Former Women's World Champion Tan Zhongyi capped off a tremendous attack against GM Anna Muzychuk to gain her third victory in the 2024 FIDE Women's Candidates and maintain the lead. All four games were decisive in round six, leaving GM Aleksandra...
Just two players are left on a perfect score after four rounds across two days, GMs Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So. They have won all four matches they have played at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals so far. Carlsen defeated two of his greates...
On the first day of round five of the 2023 FIDE World Cup, GMs Dommaraju Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi led the way for India's young stars after both scored wins with Black over GMs Wang Hao and Nils Grandelius, respectively. GMs Magnus Carl...
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship second semifinal match on Friday. The world champion steamrolled through yet another match in what has become a series of dominant wins over th...
Yesterday a couple of things became clear: GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix series and the results in the semifinals meant that we would have the pleasure of not just one tiebreaker but two. Although not without his s...
World Champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi started their FIDE World Championship match on Friday in Dubai with a draw. Nepomniachtchi had a slight opening advantage but got under some pressure soon after, and then impressed...
The 2020 Women's World Championship match between reigning champion Ju Wenjun (China) and challenger Aleksandra Goryachkina (Russia) will start on Sunday in Shanghai. The second half of the match will be played in Vladivostok, Russia. Here's where...
Magnus Carlsen started the Grenke Chess Classic in Karlsruhe, Germany where he had left his previous tournament, the Gashimov Memorial: winning. The world champion defeated IM Vincent Keymer in a marathon game in which the 14-year-old pu...
Get ready for another football match and penalty shootout, although unlike normal, the shootout will come first. The 2018 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz and 2018 Sinquefield Cup opened today with a brief ceremony, and the first moves wi...
Leinier Dominguez won an invitational knockout tournament on Tuesday to qualify for the 2018 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. The Cuban grandmaster first eliminated Georg Meier in the semifinal of yesterday's qualifier, and then Jon L...
The world championship match between GMs Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin will be held in the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan. “There was never any doubt about New York,” said Andrew Murray-Watson, communicatio...
The Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, the concrete jungle where dreams are made of. The 2016 World Championship will be held in New York City, as was announced today by Agon. Long-held rumors that the next world title match will...
This edition of "In Other News" is surely the first to feature references to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," Stephen Hawking, and quantum physics, and that's all just the first item! It is our second consecutive month where playing chess i...
The eighth match game between Magnus Carlsen, playing white, and Viswanathan Anand ended in a draw after 33 moves. The Norwegian challenger switched to 1.e4 and the World Champion defended with the same line that his opponent has been using: the B...
The fate of famous old chess Grandmasters is not always a happy one, so it is heartwarming to learn of the rededication of the grave of Polish-born Grandmaster Johannes Zukertort (1842-1888). Thanks to the collaborative efforts of Dr Marek Stel...
Due to a tactical oversight by Boris Gelfand, Vishy Anand needed only 17 moves to level the score in the World Championship match in Moscow, Russia. On Monday the World Champion played 3.f3, just like in game 3, after which the challenger went for...
Hikaru Nakamura maintained his slim lead in the A group of the 2011 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. In the 12th round the American grandmaster drew quickly with Vladimir Kramnik, and saw Vishy Anand escaping with a draw against Anish Giri many hours ...
New: The Zukertort System: A Guide for White and Black . The Zukertort System is a dynamic 21st-century opening, offering White chances to launch a sharp kingside attack or to work up a slow squeeze on the queenside. Grigory Bogdanovich explai...
The Bulgarian organizers of the Anand-Topalov World Championship match take Chessbase to court for "violating copyright rules". Chessbase transmitted the moves of the match live on their Playchess server, against the will of the Bulgarians.During ...
After four rounds of play over five boards, the two teams at this year's Staunton Memorial are still equal to each other: England vs Holland 10-10. Both won a match twice with a 3-2 score and with very fightful chess, which unfortunately cannot be...
When most people hear of the “Colle System,” they think of the modest, solid, setup where White plays d4, Nf3, e3, Bd3, c3, Nbd2, and then looks up to see what Black has done with his moves. Guest author David Rudel proves that the system can actu...
Peter Leko suffered his second loss in Elista today; this time it was Frenchman Etienne Bacrot who forced the Hungarian to resign with a beautiful queen sacrice. Wang Yue ground down Eljanov while Alekseev beat Kasimdzhanov with Black.The 3rd Gran...
Nigel Davies is a Grandmaster from England, a popular and prolific chess author and an experienced coach. He also authored the recent Chess Mentor course, "Understanding the Colle-Zukertort" and is currently playing in a vote chess...
Chess.com is lucky today! We are fortunate to have GM Nigel Davies with us in two amazing new roles! First off, GM Davies has created a new Chess Mentor course on Understanding the Colle-Zukertort which is an aggressive opening with deadly intent...
Last week in Groningen the top match in the Duch league, between Share Dimension and HSG, was played. In a great ambiance, Groningen had spared no pains or costs to turn the match into a great event. At the end home club Share Dimension defeated H...
