Both the Open and Women sections of the Batumi Olympiad were decided by tiebreaks. Like just about every two years, this led to criticism on chess forums. According to grandmasters Peter Heine Nielsen and David Smerdon, the time has come to actually do something…

Official Post from Olimpiu G. Urcan: A challenger's task in a world chess championship match is much like the task that faced King Frotho I, the legendary Danish king from Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum: in order to win a dragon's vast treasure, Frotho had…