Besides Magnus Carlsen, three players are rated above 2800 in the FIDE July 1 rating list: Hikaru Nakamura (in fourth place at 2814), Veselin Topalov (third with 2816) and Vishy Anand (second, also with 2816). The J...
On Tuesday GM Abhijeet Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in New Delhi. The 25-year-old Indian grandmaster “did a Caruana” as he won his first seven games. GM Humpy Koneru withdrew at the end of round four ...
The Sparkassen Chess Meeting is just three rounds old but has seen many great games already. After another spectacular round, GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu still leads. Photo courtesy of Sparkassen Chess. What a tournament has this ...
On Sunday GM Pentala Harikrishna won the Edmonton International in Edmonton, Canada. The 29-year-old Indian grandmaster finished a point ahead of GMs Wang Hao, Sury Ganguly and Vassily Ivanchuk. All photos courtesy of the official website. ...
After just two rounds, GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu is already a full point ahead of the field at the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund. In the second round, the German GM beat GM Arkadij Naiditsch. The field in Dortmund is a very...
The final game of Death Match 32 decided everything, but in the end GM Maxim Dlugy held off IM Yaacov Norowitz and his perceived advantage in bullet chess late Saturday night. Dlugy won both the first and final segments to take the ...
Yu Yangyi won the Elite Group of the 50th Capablanca Memorial in Havana, Cuba. The 21-year-old Chinese grandmaster secured victory in the penultimate round and finished on 7.0/10. José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera passed away 8 ...
Both GMs Vladimir Kramnik and Wesley So suffered a loss in the first round of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund, Germany. Kramnik went down against GM Arkadij Naiditsch whereas So lost to GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. Photo courtesy of ...
“Sometimes you have to be practical,” said GM Veselin Topalov after his quick draw with GM Vishy Anand that clinched the $75,000 first prize at Norway Chess. GM Hikaru Nakamura caught Anand in second place with a last-roun...
The chess world is suddenly without one of its most illustrious and longtime stars. GM Walter Shawn Browne, a six-time U.S. champion, died in his sleep Wednesday at the age of 66. He was perhaps the most dominant U.S. player after the Fischer er...
GM Veselin Topalov hasn't secured victory at Norway Chess yet. Today the Bulgarian GM lost to GM Anish Giri, while his opponent in the last round, GM Vishy Anand, is trailing by half a point after beating GM Jon Ludvig Hammer. Shortly ...
The seventh round of the Norway Chess tournament saw five draws, and so GM Veselin Topalov kept his lead of 1.5 points with two rounds to go. Before starting the report on the seventh round, first an update on how Joachim Ber...
With three rounds to go, GM Veselin Topalov is the big favorite to win the Norway Chess tournament. Adding another win to his score, vs GM Alexander Grischuk, the Bulgarian is now 1.5 points ahead of the pack. GM Vishy Anand rathe...
GM Loek van Wely won the revived Dutch Lightning Championship last week in his home town Tilburg, The Netherlands. The Dutch GM beat GM Daniel Fridman 2-0 in a playoff. About eight, nine years ago it was held several times, and after a long brea...
GM Magnus Carlsen finally won a game at the Norway Chess tournament. Helped by GM Alexander Grischuk's time trouble, the Norwegian decided the game in a bishop ending. Carlsen is no longer in last place because his compatriot GM Jon Lu...
While most of the chess world's attention is firmly fixed on the ongoing action in Norway, another elite tournament is currently taking place in Havana, Cuba: The 50th Capablanca Memorial, a six-player double round robin with an average ratin...
Norway is in shock as GM Magnus Carlsen lost yet another game to remain in last place at the Norway Chess tournament. GM Vishy Anand played well and won a good game in a Breyer Ruy Lopez. GM Veselin Topalov, who beat GM Levon Aronian ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Veselin Topalov are tied for first place with 2.5/3 at the Norway Chess tournament. Nakamura won against GM Fabiano Caruana, who misplayed a rook ending, while Topalov beat GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave very qu...
For the third year in a row, the Norway Chess tournament might not be won by GM Magnus Carlsen. The world champion started with 0/2 as he lost to GM Fabiano Caruana on Wednesday. During the 2014 Gashimov Memorial journalists were wonde...
GM Wesley So would currently be playing in the Norway Chess tournament if he hadn't committed to the 2015 CEZ Trophy match with GM David Navara in Prague. So dominated the match from start to finish, and won 3-1. The CEZ Chess Trophy, also known...
Norway Chess saw a shocking end of the first round as GM Magnus Carlsen lost on time to GM Veselin Topalov in a winning position, unaware of the time control. Earlier, GMs Anish Giri, Hikaru Nakamura and Maxime Vachier-Lagra...
Passionate Chess.com members are often asking about other avenues of getting better. Besides videos, Tactics Trainer, Chess Mentor and other tools, the Chess.com University program caters to just these sorts of players. In July of this year, Che...
On Monday morning GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave traveled from León, Spain via Paris to Stavanger. He arrived just minutes before the afternoon's press conference and eventually he won the Norway Chess blitz tournament in the evening. It ...
He won last year and he did it again: GM Wei Yi clinched the first prize in the Masters Tournament in León, Spain after beating GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final. It was already the 28th edition of the annual Torneo Magistral de Ajed...
