The Chess Western Province of South Africa organized the South African Juniors Chess Championship under the auspices of The South African Chess Federation. The tournament was held at the University of Cape Town Hall in the Western Province of Sout...
Much like the Viswanathan Anand-Magnus Carlsen 2013 championship match, the 2016 Women’s World Championship features a world champion competing on home soil against a challenger whom everyone expects to win. Photos courtesy of FIDE. ...
The Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, the concrete jungle where dreams are made of. The 2016 World Championship will be held in New York City, as was announced today by Agon. Long-held rumors that the next world title match will...
Nakamura. Vachier-Lagrave. Grischuk. Aronian. Caruana. $40,000 in prizes. Blitz. Bullet. What could make Chess.com's Grandmaster Blitz Battle Championship better? We offered the final open slot to World Champion Magnus Carlsen, and...
Three chess legends will join the elite list of players inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. On April 13, GM David Bronstein, Howard Staunton, and WIM Sonja Graf-Stevenson will have their names added to the 24 others already enshr...
For the second installment of "In Other News," we take a small liberty. Usually these stories only go back a few weeks, but in the case of one presidential candidate and his chess-playing exploits, below you'll find a story from 2014. You'...
The final rounds in the Tehran FIDE Women's Grand Prix featured a war of attrition as upsets flipped the leaderboard in every round. Emerging from the rubble was GM Ju Wenjun, whose consistent play brought victory. Ju fi...
In my recent blog I mentioned that I'd be playing four (!) consecutive open tournaments in Europe, starting with the ultra-strong Gibraltar Chess Festival toward the end of January. After a week's rest in Paris, my next tournament was the 32n...
More than 100 years ago a newspaper birthed the Tour de France, and now another venerable European periodical has brought us the largest Magnus Carlsen simul in years. "Die Zeit," the esteemed German weekly, celebrated its 70th anniversary ...
This edition of "In Other News" is surely the first to feature references to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," Stephen Hawking, and quantum physics, and that's all just the first item! It is our second consecutive month where playing chess i...
Chess.com asked Maret Thorpe, Chicago-area resident, to remember International Arbiter and International Organizer Sevan Muradian. Photo: Andi Rosen Sevan Muradian, a prolific chess organizer who worked tirelessly to promote FIDE-rated...
After several years of shifting formats, the U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship have settled in to a consistent scheme, but that doesn't mean the fields are static. The new normal — smaller numbers competing in a round robin &md...
The recently-concluded 2016 Zurich Chess Challenge was notable for it's experimental time control of 40+10. The idea was largely birthed by tournament's sponsor, Oleg Skvortsov and Zurich Chess Club President Christen Issler. GM Hikaru Nakamura wo...
GM Nana Dzagnidze and WGM Natalija Pogonina have taken the lead in the hotly contested FIDE Women's Grand Prix held in Tehran, Iran. Each has scored an undefeated four wins and three draws and sits at 5.5/7 with a narrow half-point lead ove...
UPDATE: Blitz Death Match 28 will air ONLY on twitch.tv/chess - due to Reykjavik Open coverage found exclusively on Chess.com/TV. Go to Twitch and subscribe now to get alerts when our twitch.tv/chess shows go live! GM Francisco Vallejo...
If you missed the 2015 Zurich Chess Challenge, that's OK, the 2016 edition had pretty much the same finish. GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Viswanathan Anand tied, again, this time in both rapid and blitz, but unlike 2015 there was no Armageddon playo...
With an up-and-down afternoon effort but a more convincing game in the evening, GM Viswanathan Anand's two draws on the second day of the Zurich Chess Challenge were enough to hold off his five challengers. Now only one day of competitive c...
Is it possible to play better chess at faster time controls in worse weather against stronger opponents? The life of GM Viswanathan Anand over the last month poses that exact question. After a massively underwhelming performance in Gibraltar aga...
There's two speeds to the Fifth Annual Zurich Chess Challenge: fast and faster. Actually, the event will be faster, fast, faster -- two blitz events bookend the main event, which will not quite be classical either. GM Hikaru Nakamura, fresh off ...
The 2016 Grand Chess Tour, in only its second season, looked to be losing steam with the news last month that Norway Chess would be leaving. Instead, the tour announced today that it is doubling its contests and keeping its $1 million+ prize fund....
In only three years of existence, Altibox Norway Chess has become one of the premier super-tournaments in chess. The hearty support of the world champion, Magnus Carlsen, has aided the tournament in bringing in a strong cast of competitors each ye...
GM Ruslan Ponomariov and GM Francisco Vallejo Pons will do battle in Chess.com's Death Match 37. You can watch the match live at 9 a.m. PST on March 14 on Chess.com/tv and http://www.twitch.tv/chess. Due to positive feedback from the "open mike ...
This year's Moscow Open was surprisingly won by the young grandmaster Urii Eliseev, whose loss in round seven was spectacular. Photo courtesy of the Moscow Open. The famous Aeroflot Open was revived last year, but without hiatus the Mosco...
For several months we've known which eight players will vie for the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen's world title. Now we know much more about the 2016 Candidates' Tournament. Moscow was already the announced city, and the Armenian corporate b...
