The Tromsø Olympiad is a go. Today Norwegian media report that there is enough support in the national parliament to allot an additional 12 million kroner (€ 1.47 million, US $2 million). The Olympiad organizers had asked for...
Fabiano Caruana also won his second game to maintain his lead at the Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger. The Italian GM defeated Peter Svidler in a Taimanov Sicilian. Alexander Grischuk bounced back from his first-round loss and beat Veseli...
Fabiano Caruana grabbed an early lead at the Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger. The Italian GM profited from a blunder by his opponent Alexander Grischuk just before the time control. The other four games ended in draws. Tomorrow the second rou...
Last year Sergey Karjakin was the star in both the blitz and the main event, but this time around Magnus Carlsen seems highly motivated to take that role. The World Champion won the Norway Chess opening blitz tournament on Monday most convincingly...
Today the second edition of the Norway Chess tournament takes off in Stavanger, Norway. Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Fabiano Caruana, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler, Anish Giri and Sime...
The 2014 ChessKid National Online Invitational Championship will take place live on ChessKid.com TV and will feature 30 of the nation's best and brightest young players. Included in the field are four national masters, a senior master, and ma...
The playing field and pairings for the 42nd Sparkassen Chess-Meeting in Dortmund has been announced, traditionally two months before the start of the tournament. This year Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko, Ruslan Ponomariov, Fabiano Caruana, Michael A...
A last-round draw completed an undefeated nine rounds for GM Alexander Morozevich at the 15th Karpov Tournament in Poikovsky, Russia. The split point turned out to be enough as pre-round co-leader GM Dmitry Jakovenko lost to GM Ian Nepomniachtchi,...
It's official: the FIDE Presidential elections in August will go between Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Garry Kasparov. Both had announced their candidacy for FIDE President a while back, but now on the FIDE website it is mentioned that no other tick...
A Chess.com veteran and newcomer will contest Death Match 25 - IM Yaacov Norowitz and GM Boris Avrukh. They both qualified based on their play during the April qualification period. The three-hour match of bullet and blitz chess will be Su...
Serbian Grandmaster Dragoljub Velimirović died recently at the age of 72, as reported on Twitter by the Serbian publishing company Chess Informant. Born in Valjevo, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), Velimirović represented his home country in six di...
In the third week of June the strongest FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championship in history will be held in Dubai, UAE. Eight players from the current live ratings top 10 will participate, including the world's top three - Magnus Carlsen (Norw...
Laurent Fressinet of France won the 22nd edition of the Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in Malmö, Sweden. In an event that only lasted five rounds, three and a half point was enough for the 32-year-old French grandmaster to finish clear fir...
The day began at the U.S. Championship and U.S Women's Championship with no fewer than six players still alive in the race for a national title. After several more hours of play, the two defending champions slithered through the field. GM Gata Kam...
Wesley So won the 2014 Capablanca Memorial in Havana, Cuba with a score of 6.5/10. In the final three rounds the 20-year-old Pinoy grandmaster won a game and drew two to finish a point clear of Lazaro Bruzon. Especially in the second hal...
None of the four leaders in the 2014 U.S. Championship or 2014 U.S. Women's Championship was able to win today, and both of the players trailing by a half point won to force two three-way playoffs. GMs Alex Lenderman and Varuzhan Akobian&nb...
Rising star GM Ivan Saric of Croatia had been matching GM Alexander Morozevich blow for blow at the 15th Karpov Tournament in Poikovsky, Russia. Stumbles in rounds 6 and 7 for Saric allowed Jakovenko to take his place as co-leader, while Morozevic...
GM Varuzhan Akobian and IM Anna Zatonskih methodically built their leads over the first 10 days of the 2014 U.S. Championship and 2014 U.S. Women's Championship. In a few hours, both lost for the first time and allowed the field to draw even. GM...
GM Varuzhan Akobian and IM Anna Zatonskih entered today's play at the U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship with the narrowest of leads. They both won, and watched their main competition draw as Black, stretching the lead to one full poi...
Wesley So leads the Elite Group of the Capablanca Memorial in Havana, Cuba after seven rounds. With an undefeated plus two score the 20-year-old Pinoy grandmaster is half a point ahead of top seed Leinier Dominguez of Cuba. The other Cub...
After round 5 of the 2014 U.S. Championship in St. Louis, GM Gata Kamsky predicted someone else would be champion this year. In his quest to be wrong, there's now a new man to chase. GM Varuzhan Akobian (5/7) vaulted into the lead with...
The Tromsø Chess Olympiad, which is scheduled for the first two weeks of August, is having serious budget problems. 15 million kroner (1.8 million euros) are still missing, and according to Norwegian media the event might be cancelled. &ldq...
Alexander Morozevich got off to a flying start at the Karpov Tournament in Poikovsky, Russia. The Muscovite started with two wins, and was close to a third on Tuesday againt Alexei Shirov. He was caught by Ivan Saric of Croatia - both le...
The changing of the guard continued in round five of the 2014 U.S. Championship in St. Louis, Missouri. GM Alex Lenderman held his endgame against GM Sergey Erenburg to move to 4/5, while second place GM Timur Gareev overpressed and lost. Lender...
