The US team scored the upset of the day in round 7 of the Women's World Team Championships, beating Russia by a score of 2½-1½. That unexpected result drops Russia to third in the standings, allowing China to move up to second place thanks to th...
Top seeds Ukraine increased their lead at the Women's World Team Championships in Kazakhstan by thrashing France 4-0 in round six. Second placed Russia were held to a draw by Georgia in a match where all the games were decisive, while defending ...
The Russian Chess Federation has announced the establishment of a new tournament in honour of the fourth world chess champion Alexander Alekhine. The Alekhine Memorial will be a 10-player single round robin tournament held jointly in the Louvre i...
After five completed rounds of the 2013 Women's World Team Championship in Kazakhstan, Russia are leading the competition, just ahead of Ukraine in second, and China in third place. Standings After 5 Rounds # Team MP BP TB 1 RUSSIA 9 16 33.50 2...
The 20th Bunratty Chess Festival took place from 1 - 3 March in Ireland, featuring 39 players in a 6-round Swiss "Masters", and a 10-player single round-robin "Classic" competition. Â The Masters event starred perennial rival English grandmasters...
With a little over a week to go before the start of the 2013 Candidates Tournament in London to determine the next challenger for Vishy Anand's title, the pairings and tickets for the event have been released. As previously announced on the offic...
One of the competitors at the Women's World Team Championships in Kazakhstan is Melia Salome (pictured), representing second seeds Georgia. Melia played her first game of the tournament in the second round, where she defeated Natacha Benmesbah to...
The Women's World Chess Team Championship 2013 is underway in Astana, Kazakhstan. The competition features 10 national teams, with 4 players plus a reserve for each team. The format is a 9-round single round-robin event from 2-12 March at a ti...
It's here! The 2nd Annual Death Match Qualifier will take place from April 1st-May 1st, and will determine the participants for the 15th Chess.com Death Match - to be held on Sunday, June 9th! As of May 1st, the highest-rated active blitz player...
The Cappelle-la-Grande 2013 tournament took place from 23 February - 2 March in France. The tournament was a strong and huge 9-round Swiss Open with over 550 players taking part! The competition finished with Sanan Sjugirov of Russia as a nar...
It was a thrilling final round at the Zurich Chess Challenge, with both games ending in victories for the white pieces. Vladimir Kramnik reverted to a more traditional opening choice, playing the Berlin with black against Vishy Anand. In respons...
Right on time as usual, FIDE have published the official chess rating list for March 2013. There are not many changes the top since the February list after a relatively quiet month. Vishy Anand's return to form at the Grenke Chess Classic gained...
The 2013 Reykjavik Open finished with a 3-way tie for first place on 8/10 points between Pavel Eljanov, Wesley So and the Egyptian GM Amin Bassem. The tournament will be remembered as the event where 13 year-old Wei Yi gained his 3rd GM norm to b...
Both games were drawn in the fifth round of the Zurich Chess Challenge, leaving Fabiano Caruana as the sole leader on 3/5 points going into the final round. Seldom can a tournament have been so hard-fought, yet had so few decisive games! In roun...
Fabiano Caruana finally broke the deadlock at the Zurich Chess Challenge in the fourth round, beating world champion Vishy Anand to take the overall lead! The game was a complicated struggle arising out of the Ruy Lopez, with Anand sacrificing on...
A 13-year old Chinese player Wei Yi (pictured) has qualified to become the youngest Grandmaster in the world! Wei Yi is currently sharing the lead at the Reykjavik Open with a score of 6½/8, which is already a strong enough performance to earn hi...
Vladimir Kramnik continued his strategy of avoiding his normal opening repertoire in dramatic fashion in round 3 of the Zurich Chess Challenge. Kramnik surprised the audience, commentators and his opponent Fabiano Caruana by playing the dynamic B...
Vladimir Kramnik enjoyed the white pieces for the second day in a row at the Zurich Chess Challenge, this time taking on the world champion Vishy Anand. With one eye on the crucial Candidates tournament in London starting in less than 3 weeks tim...
The pairings for the opening round of the Zurich Chess Challenge pitted Fabiano Caruana against Vishy Anand, and Vladimir Kramnik against Boris Gelfand. Italian-American Caruana had already faced the world champion twice this month in Baden-Baden...
Fabiano Caruana won an opening double-round robin blitz competition on the eve of the Zurich Chess Challenge, just beating Vladimir Kramnik in the final standings. The blitz contest came as something of a surprise since there were no hints on the...
World Champion Vishy Anand aims to repeat his recent success in the Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden when he takes part in the Zurich Chess Challenge 2013 from 23 Feb - 1 March. The Zurich tournament is a 4-player double round-robin featuring ...
While Vishy Anand was winning the 6-player double round-robin Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden recently, a 9-round Swiss competition was taking place alongside the main event. The winner was top seeded Etienne Bacrot (pictured) of France with ...
The 2013 Reykjavik Open is underway in Iceland, featuring more than 30 Grandmasters in a 10-round Open Swiss competition. The top seed is the young Dutch star Anish Giri, followed by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France and David Navara of the Czech ...
Over the course of many years, the Aeroflot Open in Moscow established itself as one of the biggest and strongest Open tournaments in the world. Sadly, the 2013 edition of the event held from 12-17 February had a completely revised format. Inste...
