Dear chess fans! the penultimate round 11 of season 20 is played tomorrow Friday, 11th Apr 2025, at the usual time! Please note that round 12 will be played only in 2 weeks, because next week I am travelling!

The 2025 Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam delivered high-stakes drama as Ian Nepomniachtchi staged a breathtaking comeback to catch Magnus Carlsen at the top, finishing the round-robin stage deadlocked

Dear chess fans! Round 10 of season 20 is played tomorrow Friday, 04th Apr 2025, at the usual time, but please double check your local time, as in Europe there was the shift to summer time! The current

Five years after his inspiring rise from a Manhattan homeless shelter to national chess fame, 14-year-old Tani Adewumi has reached another milestone—earning the International Master title. At the NYC Chess

With the help of Detlev this city will forever remain in our memory. Discover or rediscover the beauty of Aachen!

Today I'm going to be bringing you one of the craziest tactics that I have managed to find in a while...

Dear chess fans! Round 6 of season 20 is played this Friday, 7th Mar 2025, at the usual time. The current standings after 5 rounds you can find here. Just as an additional reminder (some people don´t read

In round 2, Keymer Vincent, the young German prodigy known for his razor-sharp calculations, found himself on the wrong side of a devastating blow delivered by India’s chess wizard, Aravindh Chithambaram

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"Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration,

"Life, like chess, is about balance. Too much aggression can lead to downfall, too much caution can lead to stagnation. The key is finding the harmony between the two." This past weekend was

We often get stucked in the stories we tell ourselves. I personally dwell in the mistakes I have made and tell myself things like "I'm not good enough", "it's too late for me to achieve

Dear chess fans! Round 4 of season 20 is played tomorrow Friday, 21st Feb 2025, at the usual time. The current standings after 3 rounds you can find here. After the chess960 excursion last week we are

"Perhaps you don’t need to use all the 960 starting positions but, let’s say, 200 or 300? I don’t know the exact number. I think that really would get rid of all the forced draws, because it’s impossible

Dear chess fans, yesterday the third round of S20 was played with the chess960 variant. For the rules please refer to the announcement post. 26 players were participating, so many players we had not since

Hello everyone. A bit busy week but finally time for the results and rewards for the 2nd Chess960 tournament. Maybe late announcement or low rewards resulted in not so big participation but hey - at the

Dear chess fans! Round 3 of season 20 is played tomorrow Friday, 14th Feb 2025, at the usual time. The current standings after the first two rounds you can find here. Since currently in Germany the first

Hello everyone, I hope you all are having a great week? I did another #Hivechess Study contribution on Adding some games played over the last Hivechess weekend. Analysis was carried out without computer

Dear chess fans! In the meantime the prices and payouts from S7 were distributed to to all eligible players. At the end 390 Hive could be distributed, even more than in the previous season! Thanks again

Hello guys! These are my picks for the group stage of the @blocktrades World Cup. If you want to join the Cup, click here ScoreTeamTeamScore TRussiavsSaudi ArabiaT LEgyptvsUruguayW WMoroccovsIranL