John Saunders' Chess Blog

The picturesque position (above left) has already been published in several places on the web. It is from the 2nd game of the Grischuk-Ruble...

OK, let's get the prediction stuff out of the way. I was right about Leko, Aronian and Grischuk but wrong about Kamsky. In the end the r...

This is a position from Shirov-Aronian, Game Two, with Shirov (White) to play. I looked at this briefly with Fritz 10 yesterday and noted th...

Well, that's quite enough about fools, imbeciles, dunderheads and extortionists (and I should stress that any acronym created from those...

We are back to FIDE vs Short, and a small question of terminology arising in regard to the English GM being called before the FIDE Ethics Co...

Poor Mickey. He's had a rough time of it recently. He travelled all the way to Sofia and finished a point behind the winner, Topalov, wh...

So, the regulation matches are now over, and we have three of the original eight matches to be decided in tie-breaks on Sunday. The time lim...