Dennis Monokroussos    A version of this post was originally published here. More details here. As the Meltwater tour has been around for a while now, many of you know the basic format: it’s a two stage, player, rapid event. A round robin cuts the field to eight players, who then engage in a series of knockout...

Dennis Monokroussos    Originally published here. Please subscribe to my Substack blog thanks I’m watching Sam Shankland’s Chess course Why Play .d in part an ad for his Chessable course giving a .d repertoire , and in the third video he notes a repertoire issue. Suppose you’re a .d player who wants...

Dennis Monokroussos    Originally published here, several days ago. Please subscribe to the Substack blog thanks Since many of you are subscribers, you’ll receive my original post by email, and if I correct an error you’re unlikely to notice. Hopefully the vast majority of my errors will be typos and not...

Dennis Monokroussos    Originally published here several days ago. Please subscribe the Substack blog Happy th of July, America; our candidates both lost. What could have been... In truth, it would have been difficult for anyone to stop Ian Nepomniachtchi from winning the Candidates, who won the event going...

Dennis Monokroussos    Originally published here several days ago. If any of you haven’t yet subscribed to the Substack blog, please do so The question for round of the Candidates is this: will there be one meaningful game, or none The answer is up to none of the players, but to Magnus Carlsen. More on this...

Dennis Monokroussos    His commentary during round on Nepomniachtchi, Firouzja, Caruana and more. Come for the chess, stay for the travel suggestions.

Dennis Monokroussos    Originally posted here; please subscribe to my Substack blog thanks The narrative changes again but not the meta narrative about changing narratives . Here’s what a random blogger wrote yesterday: As for Ding, the truth, obviously, was that he needed a little time to get acclimated, and...

Dennis Monokroussos    Originally posted on my Substack blog; please subscribe there. Nothing too spicy, but it’s worth a minute of your time.

Dennis Monokroussos    Originally posted on my Substack blog; please subscribe there. It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. Anonymous We commentators are remarkably insightful when it comes to explaining what has just happened, though this awesome gift of hindsight rarely translates...

Dennis Monokroussos    Originally posted on my Substack blog; please subscribe there. I remember reading Vik Vasiliev’s biography of Tigran Petrosian when I was a kid, and his account of the Candidates came to mind. With five rounds to go, he was tied with Paul Keres for first and was, I think, a point ahead...