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...
GM Igors Rausis is under investigation for cheating after he was caught with his phone during a game at the Strasbourg Open. The 58-year-old Latvian-Czech grandmaster had raised suspicions after he increased his rating in recent years to...
Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke of his passion for chess at the opening of the Arnold Chess Classic games in Johannesburg, South Africa. “I started when I was eight with my father, I had to play with him every day. When I went to America, I star...
IM Eva Moser, Austria's first women's grandmaster, died unexpectedly at the age of 36 last weekend in Graz. The news was confirmed by the Austrian Chess Federation. Further details about the death of the player from the city of Spital ...
Top grandmasters Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Anish Giri of the Netherlands today joined forces in a video posted on Carlsen's Twitter account as part of a United Nations campaign against racism. For once, they broke the rule in chess th...
After a life in chess, the former US Chess Federation president WIM Ruth Inez Haring died Thursday, November 29. She was 63. Haring was also the current FIDE zonal president for the United States. Haring lived in Chico, California an...
Today, Ding Liren of China bested Mikhail Tal's legendary streak of 95 games played without a defeat. Ding Liren's unbeaten streak now stands at 96 and counting. Tal's mark was set between October of 1973 and October of 1974. Ding Liren'...
Now that FIDE has published its November rating list, it's official: the 2018 world championship match will be played between the world's top two players. That hasn't happened since 1990. On the new ratings list, reigning world champion Magnus C...
Several chess players have already turned to careers on the political chess board (Nigel Short and Julio Granda only last week!), and at least two more are running for higher office this fall in an attempt to join them. As has been reported prev...
Fabiano Caruana languished. Then he led. Then he was chased. Then he was caught. Then he was tied. Then he was tied, again. Then he negotiated. Then he won. And that was just August. He still has an Olympiad title defense next month, then a worl...
The South African chess talents Vusimuzi Mlahleki (17) and CM Khanya Mazibuko (17) embarked on a chess tour of Europe. The two players were chosen by GM Hikaru Nakamura, who visited South Africa last year, for some specific training in preparation...
GM Evgeni Vasiukov, a strong Russian grandmaster and a blitz specialist, died at the age of 85 Thursday morning in a Moscow hospital, the Russian Chess Federation confirmed to Chess.com. In 1958, a 15-year-old Bobby Fischer visited Moscow for th...
The world of chess is in grief as IM Nino Khurtsidze, one of the most talented players of her generation, succumbed to illness. She died yesterday at the age of 42. « Remembering Nino Khurtsidze » Phot...
If you win a game in a simul, sometimes your prize is an autograph. Or a book. Maybe even a picture with the master. One lucky South African won a summer chess tour of Europe. Although not officially a prize, CM Khanya Mazibuko's victo...
Garry Kasparov had a busy spring and summer of 2017 in which he recorded his MasterClass and then participated, after a 12-year absence from competitive chess, in the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament. While he's been on television much rec...
Many years ago I was lucky to work at the press room of the Super Tournament of Linares, helping my good friend IM Bjarke Sahl make the bulletin of that fantastic event of the 64 squares that many people ended up calling "the Wimbledon of chess". ...