The FIDE World Cup took off today in Tbilisi, Georgia. Strong grandmasters such as Pavel Eljanov, Vladimir Fedoseev, Pentala Harikrishna and Wei Yi lost, and are in danger of early elimination. Among the players upsetting higher rated players...
Magnus Carlsen will start with the white pieces in his first game on Sunday at the FIDE World Cup in Tbilisi, Georgia. This was the result of the drawing of lots, performed today during the opening ceremony. The technical meeting after the ...
FIDE has confirmed Awonder Liang's grandmaster title by written resolution. This makes the 14-year-old American the 10th youngest grandmaster of all time and the youngest in the world today. Headline photo from the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Fest...
The eighth round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Geneva, Switzerland saw four winners, but draws on the top two boards. Teimour Radjabov, who drew his game in just nine minutes, maintained his half-point lead going into the final round. Aronian w...
Three players topped the devilishly strong European Individual Championships which took place May 31 through June 10 in Minsk, Belarus. GMs Maxim Matlakov, Baadur Jobava, and Vladimir Fedoseev each scored 8.5/11 though they did it in quite differe...
GM Sergey Grigoriants was a surprise sole winner in Chess.com's inaugural April Speed Chess Championship Qualifier. With 8.5/10, he bested 231 players (a new record) including GMs Dmitry Andreikin, Vladimir Fedoseev, Georg Meier, Evgeny Tomashevsk...
Vladimir Fedoseev won the strong Aeroflot Open tournament on Wednesday. The 22-year-old Russian grandmaster was the only player to finish on 7/9, and qualified for the Dortmund super-tournament later this year. The annual Aeroflot Open in Moscow...
With some great endgame play Alexander Grischuk today defeated Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who was one of the leaders at the Grand Prix in Sharjah. With one round to go Grischuk now leads with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who held the draw against...
In January 2017, Magnus Carlsen tops the FIDE rating list, like he has done since July 2011. His lead over #2, Fabiano Caruana, however is only 13 points. A new year is here, and so is a new FIDE rating list. Carlsen's lead ...
Today Sergey Karjakin won the World Blitz Championship in Doha, Qatar. The Russian grandmaster edged out Magnus Carlsen on tiebreaks after both finished on 16.5/21. Anna Muzychuk scored a double victory in Qatar as she also won the Women...
Halfway through the tournament, Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin are tied for first place at the World Blitz Championship in Doha, Qatar. One month after their match in New York, the two stars are 1.5 points ahead of the pack. Karjakin be...
GM Richard Rapport won a friendly match against GM Wei Yi. The match, held in China, provided exactly the entertainment you would expect from these two young and fighting players Photo: cca.imsa.cn The concept of friendly matches seems to be r...
GM Grigoriy Oparin qualified for the 2017 Kortchnoi Zurich Chess Challenge. The 19-year-old grandmaster defeated GM Alexei Shirov 1.5-0.5 in a playoff at the Nutcracker tournament in Moscow. The Nutcracker tournament finished today in the C...
The traditional Nutcracker tournament is under way in Moscow, Russia. After four rounds of classical chess, "experience" (the Kings) has a tiny lead over "youth" (the Princes). Another edition of the annual Nutcracker event was opened ...
The Zurich Chess Challenge will add a word, more players, and switch both the venue and time control for the 2017 event. The Korchnoi Zurich Chess Challenge, to be held April 13-17, 2017, will honor the recent passing of the chess legend. T...
Many chess stars gathered Sunday in the Serbian city of Novi Sad for the 32nd European Chess Club Cup and the 21st European Chess Club Cup for Women. Photo Lennart Ootes. Novi Sad certainly is a chess-minded city. In 1990, while stil...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the Corsica Masters on Sunday by beating Vishy Anand in the final. The rapid tournament also featured Teimour Radjabov and Hou Yifan as well as many other strong grandmasters. Organizer Léo Battes...
Grigoriy Oparin won the Higher League of the Russian Championship, held in Kolomna, Russia. Together with Vladimir Fedoseev, Dmitry Kokarev, Alexander Riazantsev, and Aleksey Goganov he qualified for the Superfinal. Photos Eteri Kublas...
Russia-China, the traditional Scheveningen-style match between the two countries, was narrowly won by the host nation this year. Every year, since 2001, China and Russia face each other in a 10-board match held in China every odd year and in Rus...
At the age of 10 years, 10 months and 19 days, R Praggnanandhaa became the youngest IM in chess history. The Indian boy scored his third IM norm and got his rating over 2400 at the KiiT International Chess Festival in Bhub...
The reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen will face a grandmaster named for a former world champion in the next GM Blitz Battle on June 23. GM Tigran L. Petrosian of Armenia bested a field of 99 players Tuesday in what can be conside...
GM Ernesto Inarkiev won first place at the European Individual Chess Championships with 9.0/11. He finished a half point ahead of his nearest rival, GM Igor Kovalenko, while moving to 27th in the world rankings thanks to a performan...
After the rest day on Wednesday Rounds 7 and 8 were filled with decisive victories on the top boards at the 17th Individual European Championship in Gjakova, Kosovo. Emerging through the fire was GM Ernesto Inarkiev, who managed to score back-to-...
Ivan Saric is the sole leader at the European Championship in Gjakova, Kosovo. The Croatian number-one grandmaster is the only player on 5.5/6 and he's ahead of a group of five players on five points. Wednesday is a rest day in Gjakova and ...
