John Saunders' Chess Blog

A bit of light relief from all this heavyweight coverage of the FIDE Candidates' Tournament... on my Facebook feed this morning, I read ...

HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL... ROUND 11 At the start of play, my overriding thought was - can there really still be four rounds to play?...

And then there were three. It's now pretty obvious that only Carlsen, Aronian and Kramnik have any tangible interest in what happens in ...

THE ENVELOPE Round nine, and once again Peter Svidler honoured me with a pre-game chat, again mainly about cricket. I imagine that some m...

Looking round at the IET Lecture Theatre today, it struck me that the FIDE World Candidates' Tournament resembled the Crucible Theatre i...

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...