December 28, 2016

Vassily Ivanchuk is new World Champion in Rapid Chess

The World Rapid Championships in Doha, Qatar, had a dramatic finish. Before the last round five players shared the lead. Three of these five players won in the last round: Magnus Carlsen, Alexander Grischuk, and Vassily Ivanchuk. The tie-break had to decide – in this case, the Elo-average of the opponents. And here Ivanchuk was best and became World Rapid […]
December 19, 2016

Wesley So, winner of the London Chess Classic and Grand Chess Tour 2016

Wesley So is a double winner in London. On Sunday he also secured first place at London Chess Classic, and he won 295.000 $ in total. Fabiano Caruana couldn’t catch up with his compatriot. Veselin Topalov finally managed to win a game in the last round against Aronian Levon, and Anish Giri finished with 9/9 draws. Here is the final standings table: […]
December 1, 2016

Carlsen remains World Champion!

Magnus Carlsen won the World Championship match against Sergey Karjakin with a final result of 9-7 after 12 regular and 4 rapid games in the tie-break. After three tie-break games, he led with 2-1 and Karjakin had to win the fourth tie-break game with Black. He desperately tried to create some chances for a win, but this allowed Carlsen to mate […]
November 29, 2016

World chess championship-game 12

The game has ended in a short draw. After regular 12 games, the match result is 6-6, 10 draws and one win for each other. Carlsen and Karjakin will play Tiebreaks on Wednesday on Carlsen’s 26th birthday. If 4 rapid games end up with no final result, 5 blitz games will follow. Finally, if nothing until then is decided an Armageddon game will be […]