The invitational norm tournaments brings together players from around the world to compete for cash prizes and the chance to earn Grandmaster and International Master norms. Join GMs Illya Nyzhnyk, Denes Boros, IM Dorsa Derakhshani, and NM Caleb Denby for the move-by-move.
GM Norm Tournament
Vladimir Belous
Chris Repka
Viktor Matviishen
Bali Daggupati
Ivan Schitco
David Brodsky
Josh Ruiz
Evan Park
Kostya Kavutskiy
Josiah Stearman
Live from the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, the inaugural Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland is the second leg of the Grand Chess Tour. Four Tour players (Caruana, Aronian, So, and Rapport) are joined by wildcards (Anand, Duda, Korobov, Wojtaszek, Shevchenko, and Gavrilescu) for a rapid round robin and blitz double round robin event. Today is the first blitz round robin. Join GMs Peter Svidler, Yasser Seirawan, Alejandro Ramirez, Cristian Chirila, and WGM Anastasia Karlovich for the move-by-move.
2022.05.22
KasparovChess.com
GrandChessTour.org
Live from the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, the inaugural Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland is the second leg of the Grand Chess Tour. Four Tour players (Caruana, Aronian, So, and Rapport) are joined by wildcards (Anand, Duda, Korobov, Wojtaszek, Shevchenko, and Gavrilescu) for a rapid round robin and blitz double round robin event. Today has the last three rapid rounds. Join GMs Peter Svidler, Yasser Seirawan, Alejandro Ramirez, Cristian Chirila, and WGM Anastasia Karlovich for the move-by-move.
2022.05.21
KasparovChess.com
GrandChessTour.org
Woman Grandmaster Anastasia Karlovich looks at the opening ceremony, drawing of lots, simul exhibition, and more before the second leg of the Grand Chess Tour.
2022.05.18
KasparovChess.com
GrandChessTour.org
International Master Dorsa Derakhshani continues her series on the French Defense, inspired by Parimarjan Negi.
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2022.05.18
C11 French, Steinitz, Boleslavsky variation
International Master Dorsa Derakhshani shows lessons based on the book "Chess Secrets: The Giants of Power Play" by Neil McDonald.
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National Master Caleb Denby begins a series on beating Black's King's Indian Defense.
2022.05.17
E98 King's Indian, orthodox, Aronin-Taimanov, 9.Ne1
Peter Heine Nielsen vs Boris Kantsler, European Championship (2001)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1168439
Boris Gelfand vs Veselin Topalov, Hoogovens Group A (1996)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1048390
International Master Dorsa Derakhshani shows lessons based on the book "Chess Secrets: The Giants of Power Play" by Neil McDonald.
BUY THE BOOK: https://everymanchess.com/products/chess-secrets-the-giants-of-power-pla...
2022.05.17
A positional game turns into a sharp attack in this game from Harrison Keyser!
Harrison Keyser:
https://www.youtube.com/c/Arcg3/?sub_confirmation=1
https://www.twitch.tv/arcg3
https://lichess.org/@/randomchampgamer
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