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...
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 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:
Sept. 20, 10 a.m. PDT: Giri vs Aronian
Oct. 9, 9 a.m. PDT: So vs Vidit Gujrathi
Oct. 11, 10 a.m. PDT: Nakamura vs Vachier-Lagrave
You can find important information on the event below.
Broadcast and streaming
Bracket
Matchups and pairings
Fantasy...
Do you play the Tromp?
IM Keaton Kiewra introduces you to one of his favorite openings, the flexible and powerful Trompowsky Attack.
Learn how to play this creative and bold opening without getting bogged down in too much theory.
Hello my chess friends. In this post we are going to analyze another artistic endgame and I will try to explain it so you understand every line. Almost all my friends and students hate studios, but, for some reason I love them, that’s why I created this series in which I share the best ones I find on the way.
Artistic endgames are very helpful because you will have to calculate accurately, which is really good. This kind of exercise also teaches you to see what many people can’t see...
The last six weeks were full of top-level events like the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, the Sinquefield Cup, the World Junior Championship, and many Speed Chess Championship matches.
The "In Other News" tidbits have been piling up, but today, the dam is released with 13 stories from the chess breadbasket that you may have missed:
Google honors a pioneering female chess player
David Llada, new editor-in-chief of "American Chess Magazine"
Football players try out chess
Death at U.S. Openiz
Death...
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...
Stunning the chess world with a 9.5/10 score before losing in the last round, Iranian GM Parham Maghsoodloo won the World Junior Championship in Gebze, Turkey. Aleksandra Maltsevskaya of Russia won gold in the girls section.
The World Junior Championships (open and girls) were held September 5-15 in the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Gebze, Turkey. The Open section had players from 59 different federations, including 25 GMs and 40 IMs and no less than 30 players rated above 2500.
The...
Chess openings have been analyzed for centuries and yet even today it is still not easy to identify the best and worst first moves. According to Fischer, 1.e4 is "best by test."
From the other side, when the famous theoretician GM Ernst Gruenfeld was asked why he always started the game with his queen pawn, he answered that he would never make a mistake on the very first move! Statistics from the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship seem to agree with Gruenfeld; through the tournament's first half,...
