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...
In the traditional Cez Chess Trophy match David Navara this year faced Richard Rapport. The Hungarian won a four-game match with three draws and a win in the final game. The CEZ Chess Trophy, an annual match between Czech number one David Navara...
Two big favorites, Magnus Carlsen (as the world champion) and Hikaru Nakamura (as a speed chess specialist), are tied for first place after the first of two days of rapid chess at the Paris Grand Chess Tour. With such a promising pro-am eve...
For the fifth year in a row, 30 talented American youngsters competed in the ChessKid Online National Invitational Championship (CONIC). US Chess-sanctioned national titles were at stake. While these precocious pre-teens may make you feel i...
The June Titled Tuesday saw the second largest number of winners on record as six players managed to top the field in the early and late events. The early event especially surprised as two players managed to reach a towering 8.0/9. ...
The Paris Grand Chess Tour was opened today with pro-am activities at the headquarters of sponsor Vivendi. Top GMs met with amateurs from different backgrounds and ages. Tomorrow the tournament starts with the first day of...
Taking revenge over reigning champion Bischwiller in the penultimate round, Clichy-Echecs-92 secured its 14th French Team Championship title with a round to spare. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave scored a superb 8.5/10 and is the new #4 in the live ra...
Now entering its third incarnation, big changes are afoot for the large Swiss event held each fall on the Isle of Man. Chess.com will ferry to the Irish Sea to take over from Pokerstars as the new host and sponsor of the event, along with the Sche...
In a bad year for sports legends, the chess world is not staying behind. Today Viktor Korchnoi died at the age of 85 in a hospital in Wohlen, Switzerland. Korchnoi had been ill for some time and was hospitalized last week after suffering...
S.P. Sethuraman of India emerged as the winner of the 2016 Asian Continental Chess Championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. His compatriot Kulkarni Bhakti won the women's section. Photos courtesy Uzbek Chess Federation. The 2016 As...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov has won the third Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani first beat Anish Giri in the regular round, and then won the blitz playoff against Fabiano Caruana. On a fantastic day for the ...
On Friday, Fabiano Caruana lost his first game at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. The U.S. grandmaster was beaten by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and now finds Anish Giri beside him in the leaderboard as the Dutchman drew his game...
At the age of 10 years, 10 months and 19 days, R Praggnanandhaa became the youngest IM in chess history. The Indian boy scored his third IM norm and got his rating over 2400 at the KiiT International Chess Festival in Bhub...
Fabiano Caruana kept his lead at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan after missing a (not so easy) win (35.Qf7) and drawing his game with Anish Giri in round seven. Pavel Eljanov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov were the winners today. In...
The Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan resumed after a rest day with five draws, just like the first round. Fabiano Caruana maintained his half-point lead over Anish Giri. Playing football on the rest day has grown into a tradit...
The reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen will face a grandmaster named for a former world champion in the next GM Blitz Battle on June 23. GM Tigran L. Petrosian of Armenia bested a field of 99 players Tuesday in what can be conside...
He held draws with Black against both Alexander Alekhine and Bobby Fischer. Arturo Pomar, one of the most famous sports figures in post-war Spain, died 26 May 2016 in a hospital Barcelona. Long before Lubosh Kavalek used the term for Magnus Carl...
Fabiano Caruana is blasting through the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. On Monday he beat another Azerbaijani grandmaster: Teimour Radjabov. Anish Giri kept the pace as he won his third game, against Eltaj Safarli. A ...
Fabiano Caruana won again and moved to 3.5/4 at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. Today he beat Rauf Mamedov as Black. Anish Giri however is close behind as he won his second game, against Pentala Harikrishna. It's only four rou...
Shamkir continued to provide plenty of action in round three as, like last round, three further games were decisive. The only repeat winner was Fabiano Caruana whose second victory in a row lifted him to clear first place and a live rating of...
After a placid opening round, Shamkir pushed round two into overdrive. Three of the five games were decisive as time trouble induced multiple errors. All photos courtesy of the official site. Prior to round one, Anish Giri had tweete...
With all the first-round games at the 2016 Gashimov Memorial drawn, one might conclude the dynamic chess of the late, great Azeri grandmaster was not played. However, the lack of decisive clashes was not due to a lack of f...
This edition of In Other News sees chess celebrated by professional athletes, YouTube stars, union workers, actors, and even Canadians! Join us on another tour of the major chess stories celebrated in popular media this month. St. Louis Car...
The third Gashimov Memorial is about to begin. On Thursday the first round will be played in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. Although it's not as strong as the first two editions, we can still call it a super tournament. This 10-player round robin ...
