Chess, by and large, is a war game played by nonmartial people who would have trouble identifying the business end of an M16 or explaining the difference between an embrasure and a sally port.
In honor of the 44th Chess Olympiad, we at Chess.com asked the question: If you could put every country's best five players ever on the same team, how good would those teams be? Now there are many arguments, and not just in chess, about how good players of the past really are. But for this article, we.
The Superbet Chess Classic is wide open again after both tournament leaders GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac lost their games. Caruana was defeated by GM Wesley So, and Deac went down against GM Alexander Grischuk. The quick draw between compatriots GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and GM Teimour.
Magnus Carlsen ranks the World Chess Champions
How does Magnus Carlsen rate his great predecessors as World Chess Champions on genius, entertainment, influence and sanity? We got to find out in a series of videos made for the New in Chess Classic, in which he assessed the 11th to the 16th World Champions, i.e. Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand and himself! He also looked at arguably the two greatest female players of all time, Judit Polgar and Hou Yifan, and rated the top player in each category going back to the likes of Jose Capablanca and Mikhail Tal.