Magnus Carlsen will defend his title at the 2016 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The 78th edition will run from January 15-31 2016 in Wijk aan Zee, Utrecht and Amsterdam. It's a big thing for super tournaments: whether Magnus Carlsen is p...
Laurent Fressinet won the 13th edition of the annual rapid tournament in Cap d'Agde, France. The French GM beat none other than Anatoly Karpov in the final. The Mediterranean seaside resort of Cap d'Agde is not a bad place at all to spend s...
Wesley So won the eighth Bilbao Masters Final after beating Anish Giri in a blitz playoff. The two had drawn their last-round game and finished on equal game points. It's over before you know it. With only four players, even a double r...
For the first time in his career Anish Giri defeated Viswanathan Anand in a classical game of chess. The Dutchman joined Wesley So in the lead at the Bilbao Masters Final. “I don't know how I did it,” said Giri. “Generally...
The third round of the Bilbao Masters Final saw two more draws. In one of them, Ding Liren saved a R vs RB endgame against Anish Giri in a game that lasted 174 moves. With two draws the standings didn't change in the third round i...
Winning one of the most spectacular games of the year, Wesley So is leading the Bilbao Masters Final after two rounds. Later than normal, because of the World Cup and other strong tournaments, the Bilbao Masters Final is under way...
Matches with GM Jan Timman vs soon-GM Jorden van Foreest and IM Sopiko Guramishvili vs WFM Anna-Maja Kazarian formed the main event, but more chess “variants” were seen in Hoogeveen last week. The Hoogeveen Town Hall | Phot...
Siberia (Russia) finished undefeated and won the European Club Cup on Saturday after playing 3-3 against Obiettivo Risarcimento in the final round. Nona (Georgia) won gold, and all its matches, in the women's section. “I feel great,&r...
On Thursday Siberia won the top encounter against SOCAR at the European Club Cup in Skopje, with Vladimir Kramnik beating Veselin Topalov on board one. The two top seeded teams in Skopje faced each other in the fifth round. Both were on eig...
The FIDE Ethics Commission has banned Garry Kasparov and Ignatius Leong for two years from holding official FIDE positions or participating in FIDE meetings. This was announced on the FIDE website. Here's the verdict of the FIDE E...
GM Hou Yifan scored an impressive 9/11 to finish two points ahead of the field in the Monaco Women's Grand Prix. Entering the event, Hou was already the clear women's world number one (2671). In Monaco, she gained an impressive 11.7 rating point...
Yet again playing with a star-studded team, defending champion SOCAR of Azerbaijan started with three wins at the European Club Cup in Skopje where Chess.com is producing the live broadcast. With 25 of the top 30 in the world playing, the Europe...
Now in her ninth year organizing a chess festival, Judit Polgar has a new mission. The rebranded "Global Chess Festival" seeks to engage five million chess players worldwide on the same day each year. She hopes to reach that threshhold within 10 y...
Not every chess legend has "GM" before his name. IM Emory Tate used an uncompromising style and indefatigable h-pawn throughout his multi-continental career. His energy on and of the board finally came to an end Saturday, dying in the middle of ...
Indian GM Pentala Harikrishna's mantra at the 2015 PokerStars Isle of Man International was simple: just win. Like any good chant, he repeated it early and often until drawing his final two to close with 7.0/9 and the title on tiebreaks. [Update...
Answer with your first thought: Who's the best chess player in the U.S.? Did you pick GM Hikaru Nakamura? Perhaps you went for GM Fabiano Caruana? If you weren't sure, or if you want to be proven right, then the Chess Club and Scholastic C...
Coming from behind, while nobody noticed, Alexander Grischuk won his third World Blitz Championship title as both Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Magnus Carlsen disappointed on a dramatic second day of play. Photos by Nailya ...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave leads the World Blitz Championship after the first day. The “Frenchman with two names” scored 9.5/11 and only lost to Magnus Carlsen, who is on 9.0/11 after losing to Sergey Karjakin. Photos by L...
Magnus Carlsen won the World Rapid Championship on Monday in Berlin, Germany. The Norwegian GM finished a full point ahead of the pack, clinched the $40,000 first prize and retained the title he won last year in Dubai. Photos...
After struggling through the lengthy rapid qualifier yesterday, GM Hikaru Nakamura only had a spot of bother today at the Millionaire Monday four-person playoff. He drew his opening two games in the semifinal versus GM Yu Yangyi before winning i...
Do you like controversy, late-night action, and a good old-fashioned flip of the coin? You needed to be in Las Vegas Sunday for Millionaire Chess 2, and you needed to call tails. Millionaire day four did much to promote chess but also took it ba...
Scoring 4.0/5 on the second day as well, Magnus Carlsen can be found at the top of the leaderboard at the World Rapid Championship. One more player is on 8.0/10: Sergei Zhigalko of Belarus. Photos by Lena Kashirsky, Nailya Bikmurzina & ...
Like the flag he represents, Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem is the lone star above the rest of the respected field at the 2015 Millionaire Chess Open. His five straight wins followed by a sixth-round draw with GM Hikaru Nakamura place him in the best...
After staging an epic comeback to win the 2015 World Cup, GM Sergey Karjakin deserved a long vacation. Instead, the indefatigable Russian hopped on a plane and flew to Berlin for the 2015 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships. And his brazen de...
