After five rounds Moscow's SHSM Legacy Square Capital, led by Ian Nepomniachtchi, tops the standings at the Russian Team Championship in Sochi, where Vladimir Kramnik moved to 2809.6 in the live ratings. The Russian Team Championships are c...
Sergey Karjakin is the clear leader after four rounds of play at the Candidates' Tournament. Today the Russian GM defeated Viswanathan Anand to reach 3.0/4. Only a slightly colder day in Moscow (the temperature went a few degrees below...
Now in its 13th edition, the extremely competitive Aeroflot Open is currently taking place in Moscow, Russia. This event, sponsored by the Russian airline Aeroflot, is famous for having three groups: A (Open to 2549+ [!] with a few excep...
GM Ivan Bukavshin has died at the very young age of 20 years old. The cause of death was a stroke, according to the Russian Chess Federation. Two-and-a-half years after the death of Igor Kurnosov and two years after the death of Vugar ...
Yesterday, spectators logging in to watch the games from the Qatar Masters were shocked to find World Champion Magnus Carlsen already in possession of a full point — today belated spectators were surprised by how quickly Carlsen achieve...
Some parts of Qatar received up to 25mm of rainfall on Friday's rest day, but that didn't lead to many storms on the top boards when action resumed at the 2015 Qatar Masters Open. After a draw between GM Wesley So and tournament leader GM M...
If the opening rounds of the 2015 Qatar Masters Open resembled cat-and-mouse with lower-rated opposition, so too did the beginning of World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen's fifth-round game. He waited and waited for ...Be6, then pounced with Nf4 ...
Soft desert sand has a way of preventing runaway trains, and chess players are not immune to the laws of physics. In round four of the 2015 Qatar Masters, GM Li Chao drew GM Anish Giri, ending the Dutchman's 12-game drawless streak in his t...
It's not quite "Groundhog Day" yet in Doha, but we're getting closer. Today followed yesterday's opening script to some degree. Another underdog drew as Black on board one, although this time around the degree of upset was much more minor. Out o...
Yet again playing with a star-studded team, defending champion SOCAR of Azerbaijan started with three wins at the European Club Cup in Skopje where Chess.com is producing the live broadcast. With 25 of the top 30 in the world playing, the Europe...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave leads the World Blitz Championship after the first day. The “Frenchman with two names” scored 9.5/11 and only lost to Magnus Carlsen, who is on 9.0/11 after losing to Sergey Karjakin. Photos by L...
Magnus Carlsen won the World Rapid Championship on Monday in Berlin, Germany. The Norwegian GM finished a full point ahead of the pack, clinched the $40,000 first prize and retained the title he won last year in Dubai. Photos...
Scoring 4.0/5 on the second day as well, Magnus Carlsen can be found at the top of the leaderboard at the World Rapid Championship. One more player is on 8.0/10: Sergei Zhigalko of Belarus. Photos by Lena Kashirsky, Nailya Bikmurzina & ...
After staging an epic comeback to win the 2015 World Cup, GM Sergey Karjakin deserved a long vacation. Instead, the indefatigable Russian hopped on a plane and flew to Berlin for the 2015 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships. And his brazen de...
“Levon Aronian is back,” was a much-heard phrase after the Armenian GM won the Sinquefield Cup. Back in the top 10 that is — he is the new world number seven. Hikaru Nakamura climbed to the number two spot with a n...
Both sections in the Russian Championship Superfinal have two clear leaders with three rounds to go: GM Evgeny Tomashevsky and WGM Aleksandra Goryachkina. The latter will face GM Alexandra Kosteniuk on Tuesday. Earlier t...
The Superfinal of the Russian Championship is just around the corner with the first round scheduled for this Sunday. GMs Dmitry Jakovenko, Sergey Karjakin, Evgeny Tomashevsky and Peter Svidler are the top seeds. This month will be domi...
Host country China defeated Russia at the Yin Zhou Cup in Ningbo with a score that left no doubt: 29-21. The Chinese women won both their matches in the last two rounds 4-1. July 20 is the International Day of Chess, be...
After three rounds of classical chess China leads 16-14 vs Russia in the Yin Zhou Cup, the traditional Scheveningen-style match that is currently under way in Ningbo, China. Every year, since 2001, China and Russia face each other in ...
With GM Vladimir Kramnik and GM Levon Aronian on top boards, Siberia of Novosibirsk won the Russian Team Championship on Thursday. All photos Vladimir Barsky courtesy of the Russian Chess Federation. After the second Anand-Carlsen ma...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi edged out GM Daniil Dubov on tiebreak and won the Aeroflot Open in Moscow on Saturday. Nepomniachtchi, who qualified for the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund later this year, also won the blitz tournament on S...
With three rounds to go (and round seven underway at press time) Russian GMs Daniil Dubov and Ian Nepomniachtchi are tied for first place at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. Photo Boris Dolmatovsky. We left this very strong open tou...
The top group of the Aeroflot Open continues to see attacking chess. After three rounds GM Krishnan Sasikiran is the sole leader with three victories. Photo Boris Dolmatovsky. We saw two nice attacking wins for white in the report on...
The resurrected Aeroflot Open took off on Friday in Moscow. Top seed GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov got off to a flying start, crushing GM Boris Savchenko in just 19 moves. Sponsored by Russia's airline Aeroflot, this open tournament has been hel...
