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Tata Steel Chess 01: Anand off to a flying start

14/01/2018 -

Indians were happy campers on day one of Tata Steel Chess. While Anand went off to a flying start, winning his round one game against Maxim Matlakov, Baskaran Adhiban daringly lunged his kingside pawns forward from the black side of a Caro-Kann to hold Peter Svidler to a draw. In the Challengers' section, Harika Dronavalli almost effortlessly held the tournament's second seed, Amin Bassem to a draw. And believe it or not, this came with the black pieces against one of Bassem's most favourite openings! An illustrated report with games and analysis.

ChessBase 18 and Mega 2025 are here

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Delhi 2018 Round 07: Naiditsch and Karthikeyan!

14/01/2018 -

The seventh round of the Delhi International 2018 began with three leaders Arkadij Naiditsch, Karthikeyan Murali and Ziaur Rahman. We are now down to two leaders - Arkadij Naiditsch and Karthikeyan Murali. Both of them will face off against each other in the eighth round of the Delhi International 2018. The Delhi Open is turning into a hotbed for Indian players to show their skills against International opponents. Local talents like Arjun Tiwari, Nubairshah Shaikh, Aditya Mittal, Ankit Gajwa, and many others are doing exceedingly well. We have the full round seven report.

How Praggnanandhaa trapped Magesh's rook!

14/01/2018 -

Magesh Panchanathan is an experienced grandmaster, well known for his positional skills. Praggnanandhaa R. is a 12-year-old chess prodigy. You would have expected Pragg to beat Magesh in a complicated game where the young boy comes out on top with his superior calculating abilities. Quite the opposite! Pragg was able to fool Magesh in a positional endgame, by incarcerating his opponent's rook on the side of the board. We break down this game step by step to show you what happened. Pragg is now on 2.0/4 and needs 4.5/5 to make his second GM norm. Report from the CCCSA GM norm invitational.

Delhi 2018 Round 5+6: Indian, Azerbaijani and Bangladeshi GM lead!

13/01/2018 -

The Delhi International 2018 is poised for a super finish! After six rounds we have three leaders - one Azeri, one Bangladeshi and one Indian! Arkadij Naiditsch, Ziaur Rahman and Karthikeyan Murali are on 5.5/6. In this report we look at both the games of these three players. We analyze them to understand how were they able to outplay their strong opponents. We also have a detailed coverage of the B-section which ended today. It was won by Subhra Saha of Kolkata and he took back Rs.2,51,000. He plans to buy a Royal Enfield! Report with excellent photography by Niklesh Jain.

Delhi 2018 R04: Ziaur Rahman is the sole leader

12/01/2018 -

GM Ziaur Rahman is an experienced guy. He has his own opening systems and a very unique style of play. Even in his forties he a feared opponent. He proved it, by beating the young Vietnamese opponent Tran Tuan Minh with the white pieces. In the other upset of the day GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury seems to have found his form for this event as he beat GM Hoa Nguyen. We bring you the round four report along with the details of what happened in the Timur Gareyev walkover incident in round two.

Delhi 2018 Round 2+3: Grandmasters are not Gods!

11/01/2018 -

Three rounds have been completed at the 16th Delhi International 2018. We now have 11 players on 100% score with many grandmasters having to concede the draw or bite the dust. Top seed 2701 rated Arkadij Naiditsch was held to a draw by K. Ratnakaran. Second seed Farrukh Amonatov was also held to a draw. Abhijeet Gupta now takes the top board as players like Rozum and Gareyev suffered defeats. The latter lost a full point thanks to arriving three minutes to the round. All this action and much more in our round two and three report from the capital of India.

Free one hour online training with a Grandmaster!

11/01/2018 -

Have you ever had a coaching session from a grandmaster? If not, this is your chance. And that too for absolutely no cost! Swedish GM Pontus Carlsson in association with ChessBase India is holding a free webinar for one hour for all the players of India on Sunday, 14th of January 2018. All that you have to do is send an email and confirm your participation. This is a unique opportunity to learn from a GM and the topic of the session is how to improve your tactics. Because this is a webinar you can also interact with Pontus and ask him questions that will help you to become a stronger player. All the details in the article below.

Can Praggnanandhaa become the youngest GM in the world?

