Without Pavel Eljanov the Ukraine had a quite a run in Batumi at the European Team Championships. After two wins in round seven and eight, one of them against Germany, it looked as if the Ukrainians went for gold even without the former number six in the world among them. Pavel Eljanov followed their effort … Pavel Eljanov: “I thought I could do something different for a change” weiterlesen
It took Vincent Keymer 15 months to secure his third and final Grandmaster norm. "It should have come earlier," says Vincent. But several times he was very close and failed, nothing to blame himself for. "That was just bad luck." On Saturday night on the Isle of Man, it was finally done. With a draw … “It should have come earlier”: 14 year old Vincent Keymer and the Grandmaster title weiterlesen
Vienna is out of the raffle, Stavanger as well, Monaco was never in it. Just over a year before the World Championship match in 2020, FIDE cannot name a host city, not even a potential one. Applicants do not exist yet, only interested parties. Nevertheless, the World Chess Federation wants to announce where Magnus Carlsen … World Championship, anyone? weiterlesen
Before the World Cup it was clear that Fabiano Caruana and Ding Liren had already qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2020. They should now be joined by the two World Cup finalists, so in early October four of the eight candidates would be known. As soon as Ding Liren reached the final of the World … A backdoor and a shaky candidate weiterlesen
In a few years when everybody has a quantum computer at home correspondence chess will be a pointless exercise. Hopefully this won't happen until the World Championship cycle that just started on the Lechenicher Schachserver is finished. It's my first one, and I'd like to make the finals at least once before the machines become … Three tempi are worth a pawn, they say weiterlesen
I felt sorry for my opponent. The guy played an excellent correspondence game, had me running out of ideas where to find an advantage and then just blundered it away, probably by a misclick. Yes, a misclick 😉 These things happen even in correspondence chess. It is an incomplete game because of the blunder, but … The unfinished symphony from Cambridge Springs weiterlesen
