A Champion Is Born: Vaishali Beats Lagno to Win the 2026 FIDE Women’s Candidates On April 14, 2026, at the Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort in Paphos, Cyprus, 24-year-old Indian grandmaster Vaishali Rameshbabu wrote one of the most inspiring chapters in modern chess history. With a controlled, technically magnificent victory over Ukraine’s Kateryna Lagno… Continue reading Fide Candidates 2026, Women. Round 14, Vaishali, Rameshbabu – Lagno, Kateryna
Category: Classical Games
Fide Candidates 2026. Round 13, Giri – Sinadarov. Sindarov won in the tournament!
Candidates 2026, Round 13: Sindarov Strikes Gold Against Giri Round 13 of the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament brought a decisive moment in the race for the World Championship ticket, as Javokhir Sindarov defeated Anish Giri in a game that had enormous consequences for the final standings. In a tournament where every half-point mattered, Sindarov found… Continue reading Fide Candidates 2026. Round 13, Giri – Sinadarov. Sindarov won in the tournament!
Anatoly, Karpov – Anatoly, Zaitsev. Chess battle in Caro-Kann defence
A Caro-Kann Masterpiece: Karpov vs. Zaitsev and the Art of Positional Domination Among the many instructive games in Anatoly Karpov’s legendary career, his encounter with Igor Zaitsev in the Caro-Kann Defense stands as a particularly fine example of the twelfth World Champion’s unique genius — the ability to transform a solid, symmetrical opening into a… Continue reading Anatoly, Karpov – Anatoly, Zaitsev. Chess battle in Caro-Kann defence
Steinitz – Bardebelen. Classical chess combination in Italian game
The Immortal Combination: Steinitz vs. von Bardeleben, Hastings 1895 There are chess combinations that impress. There are combinations that astonish. And then there is Wilhelm Steinitz’s finishing attack against Curt von Bardeleben at the legendary Hastings tournament of 1895 — a sequence so forcing, so brilliant, and so relentlessly precise that von Bardeleben famously left… Continue reading Steinitz – Bardebelen. Classical chess combination in Italian game
Fide Candidates 2026. Round 8, Giri – Praggnanandhaa
Candidates 2026, Round 8: Giri Strikes Back — A Revenge Victory Over Praggnanandhaa The 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament in Paphos, Cyprus delivered one of its most satisfying storylines in Round 8 — Anish Giri’s emphatic revenge victory over Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, the very player who had handed the Dutch grandmaster a painful defeat in Round 1.… Continue reading Fide Candidates 2026. Round 8, Giri – Praggnanandhaa