The World Chess Federation has begun its 2016 calendar of events with an impressive programme. Tournament chess is being contested lavishly worldwide, and therefore, it is practically impossible to report on each current event. The column, therefore, follows the world champion and top ten players, development of third world chess, startling chess finds, players who demonstrate abundant chess promise and so on. Local chess is publicized whenever something, anything, occurs.
World champion Magnus Carlsen and a few of the world’s top ten players, are currently playing the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk-aan-Zee which concludes today. The 14 participants, including a woman Chinese grandmaster, have treated the public to a sumptuous feast of delectable chess games. In one such game — Michael Adams vs Sergey Karjakin — the English grandmaster played the black pieces with dexterity to outdo his Russian counterpart.
Carlsen is leading the tournament with a half point advantage. Fabiano Caruana is hard on
