The seventh game of the World Championship match in Chennai between Viswanathan Anand, playing the white pieces, and Magnus Carlsen ended in a draw after 32 moves. In another 4.d3 Berlin Ruy Lopez, Anand chose a quiet, positional variation and bot...
On Sunday Azerbaijan won the European Team Championships in Warsaw, Poland. With a 2.5-1.5 win against Greece in the penultimate round followed by 2-2 against Armenia, the team consisting of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Teimour Radjabov, Eltaj...
After a pair of 2.5-1.5 semifinals match wins on Saturday, the Miami Sharks and New York Knights will contest for the 2013 United States Chess League (USCL) title. New York took out New England, while Miami bested San Francisco. The rematch...
On Saturday Magnus Carlsen increased his lead in the World Championship match against Viswanathan Anand to 4-2. In a quiet Ruy Lopez, the 22-year-old Norwegian equalized comfortably, got a slight initiative, won a pawn, then another one but the ro...
France mantained their lead in the open section of the European Team Championship in Warsaw, Poland. After seven rounds the team has 12 match points and is one point ahead of Azerbaijan and Armenia. Ukraine still tops the women's section...
With the white pieces Magnus Carlsen broke the series of draws and scored the first victory versus Viswanathan Anand in game 5 of the World Championship match in Chennai, India. The score is 3-2, with seven games to go — that is, if Anand ma...
Only a month after our long interview with Garry Kasparov in Tallinn, Chess.com got to speak to the 13th World Champion again. At the end of his two-day visit to the Anand-Carlsen World Championship match in Chennai, he gave his opinion on the mat...
The fourth match game in Chennai between Viswanathan Anand, playing white, and Magnus Carlsen ended in a draw after 64 moves. It was an amazing fight that started as a Berlin Ending, in which the World Champion was forced to sacrifice a pawn at an...
France is leading the open section of the European Team Championships in Warsaw, Poland after five rounds of play. The team, consisting of Etienne Bacrot, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Romain Edouard, Vladislav Tkachiev and Hicham Hamdouc...
The third game of the World Championship match in Chennai between Magnus Carlsen, playing the white pieces, and Viswanathan Anand ended in a draw after 51 moves. With Garry Kasparov among the spectators, Carlsen was under pressure but just before ...
While the Anand-Carlsen match hasn't been all too exciting so far, the European Team Championship in Warsaw, Poland is providing many great games which you can play through on this first rest day in Chennai. Czech Republic and France are...
The second game of the World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand, playing the white pieces, and Magnus Carlsen ended in a draw after 25 moves. The crowd was pleased with the World Champ's move 1.e4, which was awarded with applause, as was...
The first game of the World Championship match in Chennai was a short one: after 16 moves and less than 1.5 hours Magnus Carlsen, playing white, and Viswanathan Anand agreed to a draw. The game was watched by about 400 spectators and official...
On Friday the European Team Championship for men ('open') and women took off in Warsaw, Poland. 38 teams in the open group and 32 teams in the women's group are playing a 9-round Swiss and many top players have travelled to the Polish capital...
We're still counting down and it's now less than 19 hours until the start of the much awaited World Championship match in Chennai between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen. On Saturday, November 9th, at 15:00 hrs local time, the players will st...
Three of the four divisional winners advanced in this week's United States Chess League quarterfinal matches, with only the New York Knights overcoming the draw odds that are afforded the favorite. It was also a week in which the top point scorers...
Magnus Carlsen will play with the white pieces in his first game of the World Championship match against Viswanathan Anand on Saturday in Chennai, India. This was the result of the drawing of colors performed by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms...
Wednesday, around 18:00, several journalists and photographers gathered in the hotel lobby. Rumour had it that Magnus Carlsen and his family had left his beach resort, and were on their way to check in at the Hyatt Regency! And indeed, about 1.5 h...
Editor's Note: This is the second of two special world championship preview pieces - take a look at yesterday's piece by GM Jon Ludvig Hammer of Norway here. Published as "News" to keep our regularly featured article content on the homepage, here ...
Editor's Note: This is the first of two special world championship preview pieces - also read the piece by GM Parimarjan Negi of India. Published as "News" to keep our regularly featured article content on the homepage, here GM Jon Ludvig Hammer (...
The Russian organizers have chosen GM Peter Svidler as the lone wildcard to the 2014 FIDE Candidates Tournament, to be held in Khanty-Mansisyk in Siberia from March 12-30. The official statement on FIDE's web site is here. They were free to choo...
I've arrived in Chennai! Typing this from a room on the 9th floor at the official Hyatt Regency hotel in Tamil Nadu's capital, I'm excited to be here and provide on-the-spot coverage of yet another World Championship. After Mexico 2007, Bonn 2008,...
Chess.com will offer a wide array of exclusive, comprehensive coverage of the 2013 World Championship Match between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand - taking place in Chennai, India from November 7th-28th. With live (ChessTV) coverage during...
On Saturday GM David Smerdon of Australia (smurfo) beat GM Simon Williams of England (Ginger_GM) with the score of 17 to 15 in Chess.com's Death Match 19. In what was one of the closest and most exciting Death Matches ever, Williams took the lead ...
