[ad_1] GM Nihal Sarin edged out GM Anish Giri in a tiebreak playoff in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday. The two tenacious grandmasters created one brilliancy after another as they grappled for a spot in the quarterfinals. GMs Wesley So and Nodirbek Abdusattorov face off in the next round of 16 match on December […]
Read More[ad_1] The FIDE Women’s Candidates semifinal match between GM Aleksandra Goryachkina and GM Tan Zhongyi started with two fighting draws. Especially the first game was a long battle, where Tan had some winning chances. The third game is scheduled for 2 a.m. Pacific / 11:00 CET on Friday, December 9. How to watch?You can watch the […]
Read More[ad_1] GMs Raunak Sadhwani and Jeffery Xiong won Titled Tuesday on December 6. Both scored 9.5 points and won on tiebreaks. It was Sadhwani’s first Titled Tuesday win of 2022 and Xiong’s fifth. Early Tournament The key game of the early tournament was played between Sadhwani and GM Alexandr Predke in the eighth round. Predke […]
Read More[ad_1] GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Gukesh D in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Tuesday. Though Carlsen was off his usual form and overlooked a number of tactics, he defeated his prodigy opponent by such a wide margin that he had essentially won the match before the bullet segment even began. GMs Nihal Sarin and […]
Read More[ad_1] Wearing a face mask during a game of chess decreases the quality of chess players’ decisions, an effect that is relatively short and mostly hurts strong players. This is the conclusion of a study about the effect of masks on cognitive performance by behavioral and development economist GM David Smerdon. For his study, published […]
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Read More[ad_1] GM Arjun Erigaisi captured the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz with a round to spare, while IM Vaishali Rameshbabu caught up with the overnight leader, GM Mariya Muzychuk, and outpaced her in the final rounds to win the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Women’s Blitz. The battle for the title in the […]
Read More[ad_1] GM Tan Zhongyi defeated GM Kateryna Lagno in Sunday’s tiebreak of their FIDE Women’s Candidates Tournament quarterfinal. Tan won the first of four rapid games, after which the remaining three ended in draws. The 31-year-old Chinese GM will now face GM Aleksandra Goryachkina in the semifinal, which starts at 2 a.m. Pacific / 11:00 CET […]
Read More[ad_1] GM Arjun Erigaisi shot into the lead with 6.5 points from nine rounds after the first day of the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz, while GM Mariya Muzychuk scored an impressive eight points from nine rounds to lead the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Women’s Blitz. Erigaisi is followed by GM Shakhriyar […]
Read More[ad_1] GM Aleksandra Goryachkina eliminated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk from the 2022-23 FIDE Women’s Candidates Tournament by securing a draw in the fourth game from a better position. After four draws, the match between GM Tan Zhongyi and GM Kateryna Lagno will be decided in a tiebreak starting at 2 a.m. Pacific / 11:00 CET on […]
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