The second round of the group stage in the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade featured intense battles and some notable high points. In Group A, GM Sam Shankland won to join GM Dmitry Andreikin in the lead. In Groups B and C, GM Anish Giri and GM Vidit Gujrathi both won their second games as well to take comfortableRead More →
NAGPUR: Maharashtra’s youngest Women Grand Master (WGM) Divya Deshmukh is all set to become Vidarbha’s first senior national women chess champion. In the MPL 47th National Women Chess Championship currently underway at Bhubaneswar, the 16-year-old Divya is on a dream run. Having toppled top seeded Vaishali R in the penultimate round, Divya posted her seventhRead More →
The All India Chess Federation (AICF) will be bidding to host the 44th edition of the Chess Olympiad later this year after the event was moved out of Russia, a senior official of the body said on Saturday. The All India Chess Federation (AICF) will be bidding to host theRead More →
You know the problem: can you place eight queens on a chessboard so that now two queens threaten each other. There are 92 distinct ways of doing this. But how about on larger chessboards? For 27×27 board people have worked out that there are exactly 234,907,967,154,122,528 ways. Now a HarwardRead More →
Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books about chess training and chess strategy. In the 67th instalment of his ChessBase show “Understanding before Moving”, Herman reveals why it is important to play against strong opponents to improve and shows howRead More →