After a year of exciting chess, this weekend is the culmination of the 2018 Speed Chess Championship. Who will survive the final four and emerge as the champion after 12 hours of grueling blitz and bullet chess? Tune in to Chess.com/TV and Twitch....
From September 2-21, 1957 the first International Women's Team Tournament (i.e. the first Women's Chess Olympiad) took place in Emmen, Holland. The U. S. team, comprised of Gisela Gresser and Jacqueline Piati...
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....
In March 2017, I looked to see who made the most official brilliancy prizes. This led to three articles. Mikhail Tal was number one with 15 brilliancy prizes: Tal's brilliancy prizes Anatoly Karpov and Rashid Nezhmetdinov both had 10, putti...
GM Jonathan Tisdall writes a preview of the world championship from a variety of perspectives. 1. The view from Norway The shopping app for my corner grocery store announced today that there is a special on chess books this week. Of course the...
The much-anticipated 2018 world chess championship between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will take place from November 9-28 in London. On the Chess.com homepage poll, 83 percent predict Carlsen will win the match. Jus...
One of the leading Russian newspapers, "Izvestia," has published an interview with the president of the Russian Chess Federation and captain of the Russian Olympic team, Andrey Filatov. This interview got my attention when Filatov claimed tha...
The next match of the Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals is Thursday as Hikaru Nakamura (@hikaru) faces Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (@lyonbeast). The match winner will play Levon Aronian in the Speed Chess final f...
It's "only" a quarterfinal, but it's a matchup worthy of much more. On Thursday, October 11 at 10 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Central Europe) Hikaru Nakamura and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will go toe-to-toe to decide the last semifina...
The next match of the Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals is Tuesday as Wesley So (@gmwso) faces Vidit Gujrathi(@viditchess). The match winner will play the Polish prodigy Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the Speed Chess final fou...
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 Vachie...
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...
It's the final opening-round match of the Speed Chess Championship today as Anish Giri (@AnishGiri) faces Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (@azerichesss) for the right to advance in the Speed Chess bracket and play Levon Ar...
In what should be one of the closest Speed Chess Championship matches yet, Zaven Andriasyan faces Vidit Gujrathi for the right to advance in the Speed Chess bracket and play Wesley So in round two. Although An...
It's an all-Russian battle in the Speed Chess Championship this week as two of the world's best grandmasters face off. Ian Nepomniachtchi is the higher seed, but he could be the underdog against his countryman Alexander Gr...
If numbers don't lie, then this next Speed Chess Championship match is a draw. But since ties aren't possible in Chess.com's blitz and bullet series, we're going to play it out anyway. On Tuesday, August 7, GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Alexander G...
The Speed Chess Championship continues this week as two seasoned blitz grandmasters face off in what could be the closest match yet of the tournament. The French number-one (and world number-eight) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave t...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave against GM Leinier Dominguez Perez: The "man with three names" meets yet another man with three names. But only 2800s get hyphens, it seems. The two sesquipedalian chess players are the next two to face off in the openi...
The Speed Chess Championship rolls into Sunday to conclude a star-studded opening week. The American number-two (and world number-six) Wesley So takes on the Chinese chess prodigy, the 19-year-old Wei Yi. Both of these young ...
With two of the opening matches of the 2018 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship now in the books, fans are still waiting for the first competitive match. GM Levon Aronian and Hikaru Nakamura were simply too strong for GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hou ...
A great surprise for all chess fans happened today. Google honors our game with a doodle in the style of 1950s, when the talent of World Women's Champion Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko (1904-1986) was shining at its brightest. Never heard of her na...
The Speed Chess Championship resumes today as the tournament's highest seed, Hikaru Nakamura, takes on the top-rated woman in chess, Hou Yifan. While Nakamura is a heavy favorite, this could be the "year of the 16-seed," as #...
What better way to begin the Speed Chess Championship main bracket this year than with one of the biggest names in chess today? Fabiano Caruana, the top chess player in the United States, will challenge Magnus Carlsen this fall fo...
Speed Chess Championship season is in full swing now as the open qualifier starts Tuesday, July 10 at 12 p.m. Pacific time (3 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. UTC). The winner of the qualifier tournament will join 15 of the world's top chess playe...
