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American Grandmaster Wesley So Wins 2021 Paris Rapid & Blitz Tournament — 02-Jul-21, play chess online
Chess tournaments are full of emotion, but they are also a series of battles, tests of preparation, endurance and an evaluation of the tenacity of the competitors. Rapid and blitz chess tournaments take it to the next level with the shorter time controls and multiple rounds played each day. This differentiates the chess players who are capable of taking advantage of a hot streak and running away with the lead from the chess players who fail and let their subsequent results cloud their mentality for future games. The Paris Rapid and Blitz was the second leg of the Grand Chess Tour, a series of international chess events featuring the world’s best chess players. After a brilliant victory by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the Superbet Chess Classic, it was a question of who would be able to keep pace or overtake the Azerbaijani chess player. He held the lead as the full tour players only participate in two of the three rapid and blitz chess events, and Mamedyarov’s schedule did not involve a visit to France. After the nine rounds of rapid, chess ...
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Chess : Carlsen takes on No 1 junior, No 1 woman and No 1 rival on same afternoon — 26-Jun-21, play chess online
Starting at midday on Saturday, Magnus Carlsen will take on in succession: first, the 18-year-old widely tipped as a future world chess champion; second, the world No 1 woman; and third, the reigning US chess champion who has become Carlsen’s main rival for first place in the online Meltwater Champions Tour. The chess event, the Goldmoney Asian Rapid, is the seventh of nine qualifiers before the Tour final in September-October. The prize pool is $100,000-$200,000 for each qualifier and $300,000 for the final. So far Carlsen and Wesley So have won two qualifiers each, Anish Giri and Teimour Radjabov one each. Alireza Firouzja, Hou Yifan and So represent between them the No 1 junior, the No 1 woman, and Carlsen’s current No 1 rival. The games will be at rapid time limits, 15 minutes per player per game plus a 10 seconds per move increment, and the trio should take around two hours. Norway’s world chess champion will take on further opponents later in the day. So has returned to over-the-board speed chess with ...
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On Chess : Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Wins Superbet Chess Classic — 21-Jun-21, play chess online
With a dominating performance that included three wins in a row, World No. 5 grandmaster Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan won the 2021 Superbet Chess Classic, the first leg in the 2021 Grand Chess Tour circuit. The 36-year-old, who entered the chess tournament as the No. 6 seed, finished with 6.0/9, a full point ahead of his nearest rivals, and took home a first place prize of $90,000. Finishing in shared second place were Levon Aronian (Armenia), Wesley So (USA) and Alexander Grischuk (Russia), who each scored 5.0/9 points and earned $45,000 for their efforts. The chess tournament, held in Bucharest, Romania, featured a 10-player round robin (all play all) format, with one game per day at a classical time control of 90 minutes allotted for 40 moves, followed by an additional 30 minutes for each player. Mamedyarov’s excellent score stemmed from his three-game winning streak in the middle of the competition, when he defeated top chess ...
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How a rookie 'beat' Viswanathan Anand - with a little help from his friends — 16-Jun-21, play chess online
A charity Simul online chess event on Sunday, with Viswanathan Anand playing against nine celebrities for 'Checkmate Covid', made headlines for all the wrong reasons after one participant admitted to having taken external help. The participant, young Indian billionaire entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath, later had his profile on chess website - where the Simul was played - closed for violation of fair play policy. It also put the spotlight on the ethics of charity online chess events, and indeed the problems in monitoring online chess, an increasingly preferred option in the pandemic age. Kamath, who claimed to have not played chess since his younger days, recorded a high level of play of around 99% accuracy. He later posted a strangely-worded tweet in defense of his action, almost implying that it was always open knowledge to Anand and the wider world that he'd been assisted in his chess play. Late on Monday evening, Kamath put out another tweet, admitting he was wrong and apologising, while still playing down the chess ...
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Liar’s Chess: Unraveling The Legend Of India’s Slumdog Billionaire — 16-Jun-21, play chess online
Nikhil Kamath, India’s youngest billionaire, cheated in a charity chess match. What else about his life story and wealth is built on lies? Self-made superstar. In 2000, a 14-year-old Nikhil Kamath, the son of a bank manager and music teacher, dropped out of school and got a job. In 2010, he co-founded Zerodha, a discount brokerage outfit. By 2019, with no external financing, Zeroda became the largest retail stock broker in India. Current daily turnover has reached $10 billion. With such success comes fame. Nikhil made the Forbes 30 under 30. He won the Chivas 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He appeared in GQ India. A Mind Sharpened By Chess? Various accounts of Nikhil’s youth tout his chess-playing and how the game’s mental discipline contributed to his success. “An avid chess player since the age of eight, Nikhil took to derivatives like a duck to water because chess ...
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Chess : Garry Kasparov to make cameo comeback when Chess Grand Tour resumes — 12-Jun-21, play chess online
Garry Kasparov, now aged 58 and for many still the all-time No 1 chess player, will make a rare cameo comeback next month when the 2021 over-the-board Chess Grand Tour, which was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, reaches Zagreb in Croatia. Kasparov will play 18 games in the five-minute blitz section on 10-11 July, when his leading opponent will be the current world title challenger, Ian Nepomniachtchi, who is not playing the full Tour but is competing in Zagreb as a wildcard. The first five rounds of the opening Tour event, the Superbet Classic at Bucharest, have been marred by numerous theoretical draws, with only the two Romanian locals providing a combative approach. Just six of the 25 games were decisive, and all but one of those involved Constantin Lupulescu or Bogdan-Daniel Deac. Lupulescu won an entertaining chess ...
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