Hints and tips:
...Puzzle 2569 Joseph Zeltsan v Ethan Sheehan, Chesterfield, USA, 2023. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
...Puzzle 2558 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Royal v Koepke: 1 Qxh7+! Kxh7 2 Rh4+ Kg8 3 Rh8 mate. Chess 24941...Rg4+! 2 Kxg4 Qg2+ 3 Kh5 Qf3 mate. Chess 24931 Re8+! Rxe8 2 Qxg7+!...
...The final on Thursday and Friday (noon GMT start) will be Carlsen v Caruana, World No 1 v No 2 and a repeat of the 2018 classical world championship match....
...Puzzle 2564 Mateusz Bartel v Gergely Szabo, Hungarian teams 2017. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2556 Kristina Brankov v Maria Manakova, Serbian League 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2557 Esteban Canal v Amateur, Budapest 1934. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2555 Owen Robson v Daniel Hill, York 2022. White to move and win. In the actual game, White resigned! He reckoned he was lost due to the threats of Bxc7 and Rxg2+. Can you do better?...
...Puzzle 2552 Keres v Laszlo Szabo, Budapest 1955. White to move and win. How did Keres defeat the top Hungarian player of his time? Click here for solution...
...The Carlsen v Kasparov debate will continue. For Kasparov, it is argued that he was world champion for 15 years, and stayed No1 for a further five....
...Against Carlsen, his accuracy rate was in the mid-nineties against the No 1’s in the mid-eighties, a similar statistic to Carlsen v Niemann....
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2538 Vladimir Fedoseev v Ian Nepomniachtchi, Julius Baer Generation Cup 2023. Black to move. White has two queens and threatens Qh8 mate. What happened? Click here for solution...
...The final could be Russia v Ukraine, depending on what happens in Thursday’s tie-break speed games. The action can be followed on chess24.com, starting at noon....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...Puzzle number 2534A Magnus Carlsen v Nijat Abasov, World Cup semi-final, Baku 2023. Black chose 1 . . . Rg6 and lost. How could he have beaten the World No 1?...
...The historic Oxford v Cambridge varsity match, the oldest fixture in world chess, reaches 150 years this Saturday when the eight-a-side teams begin play at its traditional venue, the Royal Automobile Club...
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...Evidently Wojtaszek knew Karpov v Miles well, as he chose a harmonious formation with Nbd2 to guard his e4 pawn where Karpov had preferred the less precise Qe2....
...A more significant opening came in Fabiano Caruana v Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, where the 2018 world title challenger launched 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 h4!?...
...Puzzle 2518 Ding Liren v Wang Hao, Ningbo 2011. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
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