On Sunday GM Humpy Koneru won the Cairns Cup's hefty $45,000 first prize. After a quick draw with her compatriot GM Harika Dronavalli, she saw her main rival GM Alexandra Kosteniuk lose to GM Ju Wenjun. Koneru finished on six points, half a point more than…

Mikhail Tal's 1961 victory over Fridrik Olafsson looks like a simple (though pretty) smashing attack, but in fact, great complexity and beauty lurks in the variations. In his own analysis in "Life and Games of Mihkail Tal," he showed the best defense for…

Click the diagram to solve this chess puzzle from the game Sharikov,Al - Rudakov,Sergey S., Moscow 2020.

Humpy Koneru has won the 2nd Cairns Cup and $45,000 after
drawing her final game against Harika Dronavalli to finish on 6/9. That meant
only Alexandra Kosteniuk could catch her and force a playoff by beating Ju
Wenjun, but the Women’s World Champion instead…

Finek Vaclav (🇨🇿 2220) is the highest-rated 10-year-old chess player. These days he is playing in the @PragueChessFestival Futures tournament. ⠀ Here is the finale of his game against Jan Klimkowski from round 5. Nice tactics finished Black off. White to…

Replay the Prague Chess Festival - Futures Round 5 game played on 16/02/2020 with computer analysis