The biggest event in online chess is back for 2018, and the field of 16 grandmasters is set for the 2018 Speed Chess Championship.
While the best players in the world battle it out on the chessboards, you can be a part of the action by predicting the winners in our all-new fantasy chess contest. And don't think you can just pick the favorites, either, because there are bonuses for choosing upsets.
Here's how it works. Use the Google form below to fill out your selections for each match in your...
Top classical chess returns this Saturday with the start of the Dortmund super tournament. "Mr. Dortmund," Vladimir Kramnik, is again the top seed, but Anish Giri will be close on his heels.
The 46th Sparkassen Chess Meeting will take place July 14-22 in the Orchestra Center NRW in Dortmund, Germany. It's an eight-player single round robin. The time control is 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves followed by 15 minutes to finish the game with a 30-second increment starting...
Nowadays, it is normal for chess players of all levels to make a quick draw once in a while. The so-called "Sofia Rules" and other measures that attempt to prohibit draws by mutual agreement are typically applied in elite tournaments and even world championship cycles, but they are not yet relevant in most (open) tournaments and competitions.
Will the first player who's never succumbed to the temptation of finishing the game quickly with half a point please stand up?
There are several ways,...
Mikhail Botvinnik is known as one of the greatest chess teachers to ever live. So why not learn from three of his best endgames in this exciting lesson?
Five-time World Champion GM Viswanathan Anand is teaching a one-hour live online lesson on July 14th at Chess University. GM Anand will teach using his recent victories and help students better understand strategy, time management, and other topics. Sign up here: https://chessuniversity.com/courses/gm-vishy-anands-july-2018-masterclass/
Despite having been seeded into the main tournament already, GM Anish Giri decided to play Tuesday's Speed Chess Open Qualifier, and duly won it. Runner-up GM Zaven Andriasyan qualified for the 2018 Speed Chess Championship.
Joining 14 seeded grandmasters, last month Leinier Dominguez qualified for the Speed Chess Championship in a four-player knockout. Yesterday the last spot was battled out in a 10-round Swiss (3 minutes + 1 second increment) open to titled players with a...
Speed Chess Championship season is in full swing now as the open qualifier starts Tuesday, July 10 at 12 p.m. Pacific time (3 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. UTC).
The winner of the qualifier tournament will join 15 of the world's top chess players in a bracket for the main championship event. Matches in the main bracket begin later this month.
Follow the qualifier action live at Chess.com/TV and Twitch.tv/chess.
Titled players rated 2500 or more (Chess.com blitz) may join the tournament at https://www.chess.com/live#t=977032 before...
Wesley So retained his Leon Masters title after beating Paco Vallejo in the final. This was despite Friday, when the American was close to getting eliminated by India's new star Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu.
The 31st edition of the Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez Ciudad de León was held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Leon, a city about 300km northwest of Madrid. The players were the world's youngest grandmaster Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Leuven Grand Chess Tour winner...
The coming world championship match is going to be Magnus Carlsen's biggest challenge since he won his crown.
As I mentioned in my recent article, it is the first time he will defend his title against a younger challenger, the 25-year-old American Fabiano Caruana. Besides, the rating gap between the opponents, which is currently a measly 20 points, is going to be the smallest of all Carlsen's previous matches.
So, who will celebrate a victory this fall?
Most of the experts predict a very close...
