GM Konstantin Landa has passed away at the age of 50, after a long struggle with cancer. The news was confirmed by the Russian Chess Federation. Landa was born May 22, 1972 in Omsk, a city in southwestern Siberia. He got his first chess lessons ...
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 ...
GM Evgeny Tomashevsky and WGM Olga Girya are the winners of 2019 Russian Championships Superfinals, which took place in Izhevsk and Votkinsk, Udmurt Republic. A view of Votkinsk. | Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com. Each year the Russ...
GM Dmitry Andreikin and WGM Natalija Pogonina are the winners of the 2018 Russian Championship's Superfinals, which finished today in Satka. Both players won a rapid playoff held after the final round, vs GM Dmitry Jakovenko and WGM Olga Girya res...
After six rounds, the Russian Superfinal open championship is a six-way tie. In the women's championship, two leaders on a plus-two score are followed by five more on plus-one. The outcome of both competitions remains unpredictable. The t...
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 Higher League of the Russian Championship was won by GM Alexey Sarana (6.5/9), who bested GM Grigory Oparin on tiebreak. GMs Ernesto Inarkiev, Denis Khismatullin and Mikhail Kobalia (6/9) also won the invitations to the Russian Champ...
Dmitry Jakovenko scored 6.5/9 and took the first place at the 19th Karpov tournament in Poikovsky, adding another trophy to his victories in 2007 and 2012. Ian Nepomniachtchi came second (6/9) and Boris Gelfand was third (5.5/6). Ana...
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...
