Endgame is threatening.

GM Magnus Carlsen won Round 10! With his chances to even out the match score decreasing, Carlsen assembled weight, then at last, his first full point. His win leveled the match 5-5. The aggregation of numerous great positions at last paid profits for the best on the planet. He wasn't flawless in the change.

In cycle eight of the 2016 big showdown, GM Sergey Karjakin had different opportunities to touch off the match against GM Magnus Carlsen. It was a story of three one-square moves:  Karjakin's win, the primary definitive session of the match, slung him into the lead, 4.5-3.5, with just four rounds to go.

We'd like to extend a big congratulations to one of our students - Samuel Mendonca for the 1st place in the Children's Chess Tournament U-9 Category, held on November 20. Samuel had joined ZugZwang Academy in the month of June (2016) to learn Chess. 

Thinking Machine 6 allows you to visualise how the computer thinks during a game of chess. Try your hand today and enjoy the magic.

Three Games have been played at the 2016 World Chess Championship till now and the score is tied at 1.5-1.5. Although all games were hard fought, neither player was able to make the decisive breakthrough. We bring you a short summary of all three games -

The biggest chess event of the year is here ! Magnus Carlsen , the current World Chess Champion from Norway faces Sergey Karjakin of Russia in a 12 game match held at New York, USA. The match is taking place between 11–30 November in the renovated Fulton Market Building in the South Street Seaport in New York City.

The action only gets more exciting, and there are many more rounds to come! After 4 Rounds, and many exhausting hours of play, the world champion and the contender - GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Sergey Karjakin end up in a tied score 2-2.