Almost eight years ago, it was with deep chagrin that we announced the demise of the decades-old chess column in the New York Times.
It is with pleasure that we can trumpet its resurrection at the hands of
@GmNaroditsky
!
Vladimir Kramnik was interviewed by
@theworldchess
in Berlin:
“I’m not trying to be polite, but I don’t consider myself on the same level. I’m good, of course, very good, but I’m not Kasparov, not Carlsen, and also not Vishy Anand.”
Chess is an integral part of the lives of Pia Cramling and her daughter Anna. While Pia has been one of the world's best women players for decades,
@AnnaCramling
has become a successful
#chess
streamer!
An interview by
@tatianafloreswr
.
The traditional TePe Sigeman & Co tournament will take place in Malmö on April 24-30. Eight players will battle it out in a single round robin with a classical time control. Most notably, 69-year-old Anatoly Karpov will be participating!
#chess
Congratulations to Ding Liren on becoming the 17th undisputed world
#chess
champion!
Ian Nepomniachtchi was a brilliant opponent.
Ding thanked his family and friends, and noted: “It’s not so important to become the champion”.
📸 Stev Bonhage
Report:
Just a week after winning the Silver Lake Open (with 8/9 points!),
@NihalSarin
got clear first place at the strong Serbia Open!
The 16-year-old Indian prodigy had a 2786 TPR (currently ranked 88 in the world, with 2655 Elo points)!
- Full report -
Congratulations to
@NihalSarin
on winning the Silver Lake Open with a convincing 8/9 and a rating performance of 2809!
His compatriots Raunak Sadhwani and Abhimanyu Puranik won silver and bronze.
#India
Congratulations to Wei Yi on winning the
#TataSteelChess
Masters in Wijk aan Zee!
Wei won a 4-player blitz tiebreak including Gukesh, Abdusattorov and Giri.
Leon Luke Mendonca ws the outright winner of the Challengers!
📸 Lennart Ootes
Report:
Rustam Kasimdzhanov recently resigned as Fabiano Caruana’s coach. In an interview with André Schulz, he talks about the pandemic, their best years, the World Championship match in London, and much more.
“It’s strange. It’s like a divorce.”
Vladimir Kramnik breaks his silence on the war:
“I am against all wars a priori, without exception, but I do not see much point in publicly expressing this obvious idea. Except to seek public applause”.
On a memorable day for Indian chess, Vidit Gujrathi and Vaishali Rameshbabu claimed outright victories at the
#FIDEGrandSwiss
!
Hikaru Nakamura and Tan Zhongyi claimed the remaining two spots in the Candidates and Women’s Candidates.
Congrats!
Report:
What is
@vishy64theking
's secret? He is the current Rapid World Champion and now won the very strong rapid tournament of the Tal Memoril in Moscow.
@sagarchess1
takes a closer look:
Four excellent reads to celebrate
#InternationalChessDay
1. The game that shook the world: A 13-year-old boy played 17...Be6!!, sacrificing his queen and entering his name in the history books: Robert James Fischer, known to the world as “Bobby”.
It is with great sorrow that we inform of the death of Pal Benko (91). The renowned grandmaster and composer of endgame studies was a loyal friend who provided us with countless articles over the last ten years.
A look back at a revealing profile of Bobby Fischer. Three months prior to his "Match of the Century" against Boris Spassky, Fischer looks as confident as can be, not fearing to call himself the best chess player in the world.
#Chess
#History
Today,
@ChessbaseIndia
CEO Sagar Shah wants to touch on a subject that has been playing around on his mind.
Is
#chess
levitating towards shorter time formats. Are sponsors driving this trend? And will classical chess be abandoned?
Alexei Shirov has been proclaimed the winner of the Gazprom Brilliancy Prize, a special trophy awarded by the General Partner of the Online Chess Olympiad. Check out all nine games that received votes!
@FIDE_chess
#chess
Sixty years ago, the 14th Chess Olympiad began in Leipzig. It was a great international festival with the best players in the world. For many, it was an unforgettable experience. Dagobert Kohlmeyer spoke with some of the witnesses.
#chess
#history
Ten years and a day ago, Viktor Korchnoi played
@FabianoCaruana
in Gibraltar with the black pieces. At 79, 'Viktor the Terrible' defeated the rising star in attacking style!
#chess
Armenia honours its World Chess Champion Tigran Petrosian with a banknote. The likeness of the 9th World Chess Champion graces the new 2000 dram which has recently been issued for the first time in the country, as part of a new series of notes.
#ChessBase
The International Chess Federation (
@FIDE_chess
) will hold an online conference dubbed “Chess for Freedom” on May 11th at 15:30 CET. The conference will present a newly launched project focused on introducing
#chess
to prisons.
