Polls

Magnus Carlsen recently provoked a lot of discussion on the format of the World championship by giving his support to a knock-out system (see the ChessBase report here). What do you think is the best format for the World Championship? *** The results of last week’s poll gave a healthy majority in favour of Carlsen […]

With four other players now also rated over 2800, do you think Magnus Carlsen will hold on to the Number One spot until the end of the year? ***  Last week’s poll results:

We have been through this one a few times, but I just thought I wanted to run this one past the pollsters… There are those who do not believe in talent for chess, and there are those who think that talent is everything. Clearly the truth is somewhere in-between. I remember someone on Facebook saying that

Let us ignore the fantasy that you abandon your job, leave your wife and go on the road with Artur Yusupov and Boris Avrukh perfecting your chess, and just assume that life will continue as you are planning it. What do you think is the highest rating you can reach? Please be honest. *** Last

I am an optimistic guy, I believe that I will write a better chess book than I have done up till now. I believe that 2015 will be the best year for Quality Chess so far (and the publications we have out so far have been received in a way that makes this optimism persist).

We are trying to get a picture of our readership on this blog over the summer and in that connection we will ask a number of questions about you. Please answer only once in the week and forgive us for being in holiday mode and only doing a full analytical article at the end of

The Politiken Cup in Denmark is my favourite tournament. And so it should be, not only is it held in beautiful locations, with all the participants staying in the same place (view over the ocean), it is also in Denmark, where I have strong ties obviously. Yes, they pay me to play there. I even

Being over 40 and an optimist, I think the recent poll got it wrong. A clear majority think that chess is best played by those less than 30 years old. Obviously we appreciate the support for our star author Boris Gelfand, but we fear a few people have voted this way for entirely the wrong