Page 22 - Chess

CHESS#1294

Mamedaryov has been solid, winning a big game versus 2016 Challenger Karjakin and drawing the rest

CHESS#1293

The Tal Memorial Rapid featured a stellar 10-player field competing for $130,000, with $25,000 as the first prize

CHESS#1292

There are question marks over Levon Aronian's temperament

CHESS#1291

Every Russian village has a few young, hungry, underrated Chess players

CHESS#1290

Ilyumzhinov, who has been Fide President since 1995, intends to run again.

CHESS#1289

The National Blind Championships has gotten underway, thanks to crowd-sourcing

CHESS#1288

Kramnik played very positive chess (six wins, two losses). That included a last-round gift from Baskaran Adhiban, who made a suicidal exchange sacrifice when he held an edge

CHESS#1283

India's - and the world's - largest open tournament is underway

CHESS#1282

If the Saudis are to host again in 2018 and 2019, they will have to let Israelis, Qataris, Iranians, et al, play, or risk more players staying away

CHESS#1281

Viswanathan Anand ended 2017 on a high note, winning the world rapid championship in Riyadh

CHESS#1280

The World Blitz and Rapid Championships kick off this weekend in Riyadh against the backdrop of a controversy

CHESS#1279

Fabiano Caruana won the London Classic and Magnus Carlsen won the overall Grand Chess Tour

CHESS#1278

Google subsidiary Deep Mind released a paper describing how its AI, AlphaZero, thrashed the strong chess program Stockfish8

CHESS#1277

There are now two Norwegian world champions

CHESS#1277

R Praggnanandhaa shares third in the World Juniors with two rounds to go

CHESS#1276

The Champions Showdown in St Louis may result in two innovations

CHESS#1275

The Khadi National Premier in Patna is coming to a close

CHESS#1275

The Uzbek prodigy, Nodibirek Abdusattorov, has completed his GM title

CHESS#1274

On one famous occasion, Michael Adams set up an opening position wrong while preparing for a Candidates match against Viswanathan Anand!

CHESS#1273

Since it's Diwali, let's do a run through of some of the stuff on every serious player's wish-list