'The Week In Chess' website and weekly online magazine has been an internet fixture for so long that it seemed that it would go on for ever. A announcement today by editor Mark Crowther (pictured) has changed all that, and it seems that this inva...
Vassily Ivanchuk blundered today on top board for Ukraine in round two of the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. Ukraine still won their match with Qatar 3-1, but every game point dropped can be crucial! Elsewhere, Hikaru Nakamura entered the fray...
The 40th Chess Olympiad got underway today in Instanbul, with the usual first round of organised chaos, technical glitches and one-sided contests for the heavyweight teams against weaker opposition. The individual board pairings always spring an ...
Hikaru Nakamura has accepted his invitation to the 2012 London Chess Classic, thereby completing the confirmed line-up of players for this prestigious event. Nakamura joins the select group of players who will compete in the 4th edition of the Lo...
It's nearly here! The 40th Chess Olympiad takes place from 27 August - 10 September in Istanbul, Turkey. The Chess Olympiad is the world's premier international team chess competition - a huge biennial celebration of chess for the biggest team pr...
The 2012 French Chess Championships were scheduled to take place from 13-25 August in Pau, but the competition ended early after the tragic death of the four-month old baby of competitor Christian Bauer. Our sincere sympathies to Christian Bauer ...
Seirawan to Saint Louis as Acting Resident GM PRESS RELEASE: SAINT LOUIS (August 24, 2012) - Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan will arrive in Saint Louis on September 3 to serve as the acting Resident Grandmaster of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center...
A week ago the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov was arrested at a protest outside a Moscow courtroom where three members of the feminist punk-rock band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two-year jail terms for "hooliganism". Kasparov was tod...
37-year old American actor Tobey Maguire, best known for his role as the super-hero Spiderman in three Hollywood blockbusters, is set to play the controversial former world chess champion Bobby Fischer in a new movie. The film, "Pawn Sacrifice", ...
The 40th Chess Olympiad is due to start next week (preview coming soon), but Chennai in India has just hosted the 14th International Blind Chess Olympiad. The competition took place from 10-19 August and featured 25 teams from 24 countries (there...
The 2012 Sants Open is underway in Barcelona, Spain. The A Group competition is a 10-round Swiss event from 17-26 August with over 300 players taking part, including 18 GMs and 39 IMs. The top seeds are Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Grzegorz Gajewsk...
PRESS RELEASE: Great Chess In The Alps! The International Livigno Chess Open is grabbing interest from players from all over the world. Three weeks before the tournament (which will take place from 10th to 17th September in Livigno, a beautiful ...
The 2nd Metropolitan International took place in Los Angeles, California from 14-18 August 2012. A total of 58 players competed in a 9-round open Swiss designed to provide title norms. The top seeds were GM Timur Gareev, GM Robert Hess and GM Va...
The 2012 FIDE World Junior Chess Championship took place from 2-16 August in Athens, Greece. The competition was a 13-round Swiss at a time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to a finish plus a 30 second increment from the start...
SportAccord is an international association of sports federations whose stated mission is to unite, support and promote its members common aims and interests, while conserving and respecting their autonomy. It aims to establishing various multi-s...
Former chess champion Garry Kasparov has been arrested at a protest outside a Moscow court. Inside the courtroom, the feminist Russian punk-rock group Pussy Riot were convicted of "hooliganism" which the judge said was driven by religious hatred....
PRESS RELEASE: SAINT LOUIS (August 15, 2012) Grandmaster Ben Finegold has resigned his position as the Resident Grandmaster at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Citing personal reasons for his departure, Finegold and the Ches...
Chess.com and the US Chess League are happy to announce their cooperation for the USCL's 8th season. The USCL holds a 13-week season (September-November) of chess matches between teams representing 16 American cities, with most of the nation'...
In what was surely one of the most gruelling simuls of GM Viswanathan Anand's career, the World Champion played 20 boards at once with one of those boards belonging to... the World! The 19 "in person" players' ratings ranged from 1800-2350+ USCF...
There was sad news today for the chess world as a legendary Grandmaster, Svetozar Gligoric passed away aged 89. Svetozar Gligoric was born in Belgrade in 1923 and at his peak was a contender for the world chess championship, reaching the Candida...
The 2012 Russian Championship "Super-Final" took place in Moscow from 3-12 August. The format was a 10-player round-robin competition, with a time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes to a finish with a 30 second increment fro...
International Chess Events «Negroponte 2012» 7-9th August 2012 Press Release In the beautiful city of Chalkis, the couple Suat & Ekaterina Atalik was hosted by the direction of the luxurious facilities of Lucy Hotel to conduct the first ...
The word 'indefatigable' could have been invented to describe the great Viktor Korchnoi, who still terrorises his chess opponents at the age of 81. Korchnoi's latest tournament was the 'CEG (Geneva Chess Club) versus Legends' chess tournament whi...
Alexei Shirov has defeated the Czech GM Viktor Laznicka in a 6 game match played in Novy Bor, Czech Republic from 2 - 8 August. The first 3 games were draws but Shirov broke the deadlock to win game 4, and sealed the match victory with another wi...
