John Saunders' Chess Blog

Yesterday I allowed myself to write off the chances of everyone bar Carlsen and Aronian in my round seven report, but I'm now beginning ...

Well, I won’t make that mistake again - trusting Google’s Blogger software to look after my text without first writing it up and saving it i...

And then there were two... Aronian and Carlsen won their sixth round games and have moved a point and a half clear at the FIDE Candidates...

I'll try to round up the entire round's play in just the one post this time. Round five started with the scores at Aronian, Carlsen ...

Vlad Kramnik was telling us the other day at a press conference that the 14 rounds of the 2013 Candidates were immeasurably tougher than the...

The round four game between Boris Gelfand and Vassily Ivanchuk ended in a 35-move draw but, despite the result and relatively short length, ...

Carlsen made it all look absurdly simple A second successive win for Carlsen puts him in a tie for first place after four rounds of the ...