Congratulations to Axel Smith of Sweden on gaining the Grandmaster title. FIDE confirmed on Monday that the title would be awarded. Axel has been highly successful in helping other players to improve, and it’s good to see his methods also worked on himself. The Quality Chess connection to Axel is of course that he wrote […]
It’s results time on our Candidates Quiz. Thanks for all your entries. The correct answers were: 1) Who will win the Candidates tournament? Karjakin 2) What will the winning score be? 8.5 3) Who will score the first win? Anand 4) How many games will reach move 60? 11 5) Which American will finish higher
Candidates 2016 Quiz – Results Read Post »
Last week’s poll question led to a clear answer: the Candidates events are generally more exciting than World Championship matches. So it’s good news that the 2016 Candidates starts in Moscow on Friday. Last year we had a quiz about the World Cup. It seemed like fun, so we will have another go for the
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My attention was drawn to IM Andy Martin’s choice of BCM Game of the Month for February 2016. That’s a link to a YouTube video of Andy going through the game – I haven’t had time to watch the video yet. But what’s this got to do with Quality Chess? The game uses, with devastating
Still Playing the Trompowsky Read Post »
It has been a couple of weeks since the World Cup finished in Baku, which also meant that we had reached the end of the road for our World Cup Quiz. Roughly 20 contestants made it through the initial qualifying questions, and there were several still on the same score by the time the semi-finals
World Cup Quiz Winners Read Post »
We mentioned a few weeks ago that two Quality Chess books reached the shortlist of four for the ECF Book of the Year prize. Mauricio Flores Rios made the shortlist alongside Garry Kasparov and Joel Benjamin, but it was Boris Gelfand’s Positional Decision Making in Chess which won the prize. So congratulations to Boris and
ECF Book of Year is won by… Boris Gelfand Read Post »
Our World Cup Quiz (previous instalments here and here) attracted almost 200 entrants, but you may recall there were three qualifying questions to narrow the field: A: What will the most common opening move be in round 1: 1.e4 or 1.d4 or neither? B: Which of these home players will go further: Mamedov or Safarli?
World Cup Quiz – The Survivors Read Post »
A few weeks back (as we assume you have noticed) the English Chess Federation released their shortlist of nominees for book of the year (going from 1st August 2014 to 31st July 2015). Each publisher is allowed to send two books to the judges. A shortlist of four books is then announced. Both books we