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The 1st Salem International FIDE rated open was held at Mahendra College of Engineering, Salem from 26-29th January 2017 and attracted a massive total of 715 participants! A curious case in Indian tournaments is the rating anomaly. A player who beats 2300s in norm events struggles against a 1500 in a tournament in Tamil Nadu. Nitin Pai explains...
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What's your favourite book of chess? This question is asked many a times and every chess player has a book that is close to his heart. Usually it's a book that one has read in childhood and has ignited the love for the game. In case of IM Sagar Shah it was the 62 most instructive games of chess ever played by Irving Chernev. In this article he speaks about what he loved about the book and also annotates his favourite game, which, to be frank, is some sort of a fairy tale!
The 2017 edition of the best Open in the world was all set for a mouth-watering finale, with as many as 9 contenders for the 23000 pounds first prize. Young David Anton Guijarro is the greatest of Spanish hopes these days and was leading the tournament. But among the players pursuing him, there was one particular face who has made winning at the Rock a habit. Hikaru Nakamura!
PSPB teams are not participating in this year's National Teams 2017. But this does not reduce the excitement. In the open section we have four teams vying for the top spot: AAI, Railways A and B, and Air India. It will be a close finish as AAI and Railways A are really well matched. In the women's section Air India is a clear favourite, but the young team from AAI would be looking to stage an upset. We have a huge pictorial report sent to us from the venue by Gopakumar Sudhakaran. Enjoy!
In a curious case at Gibraltar Masters, women's world champion Hou Yifan resigned in a mere 5 moves, breaking the record previously held by Viswanathan Anand for the shortest loss by a grandmaster. We tell you all about why the strongest female player in the world did this and what his opponent Lalith Babu had to say!
Sethuraman was left kicking himself after the royal miss against the legendary Michael Adams. Had he won, he would have rocketed into a contention for a superb finish. Lalith Babu managed to hold Arkadij Naiditsch to a draw. Find out how the Indians fared in our illustrated report.
When you play the game of chess, you would like to win. Isn't it the reason why we indulge in the sport? But, after a while, the result becomes so important that we tend to forget about the enjoyment of simply playing chess. In this article, the author presents a fun and refreshing viewpoint on the positive side of losing in chess! "Losing is fun when you have lovely people around and a free mind to accept the challenge", says the 11-year-old Avathanshu Bhat.
New York City 1995, Tehran 2000, Mexico City 2007, Bonn 2008, Sofia 2010, Moscow 2012, Chennai 2013, Sochi 2014 — these are the World Chess Championships that Viswanathan Anand has fought in his career. And he has won five of them. With his numerous tournament successes, he has put chess in India's map, and India on the world map. SHRINJAN RAJKUMAR investigates why Anand should be conferred with the Bharat Ratna in his latest blog for The Huffington Post.
Going into the eighth and the antepenultimate round of the Gibraltar Masters, G.N. Gopal, S.P. Sethuraman, Debashis Das, and Lalith Babu looked in serious contention for a top-ten finish. Also, don't forget to check out birthday girl Ju Wenjun's historic effort. Find out how the Indians fared in our Illustrated report.
Dutch Stonewall is an underrated opening. Players with the white pieces who play 1.d4 usually do not devote much time to studying the best way to deal with it. It's a positionally dubious system, is what they think. However, the Dutch grandmaster Erwin L'Ami has come out with a ChessBase DVD that will change your opinion about the Stonewall. L'Ami calls it a perfect weapon for a fighting game of chess. IM Sagar Shah, a firm adherent of 1.d4 in his chess career, presents his findings.
The ChessBase Account is a useful tool for every chess player, whether solving tactics, analysing games, preparing against the next opponent or playing chess online. To show you everything we will be live on air with a Q&A on Youtube on January 31. Join us at 9 p.m. IST (4.30 CET) to ask Matthias Wüllenweber, the developer of the web apps and creator of the ChessBase program, any questions you might have and let us show you how to get the most out of ChessBase Account.
As the tournament came to a halfway, Indians are facing ups and downs at the Gibraltar Masters. Well, more downs and ups, in fact. While India's key players GM Abhijeet Gupta and GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly are struggling to find their rhythm, GM SP Sethuraman, GM Debashis Das, and GM Lalith Babu continue to offer hope. Illustrated Report.
Wesley So did it again! After winning the London Chess Classic last month, the American has won his second super tournament in succession by winning the TATA Steel tourney. Wesley is now undefeated since 56 games! But the hero for India was Adhiban Baskaran who tore Richard Rapport apart to finish third! Analysis, Pictures, Videos, more, in our Illustrated Report.
The biggest chess open in the world currently, the Gibraltar Masters, has reached the halfway mark. After four rounds of play, GM Ju Wenjun and ACP President, GM Emil Sutovsky were leading the tournament with a perfect score of 4.0/4. Their game ended in a tame draw. However, this was compensated by scintillating wins by Nakamura, Caruana and Topalov. For Indians Lalith Babu drew his game against Ivanchuk and Abhijeet Gupta has now scored four consecutive wins. We bring you an illustrated round five report.
B. Adhiban has shown absolutely no respect for current status of opening theory at the Tata Steel Masters 2017. This approach is entirely viable is proved by his +1 score at the end of twelve rounds. It is almost as if he wants original positions that have been never played before. In order to give a tribute to this wonderful performance by the Indian grandmaster, ChessBase India has organized an online chess960 blitz event that will take place at 6 p.m. IST on 29th of January. Some exciting prizes to be won from the comforts of your home!
