Two of the most prominent figures in the American Women's chess scene have confirmed their participation for Chess.com's 9th Blitz "Death Match", set to take place Sunday October 28th at 11:30 AM Pacific, 2:30 PM Eastern. International Master Anna...
Hikaru Nakamura lost with the white pieces against Wang Hao in round six of the FIDE London Grand Prix. Nakamura blundered with 45.Nxa4 and resigned two moves later. There were two other decisive results in the round: Veselin Topalov won an im...
Humpy Koneru won her game in the penultimate round of the FIDE Ankara Women's Grand Prix to ensure a nailbiting finish to the tournament and the series! Humpy Koneru must win the Ankara Grand Prix to finish above Anna Muzychuk in the overall Gr...
The 13th Poikovsky Tournament in honour of Anatoly Karpov takes place from 28 September - 7 October in Russia. The tournament is a 10-player single round robin with an international field. Games start at 15:00 local time (09:00 UTC) and 3 October...
In the third round of the Chess Masters Final in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all of the games were hard fought but ended drawn. Therefore Fabiano Caruana still leads the tournament, ahead of Lev Aronian in second place and Magnus Carlsen in third. Thursda...
Anna Muzychuk and Humpy Koneru are fighting for victory in the Ankara Grand Prix, and also for the top spot in the final Grand Prix standings (behind Hou Yifan). In round nine of the Ankara Grand Prix Anna Muzychuk scored a vital win against Hump...
After beating Magnus Carlsen in the opening round of the Chess Masters Final, Fabiano Caruana thrashed Sergey Karjakin in round 2 to claim the sole lead. Magnus Carlsen seemed to show no ill-effects from his traumatic loss to Caruana yesterday, r...
Leader Boris Gelfand was permitted to play his 5th round game at a slightly earlier time by the organisers, in respect of the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur. The result was a draw with the black pieces for the Israeli against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. ...
By the narrowest of margins, FIDE Master Robby Adamson -- a.k.a. "BLITZMASTER" -- pulled out a victory over International Master Dean Ippolito in Chess.com's 8th Blitz Death Match on Sunday. The final match score was 14-13 in favor of Adamson, by ...
The first half of the Chess Masters Final is underway in Sao Paulo, and the first round did not disappoint fans in search of drama! Lev Aronian had the white pieces against Sergey Karjakin, and caught his opponent in some opening preparation to s...
All the games in the 2012 FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Ankara were drawn in round 8, leaving Humpy Koneru with a half point lead over her nearest rival Anna Muzychuk. The Ankara Grand Prix is the final tournament of the 2011/12 Women's Grand Prix s...
Boris Gelfand continued his good start to the 2012 FIDE London Grand Prix by beating Wang Hao in round four to take the sole lead with 3 points. Gelfand's former co-leaders had varying fortunes. Peter Leko was unable to achieve any advantage aga...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov was the only winner on day three of the 2012 FIDE London Grand Prix. Mamedyarov destroyed Anish Giri in just 21 moves to join the leaders Peter Leko and Boris Gelfand on a score of 2 points out of 3. Top seed Hikaru Naka...
Humpy Koneru grabbed the sole lead at the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Ankara in round seven. Humpy beat Ju Wenjun to take her score to an impressive 6 points out of 7 games played so far. Humpy's main rival Anna Muzychuk could only draw with bl...
Although the 2012/13 FIDE Grand Slam series is underway in London, a few of the world's top players have absented themselves from the competition, in the expectation that their place in the 2014 Candidates is already assured. Most of those missin...
Official Website Report All the games were decisive in the sixth round of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Ankara. Humpy Koneru won against co-leader Ruan Lufei in a variation which had happened already in the game Kosintseva-Koneru. Anna Muzychuk...
Hikaru Nakamura and Peter Leko were winners in round 2 of the 2012 FIDE London Grand Prix. Peter Leko took advantage of the inaccurate moves 32...Kf7 and 33...hxg5 from Vassily Ivanchuk to bring home a full point, while Rustam Kasimdzhanov blund...
Official Website Report In the fifth round of the sixth stage of the FIDE Women Grand Prix 2011-2012 in Ankara, a record number of games finished peacefully. The leaders Humpy Koneru and Ruan Lufei drew their games and allowed the rating favorite...
The opening round of the 2012 FIDE London Grand Prix at Simpson's-In-The-Strand produced plenty of effort and high quality chess, but only one decisive game. It was top seed Hikaru Nakamura who came to grief with the white pieces against recent ...
Andrew Paulson, the Chief Executive and Founder of Agon, the company that has been awarded the commercial rights to the World Chess Championships, created a very different opening ceremony for the FIDE London Grand Prix, held last night. The occ...
. The Black Sea Countries Final 2012 tournament ran from 12-19 September in Burgas, Bulgaria. The tournament featured representatives from many countries surrounding the Black Sea: Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Turkey. Ivan Ch...
All but one of the six games played ended decisively in the fourth round of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Ankara. Early leader Ruan Lufei conceded her first draw to compatriot Zhao Xue, allowing Humpy Koneru to defeat Tatiana Kosintseva and shar...
PRESS RELEASE: Double victory for David at the International Livigno Chess Open! Grand Master (GM) Alberto David (Hotel Livigno) has won the 3rd International Livigno Chess Open. The Italian player got the upper hand during the last round against...
The first Grand Prix of the 2012/13 FIDE Grand Prix series will take place at the historic chess venue of Simpson's-In-The-Strand in London between 20 September - 4 October. The overall winner and runner-up of the Grand Prix qualify for the Marc...
