Magnus Carlsen has suggested significant changes to the system to determine the world championship title in chess. The reigning champion prefers “moving to an annual knock-out event,” as he wrote on Facebook today. Carlsen is about t...
GM Markus Ragger won this year's Politiken Cup in Helsingor, Denmark. The 27-year-old Austrian grandmaster had the best tiebreak in a group of 10 players finishing on 8.0/10. The Politiken Cup, one of the strongest opens this summer, took place ...
As the only winner on the first day, GM Sergey Karjakin is the first sole leader at the 68th Russian Championship Superfinal in Chita, Russia. Karjakin defeated GM Denis Khismatullin, the player who won so brilliantly against ...
You don't always have to share. GM Jonathan Hawkins outlasted the 10 other grandmasters at the 2015 British Championship Friday in Coventry, England to win his second-straight national championship with 8.5/11 and £5,000. In 2014, he shared ...
The Superfinal of the Russian Championship is just around the corner with the first round scheduled for this Sunday. GMs Dmitry Jakovenko, Sergey Karjakin, Evgeny Tomashevsky and Peter Svidler are the top seeds. This month will be domi...
In the waning moments of Titled Tuesday 12, GM Hikaru Nakamura looked to be squirming his king through the barricades for a fourth-consecutive win in Chess.com's monthly event. But just when he was about to draw level with GMs Baadur Jobava and Ge...
Have you ever wanted to hear two masters comment separately on their head-to-head game? How about if the game were bullet or blitz? How about if the game were live? Chess.com has some good news! IM Danny Rensch, the company's Vice...
Chess is a game that transcends language and other human differences, but it also lends its equality to those with physical limitations. Such is the case with visual impairment -- with a few small tweaks in the rules, this challenge is easily surm...
The format is rarely more than a sideline to a chess event, but in the second China-Russia international match of the summer, the structure became the story. GM Sergey Karjakin proved particularly adept at the unique format, which r...
The Chess.com news team focusus mostly on big events and announcements on these pages, and we don't always have time to mention other chess news stories. Today we bring you some of the chess-related events and news items of the past month -- som...
The U.S. has produced and harvested a glut of GMs in the last few years, so it's understandable if you haven't been able to remember them all. GM Mackenzie Molner is one of those names, and his skills will be on display as the invited pl...
The Swiss town of Biel, home of the long-standing chess festival and grandmaster tournament of the same name, is on the German-French language divide. At least it was before today. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, the top French player, won his final ...
GM David Navara caught GM Radek Wojtaszek in first place by beating GM Richard Rapport as Black in round eight of the Biel Chess Festival's Grandmaster Tournament. The 48th Biel Chess Festival remains exciting until the very end....
GM Radek Wojtaszek beat GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave convincingly to become the sole leader at the Biel Chess Festival's Grandmaster Tournament. GM Michael Adams defeated GM Richard Rapport after 118 moves. It's hardly possible ...
On Sunday, GM Julio Granda Zuniga won the Andorra Open with 8.0/9, while 1100 km up north GM David Howell did even better, scoring 8.5/9 in Leiden, The Netherlands. Andorra Open The 33rd Andorra Open took place July 18-26 in the St Gothar...
A large collection of historic chess footage has been made available as part of two YouTube channels launched earlier this week by the Associated Press (AP) and British Movietone. Last Wednesday it was announced that news agency Associated ...
David Navara only lost to Michael Adams in the first half in Biel, and it happened again in round six. The Czech GM still leads but was caught by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Radek Wojtaszek; the latter beat Richard Rapport. It's ve...
David Navara continues to lead in Biel after the fifth round saw three draws. Mickey Adams had chances for more against Radek Wojtaszek, whereas Pavel Eljanov missed a clear win against Richard Rapport. “I'm trying...
David Navara stole the show in round four of the Biel Chess Festival's Grandmaster Tournament with an amazing king walk. The Czech GM beat Radek Wojtaszek and leads alone. Mickey Adams lost again, this time to Pavel Eljanov. This year'...
An exciting third round of the Biel Chess Festival's Grandmaster Tournament saw three decisive games, and three leaders at the end of the day: GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, GM Radek Wojtaszek and GM David Navara. As if the first two...
In a group of young, talented players it was GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda who proved the strongest. 6.0/9 was enough for the 17-year-old Polish grandmaster to finish in clear first place at the Lake Sevan tournament in Martuni, Armenia. ...
GM David Navara recovered well from his first-round loss and beat GM Pavel Eljanov with the black pieces in round two of the Biel Chess Festival's Grandmaster Tournament. GM Richard Rapport yet again claimed the spotlight with his opening c...
GM Michael Adams started with a win at the Biel Chess Festival's Grandmaster Tournament. The English GM beat Czech number-one David Navara. The traditional summer chess festival in Biel, Switzerland is organized for the 48th edition this year. T...
Host country China defeated Russia at the Yin Zhou Cup in Ningbo with a score that left no doubt: 29-21. The Chinese women won both their matches in the last two rounds 4-1. July 20 is the International Day of Chess, be...
