GM Ivan Saric won the European Championship in Batumi, Georgia. The 27-year-old grandmaster became the second Croatian player to do so, after GM Zdenko Kozul in 2006. The 19th European Individual Chess Championship was held March 17-28 in the Sh...
Before they play 14 games over two-and-a-half weeks in the Candidates' Tournament, several would-be world championship challengers had their final warmup with 13 games in one day at the Tal Memorial Blitz. In the preceding Tal Memorial Rapid, GM...
Viswanathan Anand continued his "rapid reign" at the Tal Memorial in Moscow. After winning the world title in the same discipline in Riyadh at the end of last year, Anand also won the rapid segment in Moscow today with 6/9, a full point ...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov leads the Tal Memorial in Moscow after three rounds. The Azerbaijani grandmaster is on 2.5/3 with six rapid rounds to go, and then a final day of blitz. The Tal Memorial has returned to the calendar, albeit in a d...
Magnus Carlsen's next big tournament will be the Grenke Chess Classic, held from March 31 to April 9 in the German cities of Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden. Yesterday the field of participants was announced by the organizers. Half of the field ...
GM Levon Aronian is two-for-two in his last open events. They just happen to have come 13 years apart. He won the £25,000 first prize at the 16th Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival on Thursday after drawing with the reigning cham...
After nine rounds of the 16th Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, the top players have regressed to the mean. GM Hikaru Nakamura has slowed down with four straight draws after opening with five straight wins, and that has allowed the other two top...
In 2015, GM Hikaru Nakamura threatened to run away with the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, starting 6-0. Just when it looked like his seventh win was coming, a late slip allowed GM David Howell to draw. Fast forward to 2018 and three s...
Here's a pro-tip: Don't try to outcalculate GM Hikaru Nakamura. With seven players sitting on 3/3 going into today's round four of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, the American used his nonpareil calculation skills to navigate through an ...
Not many elite players can say they've won the same event four years in a row, but that's exactly what GM Hikaru Nakamura is trying to do this year at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. He actually figured to have two chances at a four-peat t...
GM Peter Svidler and WGM Aleksandra Goryachkina are the winners of the 2017 Russian Championship's Superfinals, which finished on Thursday in St. Petersburg. Both players won a rapid playoff held after the final round. Svidler won the title f...
With a convincing 3-1 score Azerbaijan beat Russia today, and took a big step towards gold at the European Team Championship in Greece. Ukraine beat Hungary and is now tied for second place with Russia. It was the clash everyone had be...
Top favorites Russian (in clear first place) and Azerbaijan (sole second) will meet each other in the penultimate round of the European Team Championship on Sunday in Greece. Both teams won with 3-1 today. Both teams suffered a setback...
Going into tomorrow's rest day, Croatia is the surprising sole leader at the European Team Championship in Greece. The team defeated Germany and saw co-leaders Armenia and Hungary play 2-2. It's not the first country you would expect to see as t...
Russia was the leader after three rounds, but today lost its first match at the European Team Championship in Greece to Hungary, which is now tied for first place with Armenia and Croatia. As it was based on just three individual board victories...
By securing his third grandmaster norm on Sunday Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan became the second youngest grandmaster in history. Only Sergey Karjakin got the title at a younger age. Abdusattorov played in the Chigorin Memorial in St ...
Also in the second round of the European Team Championship Italy managed to beat a higher rated team. Sabino Brunello decided their match against Turkey. Tied for first place after two rounds, with four match points, are Armenia, Cr...
The European Team Championship started on Saturday in Crete, Greece, The first round saw an upset on the high boards as one of the favorites, Azerbaijan, lost to Italy. The European Team Championship takes place 28 October - 6 November...
Levon Aronian, Ding Liren and Vassily Ivanchuk have qualified for the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Cup. Ivanchuk had a winning position but forced a draw vs Anish Giri, Ding Liren slowly ground down compatriot Wang Hao and Aronian won a di...
The first day of the FIDE World Cup's fourth round saw two winners. Vassily Ivanchuk beat Anish Giri in a Petroff, and Vladimir Fedoseev refuted a mistake by Maxim Rodshtein brilliantly. Vassily Ivanchuk defeated Giri in a Petroff. | Photo:...
A huge shock was felt at the FIDE World Cup today as some of the biggest names in the tournament got knocked out: Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik and Hikaru Nakamura. Carlsen couldn't beat Bu, and is packing his bags. | Phot...
On a dramatic day in Tbilisi, three big names had to leave the FIDE World Cup after the second game of round two. The reigning champion Sergey Karjakin lost his black game to his compatriot Daniil Dubov, Vishy Anand got eliminated a...
Bassem Amin, David Howell, Laurent Fressinet and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu are the biggest names that were eliminated on day three of the FIDE World Cup in Tibilisi. In the longest tiebreak match of the day, the local hero Baadur Jobava man...
Pavel Eljanov is among the 42 players who got eliminated from the FIDE World Cup at the earliest possible moment. The Ukrainian grandmaster also lost his second game to Aleksandr Lenderman (USA). 22 matches went into tiebreaks, including Sergey Ka...
