Indian Attack News Today

“In ‘miniature’ games, errors are soon magnified” - Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times Hello chess friends! Welcome to the annual miniatures column, where we limit the entries to games of 25 moves or less in length. For this year’s selection, all of the games were won by the players of the black pieces. The games are presented here in order of ECO Code.

Chess player Medina Warda Aulias steps were stopped in the fourth or last 16 round of the 2023 Chess World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan. Medina made a tactical mistake in the second match of rapid chess.

Attacking is what is most fun in chess. Ideally, you mate! But how do you make your attack successful? On his latest Fritztrainer, Grandmaster Karsten Müller has put together some rules of thumb for a successful attack. Christian Höthe has taken a look at the course.

The Philippines drew with second seed Israel, 2-2, in the fifth and penultimate round Friday, Feb. 3, to stay on course for a podium finish in the 1st FIDE Olympiad for People with Disabilities in Belgrade, Serbia. Sander Severino draws his match to help the PH team to a 2-2 standoff in the penu

Wesley So settled for a draw with India’s Parham Maghsoodloo to slip to third place after nine rounds of the Tata Steel Chess Masters in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands Tuesday, Jan. 24. Wesley So's (left) ninth-round draw puts him at solo third with 5.5 points. (Tournament Images) The 29-year-old S

The Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the second event of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour, continued on Saturday. GM Viswanathan Anand was confirmed as the tournament leader after scoring six wins, two draws, and one loss and winning the rapid section. GM Richard Rapport was the one player able to beat Anand...

The second day of the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the second event of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour, continued today with outstanding results by GM Viswanathan Anand and GM Richard Rapport. The pair surged ahead of the field after they scored 2.5/3 and 3/3, respectively, during Friday's three games. Anand...

In the first day of the Champions Chess Tour, Gawain Jones played the Kings Indian against Vidit Gujrathi because it is a very legit weapon. One of Svitlana's favourite openings deserves a second part, to get into some deeper strategic territory. What if White is castling on the queen side? We adjust our plans, and build up some important decisions. Svitlana analyses an interesting King's Indian game between Ivan Cheparinov, and Wang Yue!

The King's Indian is a very straight-forward, aggressive opening. Basically, Black builds up a system in the first couple of moves, and once it is set up, the attacking begins! White tries to counter on the queenside, in most cases. But please take a look at it all for yourself in this episode of "Svitlana's Smart Moves".

U.S. GM Hikaru Nakamura, after a long absence from over-the-board competition, has stormed back to snare one of the last two coveted slots on offer in the upcoming Candidates Tournament, the eight-grandmaster chess round-robin that will produce the next challenger to world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway.