Eye in the Sky

• Leonard Barden, Chess: can you find the winning move a former US champion missed?, Financial Times, February 10, 2020

Now there is the women’s Cairns Cup, derived from Jeanne Sinquefield’s maiden name, which is in its second year and can be watched free and live online from 7pm GMT daily until February 17. The entry includes China’s reigning world champion 居文君 (Jū Wénjūn) and India’s world No3 Humpy Koneru, and yet to really take off as a must-watch event it needs to aim still higher. The retired but still legendary Judit Polgár, the current No1 and Oxford student 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán), and the rising star Aleksandra Goryachkina are the trio who could make the Cairns Cup a historic landmark. [Read more].