Levon Aronian still tops the standings at the Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee after beating Arkadij Naiditsch in round 5 on Friday. The Armenian grandmaster is on 4.0/5 and is followed by the two young GMs Wesley So, who beat Boris Gelfand t...
Baadur Jobava won the important game against top seed Radek Wojtaszek on Thursday in Wijk aan Zee. After five rounds in the Challengers Group, the Georgian grandmaster scored 4.5 points and is half a point ahead of Ivan Saric and Anna Muzychuk. To...
The 2014 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship will return to St. Louis, both for the sixth consecutive year. The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will host the two round robins from May 7-21, 2014. The U.S. Championship w...
On Wednesday Levon Aronian grabbed the lead in the fourth round of the Tata Steel tournament, which was played in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Armenian grandmaster defeated Hikaru Nakamura in a knight vs. bad bishop ending. The day started wi...
The 2014 Reykjavik Open is looking like it will be a great event with already well over 150 players registered. The Reykjavik Open is an annual tournament with 10 rounds (one day with double rounds) and the time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves ...
Fabiano Caruana came back with full force in the third round of the Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. After his loss to Levon Aronian on Sunday, the Italian grandmaster played an excellent game against Sergey Karjakin, was in...
On Sunday morning a 39-year-old man was found stabbed to death in Dublin, Ireland in what detectives believe may have been a row over a late night game of chess. A man covered in blood was taken into custody and said to officers that a disput...
Levon Aronian defeated one of his main rivals, Fabiano Caruana, in the second rond of the 76th Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. In a game not without mistakes, the Armenian's a-pawn became a decisive factor. Boris ...
The 76th Tata Steel tournament started with an exciting first round on Saturday with four decisive games. Fabiano Caruana was the first winner of the day; the Italian beat Boris Gelfand in a 6.f3 Najdorf. Sergey Karjakin won a rook ending against ...
The chess world is shocked today by the death of one Azerbaijan's top players, Vugar Gashimov. The 27-year-old grandmaster from Baku had been ill for a long time and was under treatment for the last 1.5 years in Berlin, Germany where he passed awa...
The 76th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament was officially opened on Friday afternoon at the Tata Steel headquarters in IJmuiden, the Netherlands. A spectacular ceremony included a stage performance of actors who recreated the scene of the...
On Friday the tournament will be officially opened at the Tata Steel headquarters in IJmuiden, and on Saturday it will start with the first round: the 76th Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Levon Aronian of Armenia is top seed in the Masters Group and ...
On Sunday the Hastings Chess Congress, the longest running chess tournament in the world, ended in a 7-way tie for first place. GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili of Georgia, GM Igor Khenkin of Germany, GM Ma Qun of China, GM Mark Hebden...
Last night, on Monday, January 6th, 2014 the online chess service The Week in Chess (TWIC) reached an amazing milestone: originator, founder, editor and publisher Mark Crowther posted the 1000th issue. “Over 1.5 million games, doubles exclud...
He was victorious at the Zurich Christmas Open, and he also won the very next open tournament in Basel, Switzerland: Radek Wojtaszek. The Polish grandmaster scored an even more impressive 6.5/7 and moved up 15 places in the live ratings list. It...
Team Norway continues its rise among the top nations for chess, as today reigning Norwegian Champion GM Jon Ludvig Hammer went wire-to-wire in winning the 43rd Rilton Cup in Stockholm, Sweden. The tournament took place from December...
America's number one grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura moved to #3 in the world rankings by January 1st, 2014, when the new FIDE rating list was published. Nakamura reached his highest position ever with a 2789 rating, two points more than Vladimir Kram...
All Chess.com members were invited to the Third Death Match Qualifier, the first of many in 2014. February's Death Match 21 qualification period is now over, and the list of invitations goes out today. Below you'll see who finished on top in ...
Radek Wojtaszek won the 37th Zurich Christmas Open on Monday. The Polish number one scored 6 points out of 7 games, and finished half a point ahead of Igor Kovalenko (Latvia), Csaba Balogh (Hungary), Kiril Georgiev (Bulgaria), Sebastian ...
Here's a New Year's treat from Chess.com - the first Death Match of 2014 is planned! GM Yury Shulman and GM Daniel Fridman will play three hours of blitz and bullet chess live at Chess.com/TV on Saturday, January 18 at noon Eastern (New York time)...
Anatoly Karpov defeated Jan Timman 2.5-1.5 in their short & friendly match in Groningen. During the last game, Timman played with a broken hand without his knowledge! The Open tournament ended in a four-way tie between Zaven Andriasian of...
After winning the world title in Chennai, Magnus Carlsen hasn't been sitting still. Not even mentioning the hundreds of interview requests from all over the world (including the German Playboy!), Carlsen was in London for a G-Star RAW fashion show...
The 2013 World Youth Championship was held in Al Ain, UAE from December 18-28, 2013. There were sections for players Under 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, and 8. There were also these sections for girls in those age categories. This World Youth was the larges...
The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced that the deadline for player's participation in the Candidates’ Tournament is 20 January 2014. If anyone decines to participate, first reserve is Fabiano Caruana of Italy who came third in the ...
