In 11 days from now, a new FIDE president will be elected in Batumi, Georgia. Today we're providing answers from Arkady Dvorkovich and Nigel Short to Chess.com questions sent to all three candidates. Sadly, Georgios Makropoulos declined to participate.
On Monday, September 3 Chess.com sent the same list of questions to all three candidates. Our goal was to get a clear view of the areas where they agree and disagree, and to learn more about which candidate has what kind of plans for the future...
A 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 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:
Tata Steel...
Here you'll find updated standings and leaderboard information for the Arena Kings Streamers Championship Season 1.
Season 2 press release and announcement.
Rank
Player
Points
Twitch Channel
Name / Title
1
penguingm1
215
www.twitch.tv/penguingm1
GM Andrew Tang
2
DanielNaroditsky
190
www.twitch.tv/dnaroditsky
GM Daniel Naroditsky
3
AlexanderL
160
www.twitch.tv/gmlenderman
GM Alexander Lenderman
4
Fins0905
125
www.twitch.tv/johnbartholomew
IM John Bartholomew
5
gkchesstiger
120
www.twitch.tv/igmgatakamsky
GM...
Anish Giri and Levon Aronian were each extremely impressive in their 2018 Speed Chess Championship debuts. Watch them face off in an exciting match with commentary from Daniel Rensch and Chessbrah Eric Hansen.
About 2 months ago I had prepared a lesson for my 8-year-old student about pawn endings (key squares and opposition). To my surprise the 8-year-old was able to solve every endgame I presented to him perfectly and immediately. I was intrigued and asked him which coach had taught him to play these endgames so well. His answer surprised me. He had learned to play these endgames by practicing ‘100 endgames You Must Know’ by Jesus de la Villa on Chessable by himself.
So I decided to check...
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-six...
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.
NEXT MATCHES:
So vs Vidit Gujrathi:
Nakamura vs Vachier-Lagrave:
You can find important information on the event below.
Broadcast and streaming
Bracket
Matchups and pairings
Fantasy prediction contest
SmarterChess predictions
Schedule
Results
Event...
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...
