Chess Tutoring, Chess Coaching, Chess Classes with NM Will Stewart

It’s not easy to keep up with the constantly changing schedules, venues, player lists, etc. for the elite chess tournaments of 2012, so I decided to centralize my research here. The climate at the top of the chess world has become very interesting lately, as Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian have greatly distanced themselves from other super-grandmasters on the current ratings lists – Carlsen at #1 with 2835 FIDE and Aronian stubbornly chasing at #2 [...]

The Kings Chess Tournament 2012 is shaping up to an incredibly entertaining event, scheduled to take place June 23rd – July 4th in Medias, Romania. The event will feature many of the world’s strongest chess players, promising a clash of the titans with an all-star guest list. The world’s highest rated chess player, Magnus Carlsen, has already confirmed his appearance and will look to repeat on his 2011 first place finish at the 5th King’s [...]

Yuri Drozdovskij is a Ukranian Chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2614. He is renown for his rapid chess skills, having won the European Rapid Championship in 2006 and tying for first at the 4th Pivdenny Bank Cup 2008 where he finished ahead of the chess super heavyweights Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Korchnoi, Ruslan Ponomariov, and Boris Gelfand. Drozdovskij also had an exceptional performance in 2007, tying for 1st place at the very strong Cappelle-la-Grande [...]

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012 is the strongest chess tournament ever held in Wijk Aan Zee, bringing in 14 of the world’s top players in the A group to boast an average FIDE rating of 2755! The organizers have really done an incredible job of putting the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012 together, featuring 8 of the top 10 highest rated chess players in the world (only missing former World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik [...]

The 2011 Tal Memorial Chess Tournament gotten off to a slow start, with 10 of the world’s best chess players playing it safe in the first half of the tournament.  After 5 rounds, none of these elite chess grandmasters were able to break away as there is currently a 4-way tie for first at 3/5.  (Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, and Ian Nepomniachtchi).  Magnus Carlsen continues to impress by how easily he makes it [...]

Computer chess programs have become exceptionally strong in the 21st century, capable of thoroughly dominating the world’s best human players.  There is no question of the extent to which computers have changed the game of chess in the last 20 years, not only raising the quality of play but making chess training more effective and efficient.  Bobby Fischer broke a record in 1958 by attaining the grandmaster title at the age of 15.  To date, [...]

What an exciting tournament with hundreds of grandmasters dueling it out! The 2011 FIDE World Chess Cup has featured exceptional chess, with many of the world’s best grandmasters fighting for the first prize valued at over $120,000!  The tournament is taking place August 28th – September 21st in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.  The only disappointment is that a handful of the world’s top players are playing in the Botvinnik Memorial instead (namely: Anand, Carlsen, Aronian, Kramnik). No [...]