The Prague contest When the FIDE Candidates’ Tournament concluded with the phenomenal victory of 17-year-old Gukesh, there was ...

Distant Opposition The great chess player and theoretician, P. A. Romanovsky, offered a simple definition: ‘Opposition is the ...

With a little help from my friends I thought that this time I’d look at some miscellaneous action from last month, starting with ...

Opening videos Felix Blohberger: French Defence 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Nce2 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Nf3 Be7 8.a3 0–0 9.Nf4 ...

Round 2 The tournaments are 6-player double round-robins. Each confrontation consists of a classical game, and a potential ...

The first repeat champion? Middlegame Secrets Vol.1 + Vol.2Let us learn together how to find the best spot for the queen in the ...

Hans Niemann (USA) facing Olympiad Gold medallist Jakhongir Vakhidov (UZB) In the second game you might want to find the ...

The 7th Sharjah Masters-Challengers-Futures (three sections as per rating) annual event of the Sharjah Emirate, United Arab ...

Rounds 1-3 Four top grandmasters — Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand and Bassem Amin — test the new Casablanca ...

The 7th Sharjah Masters-Challengers-Futures (three sections as per rating) annual event of the Sharjah Emirate, United Arab ...