World Champion Magnus Carlsen will be dreaming of setting
new chess records when he starts the 11-round Sinquefield Cup against Anish Giri on Saturday. He
goes into the event, featuring all of the world’s top 9 players, on a rating of
2882, matching the…

Replay the Sinquefield Cup Round 1 game played on 17/08/2019 with computer analysis

The seventh Sinquefield Cup is the largest one yet, with 12 players and an improved $325,000 prize fund. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Maurice Ashley, and WGM Jennifer Shahade for the move-by-move.

2019.08.17
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Fabiano Caruana nearly won a world championship in November, and he now says he wants nothing more than to get another shot at unseating world champ Magnus Carlsen.

  The seventh round of the Russian Championships Superfinals was played in Izhevsk on August 17. In the open tournament, Evgeny Tomashveky demonstrated a deep preparation in his game versus Vladislav Artemiev. White got an advantage and outplayed his opponent…

Replay the Russian Championship Superfinal Round 7 game played on 17/08/2019 with computer analysis

The sixth world chess champion Mikhail Botvinnik was born on August 17, 1911. ⠀ Botvinnik became the world champion by convincingly winning the 1948 World Chess Championship tournament which was organized after the death of the previous champion Alexander…