The 40th Annual World Open took place at the Sheraton City Center Hotel in Philadelphia from 2-8 July 2012. The main event was a 9 round Open Swiss which was won by Ivan Sokolov in an exciting Armageddon playoff with Alexander Shabalov after ...
There was a big turnaround on the final day of the World Rapid Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, when Sergey Karjakin scored 4½/5 to overhaul rival Magnus Carlsen. Vassily Ivanchuk played a large part in the final result, losing on time to Ser...
After the second day of play in the World Rapid Chess Championships in Kazakhstan, Magnus Carlsen has a commanding lead of 1½ points from the world class field. After 10 of the 15 scheduled rounds Carlsen remains undefeated on 8½ points, securing...
PRESS RELEASE: Magnus Carlsen is coming back to Biel To celebrate its 45th anniversary, the Biel Festival is pleased to announce that World Number 1 Magnus Carlsen, who has already won twice in Biel (2007 and 2011), will come back for the 2012 ed...
One of the most well known and respected professional chess coaches in the world, as well as one of the first online chess tutors in the U.S., will be joining the Chess.com Team, contributing content regularly to our website starting this July.&nb...
After the first day of the World Rapid Chess Championship in Kazakhstan, Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin are joint leaders with a score of 4½ points out of 5. Alexander Grischuk, Veselin Topalov and Teimour Radjabov are their nearest challenge...
The finals of the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships start Friday 6 July in Astana, Kazakhstan. The time control for the rapid championships is 15 minutes plus 10 second increment, and the time control for the blitz championship is 3 min...
The 7th Edmonton International Chess Festival took place from 27 June - 2 July in Alberta, Canada. The competition was a 10-player single round robin using the 3-1-0 scoring system. The profile of the event was raised considerably by the partici...
The 40th Annual World Open is underway in Philadelphia. The event takes place at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel and runs from 2-8 July. There projected prize fund is $250,000 and there is a guaranteed minimum of $200,800. The main...
FIDE have published the official July 2012 chess rating list and Magnus Carlsen has maintained his #1 position, gaining 2 points to stand at 2837 Elo thanks to his victory at the Tal Memorial. Lev Aronian's poor performance at the same event cont...
A chess match between national teams from China and Russia will take place from 1-9 July 2012 in St.Petersburg, Russia. Male and female teams of 5 players from both countries will compete in separate Scheveningen format competitions (each team me...
A new tournament has been announced by the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) at short notice with an interesting format which takes chess 'back to the future'. The ACP Golden Classic will take place in Amsterdam from 14-22 July alongside t...
The 65th Russian Higher League Championship was held from 16-27 June in Tyumen, Siberia. The "Higher League" serves as a qualification event for the main Russian Chess Championships in August, where the top players are seeded directly into the ev...
The fate of famous old chess Grandmasters is not always a happy one, so it is heartwarming to learn of the rededication of the grave of Polish-born Grandmaster Johannes Zukertort (1842-1888). Thanks to the collaborative efforts of Dr Marek Stel...
Field, Prizes Increased for 2012 U.S. Junior Closed Championship PRESS RELEASE: SAINT LOUIS, June 26, 2012 -- The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis has increased both the size of the field and the prize fund for the 2...
The 5th Karen Asrian Memorial took place from 16-25 June in Jermuk, Armenia. GM Karen Asrian (pictured) passed away in 2008, aged just 28. In chess-mad Armenia, Karen Asrian was strong enough to represent his country, including being part ...
Peter Svidler won the Čez Chess Trophy, beating David Navara 3-1 in their 4-game match in Prague. The match was part of the Čez Chess Festival which took place from 20 - 24 June in Malostranská Beseda, which included simultaneous displays by both...
Humpy Koneru and Anna Muzychuk shared victory in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Kazan, Russia with 7½/11 points. Long-time leader Elina Danielian ran out of steam, losing her last three games to finish back in 6th position. Women's world champio...
AGON APPOINTS PENTAGRAM TO REPOSITION CHESS FOR THE WORLD STAGE PRESS RELEASE: LEADING design agency Pentagram has been hired to rebrand the World Chess Championships, after the World Chess Federation (FIDE) accorded the commercial rights to the s...
Chess.com's 7th Blitz "Match of Death" will take place on Sunday, July 29th at 3pm Pacific (6pm Eastern) time. The match is set to feature the highest rated player in Filipino history, Grandmaster Wesley So, against the youngest Grandmaster i...
For the 10th successive year the #1 Czech player David Navara will play a match against a strong Grandmaster as part of the Čez Chess Festival in the city of Prague. This year Navara faces the six-time Russian champion, and 2011 World Cup winner,...
In yet another thrilling Blitz Death Match we saw two very strong Grandmasters go head to head and entertain us all for three hours with their amazing rapid chess skills! The favorite on paper, and the highest rated (FIDE) competitor ever to parti...
After eight rounds of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Kazan, Russia, Elina Danielian has continued to perform strongly, and now leads with six points. Anna Muzychuk is just half a point behind on 5½ points, followed by Koneru Humpy and Viktorija C...
CCSCSL Partners with KCF on Elite Training Program PRESS RELEASE: Club provides five-year grant to train next generation of U.S. chess champions SAINT LOUIS, June 18, 2012 – The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCS...
