Leading Chess Platform Chess.com named the chess players who earned the most prizes in 2022. Top 5:1. Magnus Carlsen (Norway) – $558,596 (7 tournaments);2. Wesley So (USA) – $541,632 (14 tournaments);3. Hikaru Nakamura (USA) – $515,795 (10 tournaments);4. Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) – $429,512 (13 tournaments);5. Alireza Firouzja (France) – $358,542 (7 tournaments). It should be…
Garry Kasparov
Anatoly Karpov took the chess throne quickly and unexpectedly. He had a universal playing style with a fine mastery of gaining an advantage. It was obvious that the world of chess acquired a new star! The player was born on the 23rd of May, 1951. His hometown is Zlatoust which is located in the Urals,…
Sooner or later, chess fans start to wonder who the best player is. Some of them are just curious. Others need an example to strive for. We live in an amazing era. Now we have a Champion who can be called the best – Magnus Carlsen. And not only of our time! There had been…
Each kind of sport has its own organization with managing rights. In chess, FIDE executes this role. It’s an abbreviation for “Federation Internationale des Echecs” in French. The headquarters of this institution is located in Lausanne. In fact, Switzerland can be called the queen of sports. This country of constant neutrality also accommodates the headquarters…
How does one identify the world’s top chess players according to FIDE ratings? To answer this quite reasonable question, an American physics professor Arpad Elo invented a special rating calculation system for a 2-player game. FIDE started using Elo’s ratings back in 1970. Since 2012, separate ratings were implemented for rapid and blitz chess. These…
One of the richest people on the planet, Elon Musk, reacted to the harsh remarks of Garry Kasparov, which he expressed on an American TV channel. In particular, the 13th world champion condemned ambiguous political views on the situation in Ukraine. “Although Kasparov plays chess almost as well as my iPhone, otherwise he is an…
“When Karpov played, he was happy to win the tournament with a half-point advantage, it was normal for him, but Kasparov wanted to play in every game and win as much as possible, that’s what I found the main difference between them.”
Garry Kasparov, in a short interview given to Carl Fredrik Johansson from the Uppsala Chess Academy + in Sweden, commented on the situation between Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann. I understand his frustration and his anger after losing the game and finding other reasons than his own poor play in his game to blame for…
Today, no chess player can defeat a machine. Even Magnus Carlsen on a good day would be powerless. However, this wasn’t always the case. There was a time when matches of a human vs computer in chess did not have an obvious leader. Humans kept demonstrating their superiority. Such encounters used to be incredibly fascinating…
This brilliant chess player is currently the world’s leading grandmaster. Thanks to his success, the game’s popularity skyrocketed in India, his home country. Viswanathan Anand was born in Mayiladuthurai, India, on December 11, 1969. However, his family soon moved to Madras (now Chennai, India’s chess capital). Vishy (as his fans call him) owes a great…