Two Knights Talk: Winning and losing in Wijk aan Zee

1/24/2025 – "Nothing is more difficult than winning a won game." The Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee shows once again how true this seemingly paradoxical sentence is – and in their review of current events in the chess world Arne Kähler and Johannes Fischer therefore look at games from Wijk in which winning positions were lost. On this occasion, they also remember the Dutch grandmaster and legendary writer Jan Hein Donner, who knew a lot about this topic. Finally, the "Two Knights" take a short look at the dispute between FIDE and Freestyle Chess over the right to award world championship titles.