The clash between Vishy Anand and Mickey Adams in round 6 of the London Chess Classic looked to be heading for a draw when the world champion committed a huge blunder on the move after the time control. The audience and commentators held their br...
Magnus Carlsen won yet another game at the London Chess Classic in the fifth round against Mickey Adams. It was quite a recovery in the game for Carlsen who had been a pawn down and looked to be in trouble. Yet, in just a few moves the situation...
If you were one of the many chess fans who tuned in for the live online broadcast of the opening ceremony of the London Chess Classic you will know that it started slightly later than advertised. The reason for the delay was the London traffic ho...
When Magnus Carlsen won his fourth round game against Gawain Jones in the London Chess Classic today, he not only took the sole lead in the tournament - he also achieved the highest ever 'live' Elo rating. It was a fighting display by the 2012 Br...
The 2012 FIDE Tashkent Grand Prix has ended with a 3-way tie for first place between Sergey Karjakin, Wang Hao and Alexander Morozevich on a score of 6½/11. Alexander Morozevich and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov had led into the final round, but their f...
Round three of the London Chess Classic pitted the two early leaders Vladimir Kramnik and Magnus Carlsen against each other. Between them they have also won all the previous editions of this tournament (Carlsen in 2009 and 2010, Kramnik in 2011)...
The leadership of the Tashkent Grand Prix changed yet again in the penultimate round when Sergey Karjakin lost his game to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Joining Mamedyarov to share the lead is none other than early tournament leader Alexander Morozevic...
Round two of the London Chess Classic pitted world #1 Magnus Carlsen against #2 Lev Aronian, and a dramatic 6-hour game ended in victory for the Norwegian. So Aronian has made the worst possible start with 2 losses, while in contrast Carlsen has ...
The 2012 Commonwealth Chess Championships took place in Chennai, India from 22 November - 1 December. The competition was an 11-round Swiss with 150 players taking part. Sergey Tiviakov and Lalith Babu both finished on a score of 9½ points, wi...
Sergey Karjakin is the sole leader of the Tashkent Grand Prix after his former co-leader Fabiano Caruana lost against Wang Hao in round 9. Karjakin drew his game with Boris Gelfand to lead with a score of 5½/9, but six players are just half a po...
The 2012 London Chess Classic kicked off today with fiercely fought battles in all four games in the first round. First to finish was Vladimir Kramnik who extended his excellent record against Judit Polgar with another comfortable win. The #1 wo...
The official chess rating list for the month of December 2012 has been published by FIDE. After a busy tournament schedule led to lots of changes on the November list, this time there have been fewer events and not much movement (the on-going Tas...
FLASH REPORT - Anna Ushenina of Ukraine has become the 2012 Women's World Chess Champion by defeating Antoaneta Stefanova on tie-breaks 1½-½. Ushenina drew the first rapid tie-break game with the black pieces and won the second wit...
The 2012 Women's World Championship will be decided by a tie-break playoff after Antoaneta Stefanova dramatically equalised the scores with Anna Ushenina in the last game of the 4-game final match. Tie-breaks take place today (Saturday) at 15:00 ...
The opening ceremony of the 2012 London Chess Classic took place today, and is available for replay here. Following the conference, the players took on the Twittersphere and scored an easy victory in 22 moves! The tournament organiser Malcolm Pe...
Peter Leko scored his first win of the Tashkent Grand Prix by beating Gata Kamsky in round 8. The former world championship challenger outplayed his American opponent, who is clearly in bad form in this tournament. Joint tournament leaders Serg...
The 2012 London Chess Classic runs from 1-10 December at the Olympia Conference Centre. This is the 4th edition of the tournament, and has the strongest line-up yet. The select group of players are: World #1 Magnus Carlsen, world #2 Lev Aronian,...
Sergey Karjakin defeated the early leader Alexander Morozevich in round 7 of the Tashkent Grand Prix to take the lead. Morozevich was struggling to hold on for a draw in a rook endgame, when he erred with 52...Rc7+?? which allowed Karjakin to an...
Anna Ushenina wins the third game of the final match! Official website report: In the third games of the Women’s World Championship final Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) and Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) played the Slav Defense. The Bulgarian went f...
Alexander Morozevich regained the sole lead at the FIDE Grand Prix in Tashkent by beating Leinier Dominguez in round six. Morozevich's win was the only decisive game of the round, leaving him half a point clear. Leinier Dominguez (right) was Al...
PRESS RELEASE: KCF Students Troff, Sevian Win Gold at World YouthSAINT LOUIS (November 26, 2012) -- Sam Sevian and Kayden Troff each won a gold medal at the World Youth Chess Championship, which concluded in Maribor, Slovenia, on November 18. (l ...
Official Website Report: The second game between Antoaneta Stefanova and Anna Ushenina was a short draw The second game of the Women’s World Championship match between Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) and Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) featured an interes...
Early leader Alexander Morozevich lost his first game in the fifth round of the Tashkent Grand Prix against Ruslan Ponomariov. That result allowed four players, including Ponomariov, to catch Morozevich on a score of 3/5 at the top of the standi...
Official Website Report: Anna Ushenina and Antoaneta Stefanova agreed to a draw. Today, November 27, Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) and Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) played the first game of the final match. The Ukrainian had White, in a well-known o...
