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...
Bu Xiangzhi has won the 3rd Danzhou GM Chess Tournament, repeating his success in the inagural event. Bu finished with 6/9 points, taking first place on superior tie-break score from Ni Hua. The 10-player round robin tournament took place in Da...
The 2012 Tal Memorial super-tournament takes place in Moscow, Russia from 7-19 June. The format is a 10-player single round robin, with rounds starting at 15:00 local time (11:00 UTC), except for the last round which starts two hours earlier. ...
Following directly on from the Women's World Rapid Championship, which was won by Antoaneta Stefanova, the Women’s World Blitz Championship took place in Batumi, Georgia on 4-5 June. The format was a 15-round Swiss at a time control of 4 minutes ...
2012 marks the 25th Anniversary of the León chess festival in Spain, and to celebrate the occasion there will be a rapid match between Veselin Topalov and Spanish #1 Francisco Vallejo Pons. The match will consist of 6 rapid games played over 3 da...
The 2012 International Albena Open Chess Tournament in Bulgaria took place from 26 May - 3 June. The 9-round Swiss event was won by Vladimir Akopian from Armenia on superior tie-breaks after five players finished equal on 7/9 points. The time co...
Antoaneta Stefanova has won the the 2012 Women’s World Rapid Championship. The competition was an 11-round Swiss at 25 minutes plus 10 second increment which took place from 30 May - 3 June in Batumi, Georgia. Former women's world champion Stefa...
Alexei Shirov won the Magistral Ciudad de Buenos Aires tournament which took place from 28 May - 3 June. The competition was an 8-player single round-robin with 6 Argentinian Grandmasters and the Uruguayan GM Andres Rodriguez. Shirov was the sta...
The World Blitz & Rapid Chess Championships will be held from 1-11 July 2012 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The championships start with qualification events. The rapid qualification event is a 9 round Swiss over 2 days, and the blitz event is an 11...
China dominated the 2012 Asian Nations Cup in Shandong province, China, winning both the open and women's sections. The event took place from 15-27 May, with the Open competition being a 9 round Swiss and the Women's event a 9 round round-robi...
The world chess championship crowded some tournaments out of the chess headlines, so by way of a round-up here are the results of three recent national championships. Czech Chess Championships David Navara won his fourth Czech Championship with ...
16 of the U.S.A.'s top young chess talents will be participating in two new invitational competitions June 8-10: the Chesskid.com U.S. under-12 Invitational and the Chesskid.com U.S. under-8 Invitational. The matches will be covered via internet s...
World Champion Vishy Anand has retained his title in a tense and exciting tie-break playoff with Boris Gelfand. The Indian champion missed a winning opportunity in the first game with black, but won the second game of the 4-game tie-break when so...
Viswanathan Anand defeated Boris Gelfand 2.5-1.5 in the rapid tiebreak on Wednesday. The Indian won the World Championship in Moscow and retained his world title for the third time. After winning the 2007 World Championship tournament in Mexico Ci...
Today the destiny of the WorldChess Championship will be decided. Reigning champion Vishy Anand and challenger Boris Gelfand drew their 12-game match 6-6 and now play rapid tie-breaks for the title. In addition to the title, there is also a diff...
Sofia defeated Zagreb with 30-20 points in a friendly chess match over 50 boards between the two capitals. GM Dejan Bojkov reports on the match that was held on Monday, May 28th at the “Bankya Palace” hotel in Banky...
China won the gold medals in both the open and women's sections at the Asian Team Championship in Zaozhuang, Shandong (China). The tournament lasted 9 rounds and included some of the strongest Asian chess players such as Wang Hao, Krishna...
Gabriel Sargissian of Armenia won the 21st Annual Chicago Open with a score of 7/9, half a point clear of his nearest rivals. Top seed Michael Adams never really recovered from a poor start, including a loss in round three (see previous report...
HHCF, the leader in chess fusion programs celebrates its 5th Year Anniversary by offering Live The Game summer camp programs to grades K-12th in the Greater Bay Area. PRESS RELEASE: San Jose, CA (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 - Parents and students alike h...
The final game of the world chess championship match between Vishy Anand and his challenger Boris Gelfand has ended in a draw, so the destiny of the title will be decided by tie-break games on Wednesday. The opening followed the same path as game...
The 12th match game between Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand ended in a draw, which means the match will be decided on Wednesday with a rapid/blitz tiebreak. Today the opening was another Rossolimo Sicilian and although Anand started ambitiously with...
The 21st Annual Chicago Open is taking place at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel. The event runs from 24-28 May and the prize fund is a guaranteed $100,000. Several Chess.com members are taking part, including David Pruess and Danny Rensch....
David Navara finished 3rd at the Reykjavik Open two months ago in Iceland, during which he gave a long interview to Grandmaster Vasily Papin. The interview – where the Czech grandmaster talks, for instance, about his doubts about t...
Boris Gelfand failed to make any headway in game 11 of his world title challenge match against Vishy Anand. Anand chose the Nimzo-Indian once again, and surprised Gelfand with the rare move 8...Bd7. Gelfand fell deep into thought, taking nearly ...
