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...
The 2012 FIDE Women's World Chess Championship is underway in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The reigning champion, 18-year champion Hou Yifan of China, is defending her title in a 64-player knockout format tournament. The Women's World Championship ...
Vassily Ivanchuk still leads the Kings Tournament in Bucharest by half a point after both round three games ended in draws. Ivanchuk could make no headway against Fabiano Caruana with the white pieces, while Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu used his fir...
Fabiano Caruana missed a clear opportunity to gain his first win of the Kings Tournament in Bucharest in round two. The Italian star faced Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu and seemed to have victory in sight before a crucial slip gave his Romanian opponent...
Vassily Ivanchuk leads the the 2012 Kings Tournament after beating Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. The popular Ukrainian put his recent loss to Anatoly Karpov in Cap d'Agde behind him to make the perfect start in the first round in Bucharest. The other...
Anatoly Karpov added yet another tournament victory to his long list of triumphs by winning the Cap d'Agde rapid tournament which bears his name - the "Trophée Anatoly Karpov". The chess festival in the French resort of Cap d'Agde took place from...
The organisers of the annual Tata Steel chess festival in Wijk Aan Zee have today announced the confirmed line-ups for the A and B Groups at the 75th edition to be held from 11-27 January 2013. Despite the difficult economic environment, the A Gr...
The 16th Corsica Masters rapid tournament took place from 28-31 October. The competition started with a 9-round Swiss Open with over 150 players competing for 8 qualifying places, where they joined 8 invited players for a KO competition to decid...
GMs So, Meier Headline Thanksgiving Open in St LouisPRESS RELEASE: SAINT LOUIS (October 31, 2012) -- Grandmaster Wesley So of the Philippines and Grandmaster Georg Meier of Germany headline the strongest field in the history of the Thanksgiving Op...
The latest official rating list from FIDE comes after a busy October, so apart from a few players (most notably Vladimir Kramnik) almost everyone's rating has changed. Magnus Carlsen came within a single victory of breaking Garry Kasparov's all-t...
This Sunday, Women's Grandmaster Tatev Abrahamyan pulled off the biggest upset win of any Blitz Death Match to date when she defeated International Master Anna Zatonskih in what was one of the most viewed broadcasts in Chess.com/tv history! With...
The 2012 Chigorin Memorial is underway in St Petersburg, Russia. The tournament is a 9-round Swiss event taking place from 27 October - 4 November. The contest has attracted a strong field in honour of the "Father of Russian Chess", with 26 playe...
Hikaru Nakamura finished a comfortable winner of the Crown Group at the 2012 Unive Tournament in Hoogeveen, Netherlands with a final score of 4½/6. Already leading by a point at the halfway mark, the American champion defeated his nearest rival S...
The opening two rounds of the 2012/13 German Chess League took place last weekend. The Schachbundesliga is arguably the strongest national chess league in the world, with 271 top players from 31 countries competing for the 16 league teams. The...
Hikaru Nakamura is leading the Crown Group at the 2012 Unive Tournament in Hoogeveen, Netherlands at the halfway point. Nakamura has won both his games with the white pieces, and drawn with black to lead by a clear point from Sergei Tiviakov. To...
The "Kings" Tournament in Romania was scheduled to take place in June/July this year, but was postponed due to the "global financial crisis and the unstable political situation in Romania". Now the official website has confirmed that the delayed...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the 2012 SPICE Cup in St.Louis with a score of 6/10. The 6-player double round-robin competition at Webster University was a closely fought affair, with only a few decisive games but lots of fighting chess. The Fren...
The 7th Continental Chess Championship took place from 12-21 October in Mar del Plata, Argentina. The championship is open to all players from Americas (North, Central and South) of any rating. A rare chance for those with more modest ratings to...
Webster University freshman GM Ray Robson has won the 2012 SPICE Cup Open. He scored 5 wins, 4 draws, and no losses to win with a score of 7/9. The competition format was a 9 round Swiss featuring 13 GMs and a total field of 43 players. There w...
The 2012/13 season of the German chess league, the Schachbundesliga, starts this weekend. The Schachbundesliga is one of the strongest national chess leagues in the world, with 271 top players from 31 countries competing for the 16 league teams. ...
In addition to the 6-player double round-robin invitational SPICE Cup featured in an earlier report, there is also an Open competition taking place from 16-20 October at the SPICE Cup Chess Festival in St.Louis. The format is a 9 round Swiss fea...
The 16th Unive Tournament will take place from 19 - 27 October in Hoogeveen, Netherlands. The main event is the Crown Group, a 4-player double round robin featuring reigning US Champion Hikaru Nakamura (pictured), the #2 ranked junior Anish Giri,...
Socar Azerbaijan completed a remarkable comeback to win the 2012 European Cup! After losing in the first round to Ashdod, SOCAR Azerbaijan had an uphill task, but they won all six of their remaining matches to take the team Gold Medal (previo...
Yermolinksy Inducted into US Chess Hall of FamePRESS RELEASE: October 17, 2012 (St. Louis, MO) – The World Chess Hall of Fame is proud to announce that Alex “Yermo” Yermolinsky will be officially inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame on Octob...
