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! ...
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...
