The Women’s World Chess Championship will be decided by tie-break
ANATOMY OF A MUST-WIN “The person that said winning isn’t everything, never won anything” —Mia Hamm Take your opponent out of their comfort zone Aleksandra Goryachkina‘s (playing white) choice to open the game with 1.d4 d5. 2.Nc3 was strategically brilliant. In just two moves, she managed to completely take the World Champion Ju Wenjun out of her preparation. Ju […]
Rating analytics: Do ratings help to predict future champions?
Kaspars Migla is the creator and founder of chessratings.top. In his column, he analyzes monthly FIDE standard rating changes, career-high ratings, rating distribution by country, continent, region, and other rating-related statistics. In this edition, he tries to establish a correlation between the rating of juniors with their future achievements. In chess, the title of World Champion is contested by […]