Aleksandr Lenderman tops the leaderboard after four rounds at the U.S. Championship in St Louis. The 2005 World Youth Champion under 16 is on 3.5/4 and half a point ahead of Timur Gareev. Top seed Gata Kamsky is in shared third place together...
The Capablanca Memorial is underway in Havana, Cuba and after three rounds GMs Zoltan Almasi of Hungary and Wesley So of the Philippines are in shared first place in the Elite Group. They have both scored one win and two draws. The tournament is h...
Two rounds underway the U.S. Championship in St Louis is a tight affair, as ten of the twelve games played so far ended in draws. But hard-fought draws they were! Ray Robson and Aleksandr Lendrman are the ones who have 1.5 points. The women's sect...
On Thursday a chess game between Magnus Carlsen and “Norway”, played in a shopping center in Oslo, ended in a draw. The World Champion each time had only one minute to move, while his opponent(s) - online chess fans, helped by three gr...
The 2014 U.S. Chess Championship and U.S. Women's Championship both begin today in St. Louis, Missouri. For the sixth straight year, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis will play host to both events. With 12 players instead of 24, ...
An interesting video interview with Vladimir Kramnik has appeared online, conducted by the independent Brazilian film maker Clara Cavour. She spoke with the 14th World Champion in a conference room of a Paris hotel, shortly after the Candidat...
On Tuesday the field for the Norway Chess tournament in June was completed with Anish Giri of the Netherlands. He will play together with Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Fabiano Caruana, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Sergey...
The World Chess Federation (FIDE) is stil looking for a host city to organize the second world title match between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen. The match is scheduled for November 2014, but on the deadline of April 30th, 2014 FIDE had not...
Guildford 1 retained their 4NCL title on Monday most convincingly after winning all their matches and thus finishing on 14 points out of 7 matches. The team, which played with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri, Matthew Sadler, Gawain Jones, Romai...
Falko Bindrich, a 23-year-old grandmaster from Germany, has sued the German Chess Federation for an amount of € 68,000 ($94,336). This was mentioned in a monthly PDF magazine of the federation and picked up by the chess website Schach We...
What went right for World Blitz Champion GM Le Quang Liem in the first two hours of Death Match 24 Saturday? The first game. That's it. GM Dmitry Andreikin dropped the opener then pitched a shutout for the next 18 games, and eventually held o...
Alexander Grischuk moved up to third place in the world rankings on the May 1st FIDE rating list. Thanks to a splendid Russian Team Championship, the Russian grandmaster won 15 points to reach 2792 which is 8 points more than Vishy Anand. Magnus C...
Besides Pavel Eljanov's B group victory win in Shamkir, there was more success for Ukrainian-born chess players this week. At the Women's World Rapid and Blitz Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, Kateryna Lagno won the rapid section while A...
On Wednesday Magnus Carlsen won the first edition of the Shamkir Chess tournament in Azerbaijan. In the last round the world champion defeated Fabiano Caruana with the white pieces to finish clear first, with a score of 6.5/10. Serg...
Fabiano Caruana caught Magnus Carlsen in first place in the penultimate round of the Shamkir Chess tournament in Azerbaijan. Both scored 5.5/9 and will face each other in tomorrow's final round. Caruana defeated Shakhriyar Mamedyaro...
The two traditional spring tournaments in Australia, the Doeberl Cup and the Sydney International, were held earlier this month. In Canberra there was a tie for first place between Romanian grandmasters Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu and Le...
With a quick draw against Sergey Karjakin it's still Magnus Carlsen who is the sole leader at the Shamkir Chess tournament in Azerbaijan. Fabiano Caruana moved to clear second place with a win against Teimour Radjabov. On a bad...
Magnus Carsen is the sole leader again at the Shamkir Chess tournament in Azerbaijan. The World Champion was worse against Hikaru Nakamura but won anyway to set his personal score with the American to 10 wins and 0 losses in classic...
After two consecutive losses Magnus Carsen is back in the saddle in Shamkir. In round 6 of the Shamkir Chess tournament the World Champion defeated Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who blundered an important pawn in an already slightly worse position. The g...
Haven't heard of Phiona Mutesi? You will soon. The most famous player in the history of Ugandan chess is coming to America, and perhaps to the silver screen. A member of Ugandan Women's Olympiad team, Mutesi was featured in an article...
After an excellent day for the local fans Teimour Radjabov is suddenly topping the standings of the Shamkir Chess 2014 tournament's A group. The 27-year-old grandmaster from Baku inflicted the second consecutive loss upon Magnus Carlsen, while co-...
April is the qualification month for Death Match 25, and with only about one week remaining, below are some names who have good chances to get an invitation. A refresher of the full rules can be read here. One reminder is that rules for this mon...
The Shamkir Chess 2014 tournament is all open again as Fabiano Caruana defeated tournament leader Magnus Carlsen from the white side of a Berlin Ending. The Italian grandmaster was pressing from the start and was then helped by his opponent, who b...
FM Evan Ju pulled away in the bullet portion of Death Match 23 on Tuesday, April 22, beating IM Marc Esserman 18-12. The match was the adjournment from the original matchup on April 12, which was postponed with the score even at 1.5-1.5. In the ...
