If you had GM Sam Shankland and WIM Annie Wang at the top of your fantasy chess bracket, congratulations, you're eating prime rib tonight. A little more than halfway through the 2018 U.S. Championships, these two unlikely tourname...
Veselin Topalov maintained his lead at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir as he won (again from a worse position) vs David Navara. Magnus Carlsen scored his first win in round five vs Radoslaw Wojtaszek in an offbeat Sicilian. Wit...
Today in Azerbaijan, the field scored its first win. Meanwhile in St. Louis at the 2018 U.S. Championships, they recycled the result. It was, after all, Earth Day. Despite tallying 27 wins over the first four rounds, today the fiel...
The fourth round of the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan saw the first decisive game of the tournament. With his win over Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, it's Veselin Topalov who grabbed the lead today. Just like at the 2017 London Chess Cl...
No one is safe in St. Louis. Not even would-be world champions. With a certain super-tournament in the Caucuses netting a combined zero wins in three rounds, the fighting chess in America's Heartland is counterbalancing that. In the first three ...
Yesterday at the 2018 U.S. Championships, White dominated, winning all seven decisive games. In today's round three, the roulette wheel tilted the other way. Black won a total of five games, and players of the second move collectively di...
In the second round of the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan all games ended in draws once again. Anish Giri, who joked about a beautiful crosstable on Twitter, escaped vs Veselin Topalov after tricking himself. Anish Giri knows all too w...
GM Valentina Gunina won her third European gold at the women's championship in Vysoké Tatry, Slovakia. The Russian grandmaster finished ahead of GMs Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia, silver) and Anna Ushenina (Ukraine, bronze). IM Jovanka ...
Talk about a whitewash. In round two of the 2018 U.S. Championships, more games produced wins than draws, and White had seven wins and no losses. The women fought much longer, but the men had more kills. When all of the games had finished...
The first round of the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan saw five draws, including the top en...
He's young, but he's got some experience with defending titles. And it hasn't gone well. By his own admission, GM Wesley So has struggled the year after winning an event. London, Grand Chess Tour, Tata Steel—you name it, and as best he can...
The U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship both return to St. Louis tonight through April 30. The events are being hosted by the Saint Louis Chess Club, now for the 10th straight year. The opening ceremony is tonight, and round-one g...
If you experienced some chess withdrawal symptoms in the days after Grenke, we have good news. This week two top events start: the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan and the U.S. Championships in St. Louis. Tomorrow we'll look at the U.S...
Scholastic chess is full of inspiring stories of kids overcoming adversity. It's also replete with its share of controversies. Henderson Middle School, subject of the 2017 book "The Champions' Game," has had a lot to be proud of in the past few ...
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"I wasn't really thinking about winning the tournament but I kept getting chances and I took them." After winning the FIDE Candidates' Tournament, Fabiano Caruana also clinched the Grenke Chess Classic today. The American grandmaster bea...
Yesterday they jumped over the ropes, and today they crashed through them. After two draws that kept extending a playoff, GM Zaven Adriasyan won in game three of his sudden-death blitz match with GM Wang Yue to give the Armenia Eagles a boistero...
With five draws in the Grenke Chess Classic's penultimate round, Fabiano Caruana got a bit closer to his second tournament victory in a month's time. He'll face Nikita Vitiugov as Black tomorrow, while his closest rival Magnus Carls...
At Saturday's PRO Chess League semifinals in San Francisco, it was a good day to be bullish on bears. First, the Chengdu Pandas bounced into the finals, then the Armenia Eagles celebrated a last-minute victory with bear hugs. Amidst it all, ches...
After winning the Candidates', Fabiano Caruana might just win his next tournament as well. He is the sole leader with two rounds to go after beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave today at the Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden. Let's re...
"I guess he just blundered something," was Matthias Bluebaum's simple comment after beating Viswanathan Anand in round six of the Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden. Georg Meier also blundered, but with little time and in a difficult po...
It is a rare and special thing to be able to defeat the world champion in classical chess. Players who do so belong to an elite group, termed the "Chigorin Club." For a player outside the world's top 50 to have such a chance is doubly rare. GM G...
Deep into round four of the 2018 Grenke Chess Classic, it seemed the players were destined for the first "do-nothing" round. All five games seemed headed to draws, and the players would regroup in the same position for another battle the following...
Last Saturday Sergey Karjakin and Vladimir Kramnik were in Nice, France to participate in a one-day charity event that supported the Red Cross. Chess.com took the opportunity to ask them about their recently concluded FIDE Candidates' Tournam...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave today joined Nikita Vitiugov in the lead at the Grenke Chess Classic in Karlsruhe. The Frenchman beat Hou Yifan with the black pieces. The big news was 13-year-old IM Vincent Keymer of Germany winning the supe...