Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Daniil Dubov, Alexander Grischuk and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave advanced to the semifinals of the FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg. The first three names decided matters in the classical games whereas Dubov eliminated Peter Svi...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave made a big step toward reaching the semifinals of the FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg. On Friday, the French GM defeated Veselin Topalov with the black pieces, while the other three games ended in draws. History is repeati...
FIDE World Cup winner Teimour Radjabov got close to eliminating Daniil Dubov, but eventually the opposite happened and Dubov advanced. Alexander Grischuk, David Navara and Yu Yangyi also won their tiebreaks to reach the second round...
Besides some very quick draws, the first day of the FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg saw four winners. Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Peter Svidler and Veselin Topalov won and now only need a draw on Wednesday to advance to the next ro...
A high number of top grandmasters will be sitting behind the chess board this week as both the FIDE Grand Prix (in Hamburg) and the Grand Chess Tour (in Bucharest) resume. Grand Prix After Moscow (won by Ian Nepomniachtchi) and Riga (won by Sha...
In both the open and women's sections of the 2019 European Team Chess Championship, Russia was crowned champion after maintaining their lead throughout the final phase of the tournament. Ukraine (silver) and England (bronze) ended one match poin...
The biennial European Team Championships 2019 is underway at the Sheraton Hotel in Batumi, Georgia. At the time of writing, three rounds have been played. This fall seems to be one of the busiest chess schedules ever with the World Cup...
Hikaru Nakamura had a slow start but after a convincing win against Vladislav Kovalev, the American grandmaster now finds himself tied for first place with David Anton, Levon Aronian and Fabiano Caruana at the FIDE Chess.c...
Hikaru Nakamura was eliminated from the FIDE World Cup after failing to win his return game with Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. The Chinese GM Xu Xiangyu surprised again by knocking out Ernesto Inarkiev while Alireza Firouzja played a...
Hikaru Nakamura started his second round at the FIDE World Cup with a loss and needs to beat Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu on Saturday to stay in the tournament. Spectacular attacks and special endgames were played in this round. Yo...
David Navara, Arkadij Naiditsch, Ruslan Ponomariov and Radek Wojtaszek are the biggest names that have to leave the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk after just two days of play. Thursday will see tiebreaks in 23 of the 64...
The 2019 FIDE World Cup will be officially opened today in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The first round, with 128 players from all over the world, is scheduled for Tuesday. In this tournament preview we're answering seven key questions. What is it...
It almost went wrong, but eventually he clinched it. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the Paris Grand Chess Tour on Thursday, while the 49-year-old Vishy Anand reached an excellent second place. "It's a joy of course, but righ...
Local hero Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is two points ahead of Ian Nepomniachtchi and Alexander Grischuk with nine blitz rounds to go at the Paris Grand Chess Tour. The tournament resumes with the remaining nine rounds of blitz on Th...
Chess.com's over-the-board coverage continues with World Rapid & Blitz, featuring some of the strongest speed chess players in the world. With $1 million in prizes up for grabs, GM Yasser Seirawan and GM Robert Hess will have the call as the a...
Two matches in the Riga Grand Prix's first round went all the way to the Armageddon game to force a decision. Only Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov reached the second round without needing a tiebreak. With tiebreaks at both the W...
The FIDE Grand Prix cycle resumed today in Riga, Latvia. This is the second Grand Prix tournament, following the Moscow Grand Prix won by Ian Nepomniachtchi. Each Grand Prix is a 16-player knockout event in which the players play two classical gam...
Magnus Carlsen secured tournament victory in the penultimate round of the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament. The world champion has a four-point lead after beating Yu Yangyi in the standard game, while Levon Aronian lost to ...
The FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow was won by Ian Nepomniachtchi, who defeated his compatriot Alexander Grischuk on Wednesday in the second of two rapid tiebreak games. A few days ago he said he had a positive feeling about this tourna...
Alexander Grischuk, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura won their tiebreaks today and qualified for the third round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow. Tomorrow, Nepomniachtchi will play a match against Radoslaw Wojtaszek, and Gr...
After kicking out Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Radoslaw Wojtaszek also eliminated Peter Svidler from the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow. The other three quarterfinal matches went into tiebreaks. There was little excitement on the first day of the...
After the thrilling season opener Van Foreest-Tari, the Junior Speed Chess Championship continues on Tuesday with the Iranian rising star Alireza Firouzja playing the Peruvian talent José Martinez. You can watch Firouzja-Martine...
The American grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So both won their FIDE Grand Prix tiebreaks in the shortest way possible to reach the second round. The new pairings are Nakamura-Dubov, Grischuk–So, Wei Yi–Nepom...
Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Dmitry Jakovenko, Sergey Karjakin, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Nikita Vitiugov all had to leave the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow early. Sunday's tiebreaks will decide the matches Nakamura-Radjabov and Duda-So. It ...
