(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….
Carlsen – Caruana World Chess Championship – Game Three
CARLSEN HOLDS IN SICILIAN After intense game one and two players had a rest day. There is no information about what they did, but we can say for sure it included many hours of preparation…
Carlsen – Caruana World Chess Championship – Game Two
CARUANA SAYS NO TO BISHOP F4 After Fabiano saved the game 1, he decided to get even in game two with black pieces. He countered Carlsen’s Harrwitz attack with a novelty on move 10 and…
Carlsen – Caruana World Chess Championship – Game One
INSANE START After long two years, the author of the blog has the opportunity to go back where it all started – write posts about Magnus Carlsen defending his World Championship Match. The long-anticipated Carlsen…
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…
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…
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…
FIDE World Championship 2000
After staging the World Chess Championship in 1998 and in 1999 in the form of the Knockout Tournament, in 2000 FIDE continued with the annual organization of this event and kept the format intact. FIDE…
Kasparov – Kramnik World Championship 2000
After the successful defence of his title against Anand 1995, the Classical World Champion Garry Kasparov had trouble organizing his next match. Intel Corporation refused to renew its sponsorship of the PCA (Professional Chess Association)…