Spring 2024 ...
More from The Candidates (round 2) - Hikaru Nakamura vs Vidit Gujrathi.
An exciting game and a fine win for Black against the world's number 3!
More from The Candidates (round 2) - Hikaru Nakamura vs Vidit Gujrathi.
An exciting game and a fine win for Black against the world's number 3!
Spring 2024 ...
Students in Lublin, Poland, enjoy some sub-aqua chess which is said to help stamina and focus. We could do with that here at the Club
- it's been a tough season. Now, where did I leave my flippers?!
Students in Lublin, Poland, enjoy some sub-aqua chess which is said to help stamina and focus. We could do with that here at the Club
- it's been a tough season. Now, where did I leave my flippers?!
Spring 2024 ... The Candidates
But What Chess people call 'the Candidates' will be played out in Toronto next month. Top players compete for the right to play the current World Champion. Ian Nepomniachtchi, 🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R, 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana, 🇦🇿 Nijat Abasov, 🇺🇸 Hikaru Nakamura, 🇮🇳 Vidit Gujrathi, 🇫🇷 Alireza Firouzja, 🇮🇳 Gukesh Dommaraju. Women's Candidates players: 🇨🇳Lei Tingjie, Kateryna Lagno, Aleksandra Goryachkina, 🇧🇬 Nurgyul Salimova, 🇺🇦 Anna Muzychuk, 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu, 🇨🇳 Tan Zhongyi, 🇮🇳 Koneru Humpy.
See some of the Candidates in action below:
Superb attacking chess by Black in Caruana vs Firouzja (Champions Chess Tour Final - played online during 2023) ... But first, a review of the women's candidates and Goryachkina versus Georgia's Batsiashvili in a superb attacking game. Daniel King (Powerplay Chess) narrates ...
See some of the Candidates in action below:
Superb attacking chess by Black in Caruana vs Firouzja (Champions Chess Tour Final - played online during 2023) ... But first, a review of the women's candidates and Goryachkina versus Georgia's Batsiashvili in a superb attacking game. Daniel King (Powerplay Chess) narrates ...
Gukesh Dommaraju, better known as Gukesh D, born in 2006, from Chennai, is an Indian chess Grandmaster. A chess prodigy, (learned to play at the age of seven and rapidly advanced) he's one of the youngest in history to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, awarded March 2019. His current grade is 2747 elo. Here's a video of Gukesh in action in another nice attacking game ...
More next time!
Autumn/Winter 2023 ...
Perhaps the finest chess poem ever written now seems sadly appropriate to our world.
It was composed by the Irish Peer, Lord Dunsany (Edward Plunkett) and published 80 years ago. Dunsany, Irish chess champion, soldier, writer, poet and sportsman, once held Capablanca
(World Chess Champion 1921-27) to a draw ...
One art they say is of no use;
The mellow evenings spent at chess,
The thrill, the triumph, and the truce
To every care, are valueless.
And yet, if all whose hopes were set
On harming man played chess instead,
We should have cities standing yet
Which now are dust upon the dead.
It was composed by the Irish Peer, Lord Dunsany (Edward Plunkett) and published 80 years ago. Dunsany, Irish chess champion, soldier, writer, poet and sportsman, once held Capablanca
(World Chess Champion 1921-27) to a draw ...
One art they say is of no use;
The mellow evenings spent at chess,
The thrill, the triumph, and the truce
To every care, are valueless.
And yet, if all whose hopes were set
On harming man played chess instead,
We should have cities standing yet
Which now are dust upon the dead.
Summer 2023 ...