The Women's Candidates' Tournament, an eight-player all-play-all that will determine the challenger for Ju Wenjun in the next Women's World Championship match, will start Friday in Kazan, Russia. It was one of the first decisions of the new FIDE...
Chess can build bridges between different ethnic groups in a war-torn country, and it can even raise awareness for voting. The royal game, with its long history, can give special opportunities to people with disabilities. This, and more, in a new ...
The upcoming dMP Batavia Amsterdam Chess Tournament (March 1-10) will experiment with a revolutionary format. In this 10-player GM norm tournament, the players will play a blitz match before each round that will decide on the score in case they wi...
The tournament is set in beautiful surroundings and the conditions for the players are excellent. The 5th Sunway Sitges international chess festival has attracted both experienced grandmasters like Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexander Beliavsky, but als...
A plus-one score was enough for Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to win the 2018 Shenzen Masters in China. The French GM edged out Anish Giri and Ding Liren on tiebreak after all finished on 5.5/10. It was Vachier-Lagrave's victory over Ding Liren, from r...
Today's round-four clash at the 2018 world chess championship between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana ended in the shortest draw of the bunch, at less than three hours. The match is tied 2.0-2.0 after Carlsen's English Opening went nowhere, but...
Luckily, London is a major city and you can still get dinner delivered at any hour. Today the world's top two grandmasters played right through dinner. It wasn't his longest world championship game ever, but to Magnus Carlsen, it felt like it "s...
Zurab Azmaiparashvili, the president of the European Chess Union (ECU), apologized on Facebook for having insinuated a possible case of cheating at the World Youth U14 Championship in Porto Carras, Greece. If anything could be learned from ...
Magnus Carlsen is active at the European Club Cup, where he started with a win against Vladimir Potkin in round two. Earlier in the week, Carlsen had some PR activities and spoke about his match with Fabiano Caruana. The European Club Cup is und...
At the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament, players who draw their game will play an Armageddon game right after, forcing a decisive result. The organizers hope to "create more excitement for spectators and put more pressure on the players." Ea...
At the age of 14 years, one month, and one day, the Indian prodigy Nihal Sarin became the 12th-youngest grandmaster in chess history. He scored his third grandmaster norm at the 25th Abu Dhabi Masters held at Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nihal...
The buildup has officially begun for the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia. The lineups are posted, so the pre-event punditry can begin. For the first time since its inception, Russia is not head of the open section. From September 23 to Oc...
The world of chess is in grief as IM Nino Khurtsidze, one of the most talented players of her generation, succumbed to illness. She died yesterday at the age of 42. « Remembering Nino Khurtsidze » Phot...
Sergey Karjakin is the sole leader at the World Blitz Chess Championship in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Like last year, the defending champion scored 9/11 on the first day. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is in second place with 8.5 points while M...
On the third day of the London Chess Classic all games again ended in draws. While even the players themselves have started to make jokes about it, others are (once again) calling for change. It's common for super tournaments to h...
It has been 4539 days since GM Garry Kasparov played a rated chess game. Internet and St. Louis Chess Club audiences, neither of whom even existed a dozen years ago, will only have to wait one more day to see the 13th World Champion end the streak...
Hou Yifan was the only winner in the first round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow. The number-one female player from China defeated the Russian player Ian Nepomniachtchi with the black pieces. Ian Nepomniachtchi resigns his game vs Hou...
GM Natalia Zhukova has sent a document* in which she objects against the FIDE ethics commission's provisional decision to ban her for three months as a result of cheating allegations against WGM Mihaela Sandu at the 2015 European Women's...
It is commonly believed that teaching chess at schools will improve the cognitive skills of pupils in other areas, such as math. But is this actually true? What is the current scientific consensus on the topic? In February 2015 the Spanish ...
Last week the Iranian Chess Federation removed two players from being able to represent their national team, or playing future events inside Iran. IM Dorsa Derakhshani, the number-two female in Iran, and her younger brother FM Borna Dera...
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,...
Richard Rapport was the sensation of the day as he defeated Magnus Carlsen beautifully in round eight. Wesley So still leads the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's masters group going into the second rest day. Photo: Alina l'Ami. New York wasn...
In the night between Sunday and Monday, Mark Taimanov died in St. Petersburg at the age of 90. He was a world-class player for decades and one of the participants of the legendary Zurich 1953 Candidates' Tournament. Besides being ...
The Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson made the first move of the 2016 world chess championship, but his principled 1. d4 wasn't the story. Rather, it was what followed one move later. Less than a minute into the biggest chess match of the yea...
