"I was telling my friends, I hope the spirit of Fischer is with me. I think it was!" said GM Baskaran Adhiban after winning the GAMMA Reykjavik Open at his first attempt. The Indian GM was the only player to finish on 7.5 points. The 33rd editio...
The Reykjavik Open is well underway in the Icelandic capital. After three rounds, GMs Mustafa Yilmaz (Turkey), Vaibhav Suri (India) and Elshan Moradiabadi are the only three players left with a perfect score. On Friday, March 9 a strong ...
Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine), Richard Rapport (Hungary) and Gata Kamsky (USA) are the top seeds at this year's Reykjavik Open - Bobby Fischer Memorial, to be held March 6-14 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Note that Chess.com will be providing the live broadc...
By playing in the first Chess.com Chess960 Championship on January 4 you can win a ticket to the Bobby Fischer Memorial in March in Reykjavik and play in the Chess960 tournament that will be held on Fischer's birthday. The Reykjavik Op...
You're not supposed to work too hard when you're on vacation. In a tournament where he uncharacteristically arrived with no parents, no manager, and no seconds, GM Magnus Carlsen and his girlfriend will leave winners. "It was different," Carls...
Carlsen. Nakamura. Board one. Final round. Sometimes the headline writes itself. GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura have never faced each other in the last round of an open tournament before, or likely in an open event at all. That will al...
Only a month after the FIDE Grand Prix the Sharjah Cultural and Chess Club is hosting another tournament. The start of the first Sharjah Masters was somewhat chaotic, but the conditions for the players are excellent. "The first pancake...
How often do chess players get a chance to play one of the world's super-grandmasters? How often then do they get a chance to win? In the second playoff week of the Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League, the answer was surprisingly often....
As playoff tensions increased in week six of the Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League, the matches were tighter than ever. Fully one third of the 24 matches were decided by a half-point, and no matches were drawn. In the chaos,...
World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen has won many major events Chess.com has organized. Last year he won the Blitz Battle Championship, then just last week he shared first in his first-ever appearance in Titled Tuesday. He also crushed most Chess...
IM Alexander Moskalenko achieved the highest point total in Titled Tuesday as he racked up eight wins in nine games to claim clear first place in the early event. Two other non-GMs, FM Ilya Duzhakov and IM Minh Le, shared second with GM Evgen...
