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Nana Dzagnidze wins FIDE Lausanne GP 2020

14/03/2020 -

FIDE Lausanne GP final round was a short one as all games ended in draws in less than 33 moves. Nana Dzagnidze drew with Aleksandra Goryachkina in the final round to win the Lausanne GP 2020. Both players finished at 7.0/11. However, Dzagnidze won the championship due to a better tie-break score. Their GP points were split because of the same score finish. Last minute replacement, GP debutante IM Zhansaya Abdumalik scored an impressive 6.5/11 to finish at third place. Goryachkina currently leads the GP 2019-20 points table, Humpy is trailing behind her at the second position. Since Goryachkina has played all three events, Humpy still has one event to go, she can catch up and finish at the top of the table. Photo: FIDE

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Lausanne GP R10: Goryachkina beats Ju Wenjun

13/03/2020 -

Goryachkina faced Ju Wenjun in the penultimate round of Lausanne GP 2020 for the first time since their Women's World Championship Match in January. This time Goryachkina got the better of Ju as the latter blundered in an equal position. Dzagnidze made a comfortable draw with Kashlinskaya. She will face Goryachkina in the final round for the championship. IM Zhansaya Abdumalik continued her impressive run at the event by beating Pia Cramling. She is almost guaranteed a podium finish, a win in the last round means she will finish at second, while in that scenario a draw between Goryachkina and Dzagnidze will mean Abdumalik finishing shared first. Harika made a short draw with Anna Muzychuk. Photo: FIDE

Women's Day Special: LBHM One Day Rapid witnesses over 330 players participation

12/03/2020 -

On International Women's Day 8th March 2020, Aryan's Enterprises organized a one day state level rapid chess tournament in memory of Late Bharatbai Halkude. Over 330 players from all over Maharashtra participated in eight different categories, starting from Under-7 to Veteran (Above 55 years). Fourth seed of the tournament FM Aniruddha Deshpande scored an unbeaten 7.0/8 to win the Above 1600 category. FM Ramkrishna Kashelkar also finished with the same score 7.0/8. He was placed second according to the tie-breaks. FM Nikhil Dixit secured third position with a score of 6.0/8. Total Prize fund ₹100000 was distributed among the prize winners. Photo: Aryan's Enterprise

Lausanne GP R9: Nana Dzagnidze takes sole lead

12/03/2020 -

Nana Dzagnidze pulled out all the stops, rejected a threefold repetition draw offer and defeated the reigning Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun to claim sole lead in Lausanne GP with a score of 6.0/9. Goryachkina surprised everyone by making a quick draw by repeating her exact same moves which she did in Round 3 against Abdumalik. Thus Goryachkina lost her lead. Kosteniuk showed her grit by squeezing water out of stone against Pia Cramling and forcing her to make a mistake in another 5.5 hour long grueling battle. Mariya Muzychuk was unable to maintain her advantage against Abdumalik and drew her game. Harika-Kashlinskaya and Anna-Stefanova ended up in draws in exactly 31 moves. Photo: FIDE

The Queens of Problem Chess

11/03/2020 -

While over the years there has been a remarkable surge in the number of females participating in chess tournaments, the field of chess composition has remained woefully alien to the feminine touch. Nevertheless amidst the dearth there have always been inspiring exceptions. On the 8th of this month when the world observed the International Women's Day celebrating women achievements across diverse socio, economic, political, and cultural disciplines; our author, Satanick Mukhuty, took the opportunity to research some of the most influential female figures in chess composing.

NEW: Erwin l’Ami: The Benko Gambit Explained

11/03/2020 -

Erwin l’Ami explains the Benko Gambit! Through model games l’Ami explains all topical lines of the Benko Gambit, occasionally asking the viewer interactive questions that help the viewer to grasp the ideas behind this opening. Pal Benko described in his autobiography that his gambit was initially regarded as a joke by his peers, but practice has shown it to be a dangerous weapon which is easy to learn. Now you can learn all about Benko Gambit from super strong Dutch GM Erwin l'Ami who is also one of Anish Giri's seconds. Photo: ChessBase

Soham Datar wins 4th Young Masters Rapid Open 2020

11/03/2020 -

Third seeded Soham Datar scored 6.0/7 to win 4th Young Masters Rapid Open 2020. Top seed of the tournament Chinmay Kulkarni also finished with the same score 6.0/7. However, since he suffered a loss against Soham in the fourth round, Soham was declared the champion and Chinmay had to settle with the runner-up position. Winner of the third edition, Sriram Sarja was placed third with a score of 5.5/7. The tournament was organized by chess mothers of Pune city to celebrate International Women's day on 8th March 2020. Here is a pictorial report of the tournament. Photo: Ganga Pant

