GMs David Smerdon (a.k.a. Smurfo) and Simon Williams (a.k.a. Ginger GM) are tied for first place after five rounds at the Batavia GM tournament in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The two grandmasters scored 3.5 points and are half a point ahead of IM ...
It will be hard to top the excitement of Death Match 21, but two Dutch players are going to try. GM Jan Smeets and GM Erwin L'Ami were picked to participate in Death Match 22. The three-hour non-stop blitz and bullet match will take place Saturday...
February is the qualification month for Death Match 23, and with only about four days remaining, below are some names who have good chances to get an invitation. A reminder of the full rules can be read here. One reminder is that rules for this ...
With five rounds to go the Schachbundesliga, the German Team Championship, has basically been decided. Every year the scenario repeats itself: Baden-Baden, far too strong for any opponent, simply wins all or almost all of its matches, and so the q...
A Chess960 (Fischerrandom) rapid tournament was held on Friday and Saturday at the Moscow Center for the Education of Chess. Ten participants fought in a two-day round robin, and in the end Sergey Grigoriants and Boris Grachev tied for first place...
The Presidents of the National Chess Federations of Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria have signed a joint declaration which expresses their “concern with the campaign strategy and tactics currently being employed by certain members of t...
Earlier today Hrant Melkumyan won the first edition of a new open tournament in Austria: the Casino Graz open. The Armenian grandmaster finished on 7.5 points, a full point ahead of GMs Markus Ragger of Austria, Li Chao of China, Andrei Istratescu...
Drawing his last two games, Baadur Jobava managed to maintain his lead and eventually won the Bronstein Memorial on tiebreak, ahead of Ukrainian grandmasters Sergey Fedorchuk and Mikhailo Oleksienko. The last round was played on Bronstein's 9...
In an extraordinary meeting of the Board of the English Chess Federation eleven days ago Andrew Paulson, the ECF President, lost a vote of confidence. The situation reached an impasse as Mr Paulson decided not to step down. New developments can be...
Top seed Baadur Jobava is defending a half-point lead in round 8 of the Bronstein Memorial in Minsk. At the time of writing, the Georgian grandmaster plays Sergei Tiviakov as Black. The Dutch GM is tied for second place with GMs Dubov, Shimanov an...
Here's a brief update on Magnus Carlsen, the 23-year-old World Champion from Norway who is still quite busy taking chess “outside the box”. Recently he started his own YouTube Channel, and today the brand new, spectacular G-Star Raw vi...
“In the end, it all starts with a certain love for wood.” That is how Hein Donner starts his monologue in the Dutch documentary Liefde Voor Hout (love of wood), The documentary was posted on YouTube in August 2012, and now a version wi...
The heavily-favored GM Georg Meier needed an extra game to squeak past the dogged played of GM Imre Balog in Saturday's Death Match 21. If you missed it, the full show can be found at http://www.twitch.tv/chess/profile/pastBroadcasts until it...
A strong round robin tournament will be held in April in Azerbaijan. The tournament will be a memorial for Vugar Gashimov, who passed away on 10 January this year. Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Sergey Karjakin, Shakhriyar ...
Eltaj Safarli and Vasif Durarbayli face each other on board one today in round 4 of the Bronstein Memorial in Minsk, Belarus. The two Azerbaijani grandmasters are the only players left with a 100% score. The tournament is held in honor of David Br...
Today FIDE published the full pairings for the Candidates’ Tournament, to be held next month in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. In the first round, on 13 March, the following games will be played: Andreikin-Kramnik, Karjakin-Svidler, Mamedyarov-Top...
Recently published statistics suggest that chess is growing - FIDE regulated chess, that is. During the last five years the number of active players with a FIDE rating has been almost doubled. In the same period there was an increase of 37% of ope...
“Ex-felon, Eugene Brown, establishes a Chess Club for inner city teenagers in Washington, D.C.” This is the one-sentence description of IMDB's entry for Life of a King, a new film with chess playing an important role, starring Academy ...
Top seeds Maxim Matlakov of Russia and Alexander Moiseenko of Ukraine tied for first place at the Moscow Open on Sunday. The two GMs scored 7.0/9 and their tiebreaks turned out to be exactly the same. Polish grandmasters Mateusz Bartel a...
On Thursday Ivan Cheparinov defeated Nikita "The Iceman" Vitiugov in the playoff final to clinch his first victory at the 12th Gibraltar Chess Festival. The two grandmasters had finished shared first with Vassily Ivanchuk, who lost to Vi...
As expected, world # 1 Magnus Carlsen won the Zurich Chess Challenge on Tuesday ahead of world #2 Levon Aronian. The rapid section didn't go so well for the World Champ, who scored only 2.0/5. Aronian finished on 3.0/5, but still a full point behi...
Vassily Ivanchuk and Surya Ganguly will face each other in today's eighth round of the Gibraltar Chess Festival's Masters tournament. The two grandmasters are the only playes on 6.0/7 and half a point ahead of a group of 12 GMs, in...
Magnus Carlsen won his first tournament as World Champion on Monday. [Update: well, not yet, actually. But as tomorrow's rapid games will only count half as much as the classical games, he is very close.] The Norwegian played a relatively qui...
Businessman, art and chess lover Andrey Filatov has been elected President of the Russian Chess Federation. Filatov replaced Arkady Dvorkovich, who had been the head of the federation for the last four years. The election took place on Saturd...