Today is the birthday of Louis Charles de la Bourdonnais, one of the strongest players of the 19th century. In his most famous game he showed what passed pawns can do. And here's how to share such - and other - games on Social Media.
"The chess world isn't a safe place for us," says popular chess streamer
@lularobs
.
Jamaal S. Abdul-Alim(
@dcwriter360
), 2013 Chess Journalist of the Year, explains "why chess tournaments can be hostile for women and girls".
If you want to compare
#chess
achievements between men and women, writes Prof. Wei Ji Ma of
@nyuniversity
, it is a very bad idea to focus on the top male and female players. Prof. Ma supplies the tools needed to refute the theory of female inferiority.
Congratulations to Anna Zatonskih on winning the very strong
#CairnsCup
with one round to spare!
Zatonskih: “This is the best achievement in my chess career, definitely. I was trying to prove that age is just a number.”
📸 Bryan Adams
Round 8 report:
"Grandmaster Chess" is a series by
@ChessbaseIndia
in which a top GM shows his best game and asks four chess loving stand-up comedians to guess the moves in critical positions. For the 6th episode, legendary GM Boris Gelfand will be joining in.
#Chess
Vishy Anand dubbed it the “Ian curse”, as Ian Nepomniachtchi collapsed in game 12 of the World
#Chess
Championship match.
The score is tied with two games to go. Ding Liren confessed afterwards: “I did not feel emotional”.
📸Stev Bonhage
Game 12 report:
In this interview from 1932 by
@abc_es
, third world chess champion José Raúl Capablanca talks about Alekhine's alleged unwillingness to face him, the best players in the world, money in chess, and the importance of learning the game as a child.
#interview
Magnus Carlsen now has a 2-point lead at the World
#Chess
Championship match in Dubai, after beating Ian Nepomniachtchi in Sunday’s game 8!
Nepo made a couple of inexplicable mistakes in the crucial encounter. Full report, with analysis by
@anishgiri
.
12-year-old grandmaster Abhimanyu (“Abhi”) Mishra from New Jersey is the youngest grandmaster in history!
He has earned the title at the age of 12 years, 4 months, and 25 days, which is 66 days sooner than Sergey Karjakin in 2002.
Congratulations!
Happy birthday to 12th world champion Anatoly Karpov! The living legend was interviewed by
@TaniaSachdev
earlier this year in Gibraltar, with his strength of character and love for the sport in clear display.
#chess
#OnThisDay
It is the story that refuses to die, and with the renewed silent protest by Magnus Carlsen it is little wonder too.
Professor Kenneth Regan has analysed all of Hans Niemann's games over the last two years, online and offline, and renders his verdict.
Ju Wenjun defends her title by winning both 10+10 games after drawing the first two rapid encounters. This was the first time a player defended her title in a knockout tournament.
#ChessBase
@sinachess
@ugrachess
Karpov on his biggest pleasure in life: An epic interview from
@davidllada
in which the 12th World Champion reflects on his youth and early training, travelling abroad, memories of his peers, chess politics and much more:
#ChessBase
@ruchess_eng
Daniil Dubov is the
@FIDE_chess
2018 World Rapid Championship with an undefeated 11/15, which he agrees was the most important win of his career so far.
#ChessBase
#wrbc2018
Ding Liren, after holding a draw from an inferior position against Ian Nepomniachtchi in game 1 of the World
#Chess
Championship match:
“My mind was very strange — memories, feelings, strange things happened.”
📸 Stev Bonhage
Game 1 report:
After convincingly beating Mamedyarov, Praggnanandhaa (
@rpragchess
) is leading the
#OsloEsportsCup
, ahead of Giri and Carlsen!
Check out his fine attacking win with the white pieces.
Pia Cramling, the Grande Dame of
#Chess
, is celebrating her 60th birthday. Heartfelt congratulations!
Eduard Frey, who was a spectator at the event where she made her final GM norm, presents fantastic facts from an unparalleled biography.
András Adorján passed away yesterday after a long illness. He was 73 years old.
Adorján reached the quarterfinals of the Candidates Matches in the 1979-81 World Championship cycle. As a coach, he worked with Garry Kasparov and Peter Leko, among others.
Congratulation to Daniil Dubov on winning the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge! The Russian defeated Hikaru Nakamura in Armageddon to clinch the title.
#HeritageChess
#Report
#Chess
Congratulations to
@GM_JKDuda
on reaching the final of the World Cup and getting a spot in the Candidates Tournament thanks to a victory over none other than world champion Magnus Carlsen!
