Levon Aronian today lost his fifth game at the 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin. The Armenian GM was beaten by Sergey Karjakin, who is now a point behind the leader, Fabiano Caruana, who he faces tomorr...
The Armenia Eagles, Ljubljana Turtles, Saint Louis Arch Bishops, and Chengdu Pandas won their divisions in the 2018 season of the PRO Chess League. These four teams are headed to San Francisco on April 7 and 8 for finals weekend where they wi...
After a great game by both players, Levon Aronian blundered a beautiful final move by Vladimir Kramnik today at the 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin. Tournament leader Fabiano Caruana held Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to a d...
The 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament is becoming a disastrous tournament for Vladimir Kramnik, who continues to play below par. Today he continued on for a long time in a lost position and eventually threw in the towel vs Sergey Kar...
He didn't overpress this time, but how Vladimir Kramnik missed several draws and eventually lost his game to Alexander Grischuk was still painful. Fabiano Caruana drew with Wesley So and kept his lead in round eight of the 2018 FIDE Candidate...
At the halfway mark of the 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament, Fabiano Caruana is back to being the sole leader. Today the American grandmaster beat Levon Aronian, whereas Shakhriyar Mamedyarov drew quickly with Alexander Grischuk. Sergey Kar...
"I was telling my friends, I hope the spirit of Fischer is with me. I think it was!" said GM Baskaran Adhiban after winning the GAMMA Reykjavik Open at his first attempt. The Indian GM was the only player to finish on 7.5 points. The 33rd editio...
By beating Vladimir Kramnik today, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov caught Fabiano Caruana in first place at the 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament. Wesley So scored his first win in this sixth round, at the expense of Levon Aronian. If stamina ...
For the first time at the 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament, the day's action ended in stasis. All four games ended drawn, despite the best efforts of GM Alexander Grischuk, who played another wild encounter. For the second day in a row, his up-a...
Predicting results in the Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League continues to be incredibly difficult. In the eight matches in round one of the PRO Chess League playoffs, three of the four divisional top seeds were upset by the fourth seeds....
Fabiano Caruana beat Vladimir Kramnik in a dramatic game in round four and is now the new leader of the FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin. More incredible complications were seen in Alexander Grischuk vs Ding Liren which ended i...
Vladimir Kramnik defeated Levon Aronian in brilliant style today at the FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin, and in a Berlin. This time as Black, he played an early ...Rg8 and ...g7-g5 and just blew his opponent away. It doesn't h...
After suffering a loss in round one, Alexander Grischuk today won his white game against Wesley So. That was the second consecutive loss for So, who is making his debut at the FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin. After a wonderful firs...
Fabiano Caruana, Vladimir Kramnik and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov started with wins at the FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin. Caruana beat Wesley So from the white side of a Closed Catalan, whereas Kramnik outplayed Alexander Grischuk with the ...
Tonight is the official opening, and tomorrow the first round of one of the biggest events of the year: the FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin, Germany. Anish Giri, who has been revealed as Vladimir Kramnik's second, faced off with Ma...
The final round of the PRO Chess League regular season was a heartbreaker for many as several beloved teams either missed the playoffs or were relegated. Teams painfully falling short included Magnus Carlsen's Norway Gnomes, who held their fate in...
The Reykjavik Open is well underway in the Icelandic capital. After three rounds, GMs Mustafa Yilmaz (Turkey), Vaibhav Suri (India) and Elshan Moradiabadi are the only three players left with a perfect score. On Friday, March 9 a strong ...
Before they play 14 games over two-and-a-half weeks in the Candidates' Tournament, several would-be world championship challengers had their final warmup with 13 games in one day at the Tal Memorial Blitz. In the preceding Tal Memorial Rapid, GM...
Viswanathan Anand continued his "rapid reign" at the Tal Memorial in Moscow. After winning the world title in the same discipline in Riyadh at the end of last year, Anand also won the rapid segment in Moscow today with 6/9, a full point ...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov leads the Tal Memorial in Moscow after three rounds. The Azerbaijani grandmaster is on 2.5/3 with six rapid rounds to go, and then a final day of blitz. The Tal Memorial has returned to the calendar, albeit in a d...
The winner of the 2018 Aeroflot Open, and thus the qualifier for this year's super-tournament in Dortmund, is Vladislav Kovalev. The 24-year-old grandmaster from Belarus left players such as Vladimir Fedoseev, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi and Dmitr...
Like a black hole of drama, the world champion Magnus Carlsen's play has absorbed discussion and excitement each week. While Carlsen's results and play were likely frustrating to him this week, he dazzled the audience by playing a shocking swindle...
Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine), Richard Rapport (Hungary) and Gata Kamsky (USA) are the top seeds at this year's Reykjavik Open - Bobby Fischer Memorial, to be held March 6-14 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Note that Chess.com will be providing the live broadc...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chess.com to hold first-ever chess esports event for PRO Chess League live finals exclusively on Twitch. San Francisco, Feb. 26. 2018—The world's best chess players will travel to San Francisco to compete in a live...
