Think your bishop’s opening, queen’s gambit, and pawn play are unique? A new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm has got your chess style pegged. AI software can already identify people by their voices or handwriting. Now, an AI has shown it can tag people based on their chess-playing behavior, an advance […]
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A little-known 17-year-old from Uzbekistan made a clean sweep of Magnus Carlsen and the global chess elite on Tuesday, incidentally setting a new world age record. Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the World Rapid championship in Warsaw, claiming en route the scalps of Magnus Carlsen and the No 1’s last two challengers, […]
My grandfather was a man with a tut as loud as a dropped plate. He’d deploy it whenever you fell short in some way: a length of the pool finished too slowly; a garden bed not weeded well enough; a portion of vegetables left unfinished. But he softened over chess, […]
Fresh from his crushing victory over Ian Nepomniachtchi in Dubai, Magnus Carlsen opens his defence of his world rapid and blitz titles in Warsaw starting at 2pm GMT on Boxing Day. The 31-year-old Norwegian faces a serious double threat to his ambition to hold three crowns – classical, rapid and […]
In contrast, his challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi, looks despondent and resigned to defeat. He faces an almost insurmountable task in the World Chess Championship, and surveying the board one last time, smiles knowingly and stops the clock. He’s resigned the round, and title, to the now-five time world champion Carlsen. The […]
Nepomniachtchi may be down and almost out, but he is assured a place in the eight-player 2022 Candidates. If he wins that, then historical parallels – Vasily Smyslov in 1954 and 1957, Boris Spassky in 1966 and 1969, and Garry Kasparov in 1984 and 1985 – suggest that he will […]
1.31pm GMT13:31 The players exchange rooks then knights during the next flurry of moves (13. Bd3 Re8 14. Re1 Rxe1+ 15. Nxe1 Ne6 16. Nxe6 Bxe6). The position is simplifying quickly. Says the English IM Lawrence Trent on Chess24’s broadcast “I think it’s becoming more clear that Ian’s objective today […]
1.03pm GMT13:03 Carlsen spends 10 minutes on his sixth move. Ultimately, he goes with the predicted 6. … Nf6, transposing into a more mainstream position. Nepomniachtchi answers with 7. Nbd2. A quick note on the scale of the task facing Nepomniachtchi. The world No 5 is attempting to become only […]