The short & friendly match between Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman in Groningen started with two draws. The two chess legends are playing in the Groninger Museum and two more games are scheduled. Viktor Korchnoi, on the other hand, unfortunately...
The following story was sent to us by one of our readers, with the simple accompanying text: For my friends and for chess lovers. Five years ago – in the autumn of 2008 – I was working as a photographer at the Chess Olympiad in ...
One of our readers sent us a short article with a specially composed chess puzzle where the pieces on the diagram present the year 2014. The puzzle wasn't published before and so it is something new and special for our readers. Thanks Diyan! Diy...
At the 27th SEA Games, 11-22 December in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar several known and lesser known variants of chess were seen: Traditional (=‘Myanmar chess’!), ‘Asean Chess’, Chess960, ‘Transfer Chess’ (=Bughouse) an...
It's the time of lists, Top 10s, Top 2000s, that kind of thing. For chess it's not difficult to determine who has been competing strongly with Magnus Carlsen for the title of person of the year: Borislav Ivanov. (We'll let our readers decide who w...
Viktor Korchnoi will soon return to competitive chess - at least for one tournament. The 82-year-old chess legend suffered a stroke in September 2012, and it was feared that he would never play chess again. However, "Viktor the Terrible" can be fo...
All names of the 2014 Tata Steel tournament's two top groups are known. Hari Krishna Pentala was the 12th player added to the list of the top group ("Masters"), while Radek Wojtaszek, Yu Yangyi and Baadur Jobava top the "Challengers" group in...
Earlier this week GM Maurice Ashley announced a ground-breaking event set for October 2014 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas: Millionaire Chess. The event will feature a million dollars in guaranteed prizes including a $100,000 first prize in the o...
After winning the blitz tournament, Sergey Karjakin also topped the "Basque System" tournament at the World Mind Games in Beijing, China. The Russian grandmaster dominated the tournament with a superb score of 8.5 out of 10. He finished ...
This month Chess.com launched a PDF & PGN magazine called The Master's Bulletin, our first and only "subscription based" product, available for purchase separately from our premium membership products. As the editor, in this news pos...
The European Blitz and Rapid Championships were held last weekend in Warsaw, Poland. On Friday Anton Korobov of Ukraine won the blitz tournament ahead of local hero Radek Wojtaszek and Vladimir Malakhov of Russia. The rapid event was spread o...
Sergey Karjakin of Russia won the blitz tournament of the World Mind Games in Beijing, China. He finished with the same score (19.5 out of 30 games) as Levon Aronian of Armenia, but won their individual match 1.5-0.5. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave&n...
The London Chess Classic's Super Sixteen Rapid tournament was won by Hikaru Nakamura. On Sunday the American grandmaster knocked out Vladimir Kramnik, who blundered terribly in the second game of their semi-final, and then Nakamura beat ...
The London Chess Classic's Super Sixteen has now become the Super Eight and Saturday’s exercise saw the eight whittled down to four. One of the curiosities of this tournament is that, despite the alleged ‘randomness’ of...
So the preliminary stage of the London Chess Classic's Super Sixteen Rapid is over, with the result that all eight starting favourites are through to the quarter-finals (pairings are Kramnik-Anand, Adams-Svidler, Caruana-Gelfand, Short-N...
The rapid section of the World Mind Games in Beijing was surprisingly won by local hero Wang Yue. The 26-year-old grandmaster defeated Peter Leko and caught the Hungarian in the very last round to clinch the first prize. Valentina Gunina won ...
The first session of the Round 3 of the London Chess Classic's Super Sixteen Rapid featured major match-ups between the leaders of Groups C and D, while the players at the foot of the table had to slug it out to rescue their chances of staying in ...
Today the chess section of the World Mind Games started in Beijing, China and many top players are playing. In the men's event, Peter Leko is leading the field with 3.5/4 while Valentina Gunina has a perfect score after 4 rounds in the women's sec...
Fabiano Caruana, Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand started with two wins at the London Chess Classic's Super Sixteen Rapid. It is a 16-player rapid tournament, comprising a group stage followed by a knockout phase. The group stage comprises ...
The organizers of the Navalmoral de la Mata tournament have issued a statement on what exactly happened with Borislav Ivanov, a story Chess.com reported on earlier this week. Because it answers several of the questions that were raised, we deem it...
Today the main event of the 5th London Chess Classic starts: the Super Sixteen Rapid. The participants are Vladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, Vishy Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, Boris Gelfand, Mickey Adams, Peter ...
The chess veterans did slightly better in the second half, but in the end the "Snow Drops vs. Old Hands" match was still won by the talented ladies: 17.5-14.5. Dorfman, Gulko and Uhlmann scored points for the Old Hands team, while Kashli...
The alleged cheater Borislav Ivanov is back. Last week the 25-year-old Bulgarian FM started to play an international open tournament again, in Navalmoral de la Mata, Cacéres, Extremadura (Spain). He started to beat grandmasters and was subs...
In an exhibition match held in Moscow, Russia, the Latvian grandmaster Alexei Shirov outclassed the Russian talent Daniil Dubov: 5-1. Shirov won four games while the first and the last were drawn. In what was a very exciting match, Shirov cle...
