Wesley So defeated Anish Giri in the eighth round of the Bilbao Masters and in doing so he pushed the Dutch GM to last place. Wei-Nakamura and Karjakin-Carlsen were drawn; the world champion missed a good chance (the unnatural looking 15...
Jeffery Xiong holds the title of highest rated player in the world under the age of 16. This weekend he added another achievement to his already impressive résumé: U.S. Junior Champion. Photos courtesy of Austin Full...
All three games in round seven ended in draws at the Bilbao Masters. Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So, who allowed their heart rate and energy use to be measured during play, were the first to split the point. Today's seventh round w...
In the never-ending saga of Man vs Machine, GM Sergey Erenburg became the first grandmaster to return for a rematch against Komodo when he tackled the beast in a match of two-pawn odds on June 16-17. Erenburg's willingness to cont...
“I hallucinated,” was how Anish Giri explained his big error (32...Ke6) today at the Bilbao Masters. He lost a drawn position to Wei Yi, who is now back to 50 percent. Nakamura-Carlsen and So-Karjakin were drawn. Though Monday w...
Like GM Sergey Karjakin last year, the Chinese delegation will be happy to see GM Ian Nepomniachtchi leave the country. The Russian grandmaster broke out to a lead in the first half of the Hainan Danzhou Classic by beating a trio of host play...
Yesterday, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave secured first place in Dortmund's Sparkassen Chess Meeting. With a draw in the final round today, he solidified a 12.8 rating point gain, locked in a post-tournament rating of 2810.8, and secured his&nbs...
The fifth round of the Bilbao Masters in Bilbao saw three draws. Magnus Carlsen was better in the endgame, but he still hasn't managed to beat Anish Giri in any of their 15 classical games, ever since Giri won their first encou...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave continued to look nigh untouchable in round six of Dortmund's Sparkassen Chess Meeting. Victory against Ruslan Ponomariov puts him at 5.0/6 and secures first place with a round to go. Clinching ...
For the third day in a row, Magnus Carlsen was the only winner at the Bilbao Masters in Bilbao. With a quick win versus Wesley So against the Berlin Defense, he increased his lead to three points. “I stil...
After a day of rest which sadly included yet another attack on his home country's soil, French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave managed to re-funnel his mental energy into a win against GM Evgeniy Najer. He also doubled his lead to a full point (4.0/5) i...
He lost the first round, but after winning two games in a row, Magnus Carlsen is suddenly in clear first place at the Bilbao Masters in Bilbao. Today the world champion defeated Sergey Karjakin with a kingside attack that ...
Magnus Carlsen had a good sleep, recovered well from his first-round loss and today defeated Wei Yi. The world champion is now in clear second place behind Hikaru Nakamura thanks to the “football” score system at the Bilbao Master...
Why not take a selfie with grandma? GM Harika Dronavalli broke out with early wins to take the lead at the FIDE Women's Grand Prix event in Chengdu, China. She then cruised with four draws late to tie for first and claim her first career...
In a first place versus last place matchup in Dortmund's round four, newly-minted 2800 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave didn't need a security blanket against last-place GM Rainer Buhmann. The German number three's last name means "Bogeyman," a myth...
The spell has been broken. Today, Hikaru Nakamura finally managed to beat Magnus Carlsen in a classical game, at the Bilbao Masters. As the other two games were drawn, Nakamura leads the tournament. For the ninth time, Bilbao is h...
Vladimir Kramnik played an amazing game that got the fans on the edge of their seats, but eventually he drew his game with Rainer Buhmann. The day's victors at the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund were Fabiano Caruana ...
Ian Nepomniachtchi is doing very well at the “Super Grandmaster Tournament” in Danzhou in the Hainan province of China. The Russian grandmaster has scored 4.0/5 and is a point ahead of the pack. To refresh your memory, it was just la...
Starting this Wednesday, Magnus Carlsen will be back at the chessboard in Bilbao, Spain where he will face five tough rivals: Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Sergey Karjakin and Wei Yi. After two quiet weeks, there's plenty of ...
Ruslan Ponomariov showed top-class endgame technique in his game with Evgeniy Najer to win a two pawn versus one pawn rook endgame. Ponomariov's victory enabled him to join Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the lead at the Sparkassen C...
The Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund started with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beating Fabiano Caruana in what could be one of the key games of the tournament. Evgeny Najer won against Rainer Buhmann. All photos courtesy of Dagobert Kohlmeyer...
Tomorrow, the Sparkassen Chess Meeting starts in Dortmund with Vladimir Kramnik as the top seed. Nicknamed “Mr Dortmund,” the Russian GM hopes to clinch his 11th title in the chess-minded German city. The 44th Sparkassen Ch...
GM Gabor Papp won the World Open in Philadelphia after beating GM Victor Bologan of Moldavia in an Armageddon playoff. Photo courtesy Paul Truong. The 44th World Open traditionally takes place over the Fourth of July holiday wee...
In a rough and tumble, jam-packed Titled Tuesday, GM Eltaj Safarli emerged atop the field twice, in both the early and late event. This impressive achievement would have impressed more had IM Minh Tran not done the same last month. Saf...
