Hints and tips:
...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Raine also advised both sides as Nassef Sawiris and Wesley Edens welcomed new investment from investment firm Atairos into V Sports, the owner of Aston Villa, just days before Ratcliffe struck his agreement...
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2513 Michael Coenen v Philipp Lamby, Bundesliga 2022. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...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 2488 Nikita Vitiugov v Vladimir Kosyrev, Wroclaw 2014. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2490 Wesley So v Viktor Laznicka, New Delhi 2011. White to move and win. The current US champion’s queen looks in danger, with an extra threat to White’s f4 knight. How did So escape?...
...In the penultimate round, Wesley So had a winning position against Firouzja, but spoilt it and lost....
...Puzzle 2489 Gata Kamsky v Judit Polgar, Buenos Aires 1994. The all-time No1 woman was doubly threatened with immediate checkmate by 1 d8=Q mate or 1 Qf8 mate....
...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+!...
...Puzzle 2479 Danyyil Dvirnyy v Judit Polgar, Yerevan 2014. Black to move and win. How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king?...
...Puzzle 2470 Ding Liren v Xu Xiangyu, Hangzhou 2022. White to move and win....
...Puzzle 2467 Laszlo Szabo v Ludek Pachman, Marianske Lazne 1954. White to move and win. More than one move works, but White found the quickest route. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2435 Zhao Hue v Julia Ryjanova, Shenzhen China v Australia, Fide online Olympiad 2021. White to move. How did she win Black’s apparently safe queen? Click here for solution...
...Before that, a semi-final is between top players from Russia and China, Vladislav Artemiev v Ding Liren....
...The final of the $100,000 Skilling Open last Monday coincided, perhaps intentionally, with the Norwegian’s 30th birthday, but Wesley So proved the spoiler....
...Now England is outside the top 10 countries. 2409 Wesley So v Magnus Carlsen, St Louis v Norway, online 2017....
...Games can be watched, free and live, every afternoon until Sunday March 21 (4pm GMT start). 2411 Wesley So v Magnus Carlsen, Paris 2016. Black to move. White threatens an immediate end by Qxe8 mate....
...Puzzle 2410 Nigel Short v Erik Blomqvist, Malmo 2017. White (Short) to move, has level material, while Black has a menacing back rank attack. What should the former world title challenger play?...
...A key game on the very first day will be Fabiano Caruana v Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, pre-tournament favourite v current leader. 2407 White mates in three moves, against any defence (by Sam Loyd, 1857)....
...Last week’s $150,000 US Championship, played online and organised by America’s chess centre at St Louis, ended with its winner, Wesley So, harking back to Bobby Fischer’s brilliant performances in the 1960s...
...Rasmus Svane, Russia v Germany, European teams 2019....
...Wesley So, Bucharest rapid 2019....
...Puzzle 2295 Etienne Bacrot v Wesley So, chesscom.2018. Material is level and there seems nothing decisive, but France’s No2 (White, to play) beat the US No2 with a concept several moves deep....
...Puzzle 2268 Fabiano Caruana v Wesley So, Stavanger 2018. Black (to move) chose 1 . . . Rd3? which quickly lost to 2 Qg2! Can you find the better choice which would have forced a draw?...
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