requires a good memory, creativity, patience, and many other qualities. Perhaps, the main demand is the ability to think. For some reason, most of the players never really work on improving their thought processes. Instead, they spend all their time studying openings and solving puzzles. It is still a […]
Yury Markushin

About/FAQs … Proudly powered by WordPress