10/01/2018 -

Sergey Karjakin became the youngest GM in the world in 2002 at the age of 12 years and 7 months. Many players have come close to beating the record but none have been able to. Even after nearly 16 years, the record still stands. But, the little boy from Chennai R. Praggnanandhaa has a chance of eclipsing this and he is two GM norms away. Pragg has exactly 59 days left to become the youngest GM in the world. His next tournament begins from tomorrow in USA and after that he will be playing at the Gibraltar Open 2018. We bring you this article that brings you up to speed with all that is happening in Pragg's life right now!

Delhi 2018 R01: India's biggest event begins, Next year Prize fund Rs.1 crore announced!

10/01/2018 -

There are a lot of firsts happening at the 16th edition of the Delhi International Grandmaster Open 2018. It is for the first time that a tournament has a total prize fund of Rs. 77,77,777 (All three categories combined). It is also for the first time that a 2700+ player is competing in an Indian grandmaster event - Arkadij Naiditsch (2701). It is also a record that nearly 2300 players from all over the world will be competing at the Indira Gandhi Stadium when all the entries of groups A, B and C are combined. We bring you the round one report and also the great news that next year's prize fund will be 1 crore Indian rupees.

Live Games from the Delhi Open 2018

09/01/2018 -

The Delhi International 2018 is one of the biggest tournaments in India. 264 players are playing in A section. Arkadij Naidtisch (2701) is the top seed, followed by some world class players like Farrukh Amonatov, Abhijeet Gupta, Timur Gareyev and many others. There are in all 27 grandmasters, 24 International Masters and players from 24 countries. On this page, you can not only find not only live games from the event, but also live commentary by masters and some of the top players from the event.

Malaysia welcomes you to fight for your IM norm!

09/01/2018 -

The third edition of the First Friday events is here. It will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from the 2nd to the 7th of February 2018. A lot of Indian players participated in the first and the second edition of the First Friday events. All of them went with the hopes of making an IM norm, but only one has succeeded so far - the young Indian talent D.Gukesh. It's an extremely challenging tournament where usually a score of 7.0/9 is what it takes to make an IM norm. You need to be on top of your game. If you think you are up for it, you should surely sign up for this exciting event.

Mumbai IIFLW 09: Gukesh wins the juniors, Maghsoodloo takes the open

09/01/2018 -

Parham Maghsoodloo and D. Gukesh won the open and under-13 section of Eka by IIFLIM Mumbai International 2017-18. While Maghsoodloo was leading and played it safe in the last round, Gukesh had to win his final round game against Rohith Krishna to become the champion. The young boy did so and went home with the winner's cheque of Rs.1,50,000. Parham was richer by Rs. 3,00,000. Two norms were scored at the tournament - IM norm for Arjun Erigaisi and WIM norm for Divya Deshmukh. We have the final round report with all the action and interviews with the winners.

IIFLW Mumbai 08: Parham Maghsoodloo retains lead throwing Gupta out of title contention

07/01/2018 -

Going into the final round, GM Abhijeet Gupta has been thrown out of contention for the title prize by the Iranian GM Parham Magsoodloo who outwitted the tournament's top seed on board one of the IIFLW Mumbai International Chess tournament. Having tasted his first defeat in the previous round, GM Deepan Chakkravarthy came all guns blazing at the penultimate round yesterday and demolished GM Tran Tuan Minh in a Sicilian Najdorf. In the Junior section, Pranav Vijay with his win has taken a half point lead over the rest of the field but whether or not he will be able to maintain it until the end of the final round is something to be seen. An illustrated report on round 8.

Chess is physics, playing blindfold is quantum physics, blindfold simul is rocket science!

06/01/2018 -

The seventh round of Eka by IIFLIM International Chess tournament 2017-18 saw a very interesting event: an exciting blindfold simul starring GM Timur Gareyev! The Blindfold King was challenged by 12 young chess players, some of whom gave a very tough fight. Avathanshu Bhat, who was also in the simul, reported on the event. Timur not only played the simul scoring 10.5/12 (with 3 draws), he also won his classical game against a 2300+ opponent and then came to the commentary studio to explain his win in a 25 minute masterclass! At the end of the day all we can think is, where does the man get all this energy from?!

Let's hear it for Aruna too!

06/01/2018 -

Recently, Viswanathan Anand won the world rapid championship in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. Not only that, he also won a bronze in the Blitz leg and became the only player in the Open segment to have won medals in both categories. Besides, out of the 38 games, he played in Riyadh, he lost only one! After his win, Mid-Day reporter, Manisha Mohite caught up with the Indian chess legend and his wife to talk about his win, his initial reluctance to play the tournament, his preparation and a lot more.

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