To do a "Caruana" is an eponym meaning winning seven games in a row in a tournament. The world champ has done many amazing things in his career, but to do a "Carlsen" might mean to draw seven games in a row on chess's highest stage.
For the second consecutive world chess championship, the Norwegian has opened his title defense with seven draws. In today's round seven, he repeated the first nine moves from his round-two game, but Caruana's Queen's Gambit Declined held easily. At least...
The final of the women's world championship will be played between Ju Wenjun of China and Kateryna Lagno of Russia. Ju will be defending her crown in a match over four classical games.
"A fight is not won by one punch or kick, so either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard" was something Bruce Lee might have told our semi-finalists of the women's knockout world championship in Khanty-Mansiysk. As there is no bodyguard substitute for the game of chess, enduring was all our semi-finalists could do.
For...
It's the biggest chess event of the year as World Champion Magnus Carlsen will try to defend his title against the American challenger Fabiano Caruana.
The 2018 world chess championship will run November 9-28, and you can follow it all on Chess.com.
Game eight will start Monday, November 19 at 7 a.m. Pacific time (10 a.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. London/GMT. Your local time: ).
Caruana will play White and Carlsen will play Black in game eight. The match is scheduled for 12 games plus...
Magnus Carlsen takes his second consecutive White against Fabiano Caruana. Can he make his first mark in the 2018 World Chess Championship? GM Alex Yermolinsky brings you hot-off-the-press analysis!
My Basman post brought back some memories of my time spent amongst one of the most awesome groups of young talents of the post war/ pre-computer era. Under the watchful eye of the great Leonard Barden, Britain was the envy of the World in terms of young chess talent. One Soviet Grandmaster is said to have commented, after meeting some of them in a simul, that he didn't get such rough treatment back in the U.S.S.R.
One of the shining lights was Ian Wells, who was tragically taken from us, under...
A plus-one score was enough for Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to win the 2018 Shenzen Masters in China. The French GM edged out Anish Giri and Ding Liren on tiebreak after all finished on 5.5/10.
It was Vachier-Lagrave's victory over Ding Liren, from round six, that got him the better tiebreak—a special game indeed. After Ding had remained undefeated for exactly 100 games, thereby improving Mikhail Tal's streak in the 1970s by five games, he went down in a spectacular encounter with MVL.
Maxime...
Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana drew their seventh game of the 2018 world chess championship. The champion went back to 1. d4 like in his first try with White, and the players repeated the same position from round two's Queen's Gambit Declined, until White went 10. Nd2.
The pawn structure became symmetrical and several early trades took the life out of the position. It ended drawn after 40 moves.
The score is now 3.5-3.5 after...
It has been 16,878 days since an American has won a game in an undisputed world championship match (Spassky vs Fischer, game 21, Aug. 31, 1972). And since the top American is not a supercomputer, it will be at least two more.
In today's round six of the 2018 world chess championship, Fabiano Caruana pressed in a piece-for-three-pawns ending, but missed an incredibly opaque forced win against Magnus Carlsen.
Yes, the Norwegian supercomputer "Sesse" announced mate in 30, but even top grandmaster...
GM Jonathan Tisdall shares his reflections on the Carlsen-Caruana world championship at halftime. (You can read his preview of the match here.) For convenience, we've copied the games with GM Sam Shankland's annotations from our news reports.
I arrived in London for Game 5, exchanging the weird sense of omnipresent national fervor for the long absent joy of experiencing this most intense of all chess events live and up close. Yes, in many ways watching from the comfort of your home with a plethora...
