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Yesterday I visited the Max Euwe Centre in Amsterdam in order to give a lecture on the upcoming World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and challenger Sergey Karj...

Chessity-founder Janton van Apeldoorn often describes the 'Chessity-project' as an organic process, where bits and pieces are being added on a daily basis. This is indeed...

And then the match came to a sudden end! In game 11 Vishy, making use of the Berlin defense once again, confidently outplayed his opponent. It was, however, not to be. Ma...

Game 10 saw the reigning World Champion returning to the Grunfeld defense. Vishy deviated from game 1 by employing the Russian Variation (4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qb3). The game devel...

Imagine our joy when we were asked to make a recap video on game 9! :) On a more serious note, today was a very good day for Vishy, making an effortless draw in the Berl...

Not exactly the most spectacular game of the match but an important one nonetheless! Game 8 saw Magnus Carlsen showing deep preparation in a rare line of the Queens Gambi...

After a small break -one of your commentators had to play a bit of chess himself- Robert Ris and Erwin l'Ami are back for a recap of game 7. Today was a Berlin Wall and t...

Not the most spectacular game of the match but most certainly enough food for thought. For Anand to have chances in the match it is of vital importance he holds on in dry...

...and the match is wide open once again! Who had seen this coming? Certainly not your commentators in the video underneath! Please have a look and let us know your own p...

The long awaited match has started! In the upcoming weeks IM Robert Ris and yours truly will be giving our view on the World Championship match between reigning champ Mag...

So far the focus on Chessity has been primarily on tactics; and rightly so! Judit Polgar's statement that chess is 99% tactics contains a lot of truth. Still, when your l...

In my 3rd and final blogpost on Carlsen's tournament victory in the Gashimov Memorial we will have a look at the epic fight between Nakamura and Carlsen. I have expressed...

In my previous post on Magnus Carlsen's tournament victory in the Gashimov Memorial we had a look at his first round win versus Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. This blog will be...

In my upcoming blogs I am going to be analyzing yet another great tournament victory of World Champion Magnus Carlsen. What made his victory in the Gashimov Memorial even...

It is probably no longer a surprise for you when I tell you it was indeed Vishy Anand who won the 2014 Candidates tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk. The key to his tournament...

mqdefault.jpg Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - Aronian, Levon FIDE Candidates Tournament 2014 2014.03.23 In this blog post I'd like to have an indepth look at a game that may ...

mqdefault.jpg Aronian, Levon - Svidler, Peter  FIDE Candidates Tournament 2014 2014.03.17 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 The Grunfeld. Not much else could be expected fr...

After winning the London Classic Hikaru Nakamura now heads the cover of the latest issue of New In Chess magazine. Next to his photo one reads 'I do feel that at the mo...

Naiditsch, Arkadij - Rapport, Richard  76th Tata Steel Masters 2014.01.26 For Naiditsch the tournament was too short: after starting with 1,5 out of 9 he won his las...

Dominguez Perez, Leinier - Aronian, Levon 76th Tata Steel Chess Masters 2014.01.25 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.d3 ( No surprises. Aronian plays th...

Aronian, Levon - Karjakin, Sergey 76th Tata Steel Masters 2014.01.23 A very important game between the number 1 and 2 in the standings! 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3...

Dominguez Perez, Leinier - So, Wesley 76th Tata Steel Masters 2014.01.21 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 The Petroff-defence. An opening that was long considered to 'refute' 1.e4, ...

Nakamura, Hikaru - Van Wely, Loek 76th Tata Steel Chess Masters 2014.01.19 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 d6 6.g4!? Diagram #1 Even before the black ...

Dominguez Perez, Leinier - Nakamura, Hikaru  76th Tata Steel Chess Masters 2014.01.18 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 The Berlin Wall, an opening that seems to be includ...

Nakamura, Hikaru - Karjakin, Sergey  76th Tata Steel Masters 2014.01.17 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 Ne4 ( Lately 6...O-O has been all the ra...

Karjakin, Sergey - Rapport, Richard 76th Tata Steel Masters 2014.01.15 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qc7 7.Qg4 f6 It is no longer a surprise tha...

Van Wely, Loek - Giri, Anish 1/2-1/2 76th Tata Steel Chess Masters 2014.01.13 Games between Van Wely and Giri are always interesting. Though Anish can now comfortably...

Giri, Anish - Naiditsch, Arkadij 1-0 76th Tata Steel Chess 2014.01.12 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ The Bogo-Indian is knows to be a solid system but the hyper-aggressi...

Caruana, Fabiano - Gelfand, Boris 1-0 76th Tata Steel Chess Masters 2014.01.11 During the entire Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Chessity will present you with a daily '...

For quite some time now, experienced players have a real challenge here at Chessity: Afek's Endgame Studies. International Master Yochanan Afek is one of the World's lead...