John Saunders' Chess Blog

Good Friday - if you're a Russian, maybe, but not if you are Magnus Carlsen. The Norwegian runaway train ploughed into a stray Chucky wa...

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...