GM Richard Rapport won a friendly match against GM Wei Yi. The match, held in China, provided exactly the entertainment you would expect from these two young and fighting players Photo: cca.imsa.cn The concept of friendly matches seems to be r...
GM Grigoriy Oparin qualified for the 2017 Kortchnoi Zurich Chess Challenge. The 19-year-old grandmaster defeated GM Alexei Shirov 1.5-0.5 in a playoff at the Nutcracker tournament in Moscow. The Nutcracker tournament finished today in the C...
GM Alexei Shirov is one of the stars at the 2017 Reykjavik Open. The annual open tournament in Iceland will be held in April. Harpa, the venue for the 2017 Reykjavik Open. Before the end of the year, the organizers have secured some big names ...
The traditional Nutcracker tournament is under way in Moscow, Russia. After four rounds of classical chess, "experience" (the Kings) has a tiny lead over "youth" (the Princes). Another edition of the annual Nutcracker event was opened ...
Valentina Gunina came, saw and conquered. The Russian player was in fantastic shape at the London Super Rapidplay tournament, won with 9/10(!), and left a field of 42 grandmasters behind her. The Super Rapidplay tournament took place on Dec...
A day after clinching victory in the Grand Chess Tour, Wesley So also won the London Chess Classic. He was the first to finish his game, drawing with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. He then saw his rival Fabiano Caruana reach the same result against Anish...
By drawing his game with Fabiano Caruana comfortably, Wesley So clinched victory in the 2016 Grand Chess Tour. In the penultimate round, the only winner was Viswanathan Anand who used a great novelty to beat the luckless Veselin Topalov....
There's no better way to get back after a devastating loss than using the same opening with the other color and scoring a nice win yourself. That's what Hikaru Nakamura did today in his game with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in Londo...
In an all-American grudge match, Fabiano Caruana defeated Hikaru Nakamura, sacrificing a queen in the 6.Bg5 Najdorf. Now it's hard to believe that Wesley So won't win the Grand Chess Tour as he beat Veselin Topalov as Black tod...
Amidst a month of news dominated by the world championship only a few chess stories without a New York City setting slipped through the cracks in November. For whatever reason, U.K. media dominates this issue of "In Other News." Does anyone know o...
Michael Adams won his first game in London as he crushed Veselin Topalov in an Anti-Berlin. At the end of the day Vladimir Kramnik grabbed the spotlight as he found a beautiful way to draw his game with Hikaru Nakamura. Going into the ...
After opening with back-to-back rounds with three out of fives games decisive, the 2016 London Chess Classic has cooled off. That is, for everyone except for Hikaru Nakamura. After a slow start, for the second day in a row Nakamura won the ...
Chess.com's first-ever crazyhouse (crazyhouse rules here! ) championship featured 83 of the very best crazyhouse players in the world. Nearly every major crazyhouse player was present. Two of the favorites, FM Dan Yeager (chickenc...
Less than two weeks ago, Magnus Carlsen played incredibly on his birthday and won the world championship, but in London, birthdays have been most cruel to the participants. Hikaru Nakamura was defeated by Wesley So on his birthday two days ago, ...
Today Wesley So became the 12th player of all time to break 2800. His win with White over Michael Adams was fluid and representative of the excellent form he has been in for much of 2016. So is making a strong case that the next challe...
Last year's inaugural Grand Chess Tour ended with a late-night playoff in London after the final round. This year, the opening day may end up being the decider. The concluding London Chess Classic, the fourth and final leg of the tour'...
It's the final leg of the Grand Chess Tour, and it's just around the corner: the London Chess Classic. Tomorrow the traditional super tournament in the British capital starts with eight players from the world's top 10. When it all started in 200...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his record seventh Titled Tuesday to close out 2016. His win came in the late Titled Tuesday, which he shared with a large pack of six players on 7.0/9: GMs Laurent Fressinet, Aleksander Shimanov, Daniel Naroditsky, Vidit Gu...
Last weekend, OSC Baden-Baden made its intentions clear: It wants to win back the title in the German league. For its matches on Saturday and Sunday, it had Viswanathan Anand, Fabiano Caruana, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on the top boards...
UPDATE 24 March 2017: Gareyev's simul has now been officially recognized as a Guinness World Record! GM Timur Gareyev played 48 chess games blindfolded simultaneously from Saturday to Sunday in Las Vegas. The grandmaster from Uzbekistan, wh...
Ju Wenjun of China won the grand prix tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk, and with it, the overall women's grand prix. In doing so, she earned the right to challenge the winner of the 2017 Knockout World Championship in a title match. Recap: At...
Magnus Carlsen was "calm and confident" going into the tiebreak session on Wednesday, in which he retained his world title. The day after his victory in New York, Carlsen sat down with a small number of media to answer some question...
It was about time. Just like in the classical portion of the 2016 world championship, GM Magnus Carlsen got several promising positions against GM Sergey Karjakin in the rapid playoff. The difference? Today Carlsen used an extra weapon: ...
--Live Flash Report-- GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2016 world championship over GM Sergey Karjakin by virtue of winning the last two games of the rapid playoff. The tiebreak ended 3-1 for Carlsen. Game one was a draw. Carlsen leaned b...