Lausanne GP R8: Dzagnidze gets back in the lead

11/03/2020 -

Reigning Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun scored her first win of the tournament when she defeated IM Alina Kashlinskaya after the latter made a thematic tactical error in QGD Ragozin Defence. Nana Dzagnidze got back in the lead along with Goryachkina as the Georgian defeated Marie Sebag easily. Mariya Muzychuk made sure Kosteniuk's woes continued as she lost her fifth game of the event after making a strategical mistake in the endgame. Harika suffered her second loss of the event as she reached into an inferior endgame against Stefanova. Zhansaya continued her impressive run as she made a short draw with Anna Muzychuk. Goryachkina had the longest game of the day with Pia Cramling as they played for over six hours and 129 moves before making a draw. Photo: FIDE

How to improve your online chess strength

10/03/2020 -

A lot of chess players spend quite a bit of their time every day playing online chess. The aim of playing online differs from person to person but it is clear that everyone wants to improve their rating and also their chess strength. Besides, with the Coronavirus spreading across the world, and tournaments getting cancelled, it seems wiser to spend more time playing online tournaments than offline ones! In this article GM Avetik Grigoryan from ChessMood talks to you about certain tricks that can help you boost your online chess Elo. His play nine game method, 15-minute breaks and the golden tip is sure to give you a new perspective next time you sit down to play online chess!

Fat Fritz 1.1 update and a small gift

10/03/2020 -

As promised in the announcement of the release of Fat Fritz, the first update to the neural network has been released, stronger and more mature, and with it comes the brand new smaller and faster Fat Fritz for CPU neural network which will produce quality play even on a pure CPU setup. If you leave it analyzing the start position, it will say it likes the Sicilian Najdorf, which says a lot about its natural style. Fat Fritz* is included with Fritz 17. Read on to find out more about this update, what's new and included in this.

Lausanne GP R7: Harika draws, Goryachkina and Kashlinskaya maintain lead

10/03/2020 -

Harika made a short draw with IM Zhansaya Abdumalik as she continues her impressive run at the tournament with 4.0/7. Anna Muzychuk scored the only victory of the round against Alexandra Kosteniuk. Anna capitalized on Kosteniuk's mistake in the endgame and had no difficulty converting her advantage into a full point. Kashlinskaya made a quick draw with Stefanova in just 14 moves. Marie Sebag held reigning Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun to a draw in the longest game of the round. Mariya Muzychuk made a quiet draw with Goryachkina. Pia Cramling and Nana Dzagnidze drew their game. Goryachkina and Kashlinskaya maintained their lead at 4.5/7. Photo: FIDE

Tournaments cancelled due to Coronavirus outbreak

09/03/2020 -

Generally we come up with upcoming tournaments article at the beginning of every month to make people aware of what to expect. We add tournaments all over the world in our calendar to keep everyone aware of all the choices and events they can follow, participate or spectate. However lately due to the advent of Coronavirus outbreak quite a few tournaments around the world got cancelled/delayed according to the WHO announcement and keeping public health safety concerns in mind. In this article we mention all the official announcements of major tournaments which got cancelled/delayed so far. Photo: infoworld

10 masterpieces from top women players of India

08/03/2020 -

Today 8th of March 2020 is celebrated as International Women's Day. Indian chess is blessed with some amazing women chess players who made an indelible mark in the world chess. In order to pay our tribute to all of these champion fighters, we asked some of the best women players of our country to share with us one of their favourite games ever! As the day passed by we received ten amazing games! From world no.2 Koneru Humpy to 14-year-old phenom Divya Deshmukh, we have some fantastic games brought together and annotated by IM Sagar Shah. Seeing them you begin to believe that if people can play to the best of their abilities they can create masterpieces which will be remembered for years to come. 

Lausanne GP R6: Harika loses, Kashlinskaya joins the lead

08/03/2020 -

Harika suffered her first loss of the tournament against Alexandra Kosteniuk who scored her first win of the event. Harika steered herself out of trouble in the endgame by making the correct exchange sacrifice, however she missed the correct continuation and landed herself in an unstoppable checkmate threat. Kashlinskaya scored a fine win over Sebag to join the lead with Goryachkina. The former Women's World Championship Challenger was held to a draw by Anna Muzychuk. The only other win was scored by Zhansaya Abdumalik who defeated another former Women's World Champion Antoaneta Stefanova. Goryachkina and Kashlinskaya lead with 4.0/6 heading into the only rest day of the tournament. Photo: FIDE

The lightning kid in Lindores Abbey

07/03/2020 -

Vishy Anand gave a simultaneous exhibition in the Lindores Abbey Chess Stars 2019 where he defeated eight youngsters rated between 1400 to 1800 Elo. IM Sagar Shah, who was present at the venue, recorded the whole electrifying episode on his mobile. Roland Kensdale, a regular follower of our YouTube channel decided to score all of the games painstakingly from this video we uploaded. Today in this article we revisit some of the most exciting moments from that simul - thanks of course to Roland's loving efforts - and see how Vishy was really able to outwit each of his opponents despite being both physically and mentally exhausted at the time. 

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