When Netflix replaced HBO with a bang in the 2021 Emmy awards, seldom did the streaming services giant anticipate the smoke that would shroud one of its most popular shows in controversy. Mid-September, Netflix bagged as many as 44 awards in the 2021 Emmy Awards sidelining the reigning title holder HBO. The popular Netflix shows The Crown and The Queen’s Gambit grabbed the most number of awards.
Learning how to move the pieces around on a chessboard may sound exciting. But when it comes to competitive chess, you must not merely get familiar with every rule, but master those indispensable moves to ensure a win. A lack of deep knowledge and practice of these could land you in trouble even in a possible winning situation.
The prize fund for each event is EUR 150,000, which is a EUR 20,000 increase from 2019. Three events will comprise the 2022 Grand Prix, set to happen between February and April of next year. Each event of the Grand Prix will consist of a round-robin group stage followed by a knockout stage. The total prize fund for the Grand Prix is €350,000, with €150,000 for each event.
As India’s No.3 Vidit Gujrathi bowed off, losing the battle to Poland’s Jan-Krzystof Duda in the quarterfinals, the Indian challenge came to an end in the FIDE Chess World Cup 2021. Though another World Chess Champion title coming home seems a far-fetched dream now, India has a glorious past to look back and swell over.
Abhimanyu Mishra, became the world's youngest chess grandmaster in June 2021 at the age of 12 years, 4 months and 25 days, breaking the 19-year-old record of Sergey Karjakin in Budapest. Karjakin, who had played against Magnus Carlsen in the world championship in 2016, earned his title at the age of 12 years and 7 months.
The chess world celebrated the International Chess Day on the 20th of July. With the newfound glamour and attention the sport received during the past year thanks to the online boom and Netflix’s Queen's Gambit, netizens over the globe hit the social media with chess quotes, funny memes, greetings and messages.
Come July, and Dortmund in Germany will swing back to its mood, getting ready for the Sparkassen Chess Trophy or the “Dortmunder Schachtage” as it is originally referred to. A decades-old tradition of the City, the annual chess festival bounces back from the pandemic slump with an added flavour: It will be chess sans Castling!
FunMaster Mike of chesskid.com teams up with Mind Mentorz - Bengaluru’s premium chess coaching institute - for a session of fun-filled, hands-on game experience for its young players.
It was a Moment de Gloire for the Netherlands as it got to witness the face-off between two of its brilliant talents at the grand finals of the Tata Steel Chess 2021 at Wijk aan Zee. For the Dutch soil, it ain’t new to celebrate chess.
With grandmasters like Max Euwe, Jim Timman, and the current No.1 Anish Giri, chess is prestigious for the ‘Netherlanders’ which is all the more accentuated by a new wave of “urban chess”. An innovative initiative by Jesus Medina is opening the Dutch schaakwereld (chess world) to urban public spaces in the Netherlands.
The new Julius Baer Challengers Chess that kicked off on April 8 2021 gave India a goosebump as its young prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa won the maiden event title with eight wins in a row.
Praggnanandhaa isn’t a new name for India or even the chess world to get excited over. The 15 year old prodigy from Chennai has already been rated as “another Anand in the making” by the chess kingdom.
As the pandemic has propelled online chess to newer heights, so has it fuelled cheating online in the game. The latest rumour concerns FIDE’s online University Tournament where 19 players got disqualified including the winner, a former women’s champion from Ukraine.
Thanks to the new Julius Baer Challenger’s Chess Tour from the Play Magnus Group, Women’s chess is getting a much-needed and delayed facelift. With Judit Polgar – a powerful female name in the chessworld - at the helm (along with ex-world champion Vladimir Kramnik), the best of the young female talents is sure to emerge out of the mist in 2021.
