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Round eight of the #GibChess Battle of Sexes, held at Gibraltar’s Garrison Library on Tuesday 1 February, resulted in a 5½-4½ victory for Team Sabino with the White pieces, increasing their overall score to 42½-37½ – a lead of five points for the men’s team with two rounds to go. The battle is now well and truly joined, with various chances coming and going, but the men’s team lead is starting to look hard to overturn. Report and photos by John Saunders.

Magnus Carlsen is poised to defend his title of World Champion in rapid chess after another powerful performance in the four games played on the second day.

INTERNATIONAL Master (IM) Daniel Quizon opted to play it safe and drew with veteran IM Ricky de Guzman in only 23 moves of a Queen’s Gambit Declined to remain on top after eight rounds of the Philippine National Chess Championship at the Solea Hotel and Resort in Mactan, Cebu, on…

With the World Championship match in Dubai scheduled to kick off on Friday, we get ready for the showdown between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi by recapping the four previous matches, which were all won by Carlsen. In the second instalment, we go over the second match between Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand. Few had predicted it, but the Tiger from Madras gained the right to have a rematch. It was a tense-packed confrontation, with a case of mutual blindness playing a big role in the result. | Photos: Anastasiya Karlovich

The King's Gambit was developed during the Chess and the Renaissance|Renaissance and was the cornerstone of the Italian school of chess. The King's gamb...