The tension continues to rise at the World Championship match in Dubai!
A second consecutive action-packed draw was signed on Saturday. Carlsen won the opening battle, while Nepomniachtchi missed some winning chances in the middlegame. The fight is on!
The first Online Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities, organized by
@FIDE_chess
, kicked off today and will run until December 3, a day recognized by the
@UN
as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
#chess
Karpov-Korchnoi: 40 years after: On October 17th, 1978, a battle of nerves, which lasted over four months and 32 games, ended in Baguio City. Details, with photos & discussion of the new film, "Closing Gambit" with producer Alan Byron.
#ChessBase
Congratulations to
@DavidHowellGM
on winning the Hastings
#Chess
Congress with a commanding performance!
🥇 David Howell 9/11
🥈 Luke McShane 7½/11
🥉 Michael Adams 7/11
In the 60s and early 70s he was one of the strongest players in the world, his fighting spirit and optimism were legendary, but he was also entertaining and well-liked by his colleagues: the Danish grandmaster Bent Larsen. Vlastimil Hort shares memories:
For more than 40 years, Pia Cramling has regularly played in the Swedish
#Chess
Championships.
At 58, she is still going strong, as she is the sole leader of this year's edition after five rounds!
For many years, Luc Winants was Belgium’s top
#chess
player and at times the country’s only grandmaster. He represented his country in many Olympiads and remained undefeated in two of them.
Sadly, Luc Winants passed away yesterday, at the age of 60.
Congratulations to Magnus Carlsen on winning the Superbet Rapid & Blitz tournament in Poland!
Jan-Krzysztof Duda gave it all, but fell just short in a thrilling final game against the eventual champion.
📸 Lennart Ootes
Final report:
FIDE has announced in a press release the exact dates and the final field for the Women's Candidates Tournament in Kazan. Yifan Hou is not playing and Aleksandra Goryachkina will take her place.
#ChessBase
@FIDE_chess
@ruchess_eng
“Empowering people through chess, one move at a time,” is the educational mission of the US Chess Federation. A video shows how this looks in practice:
Ruslan
@Ponomariov
can pride himself on a long list of professional achievements, but he's perhaps best known for his victory at the 2002 FIDE World
#Chess
Championship, when, at 18, he defeated Vasyl Ivanchuk in the final of a gruelling event.
#Tbt
Congratulations to
@TaniAdewumi
, who grabbed his first IM norm at the New York Spring Invitational!
Once a refugee, the ever-smiling 11-year-old continues to climb the rating ladder.
The World Champion offered a draw in a playable — slightly superior — position to take the struggle to rapid tiebreaks on Wednesday, when four rapid games — and blitz if necessary — will determine the champion. Guest analysis by GM WESLEY SO and
@erwinlami
I first tweeted this jewel out on May 21, 2017 but, with the 2020 Candidates around the corner, it's worth revisiting: during the 1959 Candidates, Mikhail Tal pulled a 1...c6/1...c5 little stunt but 16-year-old Bobby Fischer kept a straight face. 😂
Anatoly Karpov was the guest of honour at the
#gibchess
Masters and was interviewed by
@TaniaSachdev
. The former world champion talked about Fischer, Korchnoi, Kasparov and the current world championship cycle. Not to be missed!
Did you know that your brain makes up just 2% of your body’s weight but accounts for 20% of its energy use?
During a
#chess
game you can burn a lot of calories by just thinking!
Ashwin Subramanian uses the latest monitoring data to analyse the process:
The Central Chess Club in Moscow is the most beautiful
#chess
club in the world. The edifice on Gogolevsky Boulevard has a long history and an even longer prehistory which offers a profound look into the society of pre-revolutionary
#Russia
.
Congratulations to Praggnanandhaa (
@rpragchess
) on winning the
#PolgarChallenge
for young stars!
Kramnik: "He reminds me so much of young Vishy. He’s very sharp, light, quick!"
1. Pragg 🇮🇳
2. Abdusattorov 🇺🇿, Gukesh 🇮🇳, Nihal 🇮🇳, Murzin 🇷🇺
The story of an immigrant: 130 years ago, April 14, 1889, Efim Bogoljubow, one of the strongest player in chess history, was born in Russia, but in 1920 he married a German and in 1927 he became a German citizen.
Jesús Medina Molina’s initiative to promote the placement of public
#chess
tables in open spaces has expanded in the Netherlands. Tables in The Hague, Dordrecht and Groningen were recently inaugurated!
