"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...
Yesterday they jumped over the ropes, and today they crashed through them. After two draws that kept extending a playoff, GM Zaven Andriasyan won in game three of his sudden-death blitz match with GM Wang Yue to give the Armenia Eagles a boister...
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...
At Saturday's PRO Chess League semifinals in San Francisco, it was a good day to be bullish on bears. First, the Chengdu Pandas bounced into the finals, then the Armenia Eagles celebrated a last-minute victory with bear hugs. Amidst it all, ches...
After winning the Candidates', Fabiano Caruana might just win his next tournament as well. He is the sole leader with two rounds to go after beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave today at the Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden. Let's re...
"I guess he just blundered something," was Matthias Bluebaum's simple comment after beating Viswanathan Anand in round six of the Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden. Georg Meier also blundered, but with little time and in a difficult po...
It is a rare and special thing to be able to defeat the world champion in classical chess. Players who do so belong to an elite group, termed the "Chigorin Club." For a player outside the world's top 50 to have such a chance is doubly rare. GM G...
Deep into round four of the 2018 Grenke Chess Classic, it seemed the players were destined for the first "do-nothing" round. All five games seemed headed to draws, and the players would regroup in the same position for another battle the following...
A small windstorm touched down in Chess.com's digital offices as IM Daniel Rensch and fellow staff members breathed a massive sigh of relief this Tuesday. We are thrilled to say that the Titled Tuesday CrASH Test Tournament ran perfectly, with no ...
Last Saturday Sergey Karjakin and Vladimir Kramnik were in Nice, France to participate in a one-day charity event that supported the Red Cross. Chess.com took the opportunity to ask them about their recently concluded FIDE Candidates' Tournam...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave today joined Nikita Vitiugov in the lead at the Grenke Chess Classic in Karlsruhe. The Frenchman beat Hou Yifan with the black pieces. The big news was 13-year-old IM Vincent Keymer of Germany winning the supe...
Nikita Vitiugov continues to lead the Grenke Chess Classic in Karlsruhe after beating Georg Meier in today's second round. Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave also won their games today. Caruana-Carlsen was no...
In the first round of the Grenke Chess Classic in Karlsruhe Magnus Carlsen missed a win and drew with Fabiano Caruana, his opponent in the upcoming world title match. Nikita Vitiugov beat Matthias Bluebaum with a brilliant...
"If I come well prepared, and I assume he will come well prepared as well, then it's going to be very close." Interviewed by Chess.com the day after winning the FIDE Candidates' Tournament, Fabiano Caruana rated his chances in the world champion...
Sergey Karjakin and Vladimir Kramnik, both participants in the recently concluded FIDE Candidates' Tournament, are in Nice, France to participate in a one-day charity event that will support the Red Cross. The "super blitz" tournament will be he...
GM Ivan Saric won the European Championship in Batumi, Georgia. The 27-year-old grandmaster became the second Croatian player to do so, after GM Zdenko Kozul in 2006. The 19th European Individual Chess Championship was held March 17-28 in the Sh...
It's well past time to clean out the "In Other News" bin. Just since the turn of the year, the Chess.com news team has taking trips to Johannesburg, Wijk aan Zee, Reykjavik, Berlin, Gibraltar, Moscow, Oslo, and Bunratty, although the memories of t...
Fabiano Caruana won the 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin convincingly, and earned the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen for the world title in November. He earned 95,000 Euros ($117,845) with his victory. Caruana defeate...
Fabiano Caruana is back to being the sole leader with just one round to go at the 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin. Today the American player beat Levon Aronian after Sergey Karjakin had quickly drawn his game with Wesley ...
Ghanaian chess players know her as "the prodigy." At age 16, Maud Benson went from zero to hero in local chess tournaments and quickly made her way into the female national team for the upcoming Olympiad which will take place in Batumi, Georgia, b...
With two rounds to go, more than half of the field still has a chance to win the 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin. Sergey Karjakin beat, and caught Fabiano Caruana in first place today. After 11 draws, Ding Liren won his firs...
Francisco Vallejo Pons left the European Individual Championship, currently underway in Batumi, Georgia, after the fifth round. On Facebook he revealed having troubles in his personal life, most notably being chased by the Spanish tax authority, w...
