IM Ruifeng Li of Texas and GM Daniel Fridman of Germany tied for first with 5.0/6 at the 2016 National Open in Las Vegas. The 15-year-old, Li, won the Edmondson Cup on tiebreak. The National Open took place as part of the Int...
For the second year in a row, Alexander Areshchenko won the Porticcio Open in Corsica, France. The Ukrainian grandmaster edged out six players who also scored 7.0/9. All photos courtesy Corse-Echecs. Say “chess in Corsica&rdquo...
Grigoriy Oparin won the Higher League of the Russian Championship, held in Kolomna, Russia. Together with Vladimir Fedoseev, Dmitry Kokarev, Alexander Riazantsev, and Aleksey Goganov he qualified for the Superfinal. Photos Eteri Kublas...
In the July FIDE ratings, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is the new #4 player in the world. That's the highest place he has achieved so far. Meanwhile, the blitz ratings have a surprising new #1. Now that a lots of top events are behind us, an...
The unique Amsterdam Pub Crawl Tournament, where duos play each round in a different cafe, was organized for the 25th time this Sunday. It's the last Sunday in June. We are on a terrace, somewhere in Amsterdam, and the weathe...
The dates for the Grandmaster Blitz Battle Championship's semifinals are set. Magnus Carlsen vs Alexander Grischuk will be played on August 18 (update: this one has moved to 23 August) and Hikaru Nakamura vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave w...
You asked for it, and Chess.com delivered! Followers of the Man Vs. Machine matches between Komodo and human grandmasters have long been asking for a match based on time odds. So be it. GM Sergey Erenburg waged battle against the world's top chess...
Surya Ganguly of India achieved "a Caruana” at the Edmonton International in Edmonton, Canada, but it was U.S. grandmaster, Sam Shankland, who emerged as the winner on tiebreak. Photo courtesy Alberta Chess Association. &l...
Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin, the two rivals in this year's world championship match, will play their first games since Karjakin became Carlsen's challenger in next month's tournament in Bilbao, Spain. The Masters Final w...
In a performance that silenced all doubters (if any existed), Magnus Carlsen scored a mountain of unanswered points to win his quarterfinal Blitz Battle match against Tigran Petrosian 21 to 4. Lest anyone think that Petrosian was not a...
Farrukh Amonatov of Tajikistan won the Eurasian Blitz Cup in Almaty, Kazakhstan last weekend. To do so he topped Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin, Boris Gelfand, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Baadur Jobava, and all the other...
Cuba is for Vassily Ivanchuk what León, Spain is for Viswanathan Anand and Dortmund, Germany is for Vladimir Kramnik. Ivanchuk feels at home in Cuba where he won the Capablanca Memorial for the seventh time. It's been ...
Magnus Carlsen won the Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour with three rounds to spare. Wesley So played good, pragmatic chess and clinched second place. Carlsen's next event? His GM Blitz Battle on Chess.com with Tigran Petrosian o...
Also after the first day of blitz (5 minutes with 2 seconds increment), Magnus Carlsen is leading the Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour. Trailing by a point, with nine rounds to go, is Wesley So. Leuven (and the rest of Belgium...
A perfect streak of four wins was enough for Magnus Carlsen to finish clear first in the rapid segment of the Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour. Wesley So finished in second place as the only undefeated player. After that crazy firs...
Viswanathan Anand leads the Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour after five rounds of rapid chess. The first day of rapid saw a number of huge blunders that made the playing hall seem haunted. The second leg of the 2016 Grand Chess Tour sta...
A trio of prominent people in American chess died recently in less than a week. Each made a unique impact on the game: organizing, computer programming, and stewarding the national organization. On June 6, former U.S. chess championship spo...
The Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour was officially opened on Thursday by the mayor of Leuven. Viswanathan Anand, who played in Leon (Spain) last weekend, has now joined the tournament and plays instead of Laurent Fressinet. The se...
Russia-China, the traditional Scheveningen-style match between the two countries, was narrowly won by the host nation this year. Every year, since 2001, China and Russia face each other in a 10-board match held in China every odd year and in Rus...
Have you ever played against a major league player? You may have, without even knowing it. St. Louis Cardinals Manager Mike Matheny plays on Chess.com, and now he can contest any one of his players in the clubhouse, too. In this month's "In Ot...
On Sunday Vishy Anand defeated Wei Yi in the final to clinch the title at the Masters Tournament in León. The Chinese GM had won the previous two editions. This year the tournament was overshadowed by the action in Paris, but not only in ...
Hikaru Nakamura won the Paris Grand Chess Tour on Sunday. The 28-year-old U.S. grandmaster secured his victory two rounds before the end. Magnus Carlsen, who beat the winner in both blitz games, finished second; Maxime Vac...
For eight rounds Hikaru Nakamura dominated the first day of blitz at the Paris Grand Chess Tour, but then he went too far and lost to Magnus Carlsen who thus kept chances of winning tomorrow. When doing an elite event, it's a...
Halfway the Paris Grand Chess Tour it's Hikaru Nakamura who's leading the pack going into the blitz segment. As the only player to remain undefeated, the U.S. grandmaster won the rapid tournament today ahead of Magnus Carlsen. We're on...
