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 ...

IM Jonny Carlstedt will be taking part in the Lüneburg Open, a rapid chess tournament over 2 days, on October 14th and 15th and will also be looking after our chess stand. Chess players can once ag...

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...

Today there was a big "hello" in the warehouse of the Chess Tigers Shop. A large load of wooden chess materials has arrived. The shipping company had mistakenly delivered a large load of tiles that...

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...