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Judit Polgar's Global Chess Festival was held in Budapest, Hungary, on the 8th of October this year. Among other things, the current edition of the annual gala hosted a study composing cum exhibition event called Chess Artistry Adventure. The artful program in memory of the late Pal Benko has received fourteen original studies from some of the best composers in the world. In an article we published last month, four of these were explained in detail. Today, as it were, we venture deeper into the forest and tackle some more from the rest of them. What follows is some high-class chess, with difficulty ranging from the guilefully complex to the tortuously analytical nothing remotely facile, nothing for the faint-hearted!
Amid all the Sturm und Drang a world champion losing a game and quitting the tournament after just three rounds; a voluble rising American star now shadowed by accusations of cheating at the highest level; rule changes that strongly implied something fishy was going on; even a social media flame war over weird accents they did manage to play the 9th Sinquefield Cup and produce an over-the-board winner.
Amid all the Sturm und Drang a world champion losing a game and quitting the tournament after just three rounds; a voluble rising American star now shadowed by accusations of cheating at the highest level; rule changes that strongly implied something fishy was going on; even a social media flame war over weird accents they did manage to play the 9th Sinquefield Cup and produce an over-the-board winner.
Wesley So fought world No. 2 Alireza Firouzja to a draw Friday to stay at the helm with fellow American Levon Aronian after the eighth and penultimate round of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour’s Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest, Romania Friday. So split the point with Firouzja after 38 moves of a King’