Yu Yangyi of China and Aleksandra Goryachkina of Russia won the gold medals at the World Junior Championship which concluded Thursday, September 26th. Title holder Alexander Ipatov (Turkey) won silver and Santosh Gujrathi Vidit of India took bronz...
After a few quiet days, the Grand Prix in Élancourt heated up again on Monday with four decisive games. Hikaru Nakamura was worse throughout his game, but defended well and even won as Vassily Ivanchuk lost on time in a drawn position. The America...
With the most credentialed chess player and female chess player of all time looking on, four young Hungarian stars bested their American counterparts Sunday in the first USA-Hungary Youth Rapid Match. The event was co-sponsored by Chess.com and wa...
Fabiano Caruana and Alexander Grischuk, the two players who have so much to gain in Élancourt, both lost their games in round 7 of the Grand Prix. On Sunday Caruana went down against Hikaru Nakamura in a Grünfeld, where a queen sacrifice didn't wo...
As the only winner of the sixth round, Fabiano Caruana caught Boris Gelfand in first place at the Grand Prix in Élancourt (near Paris) on Saturday. The Italian grandmaster beat Vassily Ivanchuk with White in a Classical French, while Gelfand drew ...
On Friday Alexander Grischuk and Etienne Bacrot both won their black games at the Grand Prix in Élancourt (near Paris). In this fifth round, Grischuk beat Vassily Ivanchuk in a Grünfeld. Anish Giri's loss to Bacrot was his third in the tournament;...
In a short, friendly match held in Nový Bor, Czech Republic Veselin Topalov defeated Viktor Laznicka with a 4-2 score. The Bulgarian won games 1, 4 and 6 and lost game 2. A second match took place at the same time in which Czech junior FM Tadeas K...
At the halfway pole in the United States Chess League (USCL), one team now stands above all others, and every division has a sole leader. The week had plenty of theoretical endings - they were not always handled correctly, but that gave fans a ch...
Leinier Dominguez and Vassily Ivanchuk won their games in the fourth round of the Grand Prix in Élancourt (near Paris). Dominguez beat Anish Giri in a rook ending that started as a Bc5 Ruy Lopez. In a Queen's Indian against Laurent Fressinet, Ivan...
A spectacular third round at the Grand Prix in Élancourt (near Paris) saw four decisive games, and two that lasted more than six hours. Fabiano Caruana beat Laurent Fressinet in a double rook ending on move 39, Hikaru Nakamura needed 35 moves to w...
ChessKid.com is hosting and co-sponsoring the USA vs. Hungary Youth Rapid Match, part of the Polgar Chess Festival. The festival, which is held for the seventh time, takes place Sunday, September 29th, 2013 at the Palace of Arts in Budapest, Hunga...
Alexander Grischuk, one of the favourites to win the Grand Prix in Élancourt (near Paris), suffered an early loss against Laurent Fressinet in the second round on Monday. The Frenchman played the rare move 4.Bf4 against Grischuk's Queen's Indian, ...
Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky joins the Chess.com/tv broadcasting team this Tuesday for Week 5 of the United States Chess League (USCL). He'll join FM Mike Klein in commentating on the games live. The broadcast will begin at 7:45 p.m. Eastern with ...
The sixth and last Grand Prix of the 2012-2013 series started on Sunday in Paris, France with five draws and a win for Boris Gelfand, who beat Anish Giri. The tournament is mostly about the big fight between Fabiano Caruana and Alexander Grischuk,...
Needing only seven of the alotted 10 games, Chinese GM Hou Yifan convincingly won the 2013 Women's World Championship in Taizhou, China, by beating title-holder GM Anna Ushenina of Ukraine. Hou Yifan first won the title in 2010, then lost it last ...
In a week of East versus West in the United States Chess League (USCL), both conferences took wins in four of the eight matches, but the West has the only two undefeated, untied teams in the league. In Tuesday's matches, the New York Knights (sea...
GM Hou Yifan now has three wins and three draws from six games against Women's World Champion GM Anna Ushenina in their best-of-ten series. The Chinese teenager, playing near her hometown in Taizhou, now only needs one point from her final four ga...
GM Magnus Carlsen only needed a draw to clinch the first Sinquefield Cup and the winner's $70,000 payday. He was offered one, and declined. Carlsen eventually won against GM Levon Aronian, securing the world number one a plus three score and grab...
On a day when any number of outcomes were possible, GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Magnus Carlsen drew without too many fireworks to remain in the same tournament positions. With one round to go in the first Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, Nakamura ...
A second win as Black has widened GM Hou Yifan's lead over GM Anna Ushenina in the 2013 Women's World Championship Match in Taizhou, China. The challenger drew an uneventful game in round two but won convincingly in round three. Hou Yifan aga...
The Sinquefield Cup leaderboard experienced a shakeup in round four as both Americans suffered through, and ultimately lost, worse endgames. Pre-round tournament leader GM Hikaru Nakamura breezed through the first half of the tournament, winnin...
More than three-quarters of the 16 spots for the 5th London Chess Classic have now been filled. The festival will take place from December 7-15, 2013, with the marquee event running for the final five days. GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Boris Gelfand, G...
Parity in the East and runaway trains in the West - the third week of the U.S. Chess League (USCL) season further differentiated the way the two conferences are shaping up. All three undefeated Western Conference teams - the Sharks, Destiny and M...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's prospects at the Sinquefield Cup remain bright, and he felt like wearing shades. Although he was unable to press enough to take out GM Magnus Carlsen for the first time, the bespectacled tournament leader got the bet...
