The third Chess Train tournament, organized by the Prague Chess Society and Czech Railways, was won by the legendary Czech grandmaster Vlastimil Hort. This year the train had chosen the trail Prague – Regensburg (Germany) – Innsbruck (Austria) - S...
In the last round of the Kings’ Tournament in Bucharest Wang Hao defeated Ruslan Ponomariov in a Semi-Tarrasch to finish on 4.5/8. The Chinese GM ended only half a point behind tournament winner Fabiano Caruana, who drew his last-round game ...
Andrew Paulson, the 55-year-old entrepreneur whose company Agon has the rights to organize FIDE events for many years to come, was elected President of the English Chess Federation at the federation's Annual General Meeting last Saturday. Nigel Sh...
Fabiano Caruana has to wait a bit longer before he'll pass the 2800 rating mark. In the penultimate round of the Kings’ Tournament, the Italian GM unexpectedly lost to Wang Hao of China to drop back to 2792.9 in the live ratings. After seven encou...
With two rounds to go in Bucharest, Fabiano Caruana has secured at least a shared victory at the 7th Kings’ Tournament. In round 8 the Italian GM beat Ruslan Ponomariov with the black pieces to reach 4.5 out of 6 while Liviu-Dieter Nisi...
Peter Svidler won the Russian Championship Superfinal on Monday in Nizhny Novgorod. The grandmaster from St Petersburg beat Ian Nepomniachtchi 1.5-0.5 in a rapid playoff after both had finished on 6.5/9. It is Svidler's 7th Russian ...
Hit by the financial crisis, Tata Steel was forced to decrease its budget for the annual chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands. The 76th edition will have two Grandmaster groups instead of three and only twelve players instead of fourt...
Levon Aronian won the 6th Masters Final in Bilbao. The Armenian grandmaster drew his last round game with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to finish on 10 "football" points (two wins and four draws). Michael Adams beat Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the last roun...
The 2014 Reykjavik Open, from March 4th-12th, 2014 in the capital of Iceland, will be the 50th anniversary edition of what is quite a special open tournament. The 2012 edition was voted the third best open tournament in the world by the ...
Earlier this week we posted the news that Garry Kasparov is going to run for FIDE President. The 2014 elections will be held during the FIDE Congress, at the Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway. Kasparov announced his candidacy during this week's FIDE Cong...
Most of the clashes in week seven of the United States Chess League (USCL) were definitive. All but one of the eight meetings produced a winner, and a 4-0 whitewash occurred for only the second time this season out of 56 total matches. The season...
Michael Adams, the winner of this year's super tournament in Dortmund, is leading the Masters Final in Bilbao half-way. After three of the six rounds, the English grandmaster has 5 points according to the "football scoring system" that's tradition...
John Healy is an alcoholic. John Healy is a chess champion. John Healy is an award-winning author. John Healy is a yogi. John Healy is complicated. Using a cold opening, Director Paul Duane dives head first into "Barbaric Genius," a documentary...
Peter Svidler is the sole leader after four rounds at the Russian Championship in Nizhny Novgorod. Winning three games and drawing one, the six-times Russian Champion is half a point ahead of Nikita Vitiugov. World's number 2 Vladimir Kramnik suff...
On Monday night in Tallinn (Estonia) Garry Kasparov announced his candidacy for the 2014 FIDE Presidential Elections. The 13th World Champion aims to "revitalize FIDE with a focus on serving the national federations and raising the commercial prof...
After a dozen years with the IM title, Irina Krush is finally a GM-elect. She becomes the first American woman to achieve the threshhold while representing the U.S. The first norm came right after becoming an International Master, then nothing fo...
During the final round (report here) of the Grand Prix in Élancourt (Paris) Chess.com's Jason Stoneking and Leslie McAllister created a number of videos, which deserve a separate post here in the news section! First, we'll embed the ro...
By virtue of winning all three segments, GM Judit Polgar cruised over GM Nigel Short in Chess.com's Death Match 18 on Saturday. The final margin was 17.5-10.5, with Polgar winning especially big in the three-minute segment (6-2). The two played ...
The award-winning chess documentary "Brooklyn Castle," which follows the successes and financial hardships of powerhouse I.S. 318 in New York City, will air this Monday on PBS. Check your local listings for the exact time. PBS representatives sai...
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The FIDE Grand Prix in Élancourt was won by Fabiano Caruana and Boris Gelfand, as all games in the final round ended in draws. This means that Shakhriyar Mamedyarov keeps his second place in the overall GP standings, and with it h...
The FIDE Grand Prix in Élancourt (Paris) will see an exciting last round as Fabiano Caruana can still win the tournament outright, and thus qualify for the 2014 Candidates Tournament. On Thursday tournament leader Hikaru Nakamura ...
It was a great week to play Black as everything got more cloudy in week six of the United States Chess League (USCL). Some of the top teams fell, and several divisions had the bottom of the standings inverted at week's end. Overall, the Black pie...
Amsterdam, October 3rd, 2013 — Chess.com today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ChessVibes.com, the leading website for chess news. The agreement combines the strengths of Chess.com, the number #1 online chess commun...
All games in round 9 of the Grand Prix in Élancourt ended in draws. Hikaru Nakamura is still leading the tournament, with two rounds to go. With six draws on Wednesday the drawing percentage at the Grand Prix went up to 68.5% again, making it cle...
