In the all-decisive and all-Russian clash, Valentina Gunina held Alexandra Kosteniuk to a draw and won the $40,000 first prize of the inaugural Cairns Cup in St. Louis. Irina Krush came third thanks to beating Harika Dronavalli. "...
Repeating the result of the 2018 World Championship knockout final, Ju Wenjun beat Kateryna Lagno in a short rapid match in Beijing, China earlier this week. It was a historic moment for chess in China, as part of it was broadcast on national tele...
Russia vs. Russia. One board. The inaugural Cairns Cup will be on the line tomorrow and there will be no playoff. After the two leaders drew today, albeit with wildly different methods, GMs Valentina Gunina (6.5/8) and Alexandra Kosteniuk (...
The upcoming dMP Batavia Amsterdam Chess Tournament (March 1-10) will experiment with a revolutionary format. In this 10-player GM norm tournament, the players will play a blitz match before each round that will decide on the score in case they wi...
GM Valentina Gunina cannot be stopped. Well, she could be, were it not for the 30-move draw rule. Now winner of four consecutive games at the inaugural Cairns Cup, she explained today that she was only trying to make a draw after equalizing out of...
Valentina Gunina defeated Elisabeth Paehtz in what has been described as an "insane" round six of the Cairns Cup in St. Louis. Gunina is now tied for first place with Alexandra Kosteniuk, who drew with Irina Krush. The rest...
With a score of 4.5/5 Alexandra Kosteniuk is the sole leader during the rest day at the Cairns Cup in St. Louis. Valentina Gunina scored a sparkling win in round five against Marie Sebag. Three more rounds have been played in St. Louis sinc...
After a year of absence, Magnus Carlsen is back as a participant of the Grand Chess Tour. The other 11 main players are Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ding Liren, Levon Aronian, Wesl...
The second round of the Cairns Cup in St. Louis was less spectacular in terms of results, but the 10 participants once again provided very interesting games. Bela Khotenashvili bounced back with a win over Elisabeth Paehtz. Bela Khote...
Some top women grandmasters tend to say that their chess is more exciting because they play fewer draws. That theory was supported some more in the first round of the inaugural Cairns Cup in St. Louis, with four out of five games ending decisively...
The World Chess Federation limited its cooperation with Agon/World Chess, announced the new Grand Prix series and provided details on the new Women's Candidates' tournament. Here's a round-up of recent FIDE news. Since Arkady Dvorkovich was elec...
After a stunning and unexpected final round in which all of the top three boards saw the underdogs prevail, 20-year-old Russian and newlywed GM Vladislav Artemiev won his game and the title of 2019 Gibraltar Chess Festival champion. His...
Round 10 of the 2019 Gibraltar Chess Festival is going to be a throwback. All the way back to Tuesday, when the 20-year-old GM Vladislav Artemiev was even two days younger. In yesterday's round nine, he retook sole possession of first place in t...
There's been a slinky effect at the 2019 Gibraltar Chess Festival, with seemingly alternating rounds of a sole leader, followed by the leading score group bunching up again. After GM Vladislav Artemiev stretched the slinky by beating GM Hikaru N...
Today Vladimir Kramnik announced his retirement from classical chess. A few days after finishing in a tie for last place in Wijk aan Zee, the 14th world champion revealed that it was his last serious tournament. The announcement, published on th...
It has been 10 years since GM Hikaru Nakamura lost a classical game in Gibraltar. It has been never since a Swede beat a chess player as highly-rated as GM Wesley So. The top two Americans at the Gibraltar Chess Festival have both suffered losses ...
The PRO Chess League has always been known for its innovative formats. This Tuesday and Friday, we debut our first new format of 2019: Battle Royales! Diving into the action this week will be two PRO Chess League stars making their 2019 debuts, ...
For the seventh time in his career Magnus Carlsen won the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. The Norwegian grandmaster held Anish Giri to a draw without much trouble today. Vladislav Kovalev promoted ...
Magnus Carlsen goes into the final round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament with a half-point lead over his final round opponent Anish Giri. The Dutchman needs to win, and it's already clear that there won't be a playoff this year. We'...
A fortunate Anish Giri won his game in round 11 of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament thanks to his opponent Sam Shankland resigning in a drawn position. As a result, Giri caught Magnus Carlsen in first place as the latter drew hi...
The 2019 Grand Chess Tour will be the most aggressive expansion to date, according to a statement from the tour yesterday. Now entering its fifth year, the series of events had previously slimmed down at least in classical chess, but now while all...
Through three rounds, only one of the top 34(!) players at the 17th Gibraltar Chess Festival has proven himself as indestructible as the peninsula's famous rock. That would be GM David Navara of the Czech Republic. Overall, a mere five players out...
Magnus Carlsen managed to beat Vishy Anand deep down in a knight endgame to grab the sole lead at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament with three rounds to go. A spectacular 10th round, held in a church in Leiden, saw four more decisive ...
The Georgian GM Levan Pantsulaia nudged six others on tiebreak to clinch the main event of the Delhi International Chess Festival in New Delhi. The 17th edition of the Delhi International Chess Open was held across three categories (A, B and ...
Ian Nepomniachtchi defeated Vidit Gujrathi to join Vishy Anand and Magnus Carlsen in the lead in round nine of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Teimour Radjabov suffered his first loss vs Vladimir Fedoseev. The 81st edition of the Tata...