In the fifth round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Beijing, Sergey Karjakin maintained his half point lead after drawing his black game with Boris Gelfand. There's a new number two: Alexander Grischuk, who beat Shakhriyar Mamedyarov with the white piece...
The 41st World Open ended in an unusually large tie for first place. After nine rounds of fighting chess during the 4th of July weekend, a group of ten grandmasters finished on 6.5 points and shared the top prizes: Varuzhan Akobian (Kansas), ...
Going into the first rest day, Sergey Karjakin has a half point lead over Shakhriyar Mamedyarov at the FIDE Grand Prix in Beijing. On Sunday the Russian GM drew a very theoretical game very quickly with Alexander Grischuk, and saw Mamedyarov winni...
Having won his first three games, Sergey Karjakin is having an excellent Grand Prix tournament so far. On Saturday the 23 year old grandmaster won against Alexander Morozevich with the black pieces to increase his lead in Beijing to a full point. ...
At the Beijing Grand Prix Sergey Karjakin won his second consecutive game and he's now the only player left with a perfect score. On Friday the Russian crushed Wang Hao of China with the white pieces, while the other five games ended in ...
The first day at the Beijing Grand Prix was a good day for Black, with three games ending in draws and three '0-1' results. Alexander Grischuk (Russia), Sergey Karjakin (Russia) and Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) all won and took an early lead, but th...
Only a week after the Tal Memorial has finished, chess fans can enjoy another super strong tournament: the 5th FIDE Grand Prix. It starts on Thursday in Beijing, China and has Boris Gelfand, Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk, Vassily Ivanchuk, Gata K...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) won the first Geneva Chess Masters on Sunday after beating Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) 1.5-0.5 in the final. The tournament was a rapid knockout event with a group phase on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, semifinal...
World Champion Viswanathan Anand will play a match against the World via Chess.com's “Vote Chess” platform on July 14th at 10:30 AM PST. Chess.com LLC and Metropolitan Chess, Inc. have partnered up once again to make this amazing ...
Fabiano Caruana is officially the world's number 3 player. The Italian, who also has an American passport, gained 22 ratings in the July 1st FIDE rating list and surpassed Vladimir Kramnik, who lost 19 points. World Champion Viswanathan Anand lost...
On Saturday Ernesto Inarkiev won the Russian Championship Higher League in Yekaterinenburg. This tournament served as a qualifier for the Russian Championship Super Final, which will be held later this year. Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexander Moty...
Humpy Koneru emerged as the winner of the FIDE Grand Prix which finished today in Dilijan, Armenia. The Indian finished a point ahead of Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia) and Anna Muzychuk (Slovenia). The latter tops the standings in the Grand Prix after t...
Tamaz Gelashvili won the New York International on Sunday. The Georgian grandmaster was the only player to finish on 7/9, and so he pocketed the $5000 first prize. Like last year, no less than five norms were scored: 2 GM norms and 3 IM norms! T...
Yuriy Kryvoruchko won the Ukrainian Championship on Wednesday with a score of 7.5/11. Former FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov had the same score, but a slightly worse tiebreak. Anton Korobov, who won the championship last year, finished half ...
The first Geneva Chess Masters starts on Wednesday in Geneva, Switzerland. It's a brand new rapid tournament where three World Champions and a female chess legend will be playing, as well as three participants of the recently concluded Tal Memoria...
On Sunday, IM Daniel Naroditsky went clutch to win his final game of the 2013 U.S. Junior Closed Championship, breaking a tie with FM Luke Harmon-Vellotti and earning the crown in clear first – proving, once again, that slow and steady wins ...
IM Daniel Naroditsky of California and FM Luke Harmon-Vellotti of Idaho met in round 2 of the 2013 U.S. Junior Closed in a game that fizzled into an uninspiring draw. And after quickly trading his way down to an opposite-colored bishop snoozer, Na...
Tomorrow he turns 45, and today he got himself a great birthday present. Boris Gelfand won the 8th Tal Memorial on Sunday in Moscow, and with it the golden trophy and the € 30,000 (US $39,420) first prize. Gelfand, who was the oldest particip...
Though three players emerge in the endgame of the 2013 U.S. Junior Closed Championship – IM Daniel Naroditsky, FM Luke Harmon-Vellotti and FM Samuel Sevian – their lines to get here couldn’t have been any different. By Brian Je...
Anything is possible at the Tal Memorial where Boris Gelfand is still the leader after today's penultimate round, but with the smallest possible margin. The new runner-up is Magnus Carlsen, who defeated Hikaru Nakamura in a topsy-turvy game. In an...
The final results are in for the 2nd Annual National Online Inviational Championship! This event once again brought together many of the nation's best youth chess players to compete for the only existing "online" chess championship title. Curren...
In three days from now he will turn 45. He is the oldest participant. And he's leading the Tal Memorial after seven rounds! Boris Gelfand defeated tournament leader Hikaru Nakamura on Friday with Black, and took over the lead from America's number...
As if Luke Harmon-Vellotti didn’t get enough cake from his sixth-round match versus WFM Sarah Chiang, he got to eat it, too, when Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura helped analyze the game afterward. By Brian JerauldDuring his off day from the Ta...
Sit on your chair and hold tight, because we have some very exciting news regarding our Blitz Death Matches scheduled for this fall... Editions #17 and #18, in September and October, will have four absolute world class chess players: GMs Arkadij N...
