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Superbet Chess Classic - Grand Chess Tour 2021 starts today

05/06/2021 -

Tata Steel Chess 2021, FIDE Candidates and Gibraltar GP were the only three major over-the-boards that took place this year featuring world's elite players. One of the world's top event in the chess calendar Grand Chess Tour makes a return after almost a 1.5 year long hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2021 edition of this highly anticipated event will witness five tournaments in total - two classical and three rapid and blitz events. The first one will be Superbet Chess Classic as the name suggests, it is a classical event featuring Caruana, Aronian, Giri, Grischuk, So, Mamedyarov, Radjabov, Vachier-Lagrave, Bogdan-Daniel and Lupulusecu. Photo: Lennart Ootes/Grand Chess Tour

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FIDE extends the registration date of the Queens’ Festival

04/06/2021 -

The Global Women’s Online Chess Challenge “The Queens’ Festival”, a series of continental and global women’s online chess tournaments and educative side events, starts on June 11, 2021. Female players from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas will first be able to participate in the Continental Online Blitz Qualification Tournaments and those who qualify will advance to the Queens’ Online Individual and Team Finals. Organized by FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess in cooperation with FIDE Events Commission and with the support of the International Olympic Committee, the festival welcomes all women chess players from around the world of all ages and all rating groups, including unrated chess fans. Photo: FIDE

New: How to study the classics by Adrian Mikhalchishin

04/06/2021 -

Chess education is based on examples of great players of the past. Most of the typical methods of attack, analogous plans and correct ways of conducting different endgames happened for the first time in their games. On the basis of these games, numerous books have been written about endgame subjects and endgame technique. Even concerning openings, the great Alexander Alekhine said that theory is simply the practice of the masters! Learn more about how to study the classics from GM and FST Adrian Mikhalchisin. Photo: ChessBase

Humpy qualifies to the FIDE Women's Candidates 2022

03/06/2021 -

Koneru Humpy qualified to the FIDE Women's Candidates 2022 as she secured second place overall with 293 points in FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019-21. Humpy was unable to take part in the Gibraltar GP due to the travel restrictions owing to Covid-19 pandemic. Her next major over-the-board event is FIDE Women's World Cup in July this year. We all hope that things improve by then so that she can travel and take part in it. Kateryna Lagno finished overall third (280 points) in the entire GP. Thus she is the second player to qualify to Women's Candidates 2022 via this event. Photo: Amruta Mokal

Abhimanyu Mishra reaches 2496 Elo, needs one more GM norm

02/06/2021 -

Abhimanyu Mishra reached Europe around mid April. From 14th of April to 31st of May, the boy has played 5 tournaments back to back! That's a total of 45 games in 47 days. Starting with an Elo of 2408, he has pumped it up to 2496. In the process he also scored his two GM norms! The Corona virus scare is real, the pressure of Karjakin's youngest GM in the history of chess record is on his shoulders, yet nothing comes in between Abhimanyu and his will to play good chess. He won the Vezerkepzo-2 GM May event on tiebreaks. We give you an overview of the tournaments he has played in the last month and a half and the boy has sent us an annotated game that involves a smooth positional victory against a GM.

Abdumalik wins FIDE Gibraltar GP 8.0/10 with a round to spare

02/06/2021 -

Zhansaya Abdumalik drew her penultimate round game against Kateryna Lagno to secure her triumph in FIDE Gibraltar Women's GP. She now has an unassailable lead of 1.5 points at 8.0/10. Mariya Muzychuk is the closest contender who is at sole second place 6.5/10 after beating Gunina in Round 10. Mariya needs to win the final round to keep her chances of qualifying to the Women's Candidates. It will also depend upon how other players fare as the final standings will give a clear idea whether Humpy will qualify to the Women's Candidates via the Women's Grand Prix. Abdumalik faces Anna Muzychuk in the final round of the event. Photo: John Saunders/FIDE

P. Iniyan's road from Erode to Sochi

01/06/2021 -

P. Iniyan, born in 2002, is just 18 years old. But the youngster from Erode is already taking massive steps in consolidating himself as one of the top grandmasters in the country. At the recently concluded AICF World Cup qualifier, the youngster scored 12.5/16 and won the tournament. Iniyan will now represent the country at the World Cup to be held in Sochi in July 2021. How did Iniyan achieve this strength as a chess player in spite of his home-town having no chess culture, how did he build a strong team around himself and how is he pushing himself all the time even in the Covid-19 pandemic. We bring you a detailed profile on this youngster. Read on to know more.

