February's Titled Tuesday was the strongest yet with five of the world's top six (!) grandmasters in the field. GMs Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So both played for the first time; they were joined by Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Fab...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Levon Aronian, and Hikaru Nakamura are the top seeds in the 2017 FIDE Grand Prix Series. The full list of 24 names was announced by Agon yesterday, together with a new sponsor. The new FIDE Grand Prix Series, which i...
Former Correspondence Chess World Champion and the man behind the famous Melody Amber tournaments Joop van Oosterom died at the end of last year. This was confirmed to Chess.com by the Association Max Euwe in Monaco. In the year 2016 the ch...
Chess.com's Titled Tuesday tournaments have been the largest regular online chess tournament since their inception in October 2014. They have attracted hundreds of grandmasters to play, including Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Baadur Jobava, ...
The 2017 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship will seed 16 players into an elimination bracket for Chess.com's biggest annual tournament, with the first round of matches starting in May 2017. UPDATE: Click here for updates and Round 1 sc...
What is the new world number-two Wesley So up to after winning Tata Steel? He's continuing his winning streak with a perfect 4/4 score playing for the Saint Louis Arch Bishops in the Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League. The Arch Bishops...
In the year of the rooster, GM Hikaru Nakamura just scored a turkey. By winning yet another playoff, he scored his third straight strike at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Fesitival and became the first man to win three in a row. Maybe he is ...
Like last year, David Anton is doing great at the 2017 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. The 21-year-old Spanish grandmaster is leading the tournament alone, and has White in today's final round. Ju Wenjun is the big star among the ...
Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So, the world number one and two in the live ratings, will be playing the 2017 Grand Chess Tour. Vladimir Kramnik could not play in all events and therefore had to decline. In a press release on Tuesday the Grand C...
If you had the teams from Budapest, San Diego, Philadelphia, Cannes, and Montclair all 3-0 in the Professional Online Rapid (PRO) Chess League before the season began, congratulations, you are crushing our panel of pundits (see below). But yo...
It took a week, but the cream has risen to the top at the 2017 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. Since our last report in round four, some of the pretenders have fallen off after angering the gods of chess. Photo Sophie Triay. Three-time cha...
Wesley So beat Ian Nepomniachtchi straight from the opening, avoided a playoff and became the winner of the 79th Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee today. Gawain Jones won the challengers and will play the top guns in next ...
The penultimate round in Tata Steel featured plenty of action and set up an even more tense final day tomorrow. The premier match today was between Wesley So (clear first) and Wei Yi (clear second), but that game petered out into a draw relatively...
GM Ju Wenjun, the highest-rated female never to win the top women's prize at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, has the chance to do more than just reversing that stat. No woman has ever won the overall title. After four rounds,...
Thanks to a win against Sergey Karjakin, Wei Yi is suddenly in clear second place at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. In the challengers, Jeffery Xiong defeated Ilia Smirin to grab clear first with two rounds to ...
Week three in the PRO Chess League was defined by surprise as many favorites dropped critical matches in sometimes dramatic fashion. With just a seven-week regular season preceding the playoffs, some juggernauts are starting to emerge wh...
No one has won four editions of the top section of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, but GM Hikaru Nakamura couldn't have been gift-wrapped a better chance to make history. Not only did he open 2-0 in attempting to also become the first to...
Wesley So defeated Radoslaw Wojtaszek today and increased his lead to a full point at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. In the challengers, Jeffery Xiong joined Ilia Smirin and Markus Ragger in the lead. Ev...
Magnus Carlsen was the only winner in the ninth round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's Masters. The World Champion defeated Loek van Wely and is now half a point behind Wesley So. Ilia Smirin joined Markus Ragger in the lead in the...
For those that don't watch ChessCenter regularly (shame on you!), in the latest episode, this author/commentator predicted the continued rise of open events. Evidence number one might be the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, which&nb...
Richard Rapport was the sensation of the day as he defeated Magnus Carlsen beautifully in round eight. Wesley So still leads the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's masters group going into the second rest day. Photo: Alina l'Ami. New York wasn...
Today Magnus Carlsen missed a checkmate versus Anish Giri, and with it, a great opportunity to move to "plus three." Wesley So drew his game as well and continues to lead the masters section. It's quite rare, but it happened today: a&n...
After 14 consecutive drawn games, Anish Giri emerged with a win in round six at Tata Steel. As commentator Yasser Seirawan noted, if Giri had won all of his winning positions, he would be leading in Tata Steel. Also winning was Wei Yi, who ...
Wesley So is the new leader of the Tata Steel chess tournament masters group. Today he defeated Pentala Harikrishna and took over pole position from Pavel Eljanov, who lost to Levon Aronian. The fifth round, which was played at th...
