Still, no one can find distance in the standings at the 2013 U.S. Junior Closed Championship.Wednesday marks the players’ rest day after Tuesday’s round 5 pushed the nine-game round-robin tournament past its halfway point. But despite ...
Hikaru Nakamura is on a roll at the Tal Memorial in Moscow. In the sixth round, the 25-year-old American grandmaster won against World Champion Vishy Anand, and he is now the clear leader with three rounds to go. Boris Gelfand, who went into the r...
Nobody is safe on top of the 2013 U.S. Junior Closed Championship.After a third round that saw two perfect-score frontrunners fall with the white pieces, Monday at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis was more of the same for the le...
The fifth round of the Tal Memorial was marked by Magnus Carlsen's crushing victory over Viswanathan Anand, the two players who will play a match for the world title later this year. It was over in a mere 29, and it wasn't even clear which was the...
SAINT LOUIS (June 17, 2013) -- For the first time ever, World Championship challenger GM Magnus Carlsen will play a high-profile tournament in the United States.The World’s No. 1 ranked player will take on three other top-ten players in Sain...
Hikaru Nakamura scored his third straight win at the Tal Memorial to become the sole leader after four rounds. On Monday he beat Fabiano Caruana from the black side of a Sicilian Najdorf. Because Andreikin-Carlsen, Anand-Gelfand, Morozevich-K...
On a day where separation was on the order, just the opposite was on the plate. “This tournament hasn’t even started yet,” said IM Daniel Naroditsky after the third round of the 2013 U.S. Junior Closed Championship. “Ever...
Pairings for Round 2 of the 2013 U.S. Junior Closed Championship looked more like those from a Swiss system than the actual round robin in place. After a completely decisive first round on Friday at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Lo...
The first two rounds of the Tal Memorial were great, and the third round was not bad either! Hikaru Nakamura impressed once more with a smooth win over Sergey Karjakin in a Grünfeld, World Champion Viswanathan Anand won his first game i...
There were just 15 minutes of focus at the opening ceremony of the 2013 U.S. Junior Closed Championship – when the players selected numbers to determine who would control the majority of the white or black pieces. But the impact of those sel...
Wesley So won the National Open, part of the Las Vegas International Chess Festival held 6-9 June at the Riviera Casino & Hotel in Las Vegas. The Philippine grandmaster tied for first place with Jaan Ehlvest, Varuzhan Akobian, Alejandro Ramire...
In the second round of the Tal Memorial, Hikaru Nakamura bounced back from his quick loss. And how! With the black pieces the American grandmaster defeated Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, who thus started with two consecutive losses. Fabiano Caruana, ...
The first round of the 8th Tal Memorial lived up to its expectations, with three decisive games and lots of excitement. The top encounter between Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik, the two players who tied for first at the London Candidates Tour...
The 8th Tal Memorial was opened officially on Wednesday with a brief opening ceremony and a spectacular blitz tournament, won by Hikaru Nakamura (USA). Reigning World Champion Viswanathan Anand (India) and 14th World Champion Vladimir Kramnik (R...
It was a match full of contrasts: the 26th Ciudad de Leon, between Vassily Ivanchuk and Anish Giri. In this experience versus rising star battle, chess was played at three different time controls. Adding to the confusion, Ivanchuk scored the mos...
World number four GM Fabiano Caruana won the Chess.com Death Match 15 Sunday afternoon by a score of 16-9 over GM Valeriy Aveskulov, but the score did not reflect the proximity of most of the match. Although qualifying based on his bullet rating,...
Le Quang Liem won the gold medal at the FIDE World Rapid Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia and took home the first prize of US $40,000. Not bad at all for two days of blitz! But it was far from easy: the players had to go through thirty gr...
Thus far the chess fans have been spoilt with many strong tournaments in 2013, and yet another one is going to start in only three days: the Tal Memorial. With Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand in the line-up, it's surely one ...
Ian Nepomniachtchi went into the final day as the big favourite, but in the end it was Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan who emerged as the winner of the FIDE World Rapid Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. That final day was marked by Ma...
Sergey Karjakin won the first edition of the Sberbank Rapid tournament, part of the Sberbank International Chess Festival in Kiev, Ukraine. The Russian grandmaster, who recently won the super strong Norway Chess tournament, continued his great f...
Chess fans have already set their calendars for this Sunday's Death Match 15 (noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific), featuring our highest-rated participant ever, world number four GM Fabiano Caruana. He'll face off against the bullet maestro GM Vale...
This week a number of big events are taking place and they have one thing in common: they're all rapid chess, or quickplay, another word to describe games that generally last less than an hour in total. We're talking about the Sberbank Festival in...
They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Well, my journey of a thousand news reports* started with a story in March 2008 about plans for the official website coverage of Vishy Anand’s world title defence against Vladi...
At the closing ceremony of the Thessaloniki Grand Prix, FIDE President Kirsan Illyumzhinov announced that Beijing would host the fifth Grand Prix of the 2012/13 series from 3-17 July. The overall winner and runner-up of the 2012/13 Grand Prix ser...
