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...
GM Hou Yifan (FIDE 2609) of China got out of the blocks early against GM Anna Ushenina (FIDE 2500) of Ukraine at the 2013 Women's World Championship in Taizhou, China. Playing in her home country, Hou is the former title holder, and seeks to retak...
Hometown GM Hikaru Nakamura is protecting his turf perfectly so far at the first Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, but today he wrestled for the win instead of unwrapping any gifts. A game of swings with fellow American GM Gata Kamsky ended with the ...
Any risk of the four grandmasters playing it safe to open the first-ever Sinquefield Cup turned out to be unfounded. A packed house at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis witnessed a lot of drama to open the event. Both games cou...
The top two players in the world - GM Magnus Carlsen (FIDE 2862) and GM Levon Aronian (FIDE 2802) - and the top two American players - GM Hikaru Nakamura (FIDE 2774) and GM Gata Kamsky (FIDE 2733) - begin the intimate and historic Sinquefield Cup ...
Thanks to an 8th-round win and final round draw, GM Pavel Eljanov of Ukraine jumped past the field late to take the 14th Karpov Tournament in Poikovsky, Russia. The winner beat tail-ender GM Ivan Cheparinov in the penultimate round, then drew GM V...
After the longest Death Match in history, GM Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany toppled Dutch GM Loek van Wely by the final score of 14.5-11.5. The German grandmaster, playing under the username CaptainJames, took control of the 5+1 and 1+1 se...
Nearly every match in week two of the United States Chess League (USCL) produced a winner, as seven teams got the better end of the four-game contests. Three teams remained perfect; they are all from the Western Conference. Miami and Dallas in t...
With two rounds to go, three players are in shared first place at the strong Karpov Tournament in Poikovsky, Russia: Ernesto Inarkiev (Russia), Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine) and Alexander Motylev (Russia). This group is on 4.5 points, and a full point a...
On Sunday September 1st the tradition of Moscow Blitz Chess Championship was upheld for the 67th time at Krasnaya Presnya Park. The main triumph of the championship was Sergey Karjakin. A notable guest of the tournament was World Chess Federation ...
On Monday Vladimir Kramnik emerged as the glorious winner of the FIDE World Cup, one of the toughest chess competitions in the world. The 38-year-old Russian grandmaster drew the fourth classical game of the final with his compatriot Dmitry Andrei...
Both games 2 and 3 of the World Cup final in Tromsø, Norway ended in draws. On Saturday Dmitry Andreikin got an advantage out of the opening, but then he underestimated his chances and didn't play the critical continuation. On Sunday Vladimir Kram...
On Friday Vladimir Kramnik beat Dmitry Andreikin in the first game of the World Cup final in Tromsø, Norway. In a Queen's Gambit Declined, the 14th World Champion sacrificed his queen for a rook, bishop and protected passed pawn and eventually won...
New time controls, new faces and a new schedule brought excitement to the first week of the U.S. Chess League. Fans saw a little bit of everything — a 4-0 sweep, an all-FM lineup, and plenty of cross-town and intrastate battles. The defend...
Dmitry Andreikin and Vladimir Kramnik reached the World Cup final on Wednesday by beating Evgeny Tomashevsky and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave respectively in the tiebreaks of the semi-finals. Each player beat his opponent 1.5-0.5 in the two rapid games....
Tiebreaks on Wednesday will have to decide which players will reach the World Cup final (and with it a ticket to the 2014 Candidates tournament). Both games on Tuesday ended in draws: Tomashevsky vs. Andreikin after 29 moves and Kramnik vs. Vachie...
