The 2018 Candidates Chess Tournament will take place 10-28 March in Berlin. The prize fund will total €420,000, or an estimated $500,000 at the current exchange rate. In addition to €420,000, the prize will also include 10% of the...
The Long Hard Road to Challenge Magnus Carlsen
The road to challenge Magnus Carlsen 8 players will compete in the Candidates Tournament. The winner will then be the challenger to Magnus Carlsen in the World Championship. Sergey Karjakin already qualified as he will be seeded as the...
A look back to 1992
1992-93 Candidates Tournament (Wiki) The six qualifiers from the Interzonal Tournament were joined by Chiburdanidze, who had lost the last title match, and Marić, the runner-up from the previous Candidates Tournament. In addition to these eight, FIDE decided to...
A chess promotion dilemma
Masters of Chess, Not Self-Promotion By ANDREW HIGGINS MARCH 30, 2016 MOSCOW — In the chandeliered ballroom of Pashkov House, an 18th-century mansion on a hill overlooking the Kremlin, a chess grandmaster dressed in a jacket that seemed several...
Anand on his Candidates performance: “A bit of a roller coaster”
By Sagar Shah Moscow: Viswanathan Anand brought his World Candidates Championship campaign to a close, settling for a draw in his last match against Peter Svidler. The Indian ace, who conceded the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen for the...
Proud to represent Russia
Crimea-born grandmaster Karjakin proud to represent Russia at world chess leadership match Sport March 30, 9:06 UTC+3 Sergey Karjakin Sergey Karjakin, a 26-year-old Russian chess grandmaster, is now the contender for the world’s chess crown, which currently belongs to...
Dramatic ending to Candidates Tournament
Karjakin wins World Chess Candidates Tournament Sport March 28, 19:54 UTC+3 He will now play with the incumbent world champion, Norwegian Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, in a match for the world chess crown in the United States in November 2016...
Karjakin defeated Caruana to earn the right to challenge Carlsen
Karjakin 1-0 Caruana 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 a6 8. O-O-O Bd7 9. f4 h6 10. Bh4 b5 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. f5 Qb6...
One game for a shot at the World Championship
The 13th round of the FIDE World Candidates Tournament 2016 was held today at the DI Telegraph in Moscow, Russia. Karjakin and Caruana enter the last round with 7,5/13 points each. Despite playing white pieces Veselin Topalov run into early...