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Chess teaches you a lot of things in life. All that you have to do is look beyond the surface. In this short article author Sagar Shah takes a famous position from the game between Pillsbury and Showalter from 1896 and explains the important concept of "Leaving the comfort zone"! Have a look at the amazing and deep decision made by Harry Pillsbury, who was one of the best American players in late 1800s.
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The India China match is taking place from the 5th of March 2017. It is a four-round Scheveningen event where four players from India play against four from China. Indian team consists of Ganguly, Sethuraman, Abhijeet Gupta and Karthikeyan Murali. China has Wei Yi, Bu Xiangzhi, Lu Shanglei and Zhou Jianchao. Here's the live game page where you can see the live games as well as all the encounters of previous rounds. Live games begin everyday at 12.00 p.m. IST.
One of the strongest chess country in the world is playing a Scheveningen match with the rising power India. With some of the most talented players from both countries in the fray, the event is not to be missed by any Indian! Enjoy the illustrated report.
The Aeroflot Open 2017 was one of the most important tournaments from an Indian point of view in the last few days. Big stars like Adhiban, Sasikiran, Sethuraman, Vidit, Abhijeet and many more grandmasters were taking part at the event. While none of them could achieve anything special, there were fresh names who performed really well. We take a look at them and give you an idea about how Indian chess is really growing in a huge way. If one player doesn't perform well, someone else does! Detailed report with pictures, analysis and much more.
The dramatic final tiebreaker of the Women’s World Championship ended with a victory for the one with steel-like nerves: Tan Zhongyi from China. As we expected, the Chinese showed a great control over her nerves to bring the best of her game forward and defeated yet another favorite to win the tournament, Anna Muzychuk, to win the coveted title. Illustrated report and analysis by GM Elshan Moradiabadi.
India and China are currently the two super powers in the chess world. While China has been dominating the world of chess by winning the Olympiad, Women's World title and having many 2700+ players, India has been steadily growing a horde of talented youngsters who are soon to take the world of chess by storm. Naturally a match between these two giants is looked forward to by great enthusiasm by the chess fans.
Why do chess players become stronger? If you ask Nihal Sarin and Praggnanandhaa, two of India's greatest talents, they will advise you to just play as much as you can and learn from those games. Turns out, Bobby Fischer also used the same strategy to improve as a chess player. Read this story to understand the life of young Bobby and also know more about India's first Prize Money Online Chess Tournament!
The classical part of world women championship in Tehran, Iran, has concluded but the winner, similar to the last World Championship in New York, has yet to be determined by tiebreak. The two finalists, after shedding blood in rounds two and three, took a rest and agreed to a rather fast draw in the last round to go for a tiebreak. Report, tiebreak preview, and analysis by GM Elshan Moradiabadi.
The biggest tournament in Central India is here. After organizing two successful editions in 2009 and 2016, Syna Open will take place for third time from the 1st to the 6th of May 2017 in Katni, Madhya Pradesh. With total 80 prizes and prize money of 5,51,000 (first prize - 1,00,000) there is a high chance that you will return with much more than just fond memories. Here is an invitation to the tournament with the ability to enroll yourself for the tournament.
The third game of the Women World Chess Championship in Tehran saw one of the best games of the tournament so far! What else could make a championship as spectacular as this than to have the the best games of the event take place in the very last rounds! Trailing by a point, Anna Muzychuk could not believe her eyes when she was given the chance for the classic Greek gift with a bishop sac on h7. Full report with analysis by GM Elshan Moradiabadi.
All those who followed the Women's World Championship 2017, can understand that Harika's feat was truly something special. She was down in the dumps on many occasions but fought back and very nearly made it to the finals. The girl from Hyderabad is a three-time bronze medal winner. Yet, when she arrived at the airport she had absolutely no one to receive her for her feat - no media, no officials. It was just her parents. A sportsperson like Harika surely deserves better.
In the second game of the four-game finals for the Women's World Championship 2017, Tan Zhongyi managed to put immense pressure on birthday-girl Anna Muzychuk with the white pieces. She played a technical game, perfectly suiting her style, and won thanks to the bad knight in her opponent's position. Illustrated report by GM analysis by Jacob Aagaard.
B. Adhiban played some amazing chess at the Tata Steel Masters 2017 in Wijk Aan Zee. After the tournament ended Adhiban said, "My good friend Vishnu Prasanna was my second for the tournament. His role was to ensure that I wouldn't lose in the opening!" Vishnu performed his role to perfection and Adhiban finished third! On 1st of March at 9 p.m. we have the ChessBase India online show on playchess that features Vishnu. And you can ask him all the questions that you would like to ask about Tata Steel, chess improvement or just about anything!
In the first game of the four-game finals for the Women's World Championship 2017, Tan Zhongyi managed to carry out her game strategy by forcing a calm and strategic play onto Anna Muzychuk. The opening she chose to play with black did not allow Anna, with her white any chances to put pressure. Illustrated report by GM analysis by Elshan Moradiabadi.
One of the strongest open tournaments in the world is currently in progress in Aeroflot Moscow. 25 Indian players are participating at the event which is segregated into three different categories: A - above 2550, B - 2300-2550 and C - 2300 and below. This tournament is of special interest to us because many of our strong players including Adhiban, Sethuraman, Vidit, Sasikiran, Abhijeet etc. are playing in the A group. We have the pictures along with game analysis.
