Despite a quick loss on board one, Azerbijan managed to grabe sole lead today at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø by beating Cuba 2.5-1.5. In the women section Russia leads after scoring a 3-1 victory over China. It was...
After six rounds, two countries are sharing the lead at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø: Azerbaijan and Cuba. Both scored 11 match points, and will face each other tomorrow. On Friday, the Azeri GMs defeated Georgia 3.5-0...
The second edition of the Sinquefield Cup (August 27-September 7) will go down in history as the first-ever 6-player round-robin tournament with an average Elo rating over 2800. Six of the world’s top-nine will be playing in Sai...
The three leaders after round four -- Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, and Serbia -- all played 2-2 on Wednesday at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway. Four other teams caught them in first place: Cuba, Georgia, Kazakhstan, ...
Azerbaijan, Bulgaria and Serbia are the only teams who won in all four rounds in the open section of the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov decided the Azerbaijan-France match on top boards by beating ...
Several top matches ended in 2-2 today, and now only 11 countries are in the lead, with three wins, at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø: France, Netherlands, Serbia, Russia, China, Azerbaijan, Israel, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Uz...
Norway's second team impressed on the second day of the 41st Chess Olympiad, as the team full of rising stars managed to hold two-time winner Ukraine to a 2-2 tie. In the second round, many top players appeared in the playing hall, and whil...
The 41st Chess Olympiad took off on Saturday with few surprises and no real upsets in the team results. Many top players didn't play on the first day, including Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Boris Ge...
The 41st Chess Olympiad was officially opened on Friday evening at the Skarphallen in Tromsø, Norway. Hosted by the city mayor, the evening included musical performances, speeches and the drawing of colors performed by Magnus Carlsen. ...
This Friday, the 41st Chess Olympiad will take off with its opening ceremony, and a day later the first round begins. In what is called “the fourth largest sporting event in the world” by the organizers, 174 countries will meet at the ...
IM Jonathan Hawkins and GM David Howell shared first prize at this year's British Championship in Aberystwyth in West Wales. GM Bu Xiangzhi of China won the very strong Politiken Cup where another British player, GM Gawain Jones, tied ...
Fans of blitz chess, hold on to your hats. The highest-rated Death Match in history is coming to Chess.com. World number-five GM Hikaru Nakamura and world number-12 GM Wesley So will meet in October's Death Match 28. The Death Match will air l...
Go ahead and take that late summer vacation you've been planning. After the usual August hiatus, school will be back in session as Chess.com's Death Match series returns in September with GM Alex Lenderman and GM Wang Yue going pawn to pawn. The...
With the 2014 Chess Olympiad right around the corner, several GM tournaments are squeezing themselves into the busy tournament calendar. Here's a quick look at three events around the world before the Chess.com/news section starts its reporting ...
GM Irina Krush won the final five games of Death Match 26 Saturday to clip GM Nadezhda Kosintseva 14-13. The four-game deficit overcome by Krush was the second largest in Death Match history, only eclipsed by the previous Death Match. The seco...
The world's first million-dollar open chess tournament will take place October 9-13, 2014 in Las Vegas, USA, and Chess.com will be a part of it. In a recent agreement between the two organizations, Millionaire Chess is now working with...
In the final two days of the rapid match between GM Peter Svidler and GM Boris Gelfand, the Russian (Svidler) won two and drew on to hold on to his early lead. The home-turf advantage didn't end up helping the top Israeli (Gelfand), as he only won...
After leading by 1.5 points with three rounds to go, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (6/10) managed just two draws in his final three games. Still, it was enough for him to win the Biel International Chess Festival by a half-point over top Pol...
With so much emphasis placed on junior chess throughout the world, the resurrection of an event for seniors is unique. At the 2013 FIDE Congress in Tallinn, Estonia, the World Senior Team Chess Championship found new life in fellow Baltic country ...
The Second Annual Gideon Japhet Memorial Open Chess Tournament in Jerusalem, Israel also features an 8-game rapid match between Super GMs Boris Gelfand and Peter Svidler. The grandmasters play two rapid games per day, and at the halfway point, S...
French number one GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is having his way at the Biel International Chess Festival. He sits on an undefeated 5/7 and leads by 1.5 points with three rounds to play. Though he is more likely to call the bilingual Swiss town "Bi...
GM Fabiano Caruana clinched first place at the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund, Germany with a round to spare. It was his second title in three years. In doing so, he crested 2800 for the first time and is now the third highest-rated player...
Breaking Update: Olympiad organizers released a statement Sunday saying that they excluded teams WILL be allowed to play. They do not agree that the FIDE President has the right to invoke the broad powers of rule 6.1, but they nonetheless apprecia...
Update: FIDE published this on its web site to clarify statements made by Ank Stevens, a lawyer for Kasparov's team. The FIDE Presidential Election, to take place in the middle of the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Norway, will make 181 delegates very i...
