GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the winner's column in the early Titled Tuesday on April 25, and GM Nihal Sarin followed with his first win of the year in the late tournament. Both scored 9.5 points out of a possible 11 and won on the tiebreak scor...
No one needed a tiebreaker in this week's Titled Tuesday as GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk both won outright on August 2. It was Nakamura's second straight Tuesday winning one of the tournaments. GM Daniel Naroditsky finished s...
The FIDE Online World Corporate Chess Championship began on Friday with 288 teams representing some of the biggest corporations in the world. Saturday will see three more rounds in each pool before Sunday's finals. How to watch?The gam...
The Polish Chess Federation has banned 17-year-old WFM Patrycja Waszczuk for two years from competitive chess for allegedly using a phone during play. The father of Waszczuk has appealed the decision, claiming the evidence is circumstantial. Was...
Earlier this month GM Kacper Piorun won his 4th World Solving Championship in Belgrade, Serbia. The problems he had to solve were pretty tough, but you can give it a try! Solving chess problems or studies can be a lot of fun....
Benjamin Bok scored his career best performance at the FIDE Open in London, where he won with 8.0/9. Luke McShane won the Super Rapidplay Open tournament with an even higher score: 9.5/10. The London Chess Classic was more than just an elite tou...
Chess is a game that transcends language and other human differences, but it also lends its equality to those with physical limitations. Such is the case with visual impairment -- with a few small tweaks in the rules, this challenge is easily surm...
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...
With five rounds to go the Schachbundesliga, the German Team Championship, has basically been decided. Every year the scenario repeats itself: Baden-Baden, far too strong for any opponent, simply wins all or almost all of its matches, and so the q...
Fabiano Caruana finished sole first at the Reykjavik Open with a score of 7.5/9. The Italian grandmaster, who was the top seed in the Icelandic capital, remained unbeaten and finished half a point ahead of Ivan Sokolov, David Navara, Gawain Jones,...
Today the annual chess festival in Reykjavik, Iceland takes off. The open tournament is very strong, with 25 GMs and 20 IMs. Top seeds are Fabiano Caruana and David Navara, who could be found in Wijk aan Zee's top group earlier this year. Reig...
The most important match of the weekend will take place in Bremen. The only serious contender of Baden-Baden is facing the strong team of Mülheim. Bremen needs to win in order not to loose the contact to the top of the table. The match starts on S...
If you appreciate the beauty of chess above all else, and enjoy figuring out devilishly difficult puzzles, then solving chess problems could be for you! The World Chess Solving Championship is one of FIDE's less well known championship events. T...
This weekend the 14th and 15th round of the Schachbundesliga will be played. At the playing venues Baden-Baden and Bremen most probably it will be decided who will win the championship.Two rounds before the end of the season Baden-Baden, Solingen ...
This weekend the 12th and 13th round of the Schachbundesliga are being played. Baden-Baden is playing with Shirov, Bacrot and Naiditsch on top boards.Since many years there was no such tension in the Schachbundesliga as this year. Four rounds befo...
This weekend the 10th and 11th round of the Schachbundesliga are being played. On board one of the top match between Baden-Baden and Werder Bremen, Vugar Gashimov (Werder Bremen), who travelled from Linares to Heidelberg, plays the World Champ, Vi...
The 8th and 9th round of the Schachbundesliga and three matches from round 7 will take place from the 5th to the 7th of February 2010. We provide you with the pairings at the playing venues Munich, Mülheim, Berlin and Remagen. Some famous Wijk aan...
After a very successful World Cup tournament, Vladimir Malakhov managed to keep his top form this weekend. The 29-year-old physicist from Russia won the European Rapid Championship with 11.5/13, beating big favourites such as Gashimov, Ivanchuk an...
OSC Baden-Baden is the only team left in the Schachbundesliga that won all of its matches. Still it's Werder Bremen that leads the current standings, since this weekend not only the 3rd and 4th round of the German league were played, but also one ...
The 3rd and 4th round of the Schachbundesliga and one match from round 7 will take place from the 13th to the 15th of November, 2009. This article provides you with the pairings of the following weekend.The top matches of the following weekend wil...
The German Schachbundesliga, the strongest team competition in the world, started its season 2009/10 yesterday. The top matches of this first weekend take place in Solingen, where the German champion Baden-Baden faces the top teams of Solingen and...
Two years ago this week Chess.com opened its doors to the public and it's been a wild ride ever since! Today we're celebrating our 2nd birthday and wanted to share a few thoughts. (If you haven't read the whole series on how Chess.com came about, ...
There was a really interesting interview posted today with Piotr, Chess.com's main live chess developer. Check it out (WARNING - contains a LOT of nerd-speak) => http://prototypejs.org/2008/5/28/an-interview-with-piotr-dachtera There has be...
Today Chess.com was featured in a great video news piece in which I (Erik) had a few embarrassing interview clips. In the video I was referred to as the "creator" of Chess.com, and I just wanted to let everyone know how far from true tha...
It's been a while since I have talked about the inner workings of Chess.com and there are some fun and interesting things happening (and about to happen) - enjoy! 50,000 Members Yesterday Chess.com hit 50,000 members. And while that is small c...
