In the end, love wins. On the final day of the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz, when several players brought their families to the tournament hall, GM Levon Aronian had to think about his significant other from afar. Cover photo: Chess.co...
Today was a day for short sleeves and short memories. At day four of the inaugural St. Louis Rapid and Blitz, the time control shrank to five minutes per side with a three-second delay. That means, unlike with increment, once in time pressure, a...
On a dramatic third day at the St. Louis Rapid tournament, Garry Kasparov lost a won game vs David Navara, was given a full rook by Le Quang Liem, and then was beaten by Fabiano Caruana in a difficult endgame. Levon Aronian leads th...
While some of his colleagues are impressed by his play, GM Garry Kasparov himself has mixed feelings. The 54-year-old chess legend can definitely still compete with the current top players, as his draws with Levon Aronian and Viswan...
Never have chess fans been so eager to see all draws. GM Garry Kasparov didn't mind them either. "Unlike 20 years ago, I was happy with three draws," he said at the end of a day that left him tired. Lead Photo: Chess.com/Maria Emelianova. Af...
It has been 4539 days since GM Garry Kasparov played a rated chess game. Internet and St. Louis Chess Club audiences, neither of whom even existed a dozen years ago, will only have to wait one more day to see the 13th World Champion end the streak...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave scored his career's best performance today by winning the fifth Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis. The French GM beat Ian Nepomniachtchi and his main rivals Vishy Anand and Levon Aronian couldn't follow suit. And...
On Thursday Wesley So suffered his fourth loss at the Sinquefield Cup. He was beaten by Sergey Karjakin. This means that half the field can still win the tournament. Karjakin is now tied for fourth place with Magnus Carlsen, half a point belo...
FIDE has confirmed Awonder Liang's grandmaster title by written resolution. This makes the 14-year-old American the 10th youngest grandmaster of all time and the youngest in the world today. Headline photo from the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Fest...
With two rounds to go, the Sinquefield Cup has three leaders on 4.5/7. Both Vishy Anand and Levon Aronian won their games, and caught Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in first place. MVL was joined in first place by Aronian and Anand. | Photo: M...
Wesley So is playing his worst tournament in two years. The American grandmaster lost his third game at the Sinquefield Cup today against Levon Aronian. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave drew with Fabiano Caruana and kept his sole lead, as Magnus C...
Both Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand won their games in 29 moves in the fifth round of the Sinquefield Cup, but for once, all eyes weren't on the champ. It was Anand's scintillating takedown of Fabiano Caruana that wowed the spectators and fa...
For 45 moves today, Magnus Carlsen played a model "Carlsen" game in the Sinquefield Cup's round four. Getting little from the opening, he created complex positional problems and was rewarded with subtle errors from Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. However,...
After two rounds of more wins than draws, nobody parked his car in the winner's circle after round three of the 2017 Sinquefield Cup. Despite the five draws, it sure seemed like a few more wins were coming in a tournament that had produced a 60 pe...
It's hard to top a world championship rematch, but GM Fabiano Caruana tried his best on day two of the 2017 Sinquefield Cup. On an afternoon when GM Magnus Carlsen won with relative ease over his November 2016 sparring partner, Caruana played...
The first two segments of the Speed Chess Championship clash between GM Alexander Grischuk and GM Richard Rapport were as competitive as they come. Both the five-minute and the three-minute portions essayed nine games each, and in total produced f...
The difference between July 2017 and August 2017 in the context of Titled Tuesday is evidently half of a point. In July, Dmitry Andreikin won clear first with 8.0/10. This month he needed to increase his score to 8.5/10 to claim that $500 first-pl...
How are American-Russian relations doing? We'll have to wait another day to find out. The 2017 Sinquefield Cup features exactly four Russian speakers in the 10-player field, and they all played each other in today's opening round. Granted one is...
Eight months in, Hou Yifan is celebrating her apex in a tumultuous 2017. She began the year with a controversial low; intentionally throwing a game in the Gibraltar Chess Festival to protest the statistically unlikely (but correct) number of women...
Etienne Bacrot had a clear lead in Biel after rounds five and six, but Hou Yifan's defeat of the frenchman in round seven produced a four-way tie for first entering the final two rounds. Bacrot is still among those tied for first, but now he is jo...
GM Baadur Jobava's tournament win at the 2017 Xtracon Open was only partly Shakespearean. It was played in Elsinore, Denmark, home of "Hamlet." But it was far from a tragedy. Instead, Jobava produced a few moves almost as memorable as that quotabl...
Chess players know it as Biel, but since 2013 it's been Bienne. After GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's four consecutive wins at the Biel International Chess Festival from 2013-2016 (three in tournaments, one in a match), another Frenchman is determined...
After more than a one-year hiatus, Chess.com's legendary Death Match series will return October 5 for a special event. GMs Simon Williams and Ben Finegold will put their differences aside, or perhaps amplify them, by settling their recent war of w...
The 50th jubilee edition of the Biel Chess Festival is underway in Switzerland. Among the participants are Vlastimil Hort and Anatoly Karpov, who played the rapid tournament on Sunday, and Rafael Vaganian, who plays both the rapid and th...
