Chess.com's 5th Death Match Qualifier will take place from April 1, 2014 to May 1, 2014 and will determine the participants for the 25th Chess.com Blitz Death Match - set to be held in June, 2014. The rules and format for this Death Match Q...
Thanks to his splendid performance in Khanty-Mansiysk, Viswanathan Anand moved back up to third place in the world rankings. On the April FIDE ratings list, the ex-World Champion won 15 point to reach a rating of 2785, two points more than Vladimi...
APRIL FOOLS!!! Later this month U.S. President Barack Obama and President of Russia Vladimir Putin will meet at the chess board for a diplomatic match at the highest level. The chess meeting between the two world leaders is intended to “re...
Vassily Ivanchuk reigned supreme at the Latvian Railway Open, a strong rapid tournament held over the weekend in Latvia, Riga. The 45-year-old Ukrainian started with 9.0/9 (!) and won the tournament with 13.0/14 (two draws and twelve wins), three ...
Viswanathan Anand, who had already clinched tournament victory on Saturday, finished undefeated at the FIDE Candidates' Tournament. In the last round the Indian drew with Peter Svidler to reach a final score of 8.5/14. He didn't lose a single...
GM Viswanathan Anand held a worse ending against GM Sergey Karjakin in round 13 of the FIDE Candidates' Tournament, clinching first place with a round to spare. He is the only player with a plus score. Second-place GM Levon Aronian lost again...
For the second time World Champion Magnus Carlsen has posted a video on his YouTube channel in which he gives his opinion on the Candidates’ Tournament, currently under way in Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia. The video was uploaded today, eight day...
This weekend a (very) strong rapid tournament will be held in Riga, Latvia: the Latvian Railway Open. Besides the leading Latvian grandmasters (including co-organizer Alexey Shirov!), a number of big names from abroad will be present such as Vasil...
This could be the one of the fastest-played Death Matches in history. Two blitz specialists qualified for the April contest - IM Marc Esserman and FM Evan Ju. They have both displayed unparalleled acumen on Chess.com's live chess, and they...
In a tense 12th round at the 2014 FIDE Candidates’ Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk Vishy Anand drew his game with Dmitry Andreikin, but could have won. In the only decisive game of the round, Veselin Topalov defeated Peter Svidler an...
The field for the 12-player 2014 U.S. Championship is now set, with some familiar names but also plenty of youth. The tournament will be held for the sixth year in a row at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from May 7-20, 2014. ...
In round 11, for the first time in the 2014 FIDE Candidates’ Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk, all games were drawn. With three rounds to go, ex-World Champion Viswanathan Anand now has excellent chances to qualify for a second w...
Vladimir Kramnik blundered terribly and lost his white game to Svidler in round 10 round of the 2014 FIDE Candidates’ Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk. With the other three games ending in draws, Viswanathan Anand kept his o...
Yu Yangyi & Ju Wenjun are the new Chinese Chess Champions. Yu edged out Ding Liren (both scored 7.0/11) on the smallest possible tiebreak: 0.25 SB point. Ju finished half a point ahead of Shen Yang & Lei Tingjie. The tournament finished la...
Sunday was a pretty good day for Vishy Anand. In a shocking 9th round of the 2014 FIDE Candidates’ Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk, the ex-World Champion defeated Veselin Topalov, while his closest rivals Levon Aronian and Vladi...
GM Erwin l'Ami began with six consecutive wins in Saturday's Death Match 22, en route to a convincing 17.5-7.5 win over fellow Dutchman GM Jan Smeets. l'Ami won all three time controls as Smeets scored the lowest number of points in Death Match hi...
In the 8th round of the 2014 FIDE Candidates’ Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk tournament leaders Levon Aronian and Vishy Anand drew quickly. In the only decisive game of the round, Sergey Karjakin won his first, against Peter Svidler...
Levon Aronian moved to shared first place in a fascinating seventh round of the 2014 FIDE Candidates’ Tournament on Friday. The Armenian top grandmaster defeated Sergey Karjakin to reach a score of 4.5/7 - the same as Vishy An...
Just like Hikaru Nakamura last month, on Wednesday Magnus Carlsen did an “AMA” (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit, the social news and entertainment website where registered users submit content in the form of links or text posts. Again the r...
Viswanathan Anand can enjoy another rest day as the tournament leader in Khanty-Mansiysk. In the sixth round of the 2014 FIDE Candidates’ Tournament he drew with Sergey Karjakin in a Berlin Ending, and saw his main rival Levon...
The complete field of the Vugar Gashimov Memorial has been announced. The players of the B group are Wang Hao, Pavel Eljanov, Etienne Bacrot, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Alexander Motylev, Eltaj Safarli, Nijat Abbasov, Gadir Huseynov, Rauf Mammadov a...
“You normally don't get as lucky as this. It's beyond belief what happened today,” said Peter Svidler after his win against Veselin Topalov in round 5 of the 2014 FIDE Candidates’ Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk. The...
PRESS RELEASE -- Chess.com LLC March 17th, 2014: ChessKid.com is set to host the 3rd Annual Online National Chess Championship, June 6th-8th 2014. First founded in June of 2012, last year's event was the second ever "online" National Chess Champ...
In round 4 of the 2014 FIDE Candidates’ Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk Vishy Anand maintained his half-point lead. The Indian GM drew a wild but relatively short game with Vladimir Kramnik that started as a Vienna. Levon Aronia...
