Four Americans are through to the second round of the 2019 FIDE World Cup, while two have work to do in Thursday’s rapid playoffs. After...

David Navara & Nils Grandelius lost their second games in Khanty-Mansiysk to join Radek Wojtaszek, Jorge Cori, Arkadij Naiditsch and Ruslan Ponomariov as big name players who are already out of the 2019 World Cup. In all only five of the 33 players who needed…

Bobby Fischer is a legend, so much so that even people who knew him sometimes find it difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction when they hear stories about Fischer. Vlastimil Hort knew Fischer and played against him. Recently, Hort rediscovered a…

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You wouldn't think that chess players, who sit for hours on end and extend their arms only from time to time, would struggle with weight loss. But they do. Inside the very real, very bizarre metabolic phenomenon gripping chess.

 
The first games of the Second Round of the FIDE World Cup were played on September 13 in Ugra Chess Academy.
Hikaru Nakamura's loss to Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu was one of the main headlines of the day. The grandmaster from Germany, playing Black, employed…

Replay the Khanty-Mansiysk FIDE World Cup Round 2 game played on 13/09/2019 with computer analysis