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Is it possible to play better chess at faster time controls in worse weather against stronger opponents? The life of GM Viswanathan Anand over the last month poses that exact question.
After a massively underwhelming performance in Gibraltar aga... | Read More
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There's two speeds to the Fifth Annual Zurich Chess Challenge: fast and faster. Actually, the event will be faster, fast, faster -- two blitz events bookend the main event, which will not quite be classical either.
GM Hikaru Nakamura, fresh off ... | Read More
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The 2016 Grand Chess Tour, in only its second season, looked to be losing steam with the news last month that Norway Chess would be leaving. Instead, the tour announced today that it is doubling its contests and keeping its $1 million+ prize fund.... | Read More
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In only three years of existence, Altibox Norway Chess has become one of the premier super-tournaments in chess. The hearty support of the world champion, Magnus Carlsen, has aided the tournament in bringing in a strong cast of competitors each ye... | Read More
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GM Ruslan Ponomariov and GM Francisco Vallejo Pons will do battle in Chess.com's Death Match 37. You can watch the match live at 9 a.m. PST on March 14 on Chess.com/tv and http://www.twitch.tv/chess.
Due to positive feedback from the "open mike ... | Read More
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This year's Moscow Open was surprisingly won by the young grandmaster Urii Eliseev, whose loss in round seven was spectacular.
Photo courtesy of the Moscow Open.
The famous Aeroflot Open was revived last year, but without hiatus the Mosco... | Read More
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For several months we've known which eight players will vie for the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen's world title. Now we know much more about the 2016 Candidates' Tournament.
Moscow was already the announced city, and the Armenian corporate b... | Read More
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Death Match 35 and 36 was a competitive double feature between Team Chess.com and Team Fabiano Caruana as GM Fabiano Caruana took on Chess.com's GM Robert Hess and Caruana's manager IM Lawrence Trent tackled IM Danny (only my mother... | Read More
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Winning an open is not easy for a top grandmaster. Winning it twice in a row is quite an achievement.
GM Hikaru Nakamura repeated his success at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival on Thursday after beating GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in a... | Read More
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GM Georg Meier once again topped a Titled Tuesday tournament with a convincing 8.0/9 score in the early event.
This was Meier's sixth victory — easily the record. The second place title holders are GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Baadur ... | Read More
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The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival will see an exciting — and probably long — final day. With eight(!) players tied for first place, a playoff is very likely.
Photo: Sophie Triay.
It reminds a bit of the situation at the 2003 U... | Read More
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The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival has seen more wonderful side events, such as the traditional Battle of the Sexes. It is however turning into a nightmare tournament for Vishy Anand, who lost is second game and drops 20.5 Elo points in the li... | Read More
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Magnus Carlsen won the Tata Steel Masters today, for the fifth time. He drew his game with Ding Liren, whereas Fabiano Caruana finished his tournament with a loss to Evgeny Tomashevsky.
Baskaran Adhiban edged out Alexey Dreev and... | Read More
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A day after Vishy Anand gave a wonderful masterclass, which included a brilliant game as well as a detailed description of his meeting with Bobby Fischer, he lost his game in Gibraltar.
It's one of those special features in Gibraltar that m... | Read More
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The Tata Steel Masters tournament is not decided yet. Fabiano Caruana defeated Loek van Wely in the penultimate round and now just half a point behind Magnus Carlsen again.
It is a long tradition in Wijk aan Zee: Loek van Wely playing a sha... | Read More
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World Champion Magnus Carlsen is determined to build on his fantastic results in the month of December, which included wins in the London Chess Classic and Qatar Masters. The new year has been treating him well thus far.
After ... | Read More
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The seven-time Romanian champion, woman grandmaster, international arbiter, organizer, author, journalist and TV and radio host Elisabeta Polihroniade died on Saturday at the age of 80.
It's quite a list of ”jobs&l... | Read More
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One of the most exciting aspects of an open tournament is the upsets. Everyone loves an underdog story, and opens are filled with them!
While most of the favorites continued smoothly in round two at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, a few ... | Read More
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With three rounds to go, the race for first in the 2016 Tata Steel Masters appears to be a two Car (get it?) race.
Yesterday, World Champion Magnus Carlsen won and extended his lead to a full point. Today, it was GM Fabiano Caruana's turn t... | Read More
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On Tuesday, Magnus Carlsen increased his lead to a full point at the Tata Steel Masters. Two thousand kilometers southwest of Wijk aan Zee, Vishy Anand started with a draw in Gibraltar.
The Tata Steel masters is starting to look like a typi... | Read More
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The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival takes off today in the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar. The top seeds are Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Viswanathan Anand.
The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival was the Association of Che... | Read More
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The metaphorical chess universe has been more geographically spread than the actual universe of late. With stories from Africa, Europe, Siberia, and the mainstream Olympics, here's our monthly look of chess mentions we didn't cover yet.
As alway... | Read More
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David Navara stole the show on Sunday at the Tata Steel Masters with a study-like win over Fabiano Caruana. As a result, Magnus Carlsen's draw with Sergey Karjakin was enough to grab sole lead before the second rest day.
He had sh... | Read More
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Magnus Carlsen is on a roll at the Tata Steel Masters. Saturday he beat Pavel Eljanov and scored his third consecutive win. The world champ still shares the lead with Fabiano Caruana who beat Ding Liren.
As long as there's fo... | Read More
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After a surprisingly quick win against Evgeny Tomashevsky, Magnus Carlsen can be found at the top of the leaderboard at the Tata Steel Masters. The world champion caught Ding Liren and Fabiano Caruana in first place.
Confirming hi... | Read More