Pirc Defense News Today

The column "All in One" was introduced in in ChessBase Magazine about four years ago. On the basis of a single, but very extensively annotated game, you learn everything you need to know about a specific opening line. A compact format with which you can improve your know-how without much effort. In the current ChessBase Magazine #214 Igor Stohl introduces you to the Hippopotamus setup, a system that can be used with Black against practically anything.

New world champion GM Ding Liren of China and challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia were back in action barely more than a week after their grueling, four-week match last month -- and it showed.

The world chess championship may be decided by a freeze and a fake-out. The unexpectedly compelling 14-game title match in Astana, Kazakhstan, between Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and Chinese GM Ding Liren is entering the home stretch.

Filipino International Master Paulo Bersamina continued to carry the fight for the host country as he drew with top seed Grandmaster Susanto Megaranto of Indonesia to remain tied at the helm after eight rounds of the AQ Prime ASEAN Chess Championship at the Great Eastern Hotel in Quezon City Thursda

Woman Grandmaster Janelle Mae Frayna settled for a 40-move draw of a Queen’s Pawn game with Jan Jodilyn Fronda to stay on top after the 10th and penultimate round in the 2021 National Women’s Chess Championship at the PACE building in Quezon City Thursday. The standoff kept the top-seeded Frayna cl

TOP seed Janelle Mae Frayna drew with third seed Jan Jodilyn Fronda in 40 moves of a Queen’s Pawn opening to cling to the lead after the 10th and penultimate round of the National Women’s Chess Championship at the PACE Building in Quezon City on Thursday. Frayna, 24, kept her…

TOP seed Janelle Mae Frayna unloaded a vicious kingside onslaught to hammer out a 36-move King’s Indian victory over Marian Calimbo and leapfrog to the top after the eighth round of the Philippine National Women’s Chess Championships at the PACE Building in Quezon City on Wednesday. The 24-year-old Frayna, the…

Janelle Mae Frayna Top seed Janelle Mae Frayna outlasted Allaney Jia Doroy to share a share of lead with four others after six rounds of the 2021 National Women’s Chess Championship at the PACE building in Quezon City Tuesday. The 24-year-old Frayna survived the marathon 91-move duel of an English

KYLEN JOY MORDIDO and Jan Jodilyn Fronda hurdled their respective opponents to share the lead after the fourth round of the 2021 Philippine National Women’s Chess Championship at the PACE Building in Quezon City on Monday. Mordido, who is being groomed as the country’s next Woman Grandmaster (GM), crushed 13-year-old…