GM Ernesto Inarkiev won first place at the European Individual Chess Championships with 9.0/11. He finished a half point ahead of his nearest rival, GM Igor Kovalenko, while moving to 27th in the world rankings thanks to a performan...
Now 49 years old, Julio Granda Zuniga doesn't cease to amaze the chess world. After winning the Llucmajor open with 8.5/9, his virtual rating climbed to 2699, the highest in his career. Julio Granda was a phenomenon in 1990s, and he still is. A ...
After the rest day on Wednesday Rounds 7 and 8 were filled with decisive victories on the top boards at the 17th Individual European Championship in Gjakova, Kosovo. Emerging through the fire was GM Ernesto Inarkiev, who managed to score back-to-...
Winning a tournament isn't such a bad way to celebrate your birthday. On the day Eltaj Safarli turned 24, he won the Nakhchivan Open on better tiebreak after sharing first with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Not everyone has good memories about pl...
Ivan Saric is the sole leader at the European Championship in Gjakova, Kosovo. The Croatian number-one grandmaster is the only player on 5.5/6 and he's ahead of a group of five players on five points. Wednesday is a rest day in Gjakova and ...
The BPB Limburg Open, now the biggest open tournament in Europe during the Pentecost weekend, was won by second seed Axel Bachmann. The Paraguayan grandmaster scored 6.0/7 and finished ahead of five players on 5.5 points. It was alread...
Three players have started the European Championship in Gjakova, Kosovo by winning their first four games: Baadur Jobava (Georgia), Ernesto Inarkiev (Russia), and Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Poland). The 17th European Individual Championship is tak...
Magnus Carlsen tops the list of participants in next month's Grand Chess Tour tournaments in Paris (France) and Leuven (Belgium). Details on these events have been published. After Norway Chess had left the party the Grand Ch...
Chess and chess players have been venturing into the news all around the world this month. From Armenia to Alabama, chess and chess players continue to engage in mischief, mayhem, and the occasional game of quality chess. Photo: Clapag...
The first official trailer has been released of Queen of Katwe, Disney's version of Tim Crothers' book, which was based on a true story: Phiona Mutesi's rise from the slums of Kampala, Uganda to her first trip on an airplane —...
“The Bronze Horsemen” from St. Petersburg took clear first place at the Russian Team Championship in Sochi. In the same city, Sergey Karjakin met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who opened an educative center for talen...
Chess.com's third quarterfinal match in the Grandmaster Blitz Battle Championship (details here) featured the biggest comeback so far in the competition as Maxime Vachier-Lagrave overcame a three-game deficit to topple wor...
In a short, friendly match held in Shanghai, Ding Liren defeated Wesley So with a 2.5-1.5 score. The Chinese number-one player won one game; the other three ended in draws. Right after coming third at the U.S. Championship and second in the...
Dmitry Andreikin won the first Hasselbacken Open in Stockholm on Sunday. Russia's fifth grandmaster edged out Baskaran Adhiban of India after both had finished on 7.5/9. Main image: Andreikin with his wife and daughter. | Photo L...
The Hasselbacken Open in Stockholm has seen some truly spectacular chess, and twice with Alexei “Fire on Board” Shirov involved. There's a five-way tie for first place with two rounds to go. A very special and ver...
After five rounds Moscow's SHSM Legacy Square Capital, led by Ian Nepomniachtchi, tops the standings at the Russian Team Championship in Sochi, where Vladimir Kramnik moved to 2809.6 in the live ratings. The Russian Team Championships are c...
The second of Chess.com's GM Blitz Battle quarterfinals on Wednesday produced the expected overall and ratings result, but after the first 2.5 hours, not much was certain. For the 31,000+ unique viewers watching across six language broadcasts...
The May Titled Tuesday was a colossal affair that tallied 269 entries and a whopping 72 GM entries in the early and late events. The event featured a doubled prize fund of $4,000 to make up for technical difficulties that wayla...
Valentina Gunina convincingly won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Batumi, Georgia. The Russian player secured victory with a round to spare and finished on 7.5/11, a full point more than her compatriot Alexandra Kosteniuk. All photos courtesy of ...
Chess news is flowing in from all corners of the world as chess ventures to the big screen, to Greenland and on to Silicon Valley before concluding with a thrilling low-budget action sequence in Ukraine! Magnus and The Dark Horse&...
The impossible turned out to be possible. For the first time in a decade Baden Baden did not win the German league a.k.a. Schachbundesliga. This season the team from Solingen emerged as the winner. Photo: Guido Giotta courtesy of Schac...
In celebration of the theatrical release of "The Man Who Knew Infinity", Chess.com is proud to host a special blitz event with GM Maxim Dlugy. Dlugy will be taking on all comers at 3 0 blitz from 7-8:30 pm PDT on Tuesday, May 3rd. All victors wi...
After a shaky first day, top seed GM Hikaru Nakamura, dug deep in his back pocket and found his form in day two of the Ultimate Blitz Challenge. Scoring 6.0/9, Nakamura finished a clear point ahead of the field and further cemented his r...
He failed in the first three editions, but Magnus Carlsen finally managed to please the local fans in Stavanger. As the only winner on the last day, the world champion clinched his first Altibox Norway Chess title by beating Pavel E...
