On Saturday Etienne Bacrot won the second Karpov Trophy in Cap d'Agde, France. The French grandmaster beat last year's winner Anatoly Karpov 2-0 in the blitz, after both rapid games had ended in a draw. On Friday Karpov had eliminated Mariya ...
Anatoly Karpov finished the preliminary tournament in Cap d'Agde like he started, and his excellent play resulted in an undefeated 11/14 score. The 12th World Champion qualified for the semi-finals together with Etienne Bacrot, Mariya Muzychu...
Most chess fans are more interested in the live ratings these days, but after a huge number of top events have finished, it's a good idea to check on the official FIDE ratings. The World Chess Federation published its November 2013 list on Thursda...
Week 10 of the United States Chess League (USCL), the last of the regular season, ended with most teams pretty much where they began. Several historical highs and lows were set along the way. Players did not end the season quietly as 27 of the 32 ...
The Anand-Carlsen match starts in less than nine days. Besides the online interview with Vishy Anand, the major German newspaper Die Zeit also published something about his opponent Magnus Carlsen this week. It's not available online but you can f...
In ten days from now, Anand-Carlsen will take off in Chennai — you will hardly have missed that! This particular chess event is so big, that many mainstream media are posting preview articles. One of these is the major German newspaper Die Z...
Last year he won the tournament named after himself, and he's doing well again this year: Anatoly Karpov! The 12th World Champion tops the leaderboard after eight rounds at the Karpov Trophy rapid tournament in Cap d'Agde, France. The other player...
They did it! After beating the mighty SOCAR team on Friday, Novy Bor convincingly set aside Minsk 4.5-1.5 in the last round to become the surprising winners of the 29th European Club Cup in Rhodes, Greece. Malachite of Russia won the sil...
By the skin of his teeth (surviving a mate in two!), Maxim Rodshtein held his black game against Stewart Haslinger to a draw in the final round of the Univé Open. This way the grandmaster from Israel maintained his half point lead to clinch...
Friday's 6th round of the European Club Cup in Rhodes, Greece saw a big upset as SOCAR, the top favorites and current cup holders, lost to Novy Bor. On the lower boards SOCAR's Wang Hao and Anish Giri beat their lower rated opponent...
With one round to go it is clear who will win the 17th edition of the Univé Chess Tournament in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands: Wesley So. The Pinoy grandmaster beat Loek van Wely in round 4 and then drew with Robin van Kampen in round 5 t...
On Thursday top favorite SOCAR maintained a perfect score at the European Club Cup in Rhodes, Greece. Thanks to victories by Veselin Topalov and Wang Hao, the team sponsored by the Azerbaijani state oil company defeated Ugra of Russia. O...
GM Alexander Ipatov and IM Kayden Troff tied for first place at the SPICE Cup Open 2013, held 15th-19th October in Saint Louis, Missouri. The winners finished on 6.5/9, half a point more than a group of six players. For Troff it meant double succe...
The absence of wildcard playoff spots in season nine of the United States Chess League (USCL) has allowed most of the playoff picture to clarify, even with one week remaining. Following the second-to-last week of the season, seven of the eigh...
The fifth round of the European Club Cup in Rhodes, Greece will see the clash between SOCAR and Ugra, the two teams that won their first four matches. SOCAR's top scorer is Gata Kamsky with 3.5/4; Ugra's Anton Korobov has the same score....
The current world's youngest grandmaster, 14-year-old Wei Yi (2580), is the newest marquee name to register for the Third Bay Area International, to be held January 2-8, 2014 in Santa Clara, CA. His participation will make him the youngest GM...
The 2014 Candidates Tournament will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. This was announced yesterday on the FIDE website. The qualifiers are Levon Aronian (rating), Sergey Karjakin (rating), Vladimir Kramnik (World Cup), Dmitry Andreikin (World Cu...
During the first and only rest day of the Univé Tournament's Crown Group, Wesley So enjoys a full-point lead. On Tuesday the Philippine grandmaster won against Robin van Kampen to reach a score of 2.5/3. Van Kampen is the only player with a...
The European Club Cup is under way in Rhodes, Greece and the current holders of the cups are again the favourites this year. In the open section the team sponsored by the Azerbaijan oil company SOCAR has Fabiano Caruana, Teimour Radjabov, Veselin ...
Mickey Adams won Dortmund and finished second in Bilbao to reach the world's top 10, but on Sunday he surprisingly lost his first game in Hoogeveen, The Netherlands to Robin van Kampen in the first round of the Univé Tournament's Crown Grou...
Julio Granda Zuniga, who performed surprisingly well at the World Cup in August, continued his good form and won the first Entrefaros tournament at the Coast of Death in Galicia, Spain. The Peruvian grandmaster finished on 5.5/8 and a 2801 perform...
The opening ceremony of the much awaited World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen in Chennai is scheduled to start in 19 days from now: on Thursday, November 7th, 2013 — "tentatively" at 16:00 local time. Then, o...
On Thursday Alexey Dreev pocketed the $20,000 first prize at the Indonesia Open. The Russian grandmaster finished a full point clear of a group of eight grandmasters which included Alexander Moiseenko and Nigel Short. Antoaneta Stefanova won the w...
A trio of teams have now punched their tickets to the playoffs of the ninth season of the United States Chess League (USCL). New England lost its first match of the year but still backed in, while Dallas and San Francisco both clinched a spot with...
