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What is common between Akiba Rubinstein, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Vassily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, and Viktor Korchnoi? You are about to find that out. The 2016 Chigorin Memorial tournament began a few days back in St. Petersburg in Russia. Six Indians are playing, and Deep Sengupta is among the five leaders with a perfect score. We bring you a brief report.
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Indian grandmasters Abhijeet Gupta and Lalith Babu are on a roll, leading the 2016 Hoogeveen tournament with 5.5/6. Pursuing them is a bunch of Indians, who are all a point behind. The Indian hegemony at the event is further bolstered by the fact that of the 81 players competing in the Open, 13 are Indians. We have a richly illustrated report with highlights from the games.
FI Praful Zaveri sent us a beautiful part I of his report from Armenia which covered the Chess in Schools (CIS) program that he attended. In part II he speaks about the one of its kind Chess Academy of Armenia. This Academy located on the 34th Shevchenko Street is one of the largest Chess Academies in the world. Praful not only stayed in the academy for two days, but also visited the strong Yerevan International Open. As he says, no matter where you go, how so ever remote the place is, there is always an Indian playing!
Bobby Fischer came up with the idea of Chess960 or Fischer Random chess where the pieces are placed in a random order on the last rank. Top grandmasters have dipped their feet in the ocean of chess960, but the format hasn't really caught on. In this article Ganesh Dorairaj asks a very pertinent question: is the study of Fischer Random games played by top grandmasters useful to improve our chess?
In recent advertisements on Star Plus, top Indian cricketers are shown wearing jerseys with the name of their mothers imprinted on the back. Dhoni, Kohli and Rahane tell why their mother are so special and dear to them. In this article ChessBase author Niklesh Jain compiled pictures of some of the top Indian chess players with their mothers. We invite you to post a picture with your mother in the comments section, or on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with the #ChessMom and win special prizes! Read on to know more.
He is the National Junior Champion and he is traveling back home, with his two siblings, with an unreserved ticket in a train. Bihar's Kumar Gaurav began the event as the 42nd seed. To make matters worse, he lost one of the early rounds to a talented young boy. That was all he needed to awaken the fighter within him. He delivered a regal performance to become the champion. There was no breaking news in the girls' section as Vaishali R. made mincemeat of her opponents to win with ease. An illustrated report...
The third and probably the final edition of Millionaire Chess came to close at the Atlantic City. The top seed B. Adhiban was in the race to confirm his place in the Millionaire Monday showdown, where he could fight for big money. What ended up happening was heartbreaking. Prudhvi Reddy of Nellore had a fantastic event, where a crucial victory in Millionaire Monday meant that he laughed his way to the bank with $12,000! That is close to Rs. 8 lakhs! Pictures, tactics, report, and more. Read on to know what happened...
The ChessBase India online shop is increasing the number of products in its repertoire. We started with just a handful of DVDs pertaining to Indian players (Anand, Negi, Sachdev, Shah), but the collection has now grown to 95. Recently, we introduced 15 new products in the shop. In this article we will acquaint you with the ones that deal with 1.e4 with white and against 1.e4 with black. We have made sure to handpick the best possible DVDs authored by renowned players and coaches.
The National Junior Championship is in progress in Andhra Pradesh with many of India's strong junior players in attendance. The top four seeds — Md. Nubairshah Shaikh, Praneeth Surya, Ojas Kulkarni, Sayantan Das, all in the 2400 range — are having a terrible tournament, languishing behind their lower rated peers. Vaishali lost early to a much lower rated peer, but then she played in her usual standard. Tactics and more in our illustrated report.
How about sitting in the comforts of your living room and challenging a player anywhere in the world to play a game with you on a "real chess set"? Sound's impossible right! With the world's smartest chess board - Square Off, it no longer is! This article deals with the journey of how this revolutionizing chess technology was created. After years of hard work and innumerable prototypes, the final product is now ready. And you can be the proud owner of the Square Off chess set by supporting their campaign on Kickstarter!
Just as the five-time world champion Vishy Anand returned to India from his positive campaign at the Tal Memorial 2016, we caught up with him for an informal Q&A, where Anand commented about the 2016 World Championship, Karjakin's chances against Carlsen, and retirement plans. Know more...
Pavel Eljanov concluded his brilliant campaign with a final draw against Wesley So, securing first place. Fabiano Caruana managed to level with him after beating Michael Adams in a big game but came second on tiebreak. For India, things were bitter-sweet. Vidit played a beautiful game but allowed a repetition due to the shortage of time. Harika entered world top-5 once again. Analyses, tactics and more. We have an illustrated report.
Vijayadashami is a popular Indian religious festival among the masses with many parts of the country witnessing grand celebrations. Kolkata is popular for its Durga Puja. But another city that leads the festivities is Mysore, the cleanest city in India. R.Anantharam, a regular contributor to ChessBase, was the chief arbiter at the Viktor Korchnoi Memorial Tournament that finished some days back. He sends us a report on the tournament, plus a brief tour of the famous Mysore Dasara!
At 14, she was already a grandmaster. At 16, the women's world champion. Hou Yifan is 22 now and is showing no signs of stopping. The Isle of Man wasn't a great event for her. However, it is but a minor setback. Don’t miss this chance to #AskYifan whatever chess question you ever wanted answered by a strong player, a world champion at that! Her views on Hijabgate? Women in chess? Her games where she beat the living daylights out of her opponents? Everything! Find out how...
On the rest day of the Olympiad 2016 in Baku, we gave you a picture of Harikrishna eating Roti and a paneer vegetable, and asked you to suggest a funny caption for the picture! The best one was to receive a Master Class Vol.07: Garry Kasparov DVD. The response was overwhelming! There were more than 70 captions in the comments section. In this article we not only announce the winner, but have three extra prizes. We thank each and everyone who commented for their involvement and enthusiasm.
