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 si...
With four opening draws, the first week of the 2018 world chess championship was about to be labeled the "calm b4 the storm" after an early thunderclap today. But even wing gambits can't seem give either player separation. In today's round five,...
The semifinals of the women's world championship will be played between Ju Wenjun, Lagno, Kosteniuk, Mariya Muzychuk. There is no denying it: quarterfinals are a big deal. Everything is magnified, from the tension and suspense to ...
Viswanathan Anand won the Tata Steel Chess India blitz tournament in Kolkata. "It was just the most magical day," said the Indian superstar, who tied for first with Hikaru Nakamura with 12.5/18 and then defeated the American grandmaster ...
Two Russians topped Chess.com's November Titled Tuesday with performances of 8.5/10 each. GM Evgeny Tomashevsky (@EvgenyT), known as "The Professor" for his solidity, glasses, and demeanor, and Grigory Oparin (@OparinGrigoriy), one of Russia's ris...
Today's round-four clash at the 2018 world chess championship between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana ended in the shortest draw of the bunch, at less than three hours. The match is tied 2.0-2.0 after Carlsen's English Opening went nowhere, but...
After winning the rapid, Hikaru Nakamura has good chances to take the first prize at the blitz part of the Tata Steel Chess India tournament in Kolkata. The American grandmaster scored 6.5/9 and is half a point ahead of Wesley So. Monday wa...
In sport, the "Magnus Effect" creates curves where there would otherwise be straight lines, but for Magnus Carlsen, it's another flat trajectory to his world championship defense. Just like in 2016, a series of draws has opened the 2018 world ches...
The women's world championship is down to just eight players as another eight got eliminated in the third round. The biggest names packing their bags were Harika Dronavalli, Antoaneta Stefanova, Natalija Pogonina and Valentina Gunina. The legend...
Hikaru Nakamura won the rapid part of the inaugural Tata Steel Chess India tournament in Kolkata. The American grandmaster scored 1.5 on the final day, which was just enough to stay ahead of Levon Aronian who scored only 1/3. Nakamura drew ...
A few hours before the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, the two best chess players in the world also agreed to peace at the 2018 world chess championship. After round one's seven-hour battle, today the draw between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Ca...
With a perfect score of 3/3 on the second day, Hikaru Nakamura is now tied for first place at the Tata Steel Chess India tournament in Kolkata. Levon Aronian did fine as well with 2.5/3 and is the joint leader. On the other end of the leade...
Five thousand miles away and 6.5 hours before the start of the world championship match, 10 strong grandmasters made their moves in what was the first round of the Tata Steel Chess India tournament in Kolkata. Over 300 spectators came to watc...
Luckily, London is a major city and you can still get dinner delivered at any hour. Today the world's top two grandmasters played right through dinner. It wasn't his longest world championship game ever, but to Magnus Carlsen, it felt like it "s...
In the second round, some big favorites were eliminated at the women's world championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, including Humpy Koneru, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Tan Zhongyi and Zhao Xue. IM Jovanka Houska reports. A quick check on the wea...
One of the most anticipated world championship matches in recent memory kicked off Thursday at the The College in Holborn, London. For the first time since 1990, and organized by World Chess, the biggest belt in chess will be contested b...
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Olga Girya, Elisabeth Paehtz, Alina Kashlinskaya and Natalia Zhukova are some of the biggest names who were eliminated in the first round of the women's world championship in Khanty-Mansiysk. Our women's chess reporter IM Jovan...
Today, Ding Liren of China bested Mikhail Tal's legendary streak of 95 games played without a defeat. Ding Liren's unbeaten streak now stands at 96 and counting. Tal's mark was set between October of 1973 and October of 1974. Ding Liren'...
Last year, two new teams (the Armenia Eagles and the Chengdu Pandas) made it to the finals weekend in San Francisco where the Eagles eventually defeated the Pandas in a thrilling multiple-overtime battle. This year, six new teams and two returning...
Today the first round of the 2018 Women's World Chess Championship starts in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. 64 players from 28 countries will be fighting in a knockout format to determine the new champion—and that might be for the last time. ...
Zurab Azmaiparashvili, the president of the European Chess Union (ECU), apologized on Facebook for having insinuated a possible case of cheating at the World Youth U14 Championship in Porto Carras, Greece. If anything could be learned from ...
Books, movies, podcasts: This edition of In Other News, our collection of smaller chess stories, shows that the game is playing out in many forms: Documentary chronicles all-girls team in New York City New US Chess podcast Carlsson in The Bi...
Now that FIDE has published its November rating list, it's official: the 2018 world championship match will be played between the world's top two players. That hasn't happened since 1990. On the new ratings list, reigning world champion Magnus C...
With a two-vote margin, Lewis Ncube was re-elected as president of the African Chess Confederation (ACC) at the FIDE congress last month. Our correspondent Alessandro Parodi explains what it means for chess in Africa. Zambia's Lewis Ncube was re...