After all the remarkable twists and turns of the 2012 Tal Memorial, it was the world #1 Magnus Carlsen who finished on a high, beating Luke McShane to win the tournament with a score of 5½/9. In an incredibly close finale, if McShane had beaten C...
The 2012 Tal Memorial has been one of the most unpredictable and exciting tournaments for years, and it's not over yet! Fabiano Caruana won his eighth round game against Vladimir Kramnik to take the sole lead on 5 points with just one round remai...
The planned "Kings" Tournament in Medias, Romania from 23 June - 4 July has unfortunately been indefinitely postponed by the organisers. The 2012 tournament was due to be the 6th edition (being held in Bazna until last year) and was set to inc...
Both the co-leaders of the Tal Memorial in Moscow lost their 7th round games to blow the tournament standings wide open. With just two rounds remaining, five players are tied on 4 points! Alexander Morozevich played another dangerous game and af...
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has hinted that he may stand for the FIDE Presidency in 2014 in order to remove the incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who has held the post since 1995. In an interview with Stefan Löffler for the German nati...
Alexander Morozevich's luck ran out in round six of the 2012 Tal Memorial. Despite some great creative attacking play against Hikaru Nakamura, he blundered near the time control and lost his first game of the tournament. That allowed Vladimir Kr...
The Russian Chess Federation has denounced the decision by the Turkish Chess Federation President Ali Nihat Yazici’s to ban arbiters from England, Georgia, Germany, France, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States of America from officiating at ...
After four rounds of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Kazan, the Armenian Elina Danielian leads the field with a score of 3 points. The surprise of the tournament so far has been the poor start by Hou Yifan. The women's world champion lost her sec...
GM Anatoly Karpov asserted his dominance in the blitz portion of the match to secure the victory.By WGM Jennifer Shahade SAINT LOUIS, June 14, 2012 -- Former World Champion Anatoly Karpov defeated four-time U.S. Champion Yasser Seirawan in a matc...
Alexander Morozevich is showing his best form at the 2012 Tal Memorial, and he won his third game in the fifth round to claim the sole lead by beating Lev Aronian. It was a thrilling game, with Aronian preempting Morozevich's threatened kingside ...
Blitz Showdown Between Karpov, SeirawanBy WGM Jennifer ShahadeSAINT LOUIS, June 13, 2011 -- The rapid portion of the clash between legends, Anatoly Karpov and Yasser Seirawan ended in two draws. In the first game, Karpov achieved a dominant positi...
The fierce determination of the players was unchanged in round 4 of the Tal Memorial, but the only decisive game saw Fabiano Caruana defeat an overambitious Evgeny Tomashevsky. The game of the day was unquestionably the fantastic effort from Magn...
Karpov, Seirawan Head to Rapid in Saint LouisBy WGM Jennifer ShahadeSAINT LOUIS, June 12, 2012 -- Both classical games in the Anatoly Karpov-Yasser Seirawan match were drawn, but not without two long fights. The match between legends is underway a...
From June 8-10, two fierce 8-player round robins were contested by 16 of the most talented, skilled, and tough chess kids in the U.S. One group contested the title of U.S. under-12 Invitational Champion, and the other group U.S. under-8 Invitation...
Karpov, Seirawan Round 2 in Saint Louis PRESS RELEASE: SAINT LOUIS, June 11, 2012 -- Former World Champion GM Anatoly Karpov and four-time U.S. Champion GM Yasser Seirawan will play the second of their two classical games today at 1 p.m. Central ...
Whatever happened to Veselin Topalov? Just over 2 years ago he was a strong challenger for the world chess championship, just losing out to Vishy Anand in an exciting match. Since then the Bulgarian seems to have struggled to recapture anything ...
The first two rounds of the 2012 Tal Memorial in Moscow produced plenty of games worthy of the great former world champion, and round three delivered more of the same. One of the highlights of the day came from an unlikely source. Luke McShane h...
The Chess Olympiad is a huge biennial celebration of chess, with national teams from virtually every country in the world participating. Sadly, it as also frequently a magnet for controversies, and the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Turkey has followed t...
Teimour Radjabov took an early lead at the Tal Memorial today by beating Luke McShane to start with two wins from two games. McShane had been holding his own against the Azerbaijani, but blundered on the last move before the time control to lose ...
PRESS RELEASE: 1000passions.com and Chess NYC are very excited to offer an exciting chess event with Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in New York City: A premier Chess Fantasy Camp. Campers will join Magnus for a fascinating evening filled with lecture...
The FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Kazan takes place from 9-23 June 2012. The Kazan Women's Grand Prix is the fourth in a series of six tournaments to determine the challenger for the 2013 Women's World Championship, against reigning champion Hou Yif...
Chess.com's 6th Blitz Chess Death Match will take place Sunday, June 17th at 11:30am Pacific (2:30pm Eastern) and will feature the "strongest matchup" so far in any Death Match! England's Gawain Jones (pictured right), currently ranked #93 in the ...
There were four decisive results out of five games in the first round of the 2012 Tal Memorial in Moscow today. Perhaps the innovative blitz tournament to decide the pairings helped warm up the players for the main event! The only game to end as...
The blitz tournament appetiser for the 2012 Tal Memorial was won by Alexander Morozevich, who scored 6½/9 points. Morozevich took the €5,000 first prize on tie-breaks from Magnus Carlsen thanks to his victory over the world's #1 in their individu...
