The World Championship Match is traditionally the most important event on the chess circuit. This year, the Carlsen-Caruana clash was highly anticipated as, for the first time in a long while, it was World #1 vs World #2. The matchI consider the games of…

Peter Svidler joined Sopiko Guramishvili, Alexander Grischuk
and Anish Giri in commentating on the Carlsen-Caruana match for chess24.
Afterwards in an interview for a St. Petersburg newspaper Peter talked about his
surprise at the bloodless outcome of…

Chess is broken. A game can be broken and still be popular, entertaining and beautiful. Chess is still a beautiful game, and is even growing in popularity. But that doesn’t mean that it&#8217…

The world championship match is over and now it is a part of chess history. Just like any big chess event, it has provided a lot of food for thought. For many chess fans the main takeaway from the match is that something should be changed so we don't have…

Intensity of championship and ease of watching the game online is bringing it to a wider audience

Magnus Carlsen bought himself another two years to work on his admittedly ailing classical game with a devastating, nearly cruel demolition of the undisputed challenger and co-king of slow chess, Fabiano Caruana, winning 3-0 in the rapid tiebreak. Both players…

The world was watching, but some people saw the spate of draws differently. This is a debate that will continue for a while, perhaps until the next World Championship match in 2020. Contributor STEPHEN OLIVER PLATZ offers his opinion on Carlsen vs Caruana…