Wang Hao defeated David Howell today and edged out Fabiano Caruana on tiebreak to win the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Isle of Man and qualify for the 2020 Candidates' Tournament. The Candidates' Tournament will determine the next challenger for Magnus Carlsen and the world chess championship.
Caruana drew his game with Hikaru Nakamura, while Levon Aronian and Carlsen also split the point. With that, Carlsen is now unbeaten for 101 games and improved on Ding Liren's streak...
With one round to go Fabiano Caruana is the sole leader at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Isle of Man. The American GM defeated David Anton in a bloody penultimate round with seven decisive games on the top eight boards.
Seven players are trailing Caruana by half a point. In order of first tiebreak—which is likely to decide the fight for the spot in the Candidates' tournament—they are Wang Hao, Kirill Alekseenko, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Nikita Vitiugov,...
Sports commentators love to mention chess during their broadcasts of football, basketball and baseball games, but often these shallow metaphors don't show a true understanding of chess.
IM Daniel Rensch recently observed, while watching a sports game, that it would be interesting if announcers used more realistic chess comparisons in their commentary. Instead of spouting the cliche that "it's a chess game between the coaches," announcers who actually knew chess could use more relevant references.
Which...
The King's Gambit is supposedly a not-so-serious opening. But if it was good enough for the legendary world champion Boris Spassky, perhaps it's worth another look. Find out how Spassky used the King's Gambit to defeat another famous player, David Bronstein.
Yep, it's a strange sounding title! All will be revealed.
I know that of late a couple of my young chess.com friends have been studying Rubinstein - and that is no bad thing. He is absolutely one of the best players to study from the pre - 1939 era.
Everyone - even elite 2700 class players - can learn from his games.
In the current I.O.M. event there have been a couple of endgames - involving the very best
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- that have caused some head scratching amongst...
Hikaru Nakamura had a slow start but after a convincing win against Vladislav Kovalev, the American grandmaster now finds himself tied for first place with David Anton, Levon Aronian and Fabiano Caruana at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Isle of Man. There are just two rounds to go.
You can follow the games here as part of our live portal, Chess.com/events. There's daily coverage by GM Daniel King and IM Anna Rudolf, joined by WIM Fiona Steil-Antoni for interviews,...
Something Old
Deep into the 19th century chess was still characterized by match play.
The idea of tournaments was slow to catch on. Prior to the London International Tournament of 1851 (the first international tournament), the number of tournaments could have been counted on one hand with fingers left over. London 1851 was a clumsy match-tournament, but a catalyst nonetheless. The decade-plus between the 1851 and the second international...
With a surprisingly quick and crushing win over Alexander Grischuk, the Spanish grandmaster David Anton joined Levon Aronian and Fabiano Caruana in the lead at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Isle of Man. There are three rounds to go.
But the story of this round was about two other games that started out identically.
You can follow the games here as part of our live portal, Chess.com/events. There's daily coverage by GM Daniel King and IM Anna Rudolf, joined by WIM...
When we learn the rules of chess and start playing, we never ask ourselves the question in the title of the article.
We just enjoy the process of playing, that's all! But almost any person who has played chess for a long time is going to ask: "What is chess?"
The answer depends on the time this question is asked. For example, after last year's world championship tiebreak, Fabiano Caruana might have answered something like: "What is chess? Magnus don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more."
Fabiano...