Carlsen finally beats So in the Finals to win FTX Crypto Cup

01/06/2021 -

Magnus Carlsen broke his jinx and beat Wesley So in his third attempt to win the finals in a Meltwater Champions Chess Tour event. It was a huge relief for him to win the FTX Crypto Cup as he mentioned in the post-match interview. So stretched Carlsen to his limit as for the first time in this season these two played not only Blitz tie-breaks but also Armageddon to decide the winner of the event. It was a battle that everyone enjoyed including Carlsen whose celebration after each victory and especially the final one will be one for the ages. This is Carlsen's second consecutive tournament victory and one can only anticipate that he would like to do a hat-trick by winning the next event he plays. Photo: Champions Chess Tour

Unstoppable Abdumalik becomes Kazakhstan's first woman to earn a Grandmaster title

01/06/2021 -

Zhansaya Abdumalik became Kazakhstan's first woman to earn a Grandmaster title by defeating Gunina in Round 9 of FIDE Gibraltar Women's Grand Prix. She has extended her lead by two points 7.5/9 and she is the only undefeated player of the tournament so far. Three players are at 5.5/9 and they are - Mariya Muzychuk, Kateryna Lagno and Gunay Mammadzada. Mariya suffered her first defeat of the event against Kashlinskaya. It will be interesting to see if either Kateryna Lagno or Anna Muzychuk can halt Abdumalik's momentum in the final two rounds of the event. Photo: David Llada/FIDE

FTX Crypto Cup Finals Day 1: Carlsen-So put up a good fight while Radjabov draws the ire

31/05/2021 -

Magnus Carlsen despite feeling unwell managed to beat Wesley So in the first game of the first set of Finals in Meltwater Champions Chess Tour FTX Crypto Cup. They drew the next game and then So leveled the score by beating Carlsen, before they drew again to tie the first set 2-2. However Radjabov drew the ire of the chess universe after making four consecutive short draws and then making a cryptic tweet that most of his colleagues got the point and implied that amateurs did not. It would be interesting to know what the point was. Will So beat Carlsen for the third time in this season or will Carlsen win his second straight tournament of the year. Second set of Finals start tonight from 8:30 p.m. IST.

Gibraltar GP R8: Mammadzada beats Lagno

31/05/2021 -

Zhansaya Abdumalik has no intentions of slowing down as she beat Kashlinskaya in Round 8 of FIDE Gibraltar Women's GP to extend her sole lead by a full point 6.5/8. Both Mariya Muzychuk and Gunay Mammadzada are at shared second place with 5.5/8. Mariya drew with Dzagnidze, while Mammadzada beat Lagno convincingly ending her unbeaten run in the tournament. Paehtz drew with Anna Muzychuk to move to shared fourth place with Lagno 4.5/8. Round 9 starts today at 6:30 p.m. IST. With only three rounds left, it will be interesting to see if anyone can stop Abdumalik. Photo: David Llada/FIDE

Iniyan wins AICF World Cup Qualifier and qualifies to the FIDE World Cup 2021

30/05/2021 -

GM Iniyan P started AICF World Cup Qualifier with a draw against GM Sethuraman and that was his sole draw of the event. His aim was to play well and not to lose games and that is exactly what he did. He scored 12 wins and suffered only 3 losses. The most important win of the tournament turned out to be against Gukesh as he had all the momentum with him to cross the finish line. Iniyan will play the biggest FIDE World Cup in history which will have the highest number of participants 206, starting on 10th July 2021.

FTX Crypto Cup SF Day 2: Carlsen vs So III in the Finals

30/05/2021 -

In the era of online tournaments since last year, apart from Nakamura, Carlsen's only other nemesis has been Wesley So. He has already beaten Carlsen twice in two different Meltwater Champions Chess Tour finals - Skilling Open and Opera Euro Rapid. So is undefeated for 29 games he played in this event whereas Carlsen has lost six games in total against - Vachier-Lagrave, Aronian, Nakamura and Radjabov. Can So beat Carlsen for the third time in a Meltwater Champions Chess Tour event Finals or will Carlsen break another jinx and win his second tournament in-a-row after winning New in Chess Classic last month? Finals start tonight from 8:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Lennart Ootes/Altibox Norway Chess

Gibraltar GP R7: Abdumalik regains sole lead 5.5/7

30/05/2021 -

Zhansaya Abdumalik seems to have made the most out of the rest day as she beat Nana Dzagnidze to regain the lead with 5.5/7 in FIDE Gibraltar Women's Grand Prix. Mariya Muzychuk drew with Stefanova after the latter escaped with a perpetual check in a difficult position to salvage a draw. Mariya is now at sole second position with 5.0/7. Both Kateryna Lagno and Gunay Mammadzada are at shared third place 4.5/7 each respectively. Dinara Saduakassova scored her first victory of the event against Anna Muzychuk. Round 8 starts today at 6:30 p.m. IST. Photo: John Saunders/FIDE

AICF World Cup Qualifier R12-14: Iniyan takes sole lead 10.5/14

29/05/2021 -

GM Iniyan P ended the previous day's co-leader GM Gukesh D's unbeaten streak at the AICF World Cup Qualifier. Iniyan scored his most important victory of the event so far in Round 14 to take sole lead 10.5/14. He still has to overcome the challenge of the in-form IM Rithvik Raja R, IM P Saravana Krishnan and GM Deep Sengupta on the final day to earn a place in the upcoming FIDE World Cup 2021. Gukesh is just a half point behind the leader 10.0/14. He still has a very good chance to finish at the top. IM Raja Rithvik R, GM Sethuraman SP and GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly is at sole third, fourth and fifth place with 9.5/14, 9.0/14 and 8.0/14 respectively. Catch the live commentary of the last three rounds by IM Sagar Shah on ChessBase India youtube channel tomorrow from 11:15 a.m. IST.

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