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...Puzzle 2558 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Half of the eight competitors, including world No 1 Magnus Carlsen and the current world champion Ding Liren, are over-30s, while the other four are under-21s....
...Magnus Carlsen won another two world championships last week when the Norwegian, 33, again confirmed his status as the outstanding player of his generation....
...Puzzle 2564 Mateusz Bartel v Gergely Szabo, Hungarian teams 2017. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Last year, chess fans and the wider public were gripped by the continuing saga of world No 1 Magnus Carlsen v Hans Niemann, which included allegations of historic cheating, withdrawal from a major tournament...
...The world No1, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, abdicated his title in 2023 after a 10-year reign....
...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 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?...
...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black 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 2557 Esteban Canal v Amateur, Budapest 1934. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle number 2533 Vincent Keymer v Magnus Carlsen, World Cup, Baku 2023. Black to move and win. The world No1 chose 1....Nd2+ and only drew. How could he have won? Click here for solution...
...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...
...Magnus Carlsen, now the ex-world champion though still the No1 ranked player, returned to chess this week after a brief period at the poker table....
...The quarter-finals of the chess.com Speed Championship include Nakamura v Levon Aronian at 2000 GMT on Monday December 12, Carlsen v Fabiano Caruana at 1800 GMT on Tuesday 13, and Wesley So v Maxime Vachier-Lagrave...
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Magnus Carlsen, the world champion, faces his strongest test yet from the new teenage generation when the “chess Wimbledon”, Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee, starts at the small North Sea town on Saturday January...
...China’s Ding Liren, who was crowned the new world champion earlier this month following Magnus Carlsen’s abdication, is already back in action....
...Puzzle 2513 Michael Coenen v Philipp Lamby, Bundesliga 2022. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2484 Artur Yusupov v Adarsh Jayakumar, Arlington 2015, White to move and win....
...Puzzle 2496 David Howell v Das Debashis, Doha 2016. White to move and win. The three-time British champion and Olympiad gold medallist scores in style. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2518 Ding Liren v Wang Hao, Ningbo 2011. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...The much anticipated Magnus Carlsen v Hans Niemann rematch on Monday evening ended abruptly when Norway’s world champion resigned after making just one black move and after less than a minute’s play in the...
...Puzzle 2488 Nikita Vitiugov v Vladimir Kosyrev, Wroclaw 2014. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
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