Going into the rest day, Fabiano Caruana took a full-point lead at the London Chess Classic. In round five he was again the only winner after beating Vishy Anand. Even after five rounds, seven players are still on a clean 50 percent. W...
Chess.com apologizes to all of its fans and players for December 2017's Titled Train Wreck (Titled Dumpster Fire?). To sum up the technical difficulties, we first experienced a bug in which players that premoved their first move before the start...
Chess changed forever today. And maybe the rest of the world did, too. A little more than a year after AlphaGo sensationally won against the top Go player, the artificial-intelligence program AlphaZero has obliterated the highest-rated...
After the first 19 games had ended in a draw, Fabiano Caruana broke the spell and beat Sergey Karjakin at the end of the fourth round of the London Chess Classic. The American player is automatically the sole leader with five rounds to g...
On the third day of the London Chess Classic all games again ended in draws. While even the players themselves have started to make jokes about it, others are (once again) calling for change. It's common for super tournaments to h...
After two days the fans are still awaiting the first decisive game at the London Chess Classic. However, among the five draws in Sunday's second round was a sharp and highly entertaining Sicilian Dragon between Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Hikaru Na...
This edition of "In Other News" features a double dose of Russian stories, another double dose of young chess players making waves, and one of the most incredible acts of hubris in chess. You'll also see an examination of whether or not the leader...
The London Chess Classic took off today with five draws. It's the final leg of the 2017 Grand Chess Tour where Magnus Carlsen is currently leading the standings. The 2017 Grand Chess Tour resumes in London with its final leg, the London Chess Cl...
By playing in the first Chess.com Chess960 Championship on January 4 you can win a ticket to the Bobby Fischer Memorial in March in Reykjavik and play in the Chess960 tournament that will be held on Fischer's birthday. The Reykjavik Op...
London will be the location of the next world chess championship match. This was announced at a private party in Kensington, London on Wednesday night where Magnus Carlsen was the special guest. World Chess hosted the party at the Kensingto...
This year's Kings Tournament in Medias, Romania saw a double Ukrainian success as Vassily Ivanchuk and Anna Muzychuk dominated their groups in both the rapid and blitz sections. A decade ago Romania added an interesting tournament to the interna...
Three players received suspensions by an Italian federal court after an investigation regarding alleged attempt at rigging games and manipulate results at the Montebelluna tournament in January of this year. The story has had a deep impa...
Since Saturday Norway doesn't have one, but two world chess champions. Magnus Carlsen and other (Norwegian) fans saw GM Aryan Tari winning the World Junior Championship in Tarvisio, Italy. 12-year-old Indian prodigy IM Praggnanandhaa R s...
When it comes to Candidate's qualification, it turns out showing up is not half the battle. More than half of the field in the final FIDE Grand Prix still harbored chances to win the tournament going into the final round today. Of the 10 players...
The door to the Candidates' is suddenly "ajar" for "Raja." But then, it's been a backward kind of tournament anyway. After winning a game early at the final leg of the FIDE Grand Prix in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, GM Teimour Radjabov then drifted...
The 27th FIDE World Senior Championship took place November 7-18 in Acqui Termi, Italy. Top seed GM Julio Granda Zuniga clearly dominated the World Senior 50+ Open with 9.5/11. GM Evgeny Sveshnikov, a frequent participant in the World Senior Champ...
Shortly after GM Teimour Radjabov was born, the band De La Soul opined that "Three, that's the magic number." He's certainly hoping it is for him too. For a man who just recently won his third European Team Championship, and who previously was t...
The two men attempting to qualify for the next Candidates' tournament tried the hardest today. The hardest not to lose. Only one was successful. GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Teimour Radjabov played the two longest games of round seven of the F...
Magnus Carlsen is the first player to reach the final of the 2017 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. On Tuesday the world champion beat Alexander Grischuk with a five-point margin despite losing the bullet segment. This week's match was the com...
In this month's "In Other News" mashup, we ask if you would play naked chess? Rapper Snoop Dogg asks why the world isn't woke to a girls chess team? And make sure to read until the end for a remembrance of a national championship chess player who ...
One afternoon before the FIDE Grand Prix in Mallorca, Spain entered its only rest day, all 18 players decided they preferred nearly a 48-hour break instead. All nine games finished drawn, with the two that are most relevant to Candidates' qualific...
Who is GM Simon Williams seconding? In today's round four of the final leg of the FIDE Grand Prix in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, six of the nine players of the white pieces played h4, many with aggressive intentions. Despite that being the Ginger ...
"Magnus Carlsen dominates speed chess" is a fairly accurate description of chess in 2017. Carlsen has destroyed multiple fast chess formats. After shared firsts (but no title on tiebreak) in the World Rapid and Blitz Championships in December, he ...
Winning as Black today Peter Svidler moved to a plus one score at the FIDE Grand Prix in Palma de Mallorca. The Russian GM joined leaders Levon Aronian, Teimour Radjabov, Anish Giri and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The other win was sc...
