2020-04-20

Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2020

Magnus Carlsen Invitational is a single round robin tournament held on 18-30 April 2020. It is featuring famous chess stars:
Carlsen, Magnus;Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime; Ding, Liren; Nakamura, Hikaru; Nepomniachtchi, Ian; Caruana, Fabiano; Giri, Anish; Firouzja, Alireza
Each match consists of 4 rapid games (15+10) in case of a tie an armageddon will follow.
Final Four knockout tournament will be played to determine the winner.

Official site

Schedule: 4 games will be played every day at 14:00 UTC.

The Magnus Carlsen Invitational is brought to you by chess24.com. Learn more about the tournament at magnuscarlsen.com/en/invitational

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2020-04-17

Chess Classics: Steinitz-Zukertort World Championship 1886


Chess Classics series continue with the broadcast of the battle between Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort, a spectacular part of the 1886 World Championship, which took place in New York (games 1-5), St. Louis (games 6-9) and New Orleans (games 10-20).

Official site

With his convincing win against Adolf Anderssen in 1858, Paul Morphy had proven to be the strongest player of the mid-18th century. However, the chess world still never had an official world champion. That changed in 1886.
Around that time, Wilhelm Steinitz of Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) could make the strongest claim for being the unofficial world champion. He had beaten Anderssen, Blackburne and Zukertort in matches after Morphy had returned to the United States, and said goodbye to the royal game.
Steinitz, who had emigrated to the United States in 1883, managed to convince his opponent to play an official world championship match in his new country. The winner would be the first to win 10 games.
Johannes Zukertort came from Lublin, Russian Empire (now Poland) but became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom in 1878. He was a soldier, musician, linguist, journalist, and political activist who sadly died at 45.


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Sunway Sitges International Online 2020

The inaugural Sunway Sitges International Open Chess tournament is the first-ever classical open tournament played online between 17th and 25th April 2020.
The format is a 9-round Swiss, followed by a 16-player knockout.
The time control for the Swiss portion is 90 minutes per player for the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move. The first prize is €1,500. In addition, one lucky participant will win free apartment accommodations for four people in Sitges during the offline festival in December and entry fee into the open tournament (a €900 value)

Official site

Schedule: every day at 17:30 CEST / 11:30 a.m. Eastern and 08:30 a.m. Pacific time.

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2020-04-06

Chess Classics: Anderssen-Morphy


We start our series of Chess Classics with the match between the two strongest players of the mid-19th century. It took place in December 1858 in Paris. The players agreed to play up to seven wins.

Adolf Anderssen, from Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland), was considered to be the unofficial world champion after he had won the first international chess tournament, London 1851. Since then, he had only participated in one other event. A professor of mathematics, Anderssen was 40 years old when the match was played.

Paul Morphy, the American genius, had been in Europe only for six months. He had finished his studies at age 19, and had spent two years on chess while intending to start a professional career as a lawyer soon.

While Morphy was beating all the leading players in Europe, he failed to arrange a match with his desired opponent, Howard Staunton. The match with Anderssen was his biggest test so far. Despite a severe illness (he suffered from a bout of intestinal influenza), Morphy, 21 years old, insisted on playing.

Official site

Schedule
Game 1 Apr 6, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 2 Apr 7, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 3 Apr 8, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 4 Apr 9, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 5 Apr 10, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 6 Apr 11, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 7 Apr 12, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 8 Apr 13, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 9 Apr 14, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 10 Apr 15, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 11 Apr 16, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST


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2020-04-05

Introducing: Chess Classics

 Welcome to our time machine!

During these strange times, in which no (chess) events are taking place, ChessBomb will be relaying classic events from chess history.
The games of famous tournaments and matches will be shown, keeping a schedule of one round per day.
Let's start with events from the 19th century!

We started our series of Chess Classics with a historical event from 1970 - USSR vs. Rest of the World
Next, we are broadcasting the historic match from 1858 between Adolf Anderssen and Paul Morphy
Expect also:

  • The first official World Chess Championship match from 1886 between Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort
  • World Chess Championship match from 1894 between Wilhelm Steinitz and Emanuel Lasker 1894
  • The Hastings 1895 chess tournament


As always, you can watch the games with computer analysis and discuss it on chat. Enjoy on ChessBomb.