En route to my 10th Grand Chess Tour!
It was very arduously that I qualified for my 10th consecutive Grand Chess Tour, in 2025. It took until the final round of the last tournament for a final win (against world champion Ding Liren) to validate my ticket. It was all the more of a relief that this game ...
Still climbing the mountain
Before commenting on these July tournaments, I'd like to take a look back at the first half of 2024 as a whole, during which I played no classical tournament, only a few isolated games in team competitions, as in the German league, the Austrian league and of course in the ...
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