GM Hikaru Nakamura won his second Death Match in convincing fashion — besting GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave by a score of 17.5-10.5. Nakamura's victory was achieved in large part thanks to his incredible pre-eminence at the faster ti...
It's not quite "Groundhog Day" yet in Doha, but we're getting closer. Today followed yesterday's opening script to some degree. Another underdog drew as Black on board one, although this time around the degree of upset was much more minor. Out o...
About 250 rating points and 2,500 days ago, World Champion Magnus Carlsen played in his last open tournament. The risk to top players is often their rating, and in the opening round of the 2015 Qatar Masters Open, the Georgian women's champion pro...
After Peter Doggers's preview of the players and schedule at the second Qatar Masters Open, here's a look at the setting of one of the strongest opens in chess history. The wealth of Qatar is strikingly new, so some readers may be una...
On Sunday the first round of the Qatar Masters will be played in the Aspire Zone in Doha. The top seeds are the top three in the live ratings: Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik and Anish Giri. Usually the year is kind of over for top chess after ...
What happens when an efficiency expert and a driven chess player meet? What periodical went three decades in between a certain chess reference? November was a massive month of "secondary" chess news. How big? There was so much quantity that we n...
Benjamin Bok scored his career best performance at the FIDE Open in London, where he won with 8.0/9. Luke McShane won the Super Rapidplay Open tournament with an even higher score: 9.5/10. The London Chess Classic was more than just an elite tou...
After beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in a rapid playoff, Magnus Carlsen won the seventh London Chess Classic and the inaugural Grand Chess Tour. A long day at the office it was, in Kensington Olympia, London. The London Ches...
It was “a little angry pussycat versus a wounded lion,” said Anish Giri after beating Hikaru Nakamura today. The Dutch GM joined Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the lead at the London Chess Classic with one round to go. &ld...
A most spectacular seventh round at the London Chess Classic saw three decisive games. With two rounds to go Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is the sole leader. The French GM defeated Viswanathan Anand on the Indian's birthday, finishing h...
GM Vasily Ivanchuk won the ACP Masters rapid tournament in Ashdod, Israel with a convincing final tally of five wins and five draws. The tournament, which took place from December 7 - 10, featured a unique format combining round robin and kno...
In what is becoming a roller-coaster tournament for Viswanathan Anand, the Indian lost to Alexander Grischuk on Thursday. The Russian GM joined the leaders on 3.5/6 at the London Chess Classic. This report is about opening th...
All participants of both the masters and the challengers groups of the 2016 Tata Steel Chess Tournament have been announced. Since early November we have known that Magnus Carlsen is going to defend his title at the 2016 Tata Steel Che...
Viswanathan Anand bounced back from his round-four loss and defeated Veselin Topalov the next day at the London Chess Classic. The Indian GM won a knight-vs-bad-bishop-endgame after more than six hours of play. “Not sure I've eve...
With again only one decisive game in round four, the London Chess Classic now has three leaders: Anish Giri, Hikaru Nakamura and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. On Monday, Nakamura improved his score against Viswanathan Anand to 6-1. Nakamura ...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave joined Anish Giri in the lead as the only winner in round three of the London Chess Classic. MVL defeated Veselin Topalov using Bobby Fischer's 6.h3 against the Najdorf. It's always interesting when two specialists ba...
Following a unanimous decision by the FIDE Presidential Board Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has stepped down temporarily as FIDE President today. For the moment FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos is the acting president. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is ...
Anish Giri drew very quickly with Michael Adams but at the end of the day he maintained his lead at the London Chess Classic as all five games in the second round ended in a draw. If nine draws out of ten games is a sign that no p...
Anish Giri grabbed an early lead at the London Chess Classic as the only winner of the first round. The Dutch star tricked Veselin Topalov, but a tremendous trick it was. The Grand Chess Tour resumed on Friday with the first rou...
It was chess on primetime national television for the U.K. last night. Magnus Carlsen appeared in BBC's The One Show, albeit very briefly. The One Show, a half-hour program on BBC One on weekdays, discusses a wide variety of topics. A short...
It was a great day for the favorites on Titled Tuesday as GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave topped the early event, and GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Maxim Dlugy shared victory in the late event. There were 54 GM entries and 217 total entries between both the e...
He substituted for Nigel Short, knocked out Luke McShane and is now in the final of the British Knockout Championship: Nick Pert. His opponent is David Howell, who eliminated Gawain Jones in the semis. Nick Pert (34) has been stea...
Wei Yi and Tan Zhongyi emerged victorious at the first Kings and Queens Tournament held in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China from November 24th through the 30th. The event consisted of two eight-player knockout tournaments with eight men and ei...
I slew a dragon. Well, I split a four-game, material-odds match with one -- does that still count? And by dragon, I mean Komodo, the world's strongest chess engine. That's not a made-up title either; Komodo 9.3x just demolished Stockfish in the ...
