You don't have to be Fabiano Caruana to win $100,000 in a tournament. Being in the world top ten does help, though. A few weeks after Caruana, the world number two, earned six-figures for his demolition of the Sinquefield Cup, GM Wesley So earne...
On Saturday, October 4 the 8th Aquaprofit Polgar Chess Festival was held in the Palais of Arts in Budapest, and Chess.com was present! Several hundred children, parents and special guests attended the 8th Polgar Chess Festival, organized by Judi...
They were leading together for most of the tournament and eventually finished shared first at the Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan: Fabiano Caruana and Boris Gelfand. They drew in the final round, and kept their half-point lead. ...
With one round to go, the situation at the Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan is back to what it was before: Fabiano Caruana and Boris Gelfand are tied for first place after beating Leinier Dominguez and Teimour Radjabov respectively. On anothe...
In a spectacular 9th round at the Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan, both Fabiano Caruana and Boris Gelfand lost. The leaders of the tournament went down to Alexander Grischuk and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov respectively. Hikaru Nakamura won qu...
Richard Rapport defeated Viktor Laznicka in a 6-game match in Novy Bor, where a blitz playoff was needed to force a winner. The match finished last week already but definitely deserves to be mentioned here! This match between Czech number t...
With three round to go Fabiano Caruana and Boris Gelfand are still topping the standings at the Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan. Peter Svidler defeated Leinier Dominguez for the first time in his life. Svidler is now trailing the leaders by ...
Today at the Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan Fabiano Caruana surprisingly went down against tail-ender Dmitry Andreikin. It was Caruana's first loss since the end of August. Boris Gelfand rejoined the Italian GM in the lead after drawin...
Fabiano Caruana defeated Peter Svidler in round 6 of the Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan. With five rounds to go the Italian GM is topping the standings alone with 4.5/6. Boris Gelfand is trailing by half a point after drawing with Ser...
For the first time at the Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan all games ended in draws. After a peaceful fifth round, Fabiano Caruana and Boris Gelfand continue to lead with six more rounds to go. During the rest day some players joined an excur...
Fabiano Caruana joined Boris Gelfand in the lead in round 4 of the Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Italian grandmaster was attacked by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov but calculated well and refuted his opponent's sacrifices. The other five ga...
By virtue of winning a four minute and 15 second final bullet game, GM Simen Agdestein broke the deadlock to beat GM Giorgi Kascheishvili in Death Match 28 on Friday. The final score of 12.5-11.5 was notable in many respects. The two played the ...
With some help from his opponent Boris Gelfand took sole leadership in round 3 of the Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Israeli grandmaster is the only player on 2.5/3 as Alexander Grischuk lost on time in what was a drawn rook ending. In the...
On the second day at the Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan there were also two winners: Hikaru Nakamura and Peter Svidler. In a Dutch Leningrad, Nakamura outplayed Dmitry Andreikin of Russia, who also lost yesterday. Svidler defeated Shakhriyar Ma...
Fabiano Caruana and Boris Gelfand are the co-leaders at the Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan after the first round. Caruana beat Sergey Karjakin, who blundered in timetrouble, while Gelfand crushed Dmitry Andreikin in just 23 moves. The other...
Today the 2014-2015 FIDE Grand Prix series takes off with its first event, the Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan. Top seed Fabiano Caruana has black against Sergey Karjakin in the first round. The winner and runner-up of the overall Grand Prix will...
Ernesto Inarkiev won the Baku Open on Tuesday. The 28-year-old Russian edged out Constantin Lupulescu of Romania on tiebreak after both grandmasters finished on 7.0/9. Ferenc Berkes of Hungary and Vladimir Onischuk of Ukraine tied for third pl...
Magnus Carlsen tops the October 2014 FIDE ratings with 2863 but Fabiano Caruana, who won 43 points in St. Louis and Bilbao, climbed to 2844, only 19 points behind the world champion. Veselin Topalov jumped to third place; the Bulgarian has a 280...
Twenty-two years after it was first discussed, a friendly match between Alexei Shirov and Evgeny Sveshnikov finally took place over the weekend in Riga, Latvia. Shirov won 5.5-0.5. All games were Sicilians and Sveshnikov played “hi...
It's surprising that it did not happen earlier: Russia's first chess museum was opened on Thursday in Moscow. Situated in the renovated halls of the Russian Chess Federation's mansion at 14 Gogol Boulevard, the museum contains a ...
The 2014 Women's World Championship, which was scheduled to start in two weeks from now, has been postponed “for a few months.” This was announced on Wednesday on the FIDE website, and might have serious consequences for the women's ...
After many months of preparation by the FIDE/ACP Anti-Cheating Committee, finally a proposal for new anti-cheating regulations was submitted for voting by the General Assembly, last month in Tromsø. Unfortunately a vote was not established ...
Two years ago it was announced, and now it's out: Pawn Sacrifice, a new film directed by Edward Zwick (Legends of the Fall, The Last Samurai) and starring Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer telling the story of the legendary U.S. grandmaster and (his ...
What will GM Judit Polgar do after announcing her retirement? One of her first acts will be to once again host the 8th International Aquaprofit-Polgar Chess Festival on October 4. Chess.com and ChessKid.com will be partial sponsors of the e...
