Grenke Chess Festival 2026, Round 9: Carlsen Delivers a Masterclass Against Chopra The 2026 Grenke Chess Festival has been one of the most compelling elite tournaments of the year, and Round 9 provided its most captivating moment yet — Magnus Carlsen, the greatest chess player of his generation, facing India’s rising star Aryan Chopra in… Continue reading Grenke Chess Festival 2026. Round 9, Magnus Carlsen – Aryan Chopra
Category: Classical Games
Fide Candidates 2026. Round 6, Nakamura – Praggnanandhaa
Candidates 2026, Round 6: Nakamura vs. Praggnanandhaa — Experience Meets Fearlessness Round 6 of the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament delivered one of the most eagerly anticipated matchups of the entire event. Hikaru Nakamura — America’s most battle-hardened competitor, five-time US Champion, and a player whose competitive fire burns as intensely today as it did at… Continue reading Fide Candidates 2026. Round 6, Nakamura – Praggnanandhaa
Fide Candidates 2026. Round 5, Caruana – Bluebaum
Candidates 2026, Round 5: Caruana Maintains Momentum Against Bluebaum Round 5 of the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament continued to paint a picture of Fabiano Caruana’s dominance as the American grandmaster faced Germany’s Matthias Bluebaum — the tournament’s most modestly rated participant yet a player whose presence in the field was no accident. For Caruana, it… Continue reading Fide Candidates 2026. Round 5, Caruana – Bluebaum
Kotov – Ragozin. Nice positional game in Queen’s gambit declined
A Positional Masterpiece: Kotov vs. Ragozin in the Queen’s Gambit Declined Soviet chess of the 1940s and 1950s produced some of the deepest and most instructive positional games in chess history — an era when the world’s strongest players competed not just for results but for theoretical truth, pushing the boundaries of strategic understanding with… Continue reading Kotov – Ragozin. Nice positional game in Queen’s gambit declined
Fide Candidates 2026. Round 4, Sindarov – Caruana
Candidates 2026, Round 4: Sindarov Faces the Mountain — Caruana in His Sights Round 4 of the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament produced one of the most dramatic David versus Goliath encounters of the entire event. Javokhir Sindarov, the young Uzbek prodigy and tournament wildcard, sat down with the White pieces against Fabiano Caruana — the… Continue reading Fide Candidates 2026. Round 4, Sindarov – Caruana