On Tuesday Ding Liren took over the lead from Etienne Bacrot in round 8 of the Biel Chess Festival. The 20-year-old Chinese grandmaster beat Richard Rapport with Black in a King's Indian, while Bacrot drew his Grünfeld game with Maxime V...
Etienne Bacrot still tops the leaderboard at the Biel Chess Festival after what was a very exciting seventh round on Monday. The Frenchman miraculously held the draw against Ding Liren, who is still a point behind the Frenchman. How...
After 3 rounds, Michael Adams tops the standings with 2.5 points at the 41st Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund, Germany. The English grandmaster won in rounds 2 and 3, both times in a Berlin Ending: first with White against Andreikin,...
Etienne Bacrot maintained his lead at the Biel Chess Festival on Saturday with a quick draw against Ian Nepomniachtchi in a Grünfeld. After round 6, Ding Liren is in second place; the Chinese GM beat Alexander Moiseenko in a 5.Bf4 Q...
The 41st edition of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund, Germany started on Friday with a gripping first round. Favourites Fabiano Caruana (Italy) and Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) started with wins, against Dmitry Andreikin (Russia) and Wang Hao...
In yet another fascinating round in Biel, Etienne Bacrot of France grabbed sole lead by defeating Richard Rapport of Hungary in a Botvinnik Semi-Slav. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave missed several wins against Alexander Moiseenko in a c3-Sicilian while Di...
With aggressive gambit play in a Symmetrical English, Ding Liren of China crushed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in Thursday's fourth round at the Biel Chess Festival. Equally sharp was the game between Alexander Moiseenko and Etienne Bacrot, wh...
Wednesday's third round at the Biel Chess Festival saw three draws, but again the players went for a real fight. The quickest result was seen in Alexander Moiseenko vs. Ian Nepomniachtchi, a Gruenfeld where Black equalized quickly ...
Tuesday's second round at the Biel Chess Festival saw three decisive games. Etienne Bacrot, Alexander Moiseenko and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won their games and took an early lead in the Breisacher Memorial. The tournament follows the football ...
The 46th edition of the Biel Chess Festival has started on Monday. This year, the main event is a memorial for Olivier Breisacher, the festival's tournament director who sadly passed away last summer during a holiday. The first round saw three dra...
GM Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian started well with four straight wins early on and eventually defeated GM Robert Hungaski by a three-game margin on Saturday in Chess.com's Deatch Match 16. The final score was 13-10 although the contest, which happened ...
Los Angeles city councilman Paul Krekorian introduced a resolution on behalf of World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand during Anand's recent visit to Southern California in July 2013. "Vishy" Anand, as he is often called, was in Los Angeles by i...
Computer Chess is a remarkable film about a computer vs. computer chess tournament in 1980. It has begun its theatrical run on July 17th, after it has screened at prestigious film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and Berlin. The reviews have ...
The 2013 Commonwealth Open Championship in Port Elizabeth, South Africa ended in a three-way tie for first place between Abhijeet Gupta of India, Sergey Fedorchuk of Ukraine and Sergey Tiviakov of the Netherlands. The...
On Saturday Eduardo Iturrizaga won the strong annual open tournament in Benasque, Spain. The 23-year-old grandmaster from Venezuela edged out Maxim Rodshtein of Israel and Aleksander Delchev of Bulgaria on tiebreak after the three players had fini...
Wesley So clinched the gold medal at the 27th Universiade, also known as the World University Games or Olympics for students. The 19-year-old grandmaster from the Philippines, who studies at Webster University as part of Susan Polgar's Instit...
With the two top boards finishing in quick draws, the FIDE Grand Prix was decided just a few hours into the final round: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the event, and Alexander Grischuk ended on second place. The two split the point with Bori...
Last Sunday World Champion Viswanathan Anand played a match against the World via Chess.com's “Vote Chess” platform. Unfortunately the game could not be finished due to technical problems, but the Indian legend did join ...
After a penultimate round with some unexpected results, the top of the leaderboard at the FIDE Grand Prix didn't change much on Monday. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) lost to Alexander Morozevich (Russia), but kept his half-poin...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov was the only winner of the day in Beijing and so Azerbaijan's number one grandmaster is the sole leader at the FIDE Grand Prix after nine rounds of play. On Sunday Mamedyarov defeated Anish Giri of the Netherlands rather...
On 9th July 2013 Chess in Schools and Communities (CSC) was presented with the Innovative Project Award at the 2013 Sport and Recreation Alliance Awards sponsored by specialist insurance company Hiscox. The award was presented to the charity&rsquo...
Going into the second and last rest day, Alexander Grischuk and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov are still in shared first place at the FIDE Grand Prix in Beijing. Both players drew their games in round 8, against Anish Giri and Wang Yue ...
After a most spectacular seventh round in Beijing, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Alexander Grischuk are sharing the lead at the FIDE Grand Prix. Mamedyarov quickly beat Veselin Topalov, who all of a sudden got his knight trapped in the middl...
In what was a truly dramatic game, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov defeated Sergey Karjakin on Wednesday to join his opponent in the lead at the FIDE Grand Prix in Beijing. Alexander Grischuk, who drew with Black against Veselin Topalov, is the th...
