Magnus Carlsen wanted to know what constituted a draw; he just didn't want one himself. After more than 6.5 hours of pressing, he finally edged Sergey Karjakin in the dwindling seconds of the game.
Long before that, prior to the start of the second round of the 2018 Sinquefield Cup, a closed-door players meeting took place to discuss the tournament's procedures on draws.
Maybe some of the players took it too literally. The first four games ended without a winner, with two lasting less then two...
Goodbye short films, hello "The Godfather." After today's transition to classical chess, the final game took 36 times as long as blitz thanks to some long, technical endings. Better get a bigger tub of popcorn.
The opening round produced two early leaders at the 2018 Sinquefield Cup: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Levon Aronian. There could have been a third, but Fabiano Caruana finally admitted the win was gone after six hours and 15 minutes of trying (in Godfather-speak, that's right about when Fredo...
Chess is a rich game, dating back over a millennia. On Chess.com alone, over 2,000,000,000 games have been played!
Which games are the very best ever played? No one can answer that conclusively, but we are going to give you Chess.com's opinion.
We asked Chess.com staff and contributors to give us their top 10 lists, and then we ordered each list, awarding 10 points to their top game and one point to their 10th game.
Here's our top 10!
1: Kasparov vs. Topalov, Wijk Aan Zee 1999
Despite losing...
You might know the Polish-Argentine GM Miguel Najdorf for his popular opening variation in the Sicilian, but did you know he played one of the most beautiful attacking chess games ever? GM Simon Williams shows you Najdorf's immortal game, one of his favorite games ever.
Hi everyone. Yesterday I played a bullet versus a good player (rating 2266) and I won in only 8 moves (I think it is the shortest bullet I’ve ever played). I prepared a trick, very simple, but interesting for a bullet game.
Also, Chess.com showed us yesterday a new interesting tool to Create Chess Game Animated GIF (you can find it here). Then I thought it was the perfect moment to create a new post, show you and check how the new Chess.com tool works and at the same time you will see the...
Three Grand Chess Tour events are in the books, and one book just came out. A lot has happened in the last 48 hours in St. Louis since Hikaru Nakamura won his second leg of the GCT season to lead the tour standings.
To wit:
The Saint Louis Chess Club released a comprehensive book on the five years of the Sinquefield Cup, with unique authors for each of the tournaments.
The annual "Ultimate Moves" battle was contested with Rex and Randy Sinquefield filling their usual roles as player-captains.
The...
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At the age of 14 years, one month, and one day, the Indian prodigy Nihal Sarin became the 12th-youngest grandmaster in chess history. He scored his third grandmaster norm at the 25th Abu Dhabi Masters held at Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Nihal started strongly with 3/4. His round-four win against Australian IM Ikeda Junta was particularly impressive.
In round five, Nihal played GM Ivan Cheparinov, who recently switched his federation to Georgia. He was pressing but had to...
The day my daughter was due was approaching. There was not much to do but wait. Another day passed. I couldn’t concentrate on work. Another day, and then another. I couldn’t write; my words were blocked. I couldn’t sleep. Another and another. When I tried to read, my attention wandered. Another, another, another.
I couldn’t play chess—or shouldn’t have played chess, but I did.
I played chess very badly. It had been my habit for some time to play a 30-minute rapid...
