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Four rounds have been completed at the 10th Mumbai Mayor's Cup 2017. We have four leaders with a 100% score and three of them are Indians - GM Diptayan Ghosh, IM Sayantan Das, GM Deepan Chakravarthy and GM Niaz Murshed. We have some exclusive pictures sent to us from the venue and some very nicely played games by the players. Illustrated report from the financial capital of India!
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GM Vishnu Prasanna and WIM Raghavi Nagarajan tied their wedding knot on the 5th of June 2017 in Chennai. It was a star studded event with players from all over India flying in to attend the marriage ceremony! Some of the big names who were present at the reception were Aruna Anand, B. Adhiban, Harika and many more. ChessBase India's Sagar Shah ensured that he made it to this grand event. Apart from Raghavi and Vishnu being his wonderful friends, the duo are now the strongest couple of Indian chess with an Elo average of 2414! Long live King Vishnu and Queen Raghavi!
It is the strongest event of 2017. Altibox Norway Chess 2017 is here and it is a star studded line up that we are looking at - Magnus Carlsen, Sergey Karjakin, Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana. Vishy Anand ensures that Indian fans have a hero to cheer for at the event. On 5th June, a blitz tournament was held for players to decide their number for the main event. Magnus Carlsen crushed the field with 7.5/9. Anand finished seventh with 4.0/9. We give you information about how to follow the classical games live with commentary. Blitz event report.
In the third round of the Mayor's Cup 2009, 19-year-old Sagar Shah was pitted against the strong Russian grandmaster Vladimir Belov. A product of the Russian chess school, Belov was stronger than the Mumbai boy by nearly 400 Elo points. Sagar's confidence had reached the lowest of levels. He left for the round from his home with a mentality of already having lost the game. On the way to the playing hall, a miracle occurred! Suddenly the boy was rejuvenated! Check out the article to see what transpired and what was the result of the encounter!
The 36th Zalakaros Open had concluded last week. In the second half, GM Shyam Sundar and GM Abhijeet Gupta couldn't muster up points against their opponents. The tournament ended with Ukraine's Alexander Zubov taking the first place. India's Hemant Sharma completed his IM title rating requirements. Illustrated report.
The Mumbai Mayor's Cup 2017 with 15 GMs and 12 IMs out of the 201 participants is a super strong tournament. The top seed is rated 2635 and there are 50 players above 2200. It shouldn't come as a surprise that you can see some really high quality chess being played at this event. This live games page helps you to follow the battles as well as download all the previous games that have been played until now. Follow your favourite players here!
The ChessBase Magazine has established itself as one of the best resources for chess training and information. It is published every two months and has analysis by top grandmasters, videos by the likes of Daniel King and Simon Williams, and in general a lot of training material. Usually on the cover you have a picture of either Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura. When one says that an Indian is on the cover of the magazine you might imagine that it is Vishy Anand or Pentala Harikrishna! No! It's a 12-year-old prodigy and his name is Nihal Sarin!
Chess fans in Bhubaneshwar, India and all over the world waited in anticipation for the top board clash between the local boy Debashis Das and leader Hoa Duc Nguyen to begin. The Vietnamese GM, however, had everything under control as he played the Exchange Slav and drew the game in 25 moves, thus winning the title. Second place went to Debashis Das and Diptayan Ghosh finished third. We have a detailed final round report along with pictures from the closing ceremony.
Imagine playing chess on an island. Wouldn't that be amazing? The twenty-sixth edition of the National U-25 Chess Championship is being held in Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The cherry on the cake: the AICF is giving the players return air tickets to the land of kaala paani.
Nguyen Duc Hoa lost to Vikramjit Singh in the third round. Since then there has been no stopping him as he scored six consecutive victories! With 8.0/9, he is the sole leader in the tournament. Debashis Das, the local boy, beat Farrukh Amonatov in the ninth round, moved to 7.5/9, and has the task of stopping the Vietnamese GM in the final round. While a draw will seal the deal for Nguyen, Debashis will want to play for the win due to his poor tiebreak. Eight players are on 7.0/9. It promises to be an exciting final round! Round nine report from Bhubaneshwar.
What is an unusual idea for us may not be unusual for guys like Anand, Carlsen, Karjakin and these super GMs. The reason is that they have trained themselves to looks for unusual resources right from a very young age! Hence, what looks brilliant to an untrained eye might be quite normal to a trained one! Today we bring to you a study that it is simple but not easy! The answer might come as a surprise today, but if you keep solving such problems then one fine day the unusual will become usual!
The great thing about the KIIT International Open 2017 is the number of fighting games on the top boards. Out of the top 10 boards, we had 8 decisive encounters. And this meant that the number of leaders was now down to just two. S.Nitin from India and Nguyen Duc Hoa from Vietnam now lead the tournament with 7.0/8. They will face off against each other in the penultimate round. Five players follow them with 6.5/8. Illustrated round 8 report from Bhubaneshwar with excellent pictures by Amruta Mokal.
The latest and greatest chess engine is here, Komodo 11, helping chess players analyze and understand games and positions with ever greater skill and knowledge. That said, while there is no question the engine is an essential part of the equation, when you buy Komodo 11 at Chessbase, you get a series of other benefits such as a 6-month Premium subscription to ChessBase Account. Learn what’s new in Komodo 11 and why you should not delay in adding it to your stable.
"All rook endgames are drawn!", said Tarrasch. 18-year-old Sidhant Mohapatra learnt it the hard way in the seventh round of the KIIT International 2017 against GM Adam Tukhaev. Being two pawns up, the game ended in a draw. We analyze this endgame in great depth, showing you some brilliant resources. We have five leaders now on 6.0/7 - S.Nitin, Niranjan Navalgund, Vikramjit Singh, Ziaur Rahman and Nguyen Duc Hoa. Sagar Shah bring you analysis, pictures, anecdotes and videos from Bhubaneshwar.
On 29th May 2016, R. Praggnanandhaa won his ninth round game at the KIIT International Open, Bhubaneshwar against Al Muthaiah. This win secured him his third IM norm and as he had already surpassed 2400 on the rating list, he became the youngest International Master in the World at the age of ten years and ten months. We cannot believe that it is already one year since this feat. Sagar Shah talks about an incident with Pragga at the Aeroflot Open and the reason why he thinks the boy will become one of the best in the world. We also have a very nice Tamil interview of Pragga by Tarun Kanth with an English transcript.
