Wei Yi scored one of the biggest wins of his individual career by winning the Asian Continental Championship in Makati, Philippines.
Wei scored 6.5/9, and won five more Elo points to reach a rating of 2732. He qualified for the 2019 World Cup together with GMs Amin Tabatabaei, Le Quang Liem, Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son.
Unlike the European Championship or American Continental, the Asian Continental is a nine-round Swiss that is first a way for players to qualify for...
Hikaru Nakamura won the 2018 Grand Chess Tour and its $120,000 first prize after beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the fourth blitz game of the final at the London Chess Classic.
Fabiano Caruana came in third as he defeated Levon Aronian in their match. Gawain Jones won the British Knockout.
The four GCT contestants before the first game. | Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com.
It was an incredibly close affair today at the London Chess Classic. MVL and Nakamura drew no fewer than seven games...
Your favorite annual chess quiz tradition is back for the 2018 holidays.
Enjoy this year's quiz, and see if you can win one of our prizes for a top score.
Play the puzzler here.
Rules:
All ties will be resolved by the earliest received submission, so send in your answers as soon as you know them. But try to be as accurate as possible—it usually takes close to a perfect score to win.
Answers will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Jan....
What good is getting a winning position in bullet chess if you can't deliver the all-important checkmate? GM Aman Hambleton is back with more bullet chess tips about how to mate the enemy king before your clock runs out.
Today we continue the tradition and announce my the best games of each of the five months.
The first blog on this topic you can see in The best of the best.
All the games its always my readers choose, not I. And thank you for that!
The best game of July
This is the first time in our voting when readers have evaluated the moves not made in the game! It was a blitz and the final move could not take me more than three seconds. Therefore, I intuitively “groped”...
Who will win in a battle of online chess titans?
On Monday, the Chessbrahs will take on the faces of Chess.com in a new team chess match format.
You can watch this groundbreaking event live on Twitch.tv/chess and Twitch.tv/chessbrah on Monday, December 17 at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST, 8 p.m. CET).
GM Eric Hansen and GM Aman Hambleton (Chessbrahs) will face GM Robert Hess and IM Daniel Rensch (Chess.com) in a three-game rapid match where both players on each team will decide every...
Last week's article about Puzzle Rush provided great feedback, so I would like to thank you for your comments. When I see that people from different countries, different political views and different playing strength share passion for chess, I feel that the FIDE's slogan "Gens una sumus," which is Latin for "We are one people," is actually true.
One of the most common comments can be summarized like this: According to the scale I am supposed to be a strong tournament player, but I am rated only...
With two more draws in the classical games, the Grand Chess Tour matches Nakamura-Vachier-Lagrave and Caruana-Aronian at the London Chess Classic will be decided tomorrow in the rapid and blitz games. Gawain Jones scored a nice victory against Luke McShane to take a six-point lead in the final of the British Knockout Championship.
Photographer Lennart Ootes shared a remarkable statistic with this author on Sunday: the player who will be crowned as the winner of the 2018 Grand Chess...
The Chess.com member kurniadigautama asked:
Something has been bothering me since I saw the game between GM Vidit Santosh and GM David Eggleston in The Chess.com Isle of Man international open tournament (round 1). In the game, we see that Vidit sacrificed a queen for two minor pieces claiming that the white pieces are not in sync and hence White’s king will be mated if Black can bring all his forces towards the king. The problem is, though we can understand the principle, calculations are...
