Winning an open is not easy for a top grandmaster. Winning it twice in a row is quite an achievement. GM Hikaru Nakamura repeated his success at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival on Thursday after beating GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in a...
GM Georg Meier once again topped a Titled Tuesday tournament with a convincing 8.0/9 score in the early event. This was Meier's sixth victory — easily the record. The second place title holders are GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Baadur ...
The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival will see an exciting — and probably long — final day. With eight(!) players tied for first place, a playoff is very likely. Photo: Sophie Triay. It reminds a bit of the situation at the 2003 U...
The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival has seen more wonderful side events, such as the traditional Battle of the Sexes. It is however turning into a nightmare tournament for Vishy Anand, who lost is second game and drops 20.5 Elo points in the li...
Magnus Carlsen won the Tata Steel Masters today, for the fifth time. He drew his game with Ding Liren, whereas Fabiano Caruana finished his tournament with a loss to Evgeny Tomashevsky. Baskaran Adhiban edged out Alexey Dreev and...
A day after Vishy Anand gave a wonderful masterclass, which included a brilliant game as well as a detailed description of his meeting with Bobby Fischer, he lost his game in Gibraltar. It's one of those special features in Gibraltar that m...
The Tata Steel Masters tournament is not decided yet. Fabiano Caruana defeated Loek van Wely in the penultimate round and now just half a point behind Magnus Carlsen again. It is a long tradition in Wijk aan Zee: Loek van Wely playing a sha...
World Champion Magnus Carlsen is determined to build on his fantastic results in the month of December, which included wins in the London Chess Classic and Qatar Masters. The new year has been treating him well thus far. After ...
The seven-time Romanian champion, woman grandmaster, international arbiter, organizer, author, journalist and TV and radio host Elisabeta Polihroniade died on Saturday at the age of 80. It's quite a list of ”jobs&l...
One of the most exciting aspects of an open tournament is the upsets. Everyone loves an underdog story, and opens are filled with them! While most of the favorites continued smoothly in round two at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, a few ...
With three rounds to go, the race for first in the 2016 Tata Steel Masters appears to be a two Car (get it?) race. Yesterday, World Champion Magnus Carlsen won and extended his lead to a full point. Today, it was GM Fabiano Caruana's turn t...
On Tuesday, Magnus Carlsen increased his lead to a full point at the Tata Steel Masters. Two thousand kilometers southwest of Wijk aan Zee, Vishy Anand started with a draw in Gibraltar. The Tata Steel masters is starting to look like a typi...
The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival takes off today in the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar. The top seeds are Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Viswanathan Anand. The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival was the Association of Che...
The metaphorical chess universe has been more geographically spread than the actual universe of late. With stories from Africa, Europe, Siberia, and the mainstream Olympics, here's our monthly look of chess mentions we didn't cover yet. As alway...
David Navara stole the show on Sunday at the Tata Steel Masters with a study-like win over Fabiano Caruana. As a result, Magnus Carlsen's draw with Sergey Karjakin was enough to grab sole lead before the second rest day. He had sh...
Magnus Carlsen is on a roll at the Tata Steel Masters. Saturday he beat Pavel Eljanov and scored his third consecutive win. The world champ still shares the lead with Fabiano Caruana who beat Ding Liren. As long as there's fo...
After a surprisingly quick win against Evgeny Tomashevsky, Magnus Carlsen can be found at the top of the leaderboard at the Tata Steel Masters. The world champion caught Ding Liren and Fabiano Caruana in first place. Confirming hi...
In round five of the Tata Steel Masters, Ding Liren joined Fabiano Caruana in first place. The Chinese GM won an excellent technical game against Sergey Karjakin, whereas Caruana was held to a draw by Hou Yifan. Like the last two ...
The ever popular chess-streaming trio, the ChessBrahs, will host a 24-hour stream on Chess.com, January 29-30. Streaming will commence at 6 a.m. PST January 29 and finish 24 hours later on January 30. All the action will be live at&nbs...
It was the second Houdini act in a row for Anish Giri, said GM Lars Bo Hansen: Giri's opponent, Fabiano Caruana, missed a clear win in a rook ending, but kept his half-point lead in the Tata Steel Masters. The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is...
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He was worse, but the game turned around completely. Fabiano Caruana beat Michael Adams in round 3 of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament and is now in sole first place. The third round in Wijk aan Zee started with a bang — literally...
After a peaceful outing in the Tata Steel Master's group, today's real action proved to be in the Challenger's group as five of the seven games were decisive with plenty of daring and sacrificial play evinced from both the winning and losing playe...
Upon sitting down to discuss his victory over Anish Giri with official commentator GM Yasser Seirawan, Wesley So immediately gave props to the American legend, proclaiming "I read your book, and you beat Mikhail Tal with the English, very ins...
