AGON, the company set up to organise and promote the commercial activities of the World Chess Championship competition cycle, have issued a press release with the results of a survey about chess. The survey was conducted by the polling organisat...
Anton Korobov won the 2012 Ukrainian Chess Championship which took place from 26 July - 7 August in Kiev. It was an excellent result for Korobov (pictured), who finished a full point ahead of the very strong field with an undefeated score of 8/11...
Ivan Cheparinov of Bulgaria won the 2012 Politiken Cup on superior tie-breaks from Ivan Sololov and Jonny Hector after they all achieved a score of 8/10 points. It was a tight competition, with a crowd of 15 players finishing with 7½ points, just...
The winner of the recently completed 30th International Andorra Open was a familiar name to Chess.com members! A certain GM Jon Ludvig Hammer took first place on superior tie-breaks after four players finished with a score of 7 points. A total...
The 99th edition of the British Chess Championships took place from 23 July - 4 August in North Shields, Tyne and Wear. Despite the absence of Nigel Short, Michael Adams and Luke McShane, the 11-round Swiss event proved very competitive and fans ...
FIDE have announced further changes to the previously announced tournament allocation for the 2012/13 FIDE Grand Prix series. Sergey Karjakin was due to play in the first Grand Prix in London, but will now play in Berlin instead. Peter Svidler i...
The 65th Russian Chess Championship "Super-Final" is underway in Moscow. The field comprises the invited players Sergey Karjakin (pictured), Alexander Grischuk, Peter Svidler, Dmitry Jakovenko and Evgeny Alekseev, and five qualifiers from the "Hi...
Wang Hao quickly crushed Anish Giri in his final game at Biel to leave Magnus Carlsen needing a win against Etienne Bacrot to successfully defend the title he won last year. While Hikaru Nakamura also ended on a high by beating Victor Bologan, Ca...
Magnus Carlsen was unable to beat Anish Giri with the black pieces in the penultimate round at the Biel GM Tournament, but his co-leader Wang Hao lost to last-placed Victor Bologan to fall a point behind the world's #1 ranked player. Hikaru Nakam...
The official August 2012 chess rating list has been released by FIDE. It's the first of the new monthly rating lists. Previously lists had been published every 2 months, which was itself a recent improvement on the long-established practice of q...
You can NOW register for the match by clicking here!!! World Champion Viswanathan Anand will play a match against the World via Chess.com's "Vote Chess" platform on August 13th 2012 at 10:30 AM PST. Chess.com LLC and Metropolitan Chess, Inc have...
Magnus Carlsen and Wang Hao both won their 8th round games at the Biel GM Tournament to remain locked together as co-leaders on 16 points. Carlsen inflicted another defeat on poor Victor Bologan, while Wang Hao continued his excellent form by bea...
Grandmaster Wesley So jumped out to a commanding 6-0 lead against Grandmaster Ray Robson in Chess.com's 7th Blitz Death Match, and he never looked back! In arguably the most lopsided Death Match yet, the Filipino #1 dominated the entire match, fin...
World #1 Magnus Carlsen followed up his win on the 'rest day' at the Biel GM tournament by beating the leader Wang Hao with the black pieces to catch him in the standings. It had seemed an unlikely victory for Carlsen for much of the game, but th...
The French Grandmaster Sebastien Feller, along with his compatriots GM Arnaud Hauchard and IM Cyril Marzolo have been suspended from playing in FIDE events for cheating in the 2010 Chess Olympiad. . The cheating was originally uncovered by the Fre...
Magnus Carlsen finally got to play his postponed third round game at Biel today on the 'rest day' of the event. Carlsen had been due to play Alexander Morozevich when the Russian withdrew from the competition due to illness. There was a lot of...
Women's world champion Hou Yifan has sealed victory in the Jermuk Grand Prix with a score of 7/11 despite suffering her only loss in the final round to Kateryna Lahno. The result also ensures that with one tournament remaining, Hou cannot be caug...
Anish Giri was the only winner in round six of the Biel GM tournament, narrowing the gap to leader Wang Hao to just 2 points. Magnus Carlsen held Hikaru Nakamura to a draw with the black pieces, and Etienne Bacrot's game with Wang Hao also ended ...
Wang Hao has extended his lead at the Biel GM Tournament by winning his fourth game of the tournament against Victor Bologan. With the 'Bilbao' scoring system being used wins count for 3 points so Wang has a commanding total of 12 points, 4 point...
The 2012 Biel GM Tournament is certainly proving to be incident packed! In round four Wang Hao defeated Anish Giri to take over as leader with an impressive 3 wins so far. The other decisive game of the day came from Hikaru Nakamura who won a rea...
The surprise withdrawal of Alexander Morozevich from the 2012 Biel GM Tournament due to illness has disrupted the balance of this 6-player double round robin event. After losing his opening two games, Morozevich was due to play Magnus Carlsen tod...
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Statement of the Biel Organising Committee Due to health issues, Alexander Morozevich retired from the Biel Grandmaster Tournament after Round 2. He has been this Wednesday with the organisers of the Festival to a hospital, where a doctor confirm...
The Biel Grandmaster tournament is underway at the 45th Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland. Nakamura was the winner of the opening exhibition blitz event, but in the first round of the main tournament he came under considerable pressure from Magn...
