On Thursday, the Indian super-grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi survived one of the strongest brackets of the knockout qualifier stage to reach the quarterfinals of the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. In a bracket that featured ...
What a difference a day makes at the 2019 Sinquefield Cup! After most players in this elite round-robin started with four consecutive draws, the field decided to make the tournament an "open" with all kinds of fun in round five. Both Ian Ne...
In several recent tweets, Viswanathan Anand explained that his son has taken quite a liking to the instructional videos on ChessKid.com. Well, Akhil, turns out your dad can teach you about winning tactics, too. "I'll show him the position and se...
After nine rounds of play, there is one name dominating the women's candidates' tournament in Kazan, Russia: GM Aleksandra Goryachkina. With a magnificent score of 7.5/9 and a 2804 performance rating, she holds a 2.5-point-lead over her close...
Below is the full list of non-titled players who've qualified for the first-ever FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. There is still time for titled players to register and be a part of chess history! The last four FIDE Wor...
On Tuesday Vishy Anand swapped places with Peter Svidler to join Magnus Carlsen in the lead at the Grenke Chess Classic in Karlsruhe, Germany. Whereas Anand beat Paco Vallejo, Svidler lost to Levon Aronian while Carlsen drew his game wit...
With five players from the world's top 10, the Grenke Chess Classic starts on Saturday in Karlsruhe, Germany. World champion Magnus Carlsen and last year's Grenke winner Fabiano Caruana will play their first classical game since their November tit...
With Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Peter Svidler in its lineup for the final weekend, the German chess club Baden-Baden clinched its 13th Bundesliga title in 14 years, more than any German club has ever achieved. In early March we co...
Want to be "king for a day"? Chess.com is about to give you the ability to do that, literally. Today Chess.com filed papers with several international agencies to officially lay claim to Bir Tawil, an unclaimed piece of land between the Egypt...
March's Titled Tuesday event featured 396 titled players (just shy of February's 400-plus record) competing for cash and glory. The top seed was Hikaru Nakamura, the record-holder for most Titled Tuesday wins. Despite losing to a player who d...
The reigning, defending Chess.com Computer Chess champion Stockfish will once again put its title on the line in a clash with the upstart machine-learning engine Lc0. The finals of CCC 6: The Winter Classic are scheduled to begin on Saturda...
December's Titled Tuesday was a thoroughly star-studded holiday blast. With 353 players, it was our third-largest Titled Tuesday ever. The field was so packed with talent and skill that it could easily be mistaken for a prestige open or swiss. H...
One of the most anticipated world championship matches in recent memory kicked off Thursday at the The College in Holborn, London. For the first time since 1990, and organized by World Chess, the biggest belt in chess will be contested b...
Playing the match on his 25th birthday, Wesley So defeated Vidit Gujrathi with a 16.5-10.5 score. So's next opponent in the Speed Chess Championship's semifinals will be Polish rising star Jan-Krzysztof Duda. So's win on Tuesday was expecte...
The annual "Chess Train" always departs from Czech Republic, and in most years goes through Poland. The thing is, it's not supposed to leave until next month. Instead, Czech Republic and Poland are already both full steam ahead here in Batumi, G...
Yesterday's complete lack of upsets at the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi gave way to a day of surprises, both on and off the board. Georgia team three put up an excellent fight today against reigning champions USA, who won by the ...
Olympiads usually offer several nuggets every two years: Worthy champions, Bermuda party excesses, and round-one upsets. But at the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia, the opening games in both the open and women's sections didn't produce a si...
The 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia officially opened on Sunday with a spectacular opening ceremony that included dancing and singing performances, speeches and the drawing of colors. Many esteemed members of the chess community called...
If chess had off-board-betting facilities, today would have ended with tickets strewn over the floor. It was that unpredictable in day two of America's chess capital. GM Fabiano Caruana still leads the 2018 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz by two p...
A visually impaired chess player has been permanently banned by the Norwegian Chess Federation (NSF) after having been caught red-handed with an earplug glued to his palm during a game against a nine-year-old girl. Norwegian chess reporter Tarjei ...
Whew. Candidates' took almost a month but is now done. Ditto Shamkir and the U.S. Championships. The Women's World Championship is only one game a day, so how can we quench your insatiable thirst for chess news this next week? Here's 10 che...
The 2017-2018 Schachbundesliga season will be decided in a playoff held later this month. In the final "weekend" in Berlin, both Baden-Baden and Solingen won all three matches and finished on the same amount of match points. For the final three ...
"I wasn't really thinking about winning the tournament but I kept getting chances and I took them." After winning the FIDE Candidates' Tournament, Fabiano Caruana also clinched the Grenke Chess Classic today. The American grandmaster bea...
With five draws in the Grenke Chess Classic's penultimate round, Fabiano Caruana got a bit closer to his second tournament victory in a month's time. He'll face Nikita Vitiugov as Black tomorrow, while his closest rival Magnus Carls...
