Imagine resolving a dispute with your opponent in the middle...

Viswanathan Anand has plenty of brilliancies to his credit, but one game that looked likely to be his greatest brilliancy slipped away at the critical moment. Playing Ivan Sokolov, Anand sacrificed a queen with the thrilling 21.Qxg4!! The sacrifice reminds…

Something Old Deep into the 19th century chess was still characterized by match play. The idea of tournaments was slow to catch on. Prior to the London International Tournament of 1851 (the first international tournament), the number of tournaments could…

Via AP_Archive, archive footage of the opening ceremony and 1st round of the 20th Olympiad (Skopje, 1972), featuring, among others, the USSR delegation (Karpov, Tal, Petrosian, Roshal, Savon), Euwe, Kavalek, Yanofsky, Hartston, Ljubojević...

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The World Junior Championships 2019 began with great excitement on Tuesday in New Delhi, India. FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich visited the event and boosted the spirit of the participants. This is the second big event happening in India in the month of…

World Junior Championship chess tournament LIVE with computer analysis on chess24.com

Replay the World Junior Girls Championship Round 2 game played on 16/10/2019 with computer analysis

Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Vishy Anand
and Hikaru Nakamura all picked up wins as the rating favourites were in good
form before the rest day of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss on the Isle of Man.
The co-leaders are now Caruana, who…

In the October edition of Ladies Knight, Jennifer Shahade speaks to IM Dorsa Derakshani about her childhood in Iran, her TED talk and what surprised her most about living in the United States.

It is arguably one of the most elegant problems ever composed. The author is the late Pal Benko, a world class grandmaster and World Championship contender, who earned an additional ticket to immortality with his problems and endgame studies. The problem…