5/7/2026 – Arjun Erigaisi took the sole lead at the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament after beating Zhu Jiner with black in round six. Magnus Carlsen also won with black, defeating Andy Woodward, and is now half a point behind the leader alongside Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, who drew with Nodirbek Abdusattorov. Erigaisi will face Woodward in the final round, while Carlsen meets Erdogmus in a key encounter. | Photo: Peter Doggers / Official website
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Erigaisi and Carlsen win, again
For a second day in a row, two of the four games ended decisively at the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in Malmö. As in Tuesday's fifth round, Arjun Erigaisi and Magnus Carlsen were the players to score full points, though this time both did so with the black pieces (they had both won with white the previous day). Erigaisi defeated Zhu Jiner, while Carlsen got the better of Andy Woodward. The remaining games, Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus v. Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Jorden van Foreest v. Nils Grandelius, ended drawn.
These results left Erigaisi as the sole leader with 4½/6 points going into the final round. Carlsen and Erdogmus are half a point behind. Erigaisi will face Woodward with the white pieces, while Carlsen, also with white, will play Erdogmus in a game that will be central to the fight for first place.
In this course, you will learn the foundations and key ideas of the Vienna Game and discover a variety of systems that make you extremely difficult to prepare for. The Vienna Game is one of the most underrated openings in modern chess. While the Ruy Lopez and Italian dominate elite practice, the Vienna offers rich, creative play with far less theoretical burden and enormous practical value.
Free video sample: Introduction
Free video sample: 1: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 - Martin vs Adams
The Carlsen v. Erdogmus pairing also has a significance beyond the tournament standings. Erdogmus' recent rise past the 2700 rating mark has made him one of the most closely watched young players in the world, and his meeting with Carlsen comes with the added interest of a potential future successor facing the player who has long stood at the top of the chess world.
Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus now has a 2716.3 rating and is placed 27thin the live ratings list | Photo: Peter Doggers / Official website
The two decisive games on Wednesday both featured risky opening choices from the eventual winners. Erigaisi employed the Pirc Defence against Zhu, while Carlsen chose the King's Indian Defence against Woodward. In both cases, the lower-rated players did not shy away from entering complications, making the wins far from routine.
In this video course, Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov explores the fascinating world of Dutch and Grünfelkd structures with colours reversed. In this video course, Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov explores one of the most intriguing and under-examined areas of modern chess: reversed opening systems, focusing on the Reversed Grünfeld and the Reversed Dutch. At first glance, these two systems seem unrelated. However, they share a common strategic challenge: the value of tempi, structure, and psychology when familiar openings are played with colours reversed. Drawing on his long professional experience, Sokolov explains why these positions are far more subtle than they appear and why traditional engine evaluations often fail to capture their true complexity.
Free sample video: Introduction
Free sample video: Larsen’s b4 Plan vs Reversed Stonewall Setups: Larsen - Spassky
In this course, Grandmaster Elisabeth Pähtz presents the London System, a structured and ambitious approach based on the immediate Bf4, leading to rich and dynamic positions. The London System is one of the most popular openings at every level of chess but not all Londons are the same. In this course, Grandmaster Elisabeth Pähtz presents the London System, a structured and ambitious approach based on the immediate Bf4, leading to rich and dynamic positions.
Free sample video: Introduction
Free sample video: 5...cxd4 6.exd4 Qb6 sidelines
Carlos Alberto ColodroCarlos Colodro is a Hispanic Philologist from Bolivia. He works as a freelance translator and writer since 2012. A lot of his work is done in chess-related texts, as the game is one of his biggest interests, along with literature and music.
5/6/2026 – Arjun Erigaisi and Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus share the lead on 3½ points after round five of the TePe Sigeman & Co tournament in Malmö. Erigaisi defeated Jorden van Foreest, while Erdogmus held a 104-move draw against Andy Woodward to remain atop the standings. Magnus Carlsen (pictured) bounced back from his loss to Van Foreest by beating Zhu Jiner, while Nils Grandelius drew quickly with Nodirbek Abdusattorov. | Photo: Peter Doggers / <a href="https://www.tepesigemanchess.com/">Official website</a>
5/4/2026 – Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus and Arjun Erigaisi scored their first wins of the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in round three, joining Magnus Carlsen, Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Andy Woodward in a five-way tie for first place. Erdogmus beat Zhu Jiner and climbed further on the live ratings list, while Erigaisi defeated Nils Grandelius to return to the world top ten. | Photo: Peter Doggers / <a href="https://www.tepesigemanchess.com/">Official website</a>
King’s Indian fans who choose the Mar del Plata attack (7...Nc6) against White’s classical system (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0) usually aim for a complex position with mutual attacks on open wings, requiring long-term strategic planning and tactical sharpness in critical moments. Computers often do not know how to handle the arising complex strategic positions, which suits players who like to think on their own instead of memorizing long variations. However, the fashionable Bayonet Attack (9.b4) interferes with Black’s ideas. After Black’s main move 9...Nh5 the positions opens, the lines get forced and computer analysis is important again. But this DVD offers an antidote against White’s Bayonet Attack, namely 9...a5! This move leads to sound positions with very few concrete lines, in which the focus is on strategy not on tactics. Objectively chances are equal but if Black knows what to do things might quickly become dangerous for White.
From the 2026 Candidates Tournament, featuring a video review by Dorian Rogozenco, to Jan Werle’s opening video on the French Tarrasch Defence, and Oliver Reeh’s tactical column ‘Top Grandmasters at Work’. Analyses by Giri, So, Wei Yi and many others.
You will learn how Black's dynamic piece activity and structural counterplay more than compensate for White's extra tempo in the colour-reversed setups.
In this course, you’ll learn how to take the initiative against the London and prevent White from comfortably playing their usual system by playing 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 Nh5.
London System Powerbase 2026 is a database and contains in all 11 285 games from Mega 2026 and the Correspondence Database 2026, of which 282 are annotated.
The London System Powerbook 2026 is based on more than 410 000 games or game fragments from different opening moves and ECO codes; what they all have in common is that White plays d4 and Bf4 but does not play c4.
In this course, Grandmaster Elisabeth Pähtz presents the London System, a structured and ambitious approach based on the immediate Bf4, leading to rich and dynamic positions.
Opening videos: Open Spanish (Sipke Ernst) and Classical Sicilian (Nico Zwirs). Endgame Special by Igor Stohl: ‘Short or long side’ – where should the defending king be placed in rook endgames? ‘Lucky bag’ with 35 master analyses.
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