An 88-year-old chess player from Venezuela recently received a very nice surprise: his FM title. He was informed that FIDE had acknowledged the title application based on results that he scored in the 1960s. It's a record that won't be easy to b...
GM Sam Shankland won the third edition of the Prague Masters. Playing his first over-the-board tournament in 16 months, the California-based grandmaster finished on 5.5/7, half a point more than Polish GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. How to watch?The g...
When Ferdinand Maumo (10) walked inside the chess club in the slum of Makoko, his peers started making fun of him. Born with cerebral palsy, Ferdinand is a quiet boy whose condition and poor background deprived him of an education, friends and the...
For 24 years the record stood but since today, GM Etienne Bacrot is no longer France's youngest grandmaster ever. Five days after turning 14, Marc'Andria Maurizzi secured the GM title at the GM tournament in Chartres. The news has been dominated...
On Monday, IM Abhimanyu Mishra scored his second GM norm at the May 2021 First Saturday Tournament in Budapest, Hungary. The 12-year-old player from New Jersey is 29 Elo points and one GM norm away from becoming the youngest-ever grandmaster in hi...
On Wednesday, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was officially crowned as the winner of the 2020-2021 FIDE Candidates Tournament. Before the ceremony, he answered questions from the media. The final press conference. Nepomniachtchi started by thanking his...
22 years after trying for the first time, GM Garry Kasparov repeated a bold move. The 13th world champion has announced the relaunch of KasparovChess, described as "a new multimedia content platform for chess lovers of all skill levels." The pla...
As the world celebrates International Women's Day, three women in chess received awards: Iranian arbiter Shohreh Bayat won the International Women of Courage Award, GM Humpy Koneru won the 2020 BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award and GM ...
A fascinating interview with GM Bobby Fischer shortly after he became the world champion in 1972 has recently been posted on YouTube. Apart from sharing his thoughts on the match, Fischer shows remarkable skill at solving the 15 Puzzle. The...
It was big news in the Netherlands when GM Jorden van Foreest won the prestigious Tata Steel Chess Tournament last Sunday. He appeared in the national news, as well as sports programs, the talk show "Jinek" and all major newspapers. The fac...
The Czech-American grandmaster, former number-10 in the world, coach, organizer, trainer, commentator, author, columnist, and member of the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek died at the age of 77 after a brief but severe illnes...
The Polish Chess Federation has banned 17-year-old WFM Patrycja Waszczuk for two years from competitive chess for allegedly using a phone during play. The father of Waszczuk has appealed the decision, claiming the evidence is circumstantial. Was...
IM Igors Rausis, who was banned from FIDE rated tournaments and stripped of his grandmaster title after he was caught cheating, showed up at a small rapid tournament in Latvia on Saturday. He was playing under his new name but withdrew from the to...
Wolfgang Uhlmann, a former world-class grandmaster, the most successful player from East Germany, a chess theoretician, and a writer of several chess books, died on Monday from the consequences of a fall. He was 85 years old. "The game made up m...
Miron Sher, a Russian-American grandmaster, winner of several open tournaments, and former coach of world number-two GM Fabiano Caruana and other strong players, has passed away at the age of 68 after a prolonged illness. Miron Naumovich Sher wa...
Four-time women's world champion Hou Yifan has added another prestigious title to her resume. On July 10, she became the youngest ever professor at Shenzhen University. The news was reported by Chinese media and confirmed by Hou to Chess.com....
GM Hikaru Nakamura made a cameo appearance in the TV show Billions. The American grandmaster appeared in the second episode of season five, aired on Sunday on the premium television network Showtime. Billions is an award-winning and crit...
Still not able to fly back home and unite with his family, GM Viswanathan Anand has posted a video message related to the COVID-19 crisis as other Indian players are also speaking out. Anand has now been in Germany for just under a month, unable...
GM Stanislav Bogdanovich (27) and his girlfriend Alexandra Vernigora (18), also a chess player, were found dead in a Moscow apartment on Thursday evening. This was reported by the Russian Telegram channel 112 and SportExpress. It seems that...
GM Gennady Kuzmin, a very strong Soviet grandmaster in the early 1970s and a coach of Women's World Champion Maia Chiburdanidze, died on Feb. 28 at the age of 74 in his home in Lugansk, Ukraine. The sad news was confirmed by the Ukrainian Chess ...
One tournament can make a big difference. Thanks to his fantastic Tata Steel Chess tournament, Fabiano Caruana is just 20 points behind Magnus Carlsen in the February FIDE ratings. Caruana won 19.6 Elo points in Wijk aan Zee. That's...
Chess.com conducted an interview with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave after a tough and eventually disappointing year for him. The French number-one player speaks about failing to qualify for the candidates, what was wrong with the qualification process an...
On Monday morning the Russian Chess Federation confirmed Kirill Alekseenko as the wildcard for the 2020 Candidates' Tournament, shortly before the manager of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave wrote an open letter asking them to reconsider. In early Novembe...
With her 5.0/9 score at the 2019 SPICE Cup, which included two draws and a win against grandmasters, Carissa Yip has unofficially become the youngest female international master in U.S. history (pending certification from FIDE). Her third and fi...
The Hungarian-American grandmaster Pal Benko has died at the age of 91. A two-time candidate for the world title, he was also an author and composer of endgame studies and chess problems. The Benko Gambit is named after him. The news of Ben...