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Anish Giri has been on a tear in the Tal Memorial. Today he won his third game in a row (against Peter Svidler) to move to 3.5/4 and hop into clear first. As a bonus, he re-entered the top 10 after a fairly lackluster 2016.
Giri hasn't won a sup... | Read More
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Three players took home the full point at the Tal Memorial today. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov ruthlessly refuted over-optimistic play from Boris Gelfand, whereas Anish Giri and Ian Nepomniachtchi won in Kramnik-style, the latter agai... | Read More
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We're excited to announce a brand new way to bring real-time chess fun to your Chess.com clubs: live club tournaments! Administrators can now organize and create tournaments in live chess with ease for any of their clubs.
Each tourname... | Read More
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The 2017 Women's World Championship will be held in Iran, and the 2020 Chess Olympiad will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk. So decided the FIDE General Assembly in Baku.
The FIDE Congress was held alongside the Olympiad in Baku, and, during... | Read More
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Both Anish Giri and Viswanathan Anand scored excellent wins in the second round of the Tal Memorial in Moscow. The two GMs caught Ian Nepomniachtchi in the lead.
"Anand, like Karpov did in the past, is showing us that mature ... | Read More
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GM Ian Nepomniachtchi began the Baku Olympiad with an incredible 7.0/7 before suffering a defeat at the hands of eventual gold medal winner, GM Wesley So. He seems to have continued his form into the Tal Memorial where he began the ... | Read More
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The world famous chess trainer Mark Dvoretsky died today at the age of 68. The sad news was confirmed by the Russian Chess Federation. Despite a lengthy illness, his death was unexpected. His passing was mourned with a minute of sil... | Read More
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Today the Tal Memorial took off with what proved to be a one-man Shakhriyar Mamedyarov show. Azerbaijan's number-one grandmaster won the blitz opener with 7.5/9, two points more than runner-up Levon Aronian.
Mamedyarov settin... | Read More
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With the Play Live Challenge on Thursday as the highlight, this week GM Magnus Carlsen is touring the east coast of the U.S. where he is playing lawyers and ambassadors and attending the Queen of Katwe Premiere. GM Jon Ludvig H... | Read More
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You can't afford to miss it, so mark your calendar right now. The GM Blitz Battle final between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura will be October 27 at 10 a.m. Pacific or 7 p.m. Central European Time. Watch it at Chess.com/TV and Twitch.t... | Read More
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Women's World Champion Hou Yifan defeated GM Ernesto Inarkiev 7.5-6.5 in a match in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsk. The match was part of the third "Friendship Match" in which children from China and Russia compete.
Petropav... | Read More
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This month's "In Other News" is a financial cornucopia featuring a CM who broke Google's bank, the most expensive chess sets, the largest chess set, and taxation with inadequate representation. Join us for an incredible tour of chess news you may ... | Read More
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The 10th edition of the Tal Memorial begins later this month in Moscow. The field includes former world champions Vladimir Kramnik and Vishy Anand.
The Tal Memorial is a super tournament remembering the eighth world champion Mikha... | Read More
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Not long after launching the PRO Chess League, Chess.com has made a big move: increasing the total prize fund for the world's first international, professional chess league from $10,000 to $50,000, surpassing the Grandmaster Blitz Battle Cham... | Read More
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The United States won the Baku Olympiad after edging out Ukraine on tiebreak. China also beat Russia and so won the women's section convincingly.
Rating-wise Russia was the top seed, but with three top-10 players on the team, the ... | Read More
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Tomorrow the fight for gold will be between USA and Ukraine; both won today and maintained their lead at the Olympiad. Russia is two points behind and only theoretically still in contention. China needs a 2-2 tie to win the wom... | Read More
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Chess fandom will undergo a renaissance beginning with November's World Championship Match according to Agon Limited Director Ilya Merenzon. At a press conference today at the Chess Olympiad in Baku, he announced a new corporate sponsor ... | Read More
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USA defeated Ukraine back in round five, but after each won their ninth round matches today, the two countries are rivals again, sharing the lead at the Olympiad with two rounds to go. China is the clear leader in the women's s... | Read More
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"Today was more sport than science," GM Magnus Carlsen once said about one of his games. That quote could also apply to the women's match between USA and Russia at the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The Americans won two games on ... | Read More
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Ian Wilkinson will ask the General Assembly to ask Kirsan Ilyumzhinov to resign.
"Primarily because we are concerned about the state that FIDE is in," Wilkinson told Chess.com. "At the very least the motion will generate the necessary&nb... | Read More
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USA beat India 3.5-0.5 today and took over the sole lead from their opponents at the Baku Olympiad. The eighth round will see Russia and USA clashing in both the open and women's sections.
With three top-10 players on the tea... | Read More
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India defeated Netherlands 2.5-1.5 and is leading the Olympiad as the only country with six straight victories. In the women's section, Russia and Ukraine drew 2-2 and are tied for first.
It's the nightmare of every player: to lose&nbs... | Read More
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IM Alexander Moskalenko achieved the highest point total in Titled Tuesday as he racked up eight wins in nine games to claim clear first place in the early event. Two other non-GMs, FM Ilya Duzhakov and IM Minh Le, shared second with GM Evgen... | Read More
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Only India, Netherlands and Ukraine started with five team victories at the 42nd Olympiad. In the women's tournament, Russia and Ukraine did the same, going into the rest day.
The Netherlands once won silver at an Olympiad (H... | Read More
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Once again, Russia is in danger of missing out on Olympic gold. Today, in the fourth round of the chess Olympiad, they were beaten by Ukraine, who got wins from GMs Ruslan Ponomariov and Andrei Volokitin.
Dark clouds are... | Read More