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Can a massive volume of lengthy chess interviews, some dating back to over two decades, attract chess enthusiasts today, can it be of interest to a heavily satiated chess audience? You bet it can. Frederic Friedel started reading the 476-page book – and was immediately hooked. He describes the reason for his fascination and tells us what is unique about this work.
The new generation of chess stars is here, with no fewer than nine players aged 19 or younger rated above 2650 at the time. In a 7-part series, we will look at the performances of the top juniors in 2022. Penultimate in line is 18-year-old Vincent Keymer. In September last year, the unassuming boy from Mainz crossed the 2700 rating barrier for the first time in his career. And just a couple of weeks ago, he proudly took home the silver medal from the World Rapid Championship in Almaty! | Photo: Amruta Mokal
We have been trying to keep track of incredible playing strength and title wins at a very early age. It started with Capablanca and Reshevsky, and today we are seeing full grandmasters aged thirteen — and in two cases even just twelve! Most recently it was Abhimanyu Mishra who achieved the title at twelve years and just under five months. It is time to update our prodigy page, with better graphics and a few telling graphs. We also invite our readers to contribute.
Magnus Carlsen beat reigning World Rapid Champion Nodirbek Abdusattorov in brilliant style as he scored 4.5/5 on Day 1 of the World Rapid Champions...
The result of the eagerly awaited rematch of the 2018 World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana in the quarterfinals of the chess.com Speedchess Championship was one-sided. Caruana didn't take his chances, Carlsen took them all and demonstrated world championship level chess in 5+1 blitz, in 3+1 blitz and in bullet. He even managed to satisfy his harshest critic. | Graphics: Chess.com