Offerspill news - week 12

#Champions Chess Tour #Magnus Carlsen #Jesper Thybo

World Champion Magnus Carlsen finished third in the recently finished Magnus Carlsen Invitational [https://championschesstour.com/]. Meanwhile, Jesper Thybo has been playing a top tournament in…

Joachim B Nilsen

Offerspill news - week 11

#Champions Chess Tour #Magnus Carlsen #Jesper Thybo

A new tournament in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour is underway. At the same time we are halfway in the March season of the Offerspill Online…

Joachim B Nilsen

Countering the Halloween Gambit

#Gambit #Openings

This coming Sunday, on the 14th of March, it is time for this season's second Sunday Thematic Blitz on Lichess. The tournament will be…

Joachim B Nilsen

Offerspill news - week 10

#Magnus Carlsen #News #Offerspill Online League

This week's update consists of a short recap of our weekly tournament and a reminder not to miss Puzzlemania (!) this week. Most importantly, though,…

Joachim B Nilsen

Offerspill news - week 9

#Magnus Carlsen #Jesper Thybo #Offerspill Online League

Jesper Thybo has been playing tournaments in Serbia recently - and even won one of them. The online Bundesliga was not a huge success last week,…

Joachim B Nilsen

Offerspill news - week 8

#Aryan Tari #Benjamin Haldorsen #Magnus Carlsen

This weekend several of Offerspill's players participated in the Hybrid Cities Cup [https://www.chesstech.org/2021/curtains-up-for-hybrid-chess/], a brand new concept from FIDE.…

Joachim B Nilsen

Offerspill Puzzlemania

#Puzzlemania #News

Lichess recently launched a new feature - the "Puzzle Storm" [https://lichess.org/storm]. Going forward Offerspill will stream runs from members attempting to…

Joachim B Nilsen

Offerspill news - week 7

#Champions Chess Tour #Magnus Carlsen #Benjamin Haldorsen

We bring a final report from the Opera Euro Rapid [https://championschesstour.com/] in which Magnus Carlsen reached the final against Wesley So. TalentOffer candidate IM…

Joachim B Nilsen

Offerspill news - week 6

#Magnus Carlsen #Konkurranser #Champions Chess Tour

In this update we focus on the new tournament in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour [https://championschesstour.com/], namely the Opera Euro Rapid [https://championschesstour.com/…

Joachim B Nilsen