The 2011/12 Hastings International Chess Congress ran from 28 December - 5 January. The Masters section was a 9-round Swiss event and top seeded Wang Yue of China claimed first prize with a score of 7½/9. Masters champion Wang Yue receives his p...
The Donostia/San Sebastian chess festival from 28 December 2011 - 6 January 2012 was won by Andrei Volokitin of the Ukraine (pictured). This year's Festival marked the centenary of the historic super-tournaments held in San Sebastian in 1911 and ...
The 2012 Northern California International is reaching an exciting climax in the NorCal House of Chess at Northwestern Polytechnic University. The competition is a 9-round Swiss organised by Arun Sharma and Ted Castro, giving GM and IM title norm...
In an amazing finish to the 2011/12 Reggio Emilia tournament, Anish Giri's draw in the final round against Fabiano Caruana was enough to earn the title as both Hikaru Nakamura and Alexander Morozevich lost their last games! Vassily Ivanchuk awoke...
Anish Giri emerged as the sole winner in Reggio Emilia on Friday. At the 54th Torneo di Capodanno he drew with Fabiano Caruana and saw his two main rivals Alexander Morozevich and Hikaru Nakamura lose against Nikita Vitiugov and Vassily Ivanchuk r...
Andrei Volokitin beat Viktor Laznicka in the final of the Donostia-San Sebastian Chess Festival on Thursday. The Ukrainian grandmaster, who won both his games against his opponent from the Czech Republic, received a cheque of €20,000 and an e...
The 41st Rilton Cup in Stockholm ran from 27 December 2011 - 5 January 2012. The main competition was a 9-round Swiss event which was won by Aleksandr Shimanov of Russia, a full point clear of the field. 19-year old Shimanov was placed second in ...
No less than four players still have a chance to become sole winner in Reggio Emilia with just one round to go. On Thursday Hikaru Nakamura lost again, this time to Anish Giri who thus caught him in first place. Alexander Morozevich joined them as...
Hikaru Nakamura's once secure lead has been shattered after he lost for the second round in a row to Anish Giri. Nakamura's defeat leaves a 3-way tie for the lead going into the final round tomorrow, between Giri, Nakamura and Morozevich. Nakamu...
The 49th Groningen Chess Festival ran from 21-30 December 2011. The main event was a 9-round Swiss competition which was won by Ukrainian Alexander Kovchan on tie-break from Robert Hess of the USA after both finished on a score of 7/9. Robert He...
Viktor Laznicka (Czech Republic) and Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine) qualified for the final of the San Sebastian-Donostia Chess Festival's A group. Laznicka defeated Alexander Moiseenko (Ukraine) while Volokitin was too strong for Leinier Domingue...
With two rounds to go, nothing has been decided yet in Reggio Emilia as tournament leader Hikaru Nakamura lost to Alexander Morozevich on Wednesday. Anish Giri maintained his third place thanks to a win against Nikita Vitiugov. Vassily Ivanchuk lo...
Alexander Morozevich crushed Hikaru Nakamura with the black pieces in round eight of the 2011/12 Reggio Emilia tournament to keep his hopes of winning the tournament alive. The remarkably low draw rate in the tournament continued as all the game...
Top favourites Vugar Gashimov and Ruslan Ponomariov were eliminated in the 5th round of the San Sebastian-Donostia Chess Festival's A group. They lost to Viktor Laznicka and Andrei Volokitin respectively. Alexander Moiseenkov and Etienne Bacro...
Vassily Ivanchuk lost his third game in a row at the 2011/12 Reggio Emilia tournament in the only decisive game of the seventh round. To be fair to Ivanchuk, it was his third game in a row with black, but he blundered horribly to lose a piece to...
Many thanks to all the Chess.com members who entered the 2011 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler. There were 20 chess related questions, and a total of 28 marks to earn, but how many did you answer correctly? There were a few really tricky questions this...
The Association of Chess Professionals and the Georgian Chess Federation today announced the ACP Women Cup 2012 - the final tournament of the ACP Women Series 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 to be staged at Sheraton Hotel, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, fr...
Nikita Vitiugov scored his first win in Reggio Emilia as Vassily Ivanchuk committed a big blunder in round 7. Hikaru Nakamura drew quickly with Fabiano Caruana and maintained his 4-point lead, as Alexander Morozevich and Anish Giri split the point...
The Reykjavik Open will be held March 6-13, 2012 at Harpa, Reykjavik's spectacular new music hall on the harbour. This was announced today in a press release by the organizers. Concert hall and conference center Harp, opened in May 2011, will ...
In June 2010 Vasik Rajlich, the author of the strongest commercial chess software program - Rybka, was sensationally accused of plagiarizing code from other programs, especially Fruit. The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) stripped ...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Arkadij Naiditsch and Vachier-Lagrave were the strongest names that didn't manage to reach the 4th round of the San Sebastian-Donostia Chess Festival's A group. They continue playing in the B group, while Vugar ...
Hikaru Nakamura has extended his lead at the 2011/12 Reggio Emilia tournament in Italy with another win in round six. Nakamura won for the second time against last-placed Nikita Vitiugov to put himself in a commanding lead. His closest challenge...
Hikaru Nakamura increased his lead in Reggio Emilia to 4 points on Monday. In the 6th round the American grandmaster beat Nikita Vitiugov with White while his closest pursuers Alexander Morozevich and Vassily Ivanchuk both lost, to Fabiano Caruana...
For the third year in a row Magnus Carlsen tops the FIDE rating list at the start of the new year. The Norwegian reached his career's highest Elo: 2835 - only 16 points below Garry Kasparov's peak rating of 2851 which the 13th World Champi...