@jmedinamolina
Sam Shankland is on a roll. He added to his recent U.S. Championship triumph by dominating the annual Capablanca Memorial in Havana, Cuba from start to finish. Alex Yermolinsky offers his take. | Photo
@LennartOotes
#ChessBase
Congratulations to Joel Benjamin on becoming the first player in history to win the U.S. Junior, U.S. Championship, and U.S. Senior!
#chess
@STLChessClub
Zachary Saine is
@thechessnerd
, a 22-year-old content creator.
Recently we sent him a copy of ChessBase 17 and Mega Database, and he used it to prepare for a game against a higher-rated opponent.
Here is Zach's video description of how the game went:
October 2020 will mark an extraordinary chapter in American
#chess
history, as due to the COVID-19 pandemic the
@STLChessClub
will host the 2020 US Chess Championships online for the first time.
Kateryna Lagno and Daniil Dubov have taken the lead at the women's and open sections of the
@FIDE_chess
Steinitz Memorial respectively. Dubov's convincing win over Magnus Carlsen allowed him to leapfrog the world champion atop the standings table.
40 years ago, 1978, Karpov and Kortschnoi played a dramatic match for World Championship in Baguio City. After 32 games Karpov won 6-5, draws did not count. Now "Closing Gambit", a feature documentary, takes another look at this match.
In 1951 Botvinnik was the clear favourite in the World Championship match against David Bronstein. After 22 games, Bronstein was leading 11½-10½ and needed just one win to become World Champion. Did he miss a chance in game 23?
#chess
#history
The
@FIDE_chess
Online Cadet and Youth World Championships paid respect to a mostly forgotten tradition and awarded a brilliancy prize.
It was won by 16-year-old Indian prodigy
@NihalSarin
for an impressive game full of sacrifices and unexpected moves!
In his third column examining who is the best
#chess
player in history, Jon Speelman fast forwards to the present champion, Magnus Carlsen.
Speelman analyses three remarkable examples of the Norwegian's impressive use of the bishop pair. Unmissable!
Congratulations to Ukraine on winning the European Team
#Chess
Championship in Slovenia!
France got second place thanks to Alireza Firouzja’s astounding performance — the 18-year-old became the youngest ever player to cross the 2800-rating barrier!
In the 1930s, Bela Lugosi (
#Dracula
) and Boris Karloff (
#Frankenstein
) were the world's two most popular horror movie actors. In the film "The Black Cat" from 1934, Lugosi and Karloff played a sinister game of
#chess
against each other.
12-year-old Abhimanyu Mishra scored his 2nd GM norm at the First Saturday GM Round Robin. He is now 29 Elo points and one GM norm away from becoming the world's youngest grandmaster.
Abhi will play against ChessBase Premium Members tomorrow!
#chess
Magnus arrives
@STLChessClub
for Ultimate Move: The Sinquefields led their Grandmaster-packed teams in a fun exhibition match that was eventually won by Randy’s squad. Magnus Carlsen was already in the premises and was part of the winning team.
#ChessBase
12-year old Ukrainain chess talent Tykhon Cherniaiev was about to start a new show on ChessBase. But then Russia invaded Ukraine.
Fortunately, many
#chess
fans offered help and Tykhon and his family are now safely housed in a ChessBase flat in Hamburg.
Teimour Radjabov (
@rajachess
) is truly a leading expert in the King's Indian Defence, someone whose exploits have redefined the way it is handled in the uppermost echelons of contemporary
#chess
.
An interactive lesson.
Great news coming from Saint Louis!
The
@STLChessClub
has appointed Yasser Seirawan as its Chief Commentator and Spokesperson. Congratulations!
Press release:
Yesterday the saddest possible news hit us. Arianne was a strong WIM, but also a visionary, social worker, political advisor, MD, dancer, boxer, biker, and excelled at just about everything she did. Her death at the age of 33 comes as a huge shock.
Congratulations to Elina Danielian on becoming the 2021 European Women's Champion!
#chess
@ECUonline
🥇 Elina Danielian 🇦🇲
🥈 Iulija Osmak 🇺🇦
🥉 Oliwia Kiolbasa 🇵🇱
Savielly Tartakower was an elite master throughout his career. Although he never quite reached the
#chess
summit, he is remembered fondly as a colorful figure who enriched the game immensely.
We look back at his life and legacy!
.
@anishgiri
climbed to sole second place at the Candidates Tournament in Yekaterinburg thanks to a brilliant win over Ding Liren in round 11.
In a crucial face-off,
@FabianoCaruana
will have the white pieces against Giri in Saturday’s 12th round!
Yuri Averbakh, the oldest grandmaster in
#chess
history, turned 100 this month.
Accolades are still pouring in, but not many are aware that he has written his autobiography. Our columnist Nagesh Havanur takes a look.