Lichess.Org Live TV & Daily Puzzle.
Chess Books I Have Found Helpful.
PDF Formats
1963 US Chess Championship ( Bobby Fischer’s Amazing 11-0 run )
Keres’_Best_Games_of_Chess_1931-1948 ( Paul Keres Is One Of My Favorite Players Of All Time )
Vol 10 Selected Brilliancies 032518 printed book ( Carsten Is One Of My Favorite Chess Trainers )
Chess News & More.
June 11th, 2020
Grandmaster Chess Champion Who Sees Racism in Chess Or Otherwise In A Very Personal Way.
Here is an article concerning GM Pontus Carlsson on racism in our age. A very powerful article to say the least, and it may catch you offguard.
Here is the link to that article:
https://www.chess.com/article/view/on-racism-gm-pontus-carlsson
June 6th, 2020
Behind On Updates. However, Chess Hasn’t Taken A Hiatus, its ONLINE.
With all the Covid issues, live tourneys have been taking a back door. However, special events on Lichess.org, Chess.com and Chess24 have filled a lot of that void. There have been some wonderful blitz and other tourneys. On my live events page here on patrickvossen.com you can see some of those results.
Great victories by Carlsen, Grischuk, Dubov and Nakamura and others have been viewed by thousands. There even has been anonymous winners on Lichess.org, that have intrigued many online. Anyways, chess is not gone, but just gone ONLINE. LOL.
April 16th, 2020
Events All Over The World Are Canceled Because Of The Covid Virus. Online Chess Explodes To Fill In The Gaps.
With hundreds of chess events or opens cancelled. Chess has taken advantage of a huge opportunity with online chess. Even though there are concerns how they can truly secure a safe, or non-cheating environment in such venues. Nevertheless, Blitz and Rapid events are happening, with Classical matches for main events or super GM’s being proposed. Whatever is in the making will be fine with me. The proliferation of new online events, and all these super GM’s interacting with us regular joes. Well, its been fun to watch.
Chess24 has had two remarkable tourneys. A long running blitz tourney and the latest, the Pepe Cuenca Invitational.
Yesterday, in the Banter Blitz Championship it went right down to the wire with Magnus Carlsen the reigning champion losing to the young promising star Alireza Firouzja. It was a fabulous give and take match.
One of my favorite players of all time the 8 time Russian Champion Peter Svidler will face Jan Duda the promising young player from Poland in the Pepe Cuenca invitational shortly as well. I am looking forward to watching that match.
All this online activity I believe is for the best, and will see us develop a new world of opportunities for the Chess community in the years to come.
Here is the most recent article on the tourney and upcoming match with Svidler and Duda forthcoming.
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/it-s-a-svidler-duda-final
March 12th, 2020
Coronavirus Affecting Various Chess Events.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/coronavirus-which-chess-events-have-been-canceled
March 6th, 2020
Teimour Radjabov Withdraws From Candidates. Protesting The Tourney Should Be Postponed.
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/mvl-to-play-the-candidates-instead-of-radjabov
January 31st, 2020
Gibraltar Tournament was wild, with a myriad of players with the potential to win the tourney. Awesome ending!
Gibraltar Masters
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/paravyan-tan-zhongyi-win-2020-gibraltar-masters
January 24th, 2020
Will be starting a live Tourney page of Chess Events, or at least major ones on the website for fun. Check it out.
December 30th, 2019
Rapid and Blitz Champions in Moscow Shine.
Magnus won both the Rapid and Blitz. Hikaru had a great chance in tiebreaks to win in the Blitz side of the tourney, but couldn’t pull it off. Rapid was dominated by Magnus.
Ladies Rapid Champion was Humpy Koneru. She did a fabulous job. I haven’t got the results of the woman’s Blitz Champion yet.
Chessbase Summary of Rapid Tourney In Moscow.
December 5th, 2019
Grand Chess Tour Final. MVL Faces Off With Ding Liren After Unusual Loss By Magnus.
Here is a link to one of the articles summarizing the event.
Fall 2019
Fischer Random World Championship
Four great challengers are facing off in a unique and popular form of chess. The world champion and three others are competing for the big prize. A fun event, where you see more real depth of humanity from the players, and less perfect lines worked out by studying computer variations to calculate. Its really an intriguing format to say the least.
Here is a link to a Chessbase article about the event.
Vladimir Kramnik’s Illuminating Interview With Boris Gelfand’s wife.
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/vladimir-kramnik-i-never-considered-myself-a-genius
Summer 2019
GM Whose Rating Had Climbed Exponentially Is Found Cheating.
In an unfortunate incident, a gentleman many were applauding for his great success in his 50’s has been found to be cheating. FIDE had been alerted, and had setup a situation with the arbiter to try to protect the game’s integrity. They found exactly what they thought they would.
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/gm-igors-rausis-allegedly-caught-cheating
At Bangkok Open Jan Gustafsson And Nigel Short Face Off.
April 12, 2019
In an excellent tug and war match. Jan and Nigel played to a tie. Jan one of the owners of Chess24 and Nigel former World Champion Challenger ( VP President of FIDE ) gave a fine display of chess.