Winning all three segments and using lots of nasty tactics, Levon Aronian defeated Anish Giri in the second quarterfinal of the 2018 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship on Thursday. The winning score for the Armenian GM was 18-11.
The next Speed Chess match, between Wesley So and Vidit Gujrathi, is on with commentary on Chess.com/TV and Twitch.tv/chess. Don't miss it!
It was a high-class match between two players who are side by side on the FIDE rating list: Aronian is currently the world number...
A brand new blitz and rapid tournament will be held in November in Kolkata, India. Chess.com is partnering with the tournament.
Tata Steel Chess India 2018 is a brand new super tournament scheduled for November 9-14. The tournament format is similar to what is used in the Grand Chess Tour: three days of rapid chess and two days of blitz.
The location is the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in Kolkata, India. The participants are a mix of international top grandmasters and Indian stars:
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The 2018 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship will feature 16 of the world's best chess players in an innovative eSports bracket tournament and a guaranteed prize pool of $55,000.
See the round two results here.
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It's time for your next lesson on the Trompowsky, a creative and flexible opening that is easy to learn.
IM Keaton Kiewra shows you the main ideas behind a popular line of the opening, with 3...d5.
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Top 5 Pirc Defence games
This is my blog from the thirtieth of August, and in twenty days it has become the absolute leader in viewing. This is part of my "Top 5" series, in which I share my notable games.
I am an e4 player, but I have not become a fan of Pirtc defense for Black, so all the games on this blog are games against this opening. Here are games against opponents from different countries, different strengths and different styles: Indian Pirz, Romanian Pirz and even Pirc,...
Eliminating another Russian top grandmaster, Jan-Krzystof Duda became the first player to advance to the semifinals of the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. The Polish player defeated Alexander Grischuk in a truly epic match on Tuesday.
The next Speed Chess match, between Levon Aronian and Anish Giri, is on with commentary on Chess.com/TV and Twitch.tv/chess. Don't miss it!
Duda's win against Sergey Karjakin was a huge upset, and to kick out another former world blitz champion of Russia...
The next match of the Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals is today as Anish Giri (@anishgiri) faces Levon Aronian (@levonaronian). The match winner will play the winner of Hikaru Nakamura vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
Giri is the higher seed, but is he the favorite to win the match? Find out what our statistical predictions think.
Watch the match live today, .
The following viewing options will be available:
Twitch.tv/chess: the official broadcast with...
The first stage of the first Computer Chess Championship event is in the books, and after 562 official games Stockfish tops the leaderboard with an excellent score of 39/46, the first of eight engines to advance to stage two.
The two other big-name engines, Komodo (38/46) and Houdini (37/46), are just below Stockfish at the end of the stage one, with a large gap between those three and the next five engines in the standings.
The machine-learning chess project Lc0 ("Leela") finished in a solid...
Round two of the Speed Chess Championship starts today as Alexander Grischuk (@grischuk) does battle with Jan-Krzysztof Duda (@polish_fighter3000). After breaking the brackets by defeating Sergey Karjakin in round one, can the young and talented Duda pull off another upset against a Russian chess legend?
Grischuk is one of the most experienced blitz players in history, but Duda is rising quickly. You'd be surprised how close a match-up our statistical predictions think it...
