Online chess community where you can play chess, learn strategies and tactics, read chess news, see book reviews, find rules & tips, get free downloads, and more! http://www.chess.com/ 2007 Chess.com The young American chess player, Ray Robson (pictured), has just achieved his third and final GM-norm result, and therefore qualifies as a Grandmaster at just 14 years, 11 months and 16 days! It's a close run thing, but it looks like Robson might... http://www.chess.com/news/gm-elect-ray-robson-3337 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:16:16 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/gm-elect-ray-robson-3337 In the third round of the 4th Kolkata Open in India, French GM Vladislav Tkachiev (2669) turned up drunk for his game and dozed off after just 11 moves, losing the round on technical grounds, domestic media reported on Friday. Tkachiev arrived fo... http://www.chess.com/news/drunk-grandmaster-checkmated-after-dozing-off-in-india-9791 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:59:48 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/drunk-grandmaster-checkmated-after-dozing-off-in-india-9791 Do not adjust your set...it's not three months since the last list was published, but today marks the start of FIDE's new bi-monthly rating lists.  Since the advent of the unofficial live rating list for players over 2700 Elo, there has been pre... http://www.chess.com/news/fide-rating-list-sept09-8119 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:14:28 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/fide-rating-list-sept09-8119 US Chess prodigy IM Ray Robson earned his second GM norm at the recent 23rd North American FIDE Invitational. The 14 year-old Robson from Florida won the event with a score of 7/9.  His exciting round 7 game against Benjamin Finegold is shown b... http://www.chess.com/news/second-gm-norm-for-robson-4610 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:31:25 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/second-gm-norm-for-robson-4610 Shocking and sad news from a recent tournament in Greece, where local amateur player Nikolaos Karapanos played a brilliant game against Israeli IM Dan Zoler in the first round, but collapsed and died following a time scramble at the end. By remar... http://www.chess.com/news/a-deadly-game-3163 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:11:28 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/a-deadly-game-3163 Ukrainian chess has great strength in depth at the top levels of chess, with four players rated over 2700 Elo (Ponomariov, Karjakin, Eljanov and Ivanchuk), and another 12 over 2600 Elo. However, 19 year-old Sergey Karjakin will henceforth be play... http://www.chess.com/news/karjakin-to-play-for-russia-2104 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:17:18 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/karjakin-to-play-for-russia-2104 No, it's not a badly timed April fool's joke.  Reliable reports state that retired former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov (pictured) is to play a 12-game match against his great rival Anatoly Karpov. Before we get over-excited, it should be ... http://www.chess.com/news/kasparov-versus-karpov-rematch-7818 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:21:39 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/kasparov-versus-karpov-rematch-7818 No, this has nothing to do with the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences. Anand's acting skills are not going to make Tom Hanks worry (see advert below), but his chess skill is worthy of recognition. The Chess Oscar is an award given by Ru... http://www.chess.com/news/anand-accepts-oscar-6342 Sat, 09 May 2009 08:42:42 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/anand-accepts-oscar-6342 An interesting interview with Vishy Anand is available at the Chess Classic Mainz website.  In August, Anand wil be defending his 'Rapid World Championship' title that he won in the German city last year.   A snippet: Q. Next year, 2010, you w... http://www.chess.com/news/vishy-anand-interview-3257 Tue, 05 May 2009 14:46:20 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/vishy-anand-interview-3257 Alexandra Kosteniuk is the current Women's World Chess Champion - a title she won in September 2008, beating Hou Yifan in the final match. Kosteniuk was born in Perm, Russia on 23 April 1984 and was taught to play chess by her father when she was... http://www.chess.com/news/happy-birthday-alexandra-kosteniuk-8664 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:46:01 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/happy-birthday-alexandra-kosteniuk-8664 Keti grant formerly of Georgia but now resident in Scotland has become Scotland's first female GM (not to be confused with WGM) and one of only 15 in the world. There is too much information to copy here but if you google "keti grant" you will ge... http://www.chess.com/news/keti-grant-4464 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:19:07 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/keti-grant-4464 In this interview with Alisa Maric, she talks about managing sports as well as academics career, chess in schools, Judith Polgar, role of glamour in chess etc. In the end she has a special message for Indians! Alisa Maric was introduced to chess ... http://www.chess.com/news/interview-with-gm-alisa-maric-9449 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:11:32 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/interview-with-gm-alisa-maric-9449 Today (March 18th) is Vassily Ivanchuk's 40th birthday.  Ivanchuk has been one of the best chess players in the world since the late 1980's. 'Chucky' as he is affectionately known, was born in Ukraine and earned the title of Grandmaster in 1988.... http://www.chess.com/news/happy-birthday-vassily-ivanchuk-8515 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:48:59 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/happy-birthday-vassily-ivanchuk-8515 Azeri Grandmaster Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (pictured) has repeated his serious accusations of cheating against GM Igor Kurnosov, relating to the recent Aeroflot tournament.  Previous news items are here and here. A translation of his letter to an A... http://www.chess.com/news/mamedyarov-repeats-accusations-6610 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:49:51 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/mamedyarov-repeats-accusations-6610 At the recent FIDE Presidential Board meeting held in Istanbul, new chess titles were awarded to the players achieving the necessary results.  The new Grandmasters included Scotland's top female player, Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (originally from Ge... http://www.chess.com/news/latest-approved-fide-chess-titles-2972 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:43:27 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/latest-approved-fide-chess-titles-2972 Denis Kadric, 14-year old player from BiH, is making his biggest progress in career. His elo is 1981 but In this rating period he is +118.35. He was 27nd in 14th Open Bosnjaci 2009(+37.20, best win vs Miro Pandurevic(2253)), winner of 23e Open In... http://www.chess.com/news/14-year-old1981-beat-im2495-3634 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:36:07 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/14-year-old1981-beat-im2495-3634 Japan Shogi Association unveiled the list of top 20 shogi professional player list regarding their annual earnings from professional shogi tournaments for 2008(in Japanese). I'm picking up the top 10 from that here. The amount of each player is ob... http://www.chess.com/news/top-10-shogijapanese-chess-player-list---earnings-from-tournament-7380 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:18:37 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/top-10-shogijapanese-chess-player-list---earnings-from-tournament-7380 It is a great pleasure to welcome Grandmaster Gregory Serper as chess.com's Sunday columnist.Gregory is a strong Grandmaster, and the most experienced among our current staff of columnists. His experience extends not only to tournament play, but a... http://www.chess.com/news/introducing-grandmaster-gregory-serper-2602 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:27:12 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/introducing-grandmaster-gregory-serper-2602 I am very pleased to announce a new columnist for chess.com, Grandmaster Vinay Bhat. I have a very special personal relation to Vinay: he's one of the two individuals who are in the running for having beaten me the most times in USCF tournament ... http://www.chess.com/news/introducing-grandmaster-vinay-bhat-5059 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:18:28 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/introducing-grandmaster-vinay-bhat-5059 Julio Becerra is the #6 ranked active player in the U.S. and hungry to become #5.Julio grew up in Cuba, where he did not learn chess until the ripe age of 13. He fell in love with the game immediately and, playing constantly, made up for the lost ... http://www.chess.com/news/introducing-grandmaster-julio-becerra-rivero-6481 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:22:02 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/introducing-grandmaster-julio-becerra-rivero-6481