There are various ways to spend the days between Christmas and New Year's Eve – instead of or after present-giving and family gatherings. Winter sports is one option, others like Levon Aronian prefer holidays in the tropics. But those wh...
Hikaru Nakamura is leading the 2011/12 Reggio Emilia tournament at the halfway point. Vassily Ivanchuk took the only victory in round three, thanks to an endgame time-trouble blunder from Fabiano Caruana. Caruana resigns to Ivanchuk in round th...
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In a direct encounter between the tournament leaders, Hikaru Nakamura beat Vassily Ivanchuk on Saturday in Reggio Emilia to reach 11 points out of 5 games. Alexander Morozevich is in second place after beating his compatriot Nikita Vitiugov while ...
FIDE have published the latest official rating list, and Magnus Carlsen has consolidated his status as the world's #1 rated player. Carlsen gained 9 rating points to reach a career high of 2835 Elo, a full 30 points clear of new #2 Lev Aronian. ...
All players rated above 2700 have survived the second round of the San Sebastian knock-out tournament. Other strong GMs were condemned to continue in the B tournament, such as Konstantin Landa, Loek van Wely and Ivan Cheparinov. Shakhriyar M...
Donostia/San Sebastian hosts a chess festival from 28 December 2011 - 6 January 2012. The festival marks the centenary of the historic super-tournaments held in San Sebastian in 1911 and 1912, the first of which marked the introduction of the fu...
The San Sebastian tournament is well on its way, with its unique format: players facing each other with two boards and two sets of pieces at the same time. One of the participants is GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who found the time to return to his b...
Liquidating to a winning pawn ending, Vassily Ivanchuk beat Fabiano Caruana after 83 moves in round 3 of the 54th Torneo di Capodanno in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Both Vitiugov-Giri and Morozevich-Nakamura ended in draws. Ivanchuk wins in the third ro...
Press Release Bilbao will once again be the world chess capital in September and October 2012 Â The dates for the 5th edition of the Chess Grand Slam Masters Final have already been decided. The tournament, considered one of the world's most pres...
In the past few years we've rarely heard anything from the Association of Chess Professionals, but perhaps things will change a little. A new board will take office on January 1st, 2012 and with many new faces and fresh input, the organization...
The 54th Reggio Emilia tournament is underway in Italy, running from 27 December 2011 - 6 January 2012. The main event is a 6-player double round-robin competition with a strong and entertaining line-up headed by Vassily Ivanchuk. The time co...
Alexander Morozevich took an early lead at the 54th Torneo di Capodanno in Reggio Emilia, Italy. On Wednesday the Russian grandmaster beat Anish Giri of The Netherlands with Black, while the other two games ended in draws. Morozevich leads in Regg...
Visitors to this site enjoy chess, period. But what about all those people out there who know too little about the game, and might become interested? How to reach them? How to solve that difficult problem of making chess more popular? Jennifer Sha...
Despite a 1.5-2.5 loss to Ukraine in the penultimate round, China won the gold medals at the Women's World Team Championship in Mardin, Turkey. After their disappointing start the Russian ladies eventually took silver while bronze went to Geor...
The Chinese team dominated the 2011 Women's World Team Championships in Turkey, winning the gold medal. China's only match loss was to Ukraine in round eight, but they still ensured their first place finish with a round to spare. The most signif...
In the first round of the 54th Torneo di Capodanno Hikaru Nakamura won against Nikita Vitiugov with Black while Alexander Morozevich defeated Fabiano Caruana, also with the black pieces. Anish Giri held Vassily Ivanchuk to a draw in Reggio Em...
In a strange turn of events, Vugar Gashimov, without his knowledge, was replaced by Alexander Morozevich at the 54th Torneo di Capodanno. The tournament, which starts tomorrow in Reggio Emilia, also has Ivanchuk, Nakamura, Vitiguov, Caruana and Gi...
Sad news on Christmas Eve: two times Soviet Champion Vitaly Tseshkovsky passed away on December 24th in Krasnodar, Russia. The well-known Russian grandmaster died in harness: participating in the Krai Cup, Tseshkovsky became ill during the first r...
China is leading the Women's World Team Championship in Mardin, Turkey after five rounds as the only team with a 100% score. India is one match point behind, with four more rounds to go. Russia, with the Kosintseva sisters on top boards, lost ...
Our weekly PDF & PGN magazines ChessVibes Openings and ChessVibes Training complement each other wonderfully. CVO helps your understanding of openings and keeps your repertoire up to date, while CVT provides instructive middlegame and endgame ...
Welcome to the 2011 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler! What better way to entertain yourself over the holiday season than by trying to answer the questions in our fun seasonal chess quiz? There should be something for everyone, so you don't need to be ...
In the comments below our recent article about the end of the cooperation between Nakamura and Kasparov, several of our readers pointed out an interview with Magnus Carlsen which was conducted by Evgeny Atarov just after the Tal Memorial and ...
Blindfold records, Tony Miles, 60 seconds with Boris Gelfand, Tal Memorial, Nigel Short, and SlyusarGate -- one sly shark! Or, in other words: The Full English Breakfast #15 is out! About the Full English BreakfastMission: Bring the serious chess ...
