Hikaru Nakamura won the $37,500 first prize at the Paris Grand Chess Tour after a dramatic day with more blunders than ever. Sergey Karjakin collapsed a few rounds before the end, while Wesley So drew too many games to pla...
With one day of blitz to go at the Paris Grand Chess Tour, Sergey Karjakin is one point ahead of Hikaru Nakamura. Wesley So, who lost two games today, is half a point further down. Today the Paris tournament switched to the blitz time...
Despite drawing all his games today, Wesley So retained his lead at the Paris Grand Chess Tour. Before the start of the blitz, Sergey Karjakin and Hikaru Nakamura are trailing him by one point. "So" mostly stood for "solid" today,...
Wesley So has a slim lead going into the final day of rapid at the Paris Grand Chess Tour. On Thursday the Leuven winner scored 2.5/3, and is chased by Levon Aronian and Sergey Karjakin. At noon, two hours earlier than the first day, the se...
The second leg of the 2018 Grand Chess Tour took off today in Paris. After three rounds of rapid, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian and Wesley So are on plus-one. The Paris Grand Chess Tour is again sponsored by Vivendi, owner of Canal+. The tour...
October 3 will not only see the elections for a new FIDE president, but also that of the leadership of the chess continents Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Alessandro Parodi reports on the situation in Africa. Ahead of the FIDE presidential e...
On Sunday, Hikaru Nakamura played all 20 levels of Komodo available on Chess.com followed by three odds-chess games, and scored 20.5-2.5 in total. It was the first man-machine match since Chess.com acquired Komodo, and made full use of its lates...
Bye bye chain gang. Hello pawn chains. A new youth offenders program in Alberta, Canada, has an innovative way to get young people back on the right track: chess. Read on for that story and other chess cornucopia in this edition of "In Other New...
Wesley So won the $37,500 first prize at the Your Next Move tournament in Leuven, Belgium. He was the only player to score 22/27 after a thrilling final round in which all key contestants lost. So started the day with a 1.5-p...
Arkady Dvorkovich, a former Deputy Prime Minister and a former Assistant to the President in the Russian government, has announced that he is running for FIDE President. It is expected that Kirsan Ilyumzhinov will withdraw his candidacy soon....
Wesley So lost his last two games today and saw his lead at the Your Next Move tournament shrink to 1.5 points. Levon Aronian and Sergey Karjakin have the best chance to catch him in the remaining nine rounds. The fourth day...
There's no special prize, but Wesley So can still be called the winner of the rapid portion of the Your Next Move in Leuven, Belgium. With two days of blitz on the program, he is trailed by Levon Aronian and Maxime Vachier...
Indian WGM Soumya Swaminathan (former World Junior Girls' Champion 2009) was selected for the Indian women's team in the upcoming Asian Nations Cup in Hamadan, Iran from July 26 to August 4. WGM Soumya officially declined her invitation to this...
Again scoring two wins and one draw, Wesley So continued doing very well on day two of the Your Next Move rapid tournament in Leuven, Belgium. Levon Aronian is his closest rival with three rounds to go. So's victory...
Hikaru Nakamura will play a groundbreaking man-vs-machine chess event this Sunday as he is slated to face 20 levels of the Komodo chess engine on Chess.com before taking on the newest version, Komodo Monte Carlo, in three odds-chess games. The m...
Wesley So showed great form and took an early lead at the Your Next Move rapid and blitz event in Leuven, Belgium which kicked off the 2018 Grand Chess Tour today. Except for a switch at the start, with first Leuven and then Pari...
There's no stopping Sam Shankland, who scored his third tournament victory in a row yesterday at the American Continental Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay. Shankland scored 9/11, and won 10 more Elo points to reach a 2727 rating. He qual...
The seventh edition of the ChessKid Online National Invitational Championship (CONIC) concluded last weekend with seven of the strongest American juniors winning official national championships. Sanctioned and in cooperation with US Chess, ...
Dmitry Jakovenko scored 6.5/9 and took the first place at the 19th Karpov tournament in Poikovsky, adding another trophy to his victories in 2007 and 2012. Ian Nepomniachtchi came second (6/9) and Boris Gelfand was third (5.5/6). Ana...
A visually impaired chess player has been permanently banned by the Norwegian Chess Federation (NSF) after having been caught red-handed with an earplug glued to his palm during a game against a nine-year-old girl. Norwegian chess reporter Tarjei ...
June's Titled Tuesday was a fantastic success for Iranian players. As evidenced by their success in the 2016 Olympiad and the emergence of prodigies like GM Alireza Firouzja, Iran is becoming quite a strong chess country. With two trips (top m...
Fabiano Caruana won the €75,000 first prize at the Altibox Norway Chess tournament after beating Wesley So and seeing his main rivals draw their games. In the last round, Vishy Anand won against Sergey Karjakin. ...
It was a good day for American chess as both Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana won their games at the Altibox Norway Chess tournament, and Wesley So held a worse rook ending. Magnus Carlsen, So, Nakamura and Caruana are lea...
Viswanathan Anand defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in round seven of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament and is now tied for first place. The other news today was Shakhriyar Mamedyarov admitting to having been involved in pre-arranged draws. ...
On Monday, FIDE presidential candidate Georgios Makropoulos announced his ticket. The deputy president on his ticket is the well-known organizer Malcolm Pein, who told Chess.com he "would be interested" in running for president in 2022. The FIDE...