The 2nd Gran Fiesta UNAM Chess festival took place from 16-25 November in Mexico City. The festival comprised of a number of competitions and displays including a 9-round Open event and a women's competition, but the highlight was the involvement ...
Alexander Morozevich still leads the FIDE Tashkent Grand Prix with 3/4, but the chasing pack just half a point behind is getting bigger! Fabiano Caruana won his second game in a row by beating Boris Gelfand, while Wang Hao piled on the misery fo...
64 players started the event, but after 15 days of the 2012 Women's World Chess Championship knockout tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk, we have arrived at the last 2 players that will contest the final. Former champion Anoaneta Stefanova will be aim...
The third round of the Tashkent FIDE Grand Prix produced two more decisive games in what promises to be a closely fought competition. The joint winner of the first Grand Prix in London, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, scored a nice win against Peter Svid...
Report by IM John Bartholomew From Nov. 6-19 I was in Maribor, Slovenia for the 2012 World Youth Chess Championship (WYCC). The World Youth is an annual 11-round event with multiple age categories: U-8, U-10, U-12, U-16, and U-18, with both "gi...
Alexander Morozevich took the sole lead with a score of 2/2 at the FIDE Grand Prix in Tashkent with a superb win against Fabiano Caruana in the second round. Caruana came unstuck in a rook endgame and was punished by accurate moves by Morozevich...
Official website report The first games of the Women’s World Championship semifinals were played in Khanty-Mansiysk Antoaneta Stefanova from Bulgaria took the lead against the Indian Harika Dronavalli, winning the first game of the match with Wh...
The second FIDE Grand Prix of the 2012/13 series got underway in Tashkent today with first round wins for Sergey Karjakin and Alexander Morozevich. Sergey Karjakin impressively outplayed Leinier Dominguez with the black pieces, while Alexander M...
The quarter-finals of the 2012 Women's World Championship were completed today, with three of the matches needing tie-breaks to decide the result. The only match which ended in the standard time-control games was Anna Ushenina of Ukraine defeatin...
Despite not being a full-time chess professional, Luke McShane is currently ranked the #1 English player ahead of experienced pros Nigel Short and Mickey Adams. McShane will shortly be taking part in the London Chess Classic which has been a happ...
Grandmasters Parimarjan Negi and Alejandro Ramirez have both confirmed their participation in Chess.com's 10th Blitz Chess Death Match, set to take place on January 12th, 2013 - with pre-match interviews starting at 6:00 PM Pacific, 9:00...
The second Grand Prix of the 2012/13 series runs from 21 November - 5 December in Tashkent. The overall winner and runner-up of the 2012/13 Grand Prix series qualify for the March 2014 Candidates Tournament. The first contest in London was won ...
OFFICIAL WEBSITE REPORT Nadezhda Kosintseva, Ju Wenjun and Huang Qian advanced to the quarterfinals. The match of Kosintseva sisters lived up to expectations and was the most tense and dramatic in the round. The elder sister dominated in the...
PRESS RELEASE: The annual Polgar Chess Festival, in its sixth edition by now, has firmly established itself as a very prestigious social event, where celebrities, athletes, artists, scientists, businessmen, politicians and most importantly childr...
Five players have booked their place in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Women's World Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk. The five are Antoaneta Stefanova, Anna Ushenina, Zhao Xue, Harika Dronavalli and Marie Sebag. The three remaining 3rd round matc...
PRESS RELEASE: The pairings for the 2012 London Chess Classic are now available. This year, instead of involving the players themselves in the draw at the opening ceremony, the draw was conducted by Liverpool’s Sacred Heart Primary School as a ...
An amazing second round of the Women's World Chess Championship has ended the title challenge of the top three seeds in the competition! Reigning champion Hou Yifan and third seed Anna Muzychuk both lost on tie-breaks today, joining Humpy Koneru ...
Second seed Humpy Koneru has crashed out of the 2012 Women's World Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk at the second round stage. The Indian Grandmaster needed a win with the black pieces to take her match with Natalia Zhukova to tie-breaks, but inst...
The second round of matches in the Women's World Chess Championship got underway today in Khanty-Mansiysk. Reigning champion and top seed Hou Yifan won her first game against Monika Socko with the black pieces to put herself in a strong position ...
Eight tie-breaks from the first round of the Women's World Championship were completed today in Khanty-Mansiysk, leaving 32 players to advance to the second round. Three of the tie-breaks were decided by the 2-game rapid playoff games at 25 minu...
Vassily Ivanchuk was victorious in the Kings Tournament in Bucharest after winning a tie-break playoff with Veselin Topalov. The pair had finished level on 3½/6 after they drew their final round game with each other. Fabiano Caruana was unabl...
Veselin Topalov beat local GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in round 5 of the Kings Tournament. Despite some enterprising play during the tournament, this is only the second decisive game so far after Vassily Ivanchuk's win against the same player in t...
A total of 24 players have already booked their place in the second round of the 2012 Women's World Championship KO competition in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. All the top seeds are safely through, but 8 matches remain to be decided by tie-breaks tom...
Vassily Ivanchuk still leads the Kings Tournament in Bucharest after both fourth round games ended in draws. It was a round of missed opportunities, as local GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu let Vassily Ivanchuk escape with a repetition draw, while Fab...
