Robert Hess and Sam Shankland are 20 year-old college students. They are also two of the top chess players in the U.S. And Saturday March 31st, at 11:00 AM Pacific, they will clash in a 3-hour Death Match! To be so good so young, they obviously ...
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The much respected Russian Grandmaster, Yuri Sergeyevich Razuvaev has passed away in Moscow after a long illness, at the age of 67. Yuri Razuvaev achieved success in many tournaments during his career, winning in Dubna 1978, London 1983, Dortmund...
Tragic news appeared today on the website of the Russian Chess Federation: the well-known Russian grandmaster and trainer Yuri Razuvaev passed away at the age of 66. As we understand, Razuvaev had been ill for a while. Yuri Sergeyevich Razuvaev wa...
PRESS RELEASE Ten year old Samir, who is from London (Westminster) and living with a Brain Tumour, had just one wish – to star in his very own film. Today his wish was granted by Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK, the charity that grants magical wishes ...
Ten year old Samir Samadov, who is from London (Westminster) and had a brain tumour, had just one wish – to star in his very own film. Today his wish was granted by Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK, the charity that grants magical wishes to ch...
The line-up for the 2012 Tal Memorial has been confirmed, with 10 players taking part in the event in Moscow from 7-19 June. The final entry spots went to Alexander Grischuk, Alexander Morozevich, Evgeny Tomashevsky and the winner of the controve...
Kenneth Regan, associate professor of computer science at the University at Buffalo, has developed a program that can assist in discovering cheating. This was reported yesterday in the New York Times. For the New York Times, Dylan Loeb McClain, sp...
The European Championship started on Tuesday in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. There was quite a number of upsets in the first round: IM Filiop Pancevski beat GM Andrei Volokitin, FM David Klein won against GM Ivan Saric and IM Evgenija Ovod defeated GM ...
With only one month before the start of the 6-game classical match in Zurich between Vladimir Kramnik and Levon Aronian, the official website has been launched. The match is titled as the "Zurich Chess Challenge" and the website promises live co...
The third episode of the Extreme Chess Championships was recently published uploaded to YouTube. In this chess reality TV show, created by Jennifer Shahade, her brother Greg Shahade and Daniel Meirom, a group of young Americans of differ...
The 2012 European Individual Chess Championships will take place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from 19 March - 1 April. The championship is an 11-round Swiss competition with a time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to a finish with a 30...
The European Chess In Schools Campaign has succeeded after being endorsed by the EU Parliament in Strasbourg. The UK based Chess in Schools and Communities Campaign (CSC) and the Kasparov Chess Foundation Europe gained enough support for their de...
The UT Dallas Grandmaster Invitational ran from 10-16 March, and was underwritten by Turner Construction Company. Five players from University of Texas at Dallas (3 GMs and 2 IMs) clashed with five visiting Grandmasters (the 'Turner' team) in a 1...
Silvio Danailov is still considering to take FIDE to court for the way they treated the Bulgarian bid to host the 2012 Candidates Tournament. "Our lawyers are studying the case and preparing the report," says the President of the Europea...
Just after the regular tournament, won by Valentina Gunina of Russia, the European Women's Rapid and Blitz Championships were held in Gaziantep, Turkey. Gunina also took the blitz title, while Tatiana Kosintseva was the strongest in the r...
The third installment in the Xtreme Chess Championships has been released on YouTube. Watch it below (episodes one and two are also available): Left to right (Alex Barnett, Kassa Martei, presenter Kacie Marie, Elliot Liu, Justus Williams) ...
The result of the Tal Memorial ballot for the public's choice to play in the 2012 competition was a win for English GM Luke McShane. It was a close finish, with Mcshane receiving 3,860 votes closely followed by Alexei Shirov with 3,732 votes and ...
After two more victories this weekend (one with the smallest possible margin against their big rival Werder Bremen) the team from Baden-Baden is very close to winning yet another Bundesliga title. Eric van Reem was in Bremen this weekend and repor...
Luke McShane won the poll on the website of the Russian Chess Federation, which was to decide which tenth player would be invited for this year's Tal Memorial. The English grandmaster received 3860 votes, 128 more than runner-up Alexei Shirov....
This Saturday and Sunday sees the penultimate weekend of games in the strongest chess league in the world, the German Bundesliga. Leaders and hot favourites Baden-Baden will face nearest rivals Werder Bremen in the 12th round of games today (Satu...
On Saturday is the Bundesliga's big clash between Werder Bremen and Baden-Baden. In the upcoming weekend the 12th and 13th round will take place. We give the pairings at the venues Bremen, Dresden, Eppingen and Hamburg. The eyes of all chess f...
Last week an interview appeared online with Andrew Paulson, the American businessman who signed a contract with FIDE to organize the next two World Championship cycles. The interview was conducted by English GM Raymond Keene and although many crit...
Chinese women's world chess champion Hou Yifan is still only 18 years old, but her recent stellar form in Gibraltar and Reykjavik has forced the issue of a match with long-time women's #1 ranked player Judit Polgar onto the agenda. A Chinese ches...
