In a bad year for sports legends, the chess world is not staying behind. Today Viktor Korchnoi died at the age of 85 in a hospital in Wohlen, Switzerland. Korchnoi had been ill for some time and was hospitalized last week after suffering...
At the age of 10 years, 10 months and 19 days, R Praggnanandhaa became the youngest IM in chess history. The Indian boy scored his third IM norm and got his rating over 2400 at the KiiT International Chess Festival in Bhub...
Fabiano Caruana kept his lead at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan after missing a (not so easy) win (35.Qf7) and drawing his game with Anish Giri in round seven. Pavel Eljanov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov were the winners today. In...
The reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen will face a grandmaster named for a former world champion in the next GM Blitz Battle on June 23. GM Tigran L. Petrosian of Armenia bested a field of 99 players Tuesday in what can be conside...
He held draws with Black against both Alexander Alekhine and Bobby Fischer. Arturo Pomar, one of the most famous sports figures in post-war Spain, died 26 May 2016 in a hospital Barcelona. Long before Lubosh Kavalek used the term for Magnus Carl...
Now 49 years old, Julio Granda Zuniga doesn't cease to amaze the chess world. After winning the Llucmajor open with 8.5/9, his virtual rating climbed to 2699, the highest in his career. Julio Granda was a phenomenon in 1990s, and he still is. A ...
Three chess legends will join the elite list of players inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. On April 13, GM David Bronstein, Howard Staunton, and WIM Sonja Graf-Stevenson will have their names added to the 24 others already enshr...
Chess.com asked Maret Thorpe, Chicago-area resident, to remember International Arbiter and International Organizer Sevan Muradian. Photo: Andi Rosen Sevan Muradian, a prolific chess organizer who worked tirelessly to promote FIDE-rated...
The FIDE Ethics Commission has banned Gaioz Nigalidze from playing chess for a period of three years. The Georgian player, who was caught cheating at the 2015 Dubai Open, also lost his grandmaster title. This was reported by FIDE. Nigalidze...
Not every chess legend has "GM" before his name. IM Emory Tate used an uncompromising style and indefatigable h-pawn throughout his multi-continental career. His energy on and of the board finally came to an end Saturday, dying in the middle of ...
This month's "Also in the News" features a bevy of various chess stories you likely missed. One is a story of Bobby Fischer you surely haven't read about, unless you happen to read New Orleans community newspapers or were there in March, 1964...
Besides Magnus Carlsen, three players are rated above 2800 in the FIDE July 1 rating list: Hikaru Nakamura (in fourth place at 2814), Veselin Topalov (third with 2816) and Vishy Anand (second, also with 2816). The J...
The chess world is suddenly without one of its most illustrious and longtime stars. GM Walter Shawn Browne, a six-time U.S. champion, died in his sleep Wednesday at the age of 66. He was perhaps the most dominant U.S. player after the Fischer er...
Last month GM Magnus Carlsen visited New York. Besides his blindfold simul at the Sohn Conference, he also joined the DLD Conference in New York, where he was interviewed by Nicholas Carlson of Business Insider. The ...
For the first time in his career, GM Hikaru Nakamura has crossed the 2800 mark. On the FIDE June 1 rating list the #1 U.S. grandmaster is fourth in the world with 2802, behind GMs Magnus Carlsen (2876), Fabiano Caruana (2805) and Viswanathan ...
FIDE has announced that GM Sebastien Feller, who was banned from chess for three years after a cheating scandal, can participate in FIDE rated events again. Photo Wikipedia. On Wednesday a short statement was published on the FIDE websit...
“People are too inconsistent, but I don’t understand why,” said GM Magnus Carlsen yesterday in an interview with NRK. He still did not want to reveal his new second — a 2700 player who...plays decent basketball. A p...
GM Viswanathan Anand climbed to second place in the May 1 FIDE rating list. GM Magnus Carlsen is getting close to his all-time best rating. Now that a super tournament is just behind us, it's interesting to look at the new FIDE rating ...
Just a few hours after he won the Gibraltar Masters, GM Hikaru Nakamura sat down with Chess.com for an interview. The U.S. grandmaster, who is back to being America's number-one player in the live ratings, looks back at his tournament. At t...
Magnus Carlsen will soon feature in the Norwegian Donald Duck magazine. The Norwegian chess player will be part of a story in the magazine to be released in November. This was reported by NRK. This nice story was picked up by Chessbase ...
Serbian Grandmaster Dragoljub Velimirović died recently at the age of 72, as reported on Twitter by the Serbian publishing company Chess Informant. Born in Valjevo, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), Velimirović represented his home country in six di...
Haven't heard of Phiona Mutesi? You will soon. The most famous player in the history of Ugandan chess is coming to America, and perhaps to the silver screen. A member of Ugandan Women's Olympiad team, Mutesi was featured in an article...
Hikaru Nakamura is an outsider. While others were reading books, he played blitz online. Where others prefer to be quiet, he is fairly outspoken. Where others keep a poker face during games, he often shows his emotions. Less than a week before his...
After spending an extra free day in Khanty-Mansiysk and attending the closing ceremony, Vishy Anand travelled back to India. At a meeting organized by his sponsor he spoke to many Indian media, and in this article a selection of his comments and a...
