GM Magnus Carlsen is in danger of tumbling out of the 2023 FIDE World Cup after 18-year-old GM Vincent Keymer pounced on a blunder to beat the world number-one for the first time. GM Wesley So is also in a must-win position in Thursday's second ga...
GM Alejandro Ramirez is currently under investigation by US Chess and the Saint Louis Chess Club for sexual misconduct. In a tweet on Wednesday, WGM Jennifer Shahade claims to have been assaulted twice by Ramirez and also that she saw "alarming ev...
After four previous days of Blitzcoin Invitational, it was time for the final match. The top-seed GM Daniel Naroditsky faced another very dangerous and fast player, GM Awonder Liang, and went on to convincingly beat him to win the tournament and...
Both the Open and Women sections of the Batumi Olympiad were decided by tiebreaks. Like just about every two years, this led to criticism on chess forums. According to grandmasters Peter Heine Nielsen and David Smerdon, the time has come to actual...
Update July 11, 2017 -- The National Appeals Committee (NAC) of the Canadian Chess Federation (CFC) has denied the appeal by IM Nikolay Noritsyn. According to CFC President Vladimir Drkulec, the vote was 3-1 to reject Noritsyn's appeal. "It wa...
It's Speed Chess week! Our online championship will resume on Wednesday this week the match between Sergey Karjakin and Georg Meier. On Thursday there's Anish Giri vs Wesley So, which we'll preview tomorrow. Find all information about the 2017 S...
GM Magnus Carlsen got to be Magnus Carlsen today. He already tried to break down GM Sergey Karjakin with the Ruy Lopez and the Giuoco Piano in the 2016 World Championship. Today, he used a hybrid, but it was hi...
More than 100 years ago a newspaper birthed the Tour de France, and now another venerable European periodical has brought us the largest Magnus Carlsen simul in years. "Die Zeit," the esteemed German weekly, celebrated its 70th anniversary ...
Is it possible to play better chess at faster time controls in worse weather against stronger opponents? The life of GM Viswanathan Anand over the last month poses that exact question. After a massively underwhelming performance in Gibraltar aga...
For several months we've known which eight players will vie for the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen's world title. Now we know much more about the 2016 Candidates' Tournament. Moscow was already the announced city, and the Armenian corporate b...
[UPDATE 4/11/15 - The appeals committee has met and decided they cannot help in regards to So's request to not lose points. The committee consisted of GM Ben Finegold, IM Rusa Goletiani, and IA Chris Bird (joining by phone). Finegold told ...
Update: FIDE published this on its web site to clarify statements made by Ank Stevens, a lawyer for Kasparov's team. The FIDE Presidential Election, to take place in the middle of the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Norway, will make 181 delegates very i...
On Wednesday Hikaru Nakamura did an “AMA” (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit, a social news and entertainment website where registered users submit content in the form of links or text posts. The result was a very honest and interesting ...
This week there were rumours about the next Candidates Tournament being held in London, as a result of a tweet by the assistant of the FIDE President. These rumours seem to have been confirmed now by FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. In their own...
America's number one grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura is working with 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov. Their collaboration started before the Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee last January. This was reported in the latest issue of New ...
Darren Aronofsky's new movie Black Swan, featuring Natalie Portman as the increasingly tormented ballet dancer Nina who has to perform the dual role of both the white and the black swan in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, left me both puzzled and ...
Israel's team captain Alon Greenfeld is sadly convinced that Israel's latest successes will never be replicated. In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, cross-posted in full here, the grandmaster speaks about chess in Israel, and how the country ...
Vladimir Kramnik will join Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen and Alexei Shirov at the second stage of the Masters Final in Bilbao. Just minutes ago the Russian defeated Levon Aronian in a blitz play-off; both won their White game and then Kramnik ...
Admit it: one of the reasons you're not playing the main line Ruy Lopez or even 1.e4, is that you're afraid of the Marshall Attack. I, for one, plead guilty to this charge. I've always avoided the Marshall Attack like the plague, not because I don...
On the first playing day of the 2010 Cez Chess Trophy, Judit Polgar took a clear lead in her rapid match with David Navara. After a draw in the first game she won both the second and third game. The match takes place in Prague and consists of eigh...
In this week's The New Yorker, James Surowiecki calls Apple's launch, next week, of the expensive iPad 'a fundamental gamble, namely that people will pay for quality'. In today's world, free (digital) stuff is indeed so easy to...
One of the most anticipated publishing events of the year is the release of the new book by Garry Kasparov. Published by Everyman Chess, it is the second volume in the series entitled Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess. On Monday, September 29, 2008,...
As mentioned before, I spent a week in Berlin before I went to Dortmund. It was an quite a coincidence that a club member happened to be in Berlin too. During the weekend of 23/24 June he would play, for the 6th time already, in a tournament I had...
