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GM Vidit Gujrathi is known for his amazing positional chess. We decided to test it at an altitude of 40,000 feet. We took 6 positions from the book - Can you be a positional chess genius by Angus Dunnington. This was a book that Sagar had used when he was a little kid and he wanted to see how a super GM of the highest positional calibre fares when solving these positions! Hope … [Read more...] about Super GM Vidit Gujrathi takes on the Positional Chess Challenge in an aeroplane

The Chennai Grand Masters 2025 kicks off from the 7th of August 2025. The following are the players: Masters: 1. Arjun Erigaisi (2776) 2. Anish Giri (2748) 3. Vincent Keymer (2730) 4. Vidit Gujrathi (2720) 5. Jorden van Foreest (2697) 6. Awonder Liang (2696) 7. Nihal Sarin (2692) 8. Ray Robson (2687) 9. Karthikeyan Murali (2658) 10. Pranav V. (2597) Pranav, V (2597) vs … [Read more...] about Chennai Grand Masters 2025 | Round 1 | ft. Arjun Erigaisi, Anish Giri, Vidit, Nihal

Former European and World Youth Under-16 Open 2023 Champion, IM Jakub Seemann (POL, 2451) earned his final GM-norm at 2nd Dole Trophy Pasino Grand Aix 2025 Masters. We caught up with him after he scored his third GM-norm. Earlier in January this year, he crossed 2500 in the live ratings. Get to know about this talented Pole's journey in chess so far. Video: ChessBase … [Read more...] about 16-year-old Jakub Seemann becomes the latest Grandmaster of Poland

One of the most exciting events of the year is going to take place tomorrow on the 7th of August in Katowice in Poland. The world chess champion GM D Gukesh is going to take on the Poland no. 1 GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. A total of six games will be games with a time format of 3+2. The event also includes a lot of other exciting side events. In the video, we share a vlog where we … [Read more...] about Gukesh arrives in Poland for his match against Duda

After the Technical meeting and draw of lots at the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025, We interviewed 3 players - Nihal Sarin and Pranav Venkatesh from the Masters group, and Aryan Chopra playing in the Challengers. In this video, we share these 3 short interviews where the players share their thoughts going into the event. Video: ChessBase India Interview: Himank … [Read more...] about Nihal Sarin “I’m hoping to win the tournament” | Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025