After a few days of dipping their toes in the shallow end of the pool, today the top teams had to cannonball into GM-laden waters. Four grandmaster vs. four grandmaster tables were the norm on the stage in round three of the 42nd Chess Olympiad&nb...
At the 42nd Chess Olympiad, 38 teams have started with two victories in the open section. In the second round, the world's top four made their debut in Baku: Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana and Vladimir Kramnik. ...
Despite the top four rated players in the world sitting out the first round, the 42nd Chess Olympiad took off today in Baku, Azerbaijan. While hardly any upsets took place in the first round, strict security regulations dominated the atmosphere. ...
The 42nd Chess Olympiad was officially opened Thursday night at the National Gymnastics Arena in Baku, Azerbaijan. Among other dignitaries, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev attended the festivities. This is the first time this city or nation ha...
PhosAgro, a giant Russian producer of fertilizer products, is the first named sponsor for the world championship match in November between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin. Agon, the company that holds the commercial rights to organize events ...
GM Dmitry Andreikin won a strong open tournament in Abu Dhabi as the only player to finish on 7.5/9. The Russian grandmaster earned U.S. $13,000 (€11,638). Held for the 23rd time, the International Chess Festival in Abu Dhabi took...
We're only two days away from the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan. The opening ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, September 1; the first round will be played on Friday. About 3,000 players and officials will b...
Besides GM Anish Giri, there's a new and bright Dutch chess star: GM Jorden van Foreest. The eldest in a big chess family won his first Dutch Championship on Sunday. Shortly before the UEFA Euro 1992 football champi...
If there was still any doubt left about Magnus Carlsen's participation, that ends now. It is Michael Adams who got the wild card for the London Chess Classic in December. All ten names for the London Chess Classic are known,...
The financial accounts for 2015 show an alarming decrease of the World Chess Federation's assets. An extensive reform of FIDE's internal structure seems inevitable to guarantee a healthy continuity. As part of the agenda for the upcoming General...
The U.S. Chess League is coming back to Chess.com, but it will have a new name and different format. In January, the site will play host to a brand new form of organized chess competition: The PRO Chess League. The Professional Ra...
For those expecting GM Hikaru Nakamura to beat GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave by dominating the bullet segment, you were half right. He won, but it was over by the time they reached the one-minute. THE CARLSEN-NAKAMURA FINAL WILL BE PLAYED 27 OC...
Despite a choppy start, World Champion Magnus Carlsen convincingly conquered the reigning World Blitz Champion Alexander Grischuk in a masterpiece of a Blitz Battle. Carlsen now advances to the GM Blitz Battle Championship final, and wil...
For the first time in 19 years, a player from the United States has come in first place at the World Junior U20 Championship. Today, GM Jeffery Xiong, age 15, won the tournament with a round to spare. Jeffery Xiong is becoming a v...
Earlier this month GM Kacper Piorun won his 4th World Solving Championship in Belgrade, Serbia. The problems he had to solve were pretty tough, but you can give it a try! Solving chess problems or studies can be a lot of fun....
The Chess.com Isle of Man International Masters is shaping up to become one of the strongest open tournaments of the year. This week, the top two American GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura have signed up. Caruana and Nakamur...
In two weeks from now the Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan starts. Who is playing? Who are the favorites? Which top GMs are missing? It's the next big event in the chess calendar, and it's the biggest of all. Whereas the Olympic...
If self-deprecating humor was in the Olympics, the Sinquefields would have joint golds. Saint Louis Chess Club Founder Rex Sinquefield and son Randy Sinquefield (owner of the video production house Spectrum Studios that runs the live shows)...
With Dortmund, Bilbao, Biel and the Sinquefield Cup all lined up back-to-back-to-back-to-back, you might mistakenly believe that late July and early August couldn't offer up any more chess stories. Along comes our "In Other News" column to&...
Wesley So had all the answers as Black in a Berlin Defense against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. After 47 moves, the players didn't even need to agree a draw. The result was automatic, as there was no material left to mate. The ...
GM Levon Aronian won a critical two-pawn-up endgame against an ill GM Hikaru Nakamura to move into shared second place with one round to go in the Sinquefield Cup. Aronian, GM Viswanathan Anand and GM Veselin Topalov are all at 4.5/8 jus...
Today served as a brutal yet soporific reminder that a well played game of chess is ultimately a draw. By far the most interesting game of the round was GM Fabiano Caruana vs GM Ding Liren. Caruana tried every trick at his disposal for j...
GM Wesley So emerged the winner of an unbalanced, back-and-forth struggle with tournament leader GM Veselin Topalov in round six of the Sinquefield Cup. So's victory allowed him to swap places with Topalov and take the clear lead with three r...
GM Sam Shankland finished in clear first place at the masters tournament of the Biel Chess Festival. The American grandmaster's rating will rise to 2679, the highest in his career. It's been more than a week, but the Sinquefield Cup absorbe...
