China is Olympiad champion once again. Actually, twice again. Today in Batumi, Georgia, the open section squad won its second team gold medal in the last three Olympiads. The women's team survived a late repetition claim and successfully de...
Poland's amazing run at the 43rd Olympiad was ended today by China, the opponent of the U.S. in a clash for gold in tomorrow's final round. In the women's section, China will defend its sole lead vs Russia. The world of chess...
GM Boris Savchenko (@tigra), a regular and strong performer in Titled Tuesday, won his first event with a strong 9/10 performance. Savchenko won his first eight (!) games to take a huge lead in the event. A ninth-round loss against runner-up Moska...
No matter the partner, Poland keeps polkaing. Other nations can't keep up. Poland, the surprise of the 43rd Olympiad, took down number-one seed and defending champions the U.S, 2.5-1.5. Poland is now alone in first place, passing over the Americ...
The chess engine Stockfish proved its might with a decisive victory over Houdini in the 200-game final match of the Computer Chess Championship's first event, the Rapid Rumble. Stockfish scored 120/200 in a match that was never in...
Arkady Dvorkovich has been elected FIDE president for the coming four years at the World Chess Federation's General Assembly in Batumi, Georgia. He defeated Georgios Makropoulos with 103 votes to 78 after Nigel Short withdrew his candidacy at...
The situation was tricky, but eventually the U.S. pulled through and beat Azerbaijan to grab the sole lead at the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi. China and Ukraine are leading the women's tournament. More photographers and videographers than...
It took the women six rounds to erase all of the unblemished team scores, and now in the open section of the 2018 Chess Olympiad, round seven removed the last vestiges of perfection. That happened when on top board Poland and Azerbaijan played to ...
While things are heating up on the political front, the Olympiad's playing hall hosted another day of great chess. Azerbaijan and Poland will meet tomorrow as the co-leaders, with six wins. USA, Georgia and Armenia (who beat Russia!) are leading t...
In a ruling of the FIDE Ethics Commission, presidential candidate Arkady Dvorkovich was found not guilty of violating the FIDE Code of Ethics. The accusations came from complaints from his election adversary Georgios Makropoulos. On the same day, ...
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...
Could the next PRO Chess League championship team not even exist yet? The 2018 PCL champions, the Armenia Eagles, qualified their way into the Eastern Division roughly a year ago. The Eagles went on to celebrate PRO Chess League Championship glo...
A rare case of checkmate on the board, Vladimir Kramnik's loss today was crucial for Poland's victory over Russia at the Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia. Fabiano Caruana's win vs Viswanathan Anand decided the top clash, USA vs India. Russ...
Proving that it's still the biggest fish in the sea of computer chess, the Stockfish engine cruised to the top spot in the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship, scoring an astounding 51/70 against the world's top chess engines in stage two of the...
Round three had something for everyone at the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia. Vladimir Kramnik completed the "Olympiad Slam" by playing board three for the first time, the only position he had never be assigned to play. His win was neces...
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...
In 11 days from now, a new FIDE president will be elected in Batumi, Georgia. Today we're providing answers from Arkady Dvorkovich and Nigel Short to Chess.com questions sent to all three candidates. Sadly, Georgios Makropoulos declined to pa...
A new blitz and rapid tournament will be held in November in Kolkata, India. Chess.com is partnering with the tournament. Tata Steel Chess India 2018 is a new super-tournament scheduled for November 9-14. The tournament format is similar to what...
Winning all three segments and using lots of nasty tactics, Levon Aronian defeated Anish Giri in the second quarterfinal of the 2018 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship on Thursday. The winning score for the Armenian GM was 18-11. The next Spee...
Eliminating another Russian top grandmaster, Jan-Krzystof Duda became the first player to advance to the semifinals of the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. The Polish player defeated Alexander Grischuk in a truly epic match on Tuesday. ...
The first stage of the first Computer Chess Championship event is in the books, and after 562 official games Stockfish tops the leaderboard with an excellent score of 39/46, the first of eight engines to advance to stage two. The two other ...
The last six weeks were full of top-level events like the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, the Sinquefield Cup, the World Junior Championship, and many Speed Chess Championship matches. The "In Other News" tidbits have been piling up, but today, t...
