Posts categorized "Annotated games"

Was the Magnus Carlsen Tour Final the most successful online chess event of all time? It was certainly one of the most dramatic!
For a chess tournament, the Dreaming King Open situates itself in an exquisite location: with a vivid, clear lake, reflecting the equally clear sky...
The 54th Annual Greater New York Scholastic Chess Championships were held February 1-2 at the Marriott in downtown Brooklyn. The New York State...
Newly anointed IM Carissa Yip annotates round four, the first decisive game of the Women's World Championship (Jan 4-26), between Ju Wenjun and...
The SPICE Cup is a popular tournament for norm seekers, due to the large number of foreign IMs and GM who typically play. This year's edition was… Read More »
Abhi at the Bay Area International Photo David Llada Rising superstar Abhimanyu Mishra earned his third IM norm at the GM Maxim Academy Closed event…
Information overload. That’s how I feel right now, with two major international events – the FIDE Grand Prix and Grand Chess Tour – going on, and… Read More »
Jeffery Xiong’s Cinderella run has come to an end in Khanty-Mansiysk. Xiong lost Tuesday to Teimour Radjabov in the second leg of their quarterfinal…
It has been 13 days since the first moves were played at the 2019 FIDE World Cup. 120 of the 128 competitors have been eliminated, and the eight...
Jeffery Xiong is through to the quarterfinals at the 2019 FIDE World Cup, defeating Jan-Krzysztof Duda Sunday in the third round of tiebreaks by a...