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...
The "Kings" Tournament in Medias, 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". It had seemed that this indefinite postponement ...
After five completed rounds of the European Chess Club Cup in Eilat, Israel, the Saint Petersburg Chess Federation lead with a perfect match score of 5 wins from 5. St. Petersburg will now face top seeds SOCAR Azerbaijan in round six. SOCAR A...
The German grandmaster Georg Meier has taken an early lead at the 2012 SPICE Cup in St. Louis. Lowest seeded Meier defeated Ding Liren of China in the second round to record the only decisive result of the competition so far. The tournament is ...
Magnus Carlsen won the 5th Chess Masters Final in a tie-break playoff with Fabiano Caruana after both players drew their final round games in Bilbao. Caruana took a quick draw with black against Paco Vallejo, who seemed happy to make a quick exit...
Recent Chess.com news articles about the Chess Masters Final in Bilbao have led to healthy debate in the comments about what it means to be the "best" player in the world. Magnus Carlsen is ranked #1 on the FIDE rating list, but Vishy Anand still...
Webster University and Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) host the 2012 SPICE CUPPRESS RELEASE Six of the best chess players in the world – two of them members of the new Webster University chess team – will compete in the 201...
Local hero Paco Vallejo is comfortably the lowest rated player at the Chess Final Masters, but he produced a thrilling rook sacrifice in round 8 against world #2 Lev Aronian. With both players running short of time in a complicated position, it ...
The 28th European Chess Club Cup is underway in Eilat, Israel. The competition will run from 11-17 October and features the top European clubs with very strong players representing them. Top seeds SOCAR Azerbaijan will face still competition fr...
Magnus Carlsen made it two wins from two games in Bilbao, drawing level on points with Fabiano Caruana at the top of the leaderboard in the Chess Masters Final. Magnus had the white pieces against tournament underdog Paco Vallejo Pons, and made h...
The second half of the Chess Masters Final kicked off today in Bilbao with Fabiano Caruana holding a 4-point lead after the opening Sao Paulo leg a week ago. Magnus Carlsen lost against Fabiano Caruana in the opening round in Sao Paulo, but he ex...
The 13th Poikovsky Tournament in honour of Anatoly Karpov took place from 28 September - 7 October in Russia. The tournament has had less media coverage than its strength might suggest, partly due to it clashing with several other big tournaments...
In August there were conflicting and worrying reports that former world chess champion Boris Spassky had either fled, or been taken against his will, from his home in Paris back to Russia. Spassky had lived in France with his third wife since 197...
The 72nd Ukrainian Women's Championship took place from 25 September - 3 October in Kharkiv. The format was a 10-player single round-robin with the top seed being Kateryna Lahno. It was a very strong event for a national women's chess champions...
FIDE PRESS RELEASE FIDE announces the qualifiers to the coming World Cities Team Championship for the Sheikh Zayed Cup scheduled 21-29 December 2012 in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Olympiad champion Armenia will lead 32 city teams in the $150,...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov held a half point lead going into the final round of the 2012 FIDE London Grand Prix at Simpson's-In-The-Strand. Playing with the white pieces in the final round the Azeri player took no risk against Peter Leko, aiming to cl...
Hikaru Nakmaura ended his disastrous string of four consecutive losses at the London Grand Prix by beating Anish Giri in the 10th round. However, the top-seeded American still lies in last place with just one round remaining. The other games in ...
After a rest day on Sunday, the refreshed players were in a fighting mood in round 9 of the FIDE London Grand Prix! Boris Gelfand lost his first game of the tournament against Alexander Grischuk, which allowed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to snatch the...
FIDE have published the official October 2012 chess rating list (September list here). The list only includes results from completed tournaments that have been submitted to FIDE in time to be included in the calculations. Results from tournaments...
Fabiano Caruana will take a 4 point lead into the Bilbao leg of the Chess Masters Final after finishing with a draw against world #2 Lev Aronian. The Armenian had a strong position against Caruana, but he slipped at crucial stages and failed to t...
Yesterday, in round 7 of the London Grand Prix, Vassily Ivanchuk and Rustam Kasimdzhanov played a mere 11 moves before agreeing a draw. Well, the rest must have done them good, because they both won their games in round eight - the only players t...
Fabiano Caruana scored his third win in four games at the Chess Final Masters in Sao Paulo to extend his lead in the tournament. Lev Aronian is in second place after drawing with Magnus Carlsen, but the battle between the world's #1 and #2 featur...
Boris Gelfand kept his lead in the London Grand Prix after 7 rounds by beating Michael Adams. Ratings favourite Hikaru Nakamura lost his third game of the tournament against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to prop up the standings. The other games in roun...
Official Website Report Humpy Koneru won the 6th stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Ankara and placed second in the overall Grand Prix series after Hou Yifan. Hou Yifan had already clinched first place in the overall Grand Prix cycle and is ...
