Cover photo credit: Facundo Arrizabalaga The Hunter Becomes The Prey Outplaying opponents from equal positions and grinding them down in endgames are hallmarks of Magnus Carlsen playing style. These traits brought him a number of victories…
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Carlsen – Caruana World Chess Championship – Game Five
Cover photo by: John Saunders B-Wing Fighter You arrive at the board. You shake your opponent’s hand. You see 1 e4. You want to win. You reply 1…c5. At some point, your opponent pushes his…
Carlsen – Caruana World Chess Championship – Game Four
(Cover photo credit: Macauley Peterson, Chessbase report) ENGLISHMEN IN LONDON After four games in the World Chess Championship 2018, the result remains unchanged. In his second White game, the World Champion employed the English opening….
Mikhail Tal Birthday
A lot of events happened back in the year 1936 but one of them was more significant for the course of history than all the others. Shortly after Jesse Owens pissed Hitler of in the…
Carlsen – Caruana World Championship 2018 Preview
Introduction In 3 days, on 9th November 2018, World Champion Magnus Carlsen will sit at the board and defend his title for the fourth time. His challenger will be Fabiano Caruana, who, after falling short…
Alexander Alekhine Birthday
Many things happened on the 31st of October: – Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the Wittenberg Church – Michelangelo finished “The Last Judgement” in the Sistine Chapel – Benito Mussolini became the Prime…
Kramnik – Topalov, World Championship Match 2006
Ever since the controversial decision by Garry Kasparov to organize his 1993 match against Nigel Short under the auspice of the newly found organization, PCA (Professional chess organization), two World Champions have existed simultaneously. Already…
FIDE World Championship 2005
After Rustam Kasimdzhanov won the FIDE World Championship 2004, FIDE immediately started the organization of the potential Kasimdzhanov – Kasparov match. In accordion to the Prague Agreement, the winner of that match was supposed to…
Ognjen Cvitan Birthday
In 1981, he won the World Junior Championship. In 1987, he was awarded the GM title. In 1992 he won the individual gold medal in the Manilla Olympiad. Throughout the 80s and 90s, he has…
FIDE World Championship 2004
Ever since Kasparov and Short broke away from FIDE in 1993, the title of the World Chess Champion has been split. At the beginning of the 2000s, the unification of the title became the main…
Kramnik – Leko World Championship 2004
As the reader might recall, in 1993, after Kasparov and Short decided to break away from FIDE, the chief organization responded by an organization of a separate World Championship cycle (Karpov – Timman FIDE World…
FIDE World Championship 2002
In the period between 1998 – 2004, FIDE determined its own champion with the help of a knockout tournament. FIDE World Championship 2002 was no exception. The Prague agreement and the unification of the title…