Chess whispers

The writer of these lines has not yet fully understood why Roven Vogel is not yet a grandmaster. The student was a youth world champion and has a painful score of 4-0 against me. He has an understa...

The Cadet World Championship was supposed to start yesterday. But apparently the conditions were so bad that the start of the tournament was postponed by one round. At the Cadet World Championships...

The women's national league started last weekend and the favourites showed their strength straight away. We were particularly pleased that Hamburger SK did well. The captain of the Hanseatic team ...

At the Lüneburg rapid tournament, which takes place over 2 days, Jonny had a mixed first day. In round 3 he drew against his former student Finn Helms, and in round 6 he lost to the number 1 seed ...

In the second round, Magnus Carlsen lost to the young GM Alisher Suleymenov from Kazakhstan with the black pieces. The game itself was fantastically played by White. Carlsen's first inaccuracy was...

Women's chess is becoming more and more the focus of attention. Women's chess is important for driving forward the development of chess in general. If it remains a purely male event in which over 9...

Is the German Chess League slowly coming to a calmer state? After the disputes over the admission regulations and the associated legal disputes, which went against the German Chess League, the time...

It is now well known that football players are heading to Arab countries to earn big money there. Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar now play in Saudi Arabia. Many ageing stars are also playing in Qatar ...

It is the next trophy in the cabinet of probably the best player of all time. Magnus Carlsen wins the Champions League of chess, the European Club Cup (ECC), with his Norwegian club Offerspill. Car...