The Russian Championship's Superfinal has started slowly—14 of 18 games have been drawn. However, there's been plenty of bloodshed in the women's section. They've had 13 decisive games! Three rounds have been played at the Superfinal, the ...
In an attempt to distribute their product as widely as possible while restricting unauthorized world championship relays, Agon will be providing a widget for chess websites that want to broadcast the games from the upcoming wor...
The annual chess festival in Hoogeveen, The Netherlands this year features the matches Hou Yifan vs Nigel Short and Jorden van Foreest vs Ivan Sokolov. Now in its 20th edition, Hoogeveen Chess continues its relatively new format o...
Location is key in this month's edition of "In Other News." Past chess games have been played in space, underwater, and just about everywhere in between. Today we reveal a few locations you may not have thought about: behind bars, whilst un...
On Sunday, the Russian championship Superfinal takes off in Novosibirsk, 2800 km east of Moscow. The top seeds are Alexander Grischuk and Peter Svidler. These days there's hardly a full week without top chess being played som...
Two decades after clashing in two battles of the highest level, Jan Timman finally managed to beat Anatoly Karpov in a match. At the end of last week the two chess legends played four games in Murmansk, Russia. Timman won 2.5-1...
GM Dariusz Swiercz won the third Millionaire Chess on Monday in Atlantic City, N.J., triumphing in the Millionaire Monday final against GM Gawain Jones. For first place, Swiercz collected a clean $30,000. Not bad for a college student, a...
Two very different final rounds produced the same ending score. When the day's play ceased, GMs Pavel Eljanov and Fabiano Caruana tied for first place in the 2016 Chess.com Isle of Man International. Due to progressive tiebreaks, Eljanov wo...
While more quick kills than normal took place in round eight of the Chess.com Isle of Man International, the leaders didn't appear in the Tarantino script. Several grandmasters on lower boards won their showdowns in the penultimate&nbs...
The time-lapse video in the Isle of Man's Manx Museum explains that the British Isles took 400 million years to break away from North America and land where they sit today. In contrast, it only took one week for GMs Pavel Eljanov and Fabiano Carua...
GM Olexandr Bortnyk ran the table, scoring a perfect 9.0/9 in a star-studded Titled Tuesday that featured two 2800s as both Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Fabiano Caruana competed. The perfect score (and a bonus Fischer prize of $250) had eluded ...
GM Alexei Shirov came back to the board today after his round-five rest, but the break ended his mojo. After winning four straight to start the Chess.com Isle of Man International, yesterday's bye didn't help him stay on form against GM Pavel...
Ian Nepomniachtchi won clear first at the Tal Memorial with a draw as Black against Boris Gelfand. The final round proved to be anything but simple for "Nepo" as he struggled against Gelfand, who was close to tallying his first win of the eve...
After more than 120 years with a queen on the throne, the Netherlands has been getting used to a king in the last few years. Their countrymen may also have to get used to two more kings of the chess board, and we're not even talking about GM Anish...
Thus far the Tal Memorial has been a thrilling antidote to some of the more peaceful events of 2016. Unfortunately, the high bar of four decisive games in both rounds five and six could not be maintained. Whereas we dubbed the sixth round "ex...
GM Alexei Shirov has gone from "Fire on Board" to "Smoldering on Board" at the Chess.com Isle of Man International. Despite the lower temperatures, the veteran still can't be stopped, but his games have taken on a more subdued tone than his p...
After an amazing sixth round, the storm calmed in Moscow as all five games at the Tal Memorial ended in draws. The night before, Anish Giri became a father. Giri was the last player to sign up for the super-tournament co...
How does a tournament go from 16 perfect scores down to just two in one day? You can thank some tenacious and resourceful defense from a few underdogs, the top-seeded 1.5 defeating the low-seeded 2.0, and one GM even taking the day off! ...
GM Judit Polgar may have retired from competitive chess, but that doesn't mean she has lost her love of the game. Polgar is still heavily involved in chess and this Saturday (October 8) she will host the Global Chess Festival. The Global Ch...
Yesterday the ladies played on the top three boards. Today in round two, they scored. Instead of three females as underdogs on boards 1-3 of the Chess.com Isle of Man International, today three Indians took their place. One was also a female, ...
In a spectacular sixth round in the Tal Memorial, four games were won by the player with the white pieces. Tournament leader Anish Giri lost without much of a fight to Levon Aronian, giving Ian Nepomniachtchi the chance to take over...
Here's a surprising stat: The Chess.com Isle of Man International began with as many top-10 players (three) as the Tal Memorial did. There are 25 GMs who've cleared 2600, prompting tournament organizer Alan Ormsby to say that the tourn...
In the only decisive game of the day, Viswanathan Anand defeated Boris Gelfand in an excellent positional game. Without doubt, Gelfand's opponents and tormentors (Mamedyarov, Giri, Li Chao, and now Anand) have played sterling chess, but tal...
Anish Giri has been on a tear in the Tal Memorial. Today he won his third game in a row (against Peter Svidler) to move to 3.5/4 and hop into clear first. As a bonus, he re-entered the top 10 after a fairly lackluster 2016. Giri hasn't won a sup...
