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...
PRESS RELEASE: Anand wins the GRENKE Chess Classic The World Champion has won his first classical tournament in almost five years after an enthralling final day’s play in Baden-Baden. It started fast with Anand and Naiditsch blitzing out a rook e...
PRESS RELEASE: Round 9 - Anand catches Caruana The script of the GRENKE Chess Classic had seemed to be carved in stone – a single decisive game a day, the World Champion struggling to win and Caruana surviving scares on his way to an inevitable f...
PRESS RELEASE: Round 8 - History Repeats Itself. Fabiano Caruana has taken a huge stride towards winning the inaugural GRENKE Chess Classic by once again defeating Arkadij Naiditsch from a lost position. Viswanathan Anand was unable to match the ...
PRESS RELEASE Round 7: Meier claims first win There was no love lost between the GRENKE Chess Classic players on Valentine’s Day, with tense fights on all three boards. It was only long after the first time control that Caruana-Anand and Adams-Na...
PRESS RELEASE: Round 6 “The guy’s on fire – he’s been like this for weeks!” That was World Champion Viswanathan Anand on Arkadij Naiditsch, who today overwhelmed Daniel Fridman with a brilliant sacrificial attack to move into second place at the G...
It's official! Rising stars GM Alexander Ipatov and GM Marc Arnold are confirmed to participate in Chess.com's 12th Blitz Death Match, set to take place Saturday, March 30th, at 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern. The two young s...
The Moscow Open 2013, held as part of the Moscow International Chess Festival was won by Russian grandmaster Boris Savchenko. In a complex final round game, he prevailed over his compatriot Pavel Ponkratov. That win allowed Savchenko to score 7½/9...
PRESS RELEASE: Round 5 The GRENKE Chess Classic reached the mid-way point on Rosenmontag, the highlight of the German Carnival season, and a day when paupers can traditionally trade places with kings. It seemed the same might happen on the stage,...
PRESS RELEASE - Round 4: Where would we be without Arkadij Naiditsch? For the third day in a row his game saw a dramatic time scramble and the only decisive result on the stage of the GRENKE Chess Classic. On this occasion he emerged victorious, w...
PRESS RELEASE: For the second day in a row Arkadij Naiditsch lit up the stage of the GRENKE Chess Classic, but on this occasion it was his opponent Fabiano Caruana who was the last man standing after a brutal time scramble. Elsewhere Viswanathan ...
PRESS RELEASE: Arkadij Naiditsch emerged victorious after a rollercoaster 7-hour game that saw the German no. 1 and Mickey Adams jockey for the initiative. That game overshadowed the sharp contest between Viswanathan Anand and Fabiano Caruana, whe...
Fabiano Caruana opened with a win in the first round of the Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden. The Italian-American won a fine game against Georg Meier to take an early lead in this 6-player double round-robin competition. World Champion Vishy...
International Master Benjamin Bok won the 11th Chess.com Blitz Death Match, beating Grandmaster Robin Van Kampen in a thrilling contest by the narrowest possible margin! The final score was Bok 13½, Van Kampen 12½. The match was held on Saturday...
The full line-up for the new super-tournament to be held from 7-18 May 2013 in Stavanger, Norway has been announced, and it's an incredibly impressive list! The tournament is called simply Norway Chess 2013, and the #1 ranked Magnus Carlsen from ...
PRESS RELEASE: The Baden-Baden Chess Centre and fans of top-class chess eagerly await the 1st GRENKE Chess Classic. The double round-robin runs from 7th - 17th February and will pit three of the world’s top grandmasters, including World Champion ...
PRESS RELEASE: The opening round of was not easy for several of the main Russian Cup favourites. Multiple winner of Cup events Denis Khismatullin, and last season's winner of the Top Leagues of the Russian Women Championships Baira Kovanova, both...
The International Chess Festival Moscow Open 2013 runs from the 31st January - 10th February at the Russian State Social University. This huge chess festival consists of nine tournaments: Tournament A – Men’s Cup of Russia Tournament B – Women’s...
The 9th Pan-American Team Chess Championships took place from 24-30 January in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Pan American Continental Championship is an official FIDE event which serves as a qualification stage for the World Team Championships. Teams f...
Nikita Vitiugov of Russia won the 2013 Gibraltar Chess Masters by defeating defending champion Nigel Short in a final tiebreak match after four players finished tied on 8/10. The title was decided in an exciting 4-way rapid playoff. Nikita Vitiu...
FIDE have published the official rating list for February 2013 and Magnus Carlsen is ranked at #1 for the 14th consecutive time. Carlsen extended his lead at the top of the ranking to a huge 62 points, thanks to his 10/13 victory at the Tata Steel...
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2013 Monday 21 January - Thursday 31 January 2013 MASTERS ROUND 6: 28 JANUARY 2013 PRESS RELEASE: FORTY SOMETHINGS ON THE RAMPAGE by John Saunders The story as we left it ... Le Quang Liem of Vietnam and N...
The 2013 Tata Steel Chess tournament took place from 12-27 January in Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands. Magnus Carlsen won the A Group competition with a fantastic score of 10/13, equalling Garry Kasparov's record score in the 1999 competition. T...
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2013 Monday 21 January - Thursday 31 January 2013 MASTERS ROUND 4/5: 27 JANUARY 2013 PRESS RELEASE - THE FOUR AMIGOS John Saunders reports: At the end of round four of the Gibraltar Masters, played at the ...
