Three Grand Chess Tour events are in the books, and one book just came out. A lot has happened in the last 48 hours in St. Louis since Hikaru Nakamura won his second leg of the GCT season to lead the tour standings. To wit: The Saint Louis C...
At the age of 14 years, one month, and one day, the Indian prodigy Nihal Sarin became the 12th-youngest grandmaster in chess history. He scored his third grandmaster norm at the 25th Abu Dhabi Masters held at Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nihal...
Hikaru Nakamura thought he needed 5.5/9 in today's second blitz session to clinch his first Grand Chess Tour win on home soil. He scored exactly that, winning the 2018 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz over a still-surging Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ...
It's considered bad luck in many parts of the world to break a mirror, but for Ding Liren, even breaking his hip only barely slowed him down. Just 2.5 months after falling off a bicycle in Norway and being forced to withdraw from the tourna...
There's a good chance you can name a world elite sprinter, and there's some chance you can even name a marathoner. But when it comes to middle-distance runners, not many are illustrious. Ditto for chess. Classical chess ratings are scrutinized...
If chess had off-board-betting facilities, today would have ended with tickets strewn over the floor. It was that unpredictable in day two of America's chess capital. GM Fabiano Caruana still leads the 2018 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz by two p...
It's a bit of a writers' crutch to take any winning streak by GM Fabiano Caruana and allude to his seven straight wins at the 2014 Sinquefield Cup, but sometimes the man gives us no choice. Caruana made history again today, this time at the 2018...
Get ready for another football match and penalty shootout, although unlike normal, the shootout will come first. The 2018 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz and 2018 Sinquefield Cup opened today with a brief ceremony, and the first moves wi...
The buildup has officially begun for the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia. The lineups are posted, so the pre-event punditry can begin. For the first time since its inception, Russia is not head of the open section. From September 23 to Oc...
GM Alexander Grischuk showed his formidable blitz skill by defeating his compatriot GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the most brilliant and complicated Speed Chess Championship match of the season. The match outcome was a triumph of statistics: 65 perce...
The chess news is most certainly not taking the summer off. This next edition of "In Other News" didn't take long to fill. Today there are seven more news stories about our royal game that you may have missed, from a chessic tribute to a fallen so...
For the sixth time in his career, Michael Adams won the British Championship today in Hull, England. He beat Luke McShane in an exciting playoff after both had finished on 7/9. The 105th British Championship took place July 28-August 5 in the Ci...
Iran Green (Iran's A team) convincingly won the Asian Nations Cup 2018, three match points ahead of second-place India in the open section. China won the women's section, with a round to spare. The Asian Nations Cup 2018 was ...
The family of a chess prodigy from India that lives in the U.K. might have to return to India, due to the expiration of the father's visa. The story has reached mainstream media in the country, and this week the family got support from two me...
In what was a tense and hard-fought Danzhou Super GM Tournament, Chinese grandmaster Yu Yangyi ended up winning the $24,000 first prize. Sam Shankland's undefeated streak came to an end after 62 games. The ninth edition of the super-GM tour...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave reached the 2018 Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals by beating Leinier Dominguez 19-12 on Thursday. The French GM put away an initially close-fought match with a stirring performance in the bullet section....
The Indian GM Vaibhav Suri was the surprising winner of the Biel Master Tournament (MTO) held alongside the Accentus Grandmaster Tournament in Biel, Switzerland. The Biel Master Tournament (MTO) is a part of the Biel Chess Festiva...
The venue for the November world chess championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will be The College in Holborn, London. This was announced Wednesday by World Chess. In a live stream on Facebook, World Chess director Ilya Mer...
Magnus Carlsen finished in clear second place at the Biel Chess Festival after profiting from an endgame blunder by Nico Georgiadis today. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov had already secured victory in the penultimate round. When a game ends in ...
The Egyptian GM Bassem Amin won the first edition of a rapid and blitz tournament held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The tournament was supported by the Kasparov Chess Foundation and held in Grand Chess Tour style. Is chess a sport for the crowd...
An excellent tournament turned into a brilliant tournament for Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who today beat Magnus Carlsen for the first time in a decade and won the Biel Chess Festival with a round to spare. For the last time Mamedyarov bea...
Although he needs to survive his game with Magnus Carlsen today, three draws on Monday brought Shakhriyar Mamedyarov a small step closer to victory at the Biel Chess Festival. The Azerbaijani GM played the rare and entertaining Dilworth ...
On Sunday, Wesley So was the first player from the right half of the bracket to reach the quarterfinals of the 2018 Speed Chess Championship. The American GM dominated a match full of nice tactics, and beat Wei Yi of China 18.5-9.5. Althoug...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov increased his lead at the Biel Chess Festival to a full point after grinding down David Navara in a rook endgame. Magnus Carlsen was in trouble but held Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to a draw, whereas ...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov is the sole leader at the Biel Chess Festival during the rest day. In round six, he beat Nico Georgiadis as Black whereas co-leader Magnus Carlsen drew with David Navara. Saturday is a rest day. It was a...