Page 16 - Chess

Chess (#1200)

The Russian Team Championships have just concluded. The premier league had just five teams but it also boasted 12 super GMs

Chess (#1199)

The US Championships was followed by a mammoth blitz with 4 players playing three double round robins for 18 rounds

Chess (#1198)

Fabiano Caruana is the US Champion

Chess (#1197)

Two big tournaments are running concurrently. One is the Norway Altibox Super GM, which features 20 players with an average rating of 2770

Chess (#1196)

The Asian Nations Cup concluded with light-hearted blitz and rapid sections

Chess (#1194)

The very last game to finish in the last round of the Candidates determined the challenger to Magnus Carlsen

Chess (#1193)

The Candidates is heading for a nailbiting finish. After 11 rounds, any of the six players could still win the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen

Chess (#1192)

The Candidates in Moscow is almost at midpoint. Sergey Karjakin and Levon Aronian share the lead with 4 points from 6 rounds. Viswanathan Anand (3.5) is in third. Fabiano Caruana and Anish Giri are on 3 each, with Peter Svidler (2.5), Veselin Topalov and Hikaru Nakamura (2 each) trailing. Everybody has a theoretical chance with 8 rounds left.Karjakin has shown excellent form, picking off a nice technical win against Anand, capitalising on a big error by Nakamura and fighting hard to hold an inferior position against Caruana. Aronian has been more sloppy and more fortunate with two big strokes of luck; Topalov blundered two pawns against him and Nakamura made an unfortunate touched-move error in a drawn endgame.Anand's form has been uncertain. He won two good games, pulling off a good attack against Svidler and a study-like endgame against Topalov. But he also drifted into a loss versus Karjakin with a series of sub-optimal moves. Caruana and Giri have not quite been able to impose th

Chess (#1191)

The prize fund of €420,000 is secondary, since the winner becomes the challenger in a title match

Chess (#1190)

Mariya Muzychuk, reigning champion and local star, faces heavy favourite, Hou Yifan

Chess (#1189)

Anand plays for Baden Baden while Harikrishna represents Solingen