The full pairings of the London Chess Classic have been published. The tournament, the last in this year's Grand Chess Tour, starts this Friday. The seventh London Chess Classic starts this Friday in, as always, Olympia. The event and conference...
Harika Dronavalli won the first FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship. The final was held last Thursday with all participants together in Rome playing on laptops. FIDE's online championship for women started with eight qualifier (Swiss) tou...
Magnus Carlsen thinks he would beat Mikhail Tal (“pretty easily”) and Bobby Fischer too, but the latter “would be more difficult.” It's one of several great quotes in an interview published by The Telegraph. ...
2015 has seen quite a few spectacular games, and this week another one was played. Again, Denis Khismatullin was involved. The game was played at the Governor's Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, the capital of the Yugra region. Besides Moscow it is a majo...
On Wednesday, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The FIDE president was specifically mentioned as part of a group “providing support to the government of Syria, including for facilitating Syrian go...
Nijat Abasov won the Cultural Village tournament in Wijk aan Zee on Wednesday. In doing so the 20-year-old grandmaster from Azerbaijan qualified for the Tata Steel Challengers. The 20th Cultural Village tournament took place November&n...
Levon Aronian is the right choice as the wildcard for the 2016 Candidates’ Tournament according to the Chess.com members. After almost 4,800 votes of our current poll, 52 percent voted for the Armenian number one. Last month it was announc...
Leading from start to finish, Russia won gold in both the Open and Women sections at the European Team Championship. Four draws against Hungary was enough for the Russian men on the last day; the ladies finished in style with a 3-1 win agai...
Russia is almost certain of double gold at the European Team Championship, but it's too early to celebrate. Especially the first tiebreak rule (after match points, that is) is so complicated that predictions are hard to make. In the Open se...
In both the open and women's sections, Russia is dominating the European Team Championship. Magnus Carlsen scored 1.5/2 in rounds six and seven. At the Olympiads it is, mysteriously, not working for the Russian men's team since 2002, b...
Magnus Carlsen's rating dropped to a four-year low after he blundered a piece against Yannick Pelletier at the European Team Championship, where Russia leads in both the Open and Women's sections. Is Magnus Carlsen's dominance in the c...
Sometimes, a winner needs to ramp up his thoughts. GM Fabiano Caruana to Chess.com on winning the Showdown in St. Louis? First: "I didn't consider myself a huge underdog." Later: "I played above my expectations...I think I probably surprised&n...
Magnus Carlsen entered the Norwegian team in the third round of the European Team Championship, but lost his game to Levon Aronian. Russia and Ukraine are tied for first place with three victories each. The wonderful team championship under way i...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Fabiano Caruana agreed that Saturday's four-game rapid series would be the most evenly matched of the disciplines in their weekend match in St. Louis. Today, Caruana told Chess.com with a smile that his results wer...
On a very sad day for their country, France defeated Armenia in round two of the European Team Championship, which took off on Friday in Reykjavik, Iceland. The world is in shock about what happened in Paris on Friday night, and that includes th...
They call it "random," but GM Hikaru Nakamura's and GM Hou Yifan's pieces were quite coordinated Friday at the Showdown in St. Louis. Both players took leads in their matches, especially impressive for Hou Yifan as she began the day on a 0-2 defic...
Bobby Fischer's chair became an unwitting star in his world championship match with Boris Spassky, but today in St. Louis, the chair was important! The opening afternoon of Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana's "Showdown in St. Louis" -- a circu...
GM Alexander Morozevich emerged victorious on tiebreaks (more games played with Black) ahead of a competitive field at the 20th annual Barcelona Masters. GM Axel Bachmann finished second on tiebreaks and won his individual encounter with Morozevic...
Last month had a varied collection of chess stories from all over the literal and figurative map. As is typical on these pages, "Karlsson" kept on winning -- read on to see how that happened. Also in the news -- a chess teacher stopped an attack...
No banal introduction needed for Death Match 34, this one sells itself. GM Hikaru Nakamura, the self-proclaimed best bullet player in the world, will face off against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who was a whisker away from winning this year's Wor...
Magnus Carlsen will be among the players at the European Team Championship, which will start 13 November in Reykjavik, Iceland. With players like Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk, Levon Aronian, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Dmitry Jakovenko...
Moscow will be the location for the 2016 Candidates’ Tournament, with Levon Aronian as the wildcard participant. This has been announced by Agon and the World Chess Federation. The Candidates’ Tourn...
Staff Note: The next Titled Tuesday is December 1st! Chess.com's second Titled Tuesday double header was a competitive affair. In both the early and late tournament, no single player was able to to pull clear of the field, and multiple new fac...
When it comes to titled players on Chess.com, one man has climbed Mt. Everest. GM Rogelio Antonio Jr., 53, better known as "gmjoey1," has now played more than 100,000 games over six years. Chess.com/live is likely his browser's homepage by now! ...
