Given this analysis, bookmakers may be underestimating the defending champ’s chances. At Ladbrokes, Carlsen is a 1-4 favorite, and Anand is an 11-4 dog. Factoring out the vig, this implies a 75 percent chance of a Carlsen championship — that’s the chance I estimate if draws are never...
Singapore (AFP) –Defending world chess champion Ding Liren and teenage challenger Gukesh Dommaraju played to a fifth consecutive draw Wednesday, with neither player taking the lead after eight games. China's chess grandmaster Ding Liren (R) and Indian grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju remain ...
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champ who lost Cold War’s ‘Match of the Century,’ dies at 88 Soviet chess legend Boris Spassky, who lost the 1972 "Match of the Century" to American Bobby Fischer in a Cold War-era showdown, has died at 88. The match, viewed as a symbolic battle bet...
This match is scheduled to take place in 2023. In 2013 Carlsen became World Champion, and in 2023 he will be holding the title for almost ten years. That is a long time, and only four of the 16 World Champions in the history of chess had a longer reign: Emanuel Lasker, Alexander Ale...
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Who is likely to be next to challenge the champ? Using the eight candidates’ most recentElo ratings, I simulated a million hypothetical Candidates Tournaments and tallied the winners. Here are each player’s chances of winning the tournament based on those simulations: ...
HAVANA, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Current World Rapid Chess champion Vassily Ivanchuk will be competing in Cuba's international Capablanca Memorial tournament this summer, it was reported on Friday. The Ukrainian grandmaster, 48, will look to claim his eighth title at the annual tournament, set to...
How Bobby Fischer battled the Sicilian Fischer liked to play aggressive but basically sound lines against the Sicilian and many of his variations are still very much alive and a good choice for players of all levels. More... The 28th World Senior Chess Championship was played in Bled (Slovenia...
Inspired by the legendary exploits of former champ and (arguably) the greatest Indian chess player of all time,Viswanathan ‘Vishy’ Anand, Gukesh’s imagination ignited. He envisioned himself sitting at the same hallowed table, battling the best. “The 2013 World Championship match between then ...
Inspired by the legendary exploits of former champ and (arguably) the greatest Indian chess player of all time,Viswanathan ‘Vishy’ Anand, Gukesh’s imagination ignited. He envisioned himself sitting at the same hallowed table, battling the best. “The 2013 World Championship match between then ...