A PRO Chess League record 20,000 viewers were rooting on Magnus Carlsen as he raced toward a perfect score in the final rounds on Super Saturday. This made chess the sixth-most watched show on Twitch at the time! Some 220,000 unique viewers watche...
Justin Tan ("JannLeeCrazyhouse") claimed a solo and dramatic victory in Chess.com's 2018 Crazyhouse Championship on Thursday. Crazyhouse fans who haven't seen his epic streams (are there any?) will recall that he also shared victory (with FM ...
In the first round of the €420,000 / $515,000 FIDE Candidates' Tournament, on March 10, the World Cup finalists Levon Aronian and Ding Liren face each other. The other pairings are Vladimir Kramnik vs Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin ...
The ex-NFL lineman John Urschel mostly wanted his recent retirement news to pass through the media glare quietly and quickly. Recently, he opened up about his reasoning to Sports Illustrated, and then another feature on Huffington Post talked abou...
Magnus Carlsen's next big tournament will be the Grenke Chess Classic, held from March 31 to April 9 in the German cities of Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden. Yesterday the field of participants was announced by the organizers. Half of the field ...
The Swiss department of UBS bank has informed the World Chess Federation that it will close its bank account, in April at the latest, due to FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's presence on the sanctions list of the U.S. Department of the Trea...
What do GMs Avital Boruchovsky, Yaroslav Zherebukh, Oleksandr Bortnyk, and Alexey Dreev have in common? They all scored 4/4 in round six of the PRO Chess League and led their teams to victory. Both Boruchovsky and Bortnyk, by virtue of the ...
Magnus Carlsen is the new unofficial Fischer Random world champion after beating Hikaru Nakamura 14-10 today in their match in Norway. Taking into account the positive reception of the NRK TV show over the last five days, and the v...
After a dramatic day at the Fischer random (chess960) world championship match Magnus Carlsen still leads by two points. He started with a convincing win vs Hikaru Nakamura but then lost Monday's second game, trying to win a RB-vs-R endgame until ...
Magnus Carlsen continues to lead in the unofficial Fischer random (chess960) world championship match against Hikaru Nakamura after both games on Sunday ended in a win for the black player. The score is now 7-to-5 in favor of Carlsen. Th...
At the end of the second day, Magnus Carlsen took the lead in the unofficial Fischer random (chess960) world championship match versus Hikaru Nakamura. The American grandmaster was defending a theoretically drawn endgame but with little time ...
The unofficial Fischer random (chess960) world championship match between "reigning champion" Hikaru Nakamura and "challenger" Magnus Carlsen started with two draws. In the first half of the match the games count double and so the score ...
There's no such thing as an easy PRO Chess League match. Yet again in round five, many top teams and top players were nicked for half- or full-point upsets, and the biggest winner of the week, the Amsterdam Mosquitoes, came completely out of lef...
Chess.com announced today the return of its official Crazyhouse Championship this month with a total prize pool of $2,000. The championship will feature a week of qualifiers and a live-streamed final tournament to crown the crazyhouse champion. ...
This coming Friday a Fischer Random (Chess960) match between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura will start at Høvikodden outside Oslo, Norway. The (impressive) prize fund is just under $200,000. The English-language commentary,&nb...
What could make the PRO Chess League's Super Saturday and Sunday, a rapid event with five of the world's top ten players, even more exciting? World Champion Magnus Carlsen streaming his games! Carlsen decided to stream his play on longtime frien...
GM Levon Aronian is two-for-two in his last open events. They just happen to have come 13 years apart. He won the £25,000 first prize at the 16th Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival on Thursday after drawing with the reigning cham...
After three weeks of PRO Chess League play, there are two players (Magnus Carlsen on 8/8 and Fabiano Caruana on 4/4) and one team (Minnesota Blizzard) with a perfect score. Two players aside from Carlsen and Caruana achieved perfect scores this we...
After nine rounds of the 16th Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, the top players have regressed to the mean. GM Hikaru Nakamura has slowed down with four straight draws after opening with five straight wins, and that has allowed the other two top...
Magnus Carlsen, the winner of the 2017 Grand Chess Tour, headlines the list of invitees for the 2018 tour. The organizers have announced the 10 invited players and the dates in a press release. The tour organizers explained their criteria f...
In 2015, GM Hikaru Nakamura threatened to run away with the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, starting 6-0. Just when it looked like his seventh win was coming, a late slip allowed GM David Howell to draw. Fast forward to 2018 and three s...
On Sunday Magnus Carlsen won the Tata Steel Chess Tournament for a record sixth time. The Norwegian grandmaster tied for first place with Anish Giri and then beat the local hero 1.5-0.5 in a blitz playoff. Vidit Santosh Gujrathi won...
As both Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri won their games in the penultimate round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, one of them will likely be crowned as the winner tomorrow. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who drew very quickly today, has a chance too...
Here's a pro-tip: Don't try to outcalculate GM Hikaru Nakamura. With seven players sitting on 3/3 going into today's round four of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, the American used his nonpareil calculation skills to navigate through an ...
