After drawing two games in a row at the European Club Cup, Magnus Carlsen saw his lead over Fabiano Caruana in the live ratings decrease to just 4.3 points. Alkaloid and Padova lead the championship after four rounds. It shouldn't...
Magnus Carlsen is active at the European Club Cup, where he started with a win against Vladimir Potkin in round two. Earlier in the week, Carlsen had some PR activities and spoke about his match with Fabiano Caruana. The European Club Cup is und...
Both the Open and Women sections of the Batumi Olympiad were decided by tiebreaks. Like just about every two years, this led to criticism on chess forums. According to grandmasters Peter Heine Nielsen and David Smerdon, the time has come to actual...
Over the board, the players consider themselves equals, but online Hikaru Nakamura is still too strong for Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The American GM won yesterday's Speed Chess match with an eight-point margin. It was the last quarterfinal of this...
At the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament, players who draw their game will play an Armageddon game right after, forcing a decisive result. The organizers hope to "create more excitement for spectators and put more pressure on the players." Ea...
Playing the match on his 25th birthday, Wesley So defeated Vidit Gujrathi with a 16.5-10.5 score. So's next opponent in the Speed Chess Championship's semifinals will be Polish rising star Jan-Krzysztof Duda. So's win on Tuesday was expecte...
In the evening of the final round, the closing ceremony of the Batumi Olympiad was held in the Batumi State Musical Center. Here's a pictorial report. With the winning teams rightly placed in the first rows, the Olympiad's closing ceremony start...
China is Olympiad champion once again. Actually, twice again. Today in Batumi, Georgia, the open section squad won its second team gold medal in the last three Olympiads. The women's team survived a late repetition claim and successfully de...
Poland's amazing run at the 43rd Olympiad was ended today by China, the opponent of the U.S. in a clash for gold in tomorrow's final round. In the women's section, China will defend its sole lead vs Russia. The world of chess...
No matter the partner, Poland keeps polkaing. Other nations can't keep up. Poland, the surprise of the 43rd Olympiad, took down number-one seed and defending champions the U.S, 2.5-1.5. Poland is now alone in first place, passing over the Americ...
The situation was tricky, but eventually the U.S. pulled through and beat Azerbaijan to grab the sole lead at the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi. China and Ukraine are leading the women's tournament. More photographers and videographers than...
It took the women six rounds to erase all of the unblemished team scores, and now in the open section of the 2018 Chess Olympiad, round seven removed the last vestiges of perfection. That happened when on top board Poland and Azerbaijan played to ...
While things are heating up on the political front, the Olympiad's playing hall hosted another day of great chess. Azerbaijan and Poland will meet tomorrow as the co-leaders, with six wins. USA, Georgia and Armenia (who beat Russia!) are leading t...
In a ruling of the FIDE Ethics Commission, presidential candidate Arkady Dvorkovich was found not guilty of violating the FIDE Code of Ethics. The accusations came from complaints from his election adversary Georgios Makropoulos. On the same day, ...
The annual "Chess Train" always departs from Czech Republic, and in most years goes through Poland. The thing is, it's not supposed to leave until next month. Instead, Czech Republic and Poland are already both full steam ahead here in Batumi, G...
Could the next PRO Chess League championship team not even exist yet? The 2018 PCL champions, the Armenia Eagles, qualified their way into the Eastern Division roughly a year ago. The Eagles went on to celebrate PRO Chess League Championship glo...
A rare case of checkmate on the board, Vladimir Kramnik's loss today was crucial for Poland's victory over Russia at the Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia. Fabiano Caruana's win vs Viswanathan Anand decided the top clash, USA vs India. Russ...
Round three had something for everyone at the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia. Vladimir Kramnik completed the "Olympiad Slam" by playing board three for the first time, the only position he had never be assigned to play. His win was neces...
Yesterday's complete lack of upsets at the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi gave way to a day of surprises, both on and off the board. Georgia team three put up an excellent fight today against reigning champions USA, who won by the ...
Olympiads usually offer several nuggets every two years: Worthy champions, Bermuda party excesses, and round-one upsets. But at the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia, the opening games in both the open and women's sections didn't produce a si...
The 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia officially opened on Sunday with a spectacular opening ceremony that included dancing and singing performances, speeches and the drawing of colors. Many esteemed members of the chess community called...
A new blitz and rapid tournament will be held in November in Kolkata, India. Chess.com is partnering with the tournament. Tata Steel Chess India 2018 is a new super-tournament scheduled for November 9-14. The tournament format is similar to what...
Winning all three segments and using lots of nasty tactics, Levon Aronian defeated Anish Giri in the second quarterfinal of the 2018 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship on Thursday. The winning score for the Armenian GM was 18-11. The next Spee...
Eliminating another Russian top grandmaster, Jan-Krzystof Duda became the first player to advance to the semifinals of the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. The Polish player defeated Alexander Grischuk in a truly epic match on Tuesday. ...
The last six weeks were full of top-level events like the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, the Sinquefield Cup, the World Junior Championship, and many Speed Chess Championship matches. The "In Other News" tidbits have been piling up, but today, t...