Magnus Carlsen caught Levon Aronian in the Tal Memorial final standings on Friday in Moscow, Russia. The Norwegian defeated Hikaru Nakamura and finished shared first with the Armenian, who drew with Ian Nepomniachtchi. This means that Carlsen won ...
At last! A flash of sacrificial endgame brilliance from Lev Aronian led to a win against Peter Svidler, and gave him the sole lead going into the final round of the Tal Memorial. Aronian sacrificed his knight for two pawns, eventually winning an...
Hou Yifan drew the eighth game of her ten-game match with challenger Humpy Koneru to retain the title with two games to spare. The final score in Hou Yifan's favour was an impressive 5½-2½, winning three games, drawing five and losing none. As t...
Hou Yifan retained her world title on Thursday in Tirana, Albania after drawing the 8th match game with Humpy Koneru. The reigning Women's World Champion was and is Hou Yifan | All photos © FIDE by Anna Burtasova & Anastasiya Karlovic...
Levon Aronian became the sole leader at the Tal Memorial in Moscow after beating Peter Svidler on Thursday. With just one round to go Armenia's number one grandmaster has excellent chances to win this year's edition. Tomorrow's round a...
Hou Yifan needs only one draw in the last three games of the Women's World Championship Match to retain her world title. The Chinese grandmaster also won the 7th match game against Humpy Koneru of India on Wednesday in Tirana, Albania. Hou Yif...
Women's world champion Hou Yifan virtually assured a successful defence of her title by beating challenger Humpy Koneru in the seventh game of their ten-game match to lead by three points. Humpy Koneru would need to win all three remaining games ...
Three rounds of deadlock were finally broken in round seven at the Tal Memorial when Vassily Ivanchuk took full advantage of some poor opening and middlegame play from Hikaru Nakamura to win with the black pieces. So with just two rounds remainin...
Vassily Ivanchuk beat Hikaru Nakamura on Wednesday in the 7th round of the Tal Memorial in Moscow. As the other four games ended in draws, the Ukrainian joined Levon Aronian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin in the lead. Ther...
The first official FIDE rapid and blitz rating lists will be published on July 1st, 2012. The World Chess Federation plans to publish new lists every month. For the first list, rapid and blitz tournaments can be rated per January 1st, 2012. All th...
What would Mikhail Tal make of it? For three successive rounds at the Tal Memorial all the games have been drawn. That's 15 games in total without a decisive result. The previous two rounds prior to today's deadlock have had some sparkling chess...
Again all five games ended peacefully on Tuesday in the 6th round of the Tal Memorial in Moscow. Needless to say, Levon Aronian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin continue to share the lead, with 3.5/6 or 'plus one'. T...
In an interview today for German newspaper Frankfurter Algemeine Kasparov tells about his Chess Foundation, his attempts to get chess into schools and his problems with Vladimir Putin. What you wouldn't have read in other interviews: he's ...
Judit Polgar, the best female chess player that ever lived, is next in line for the Crestbook interviews series. At Chess in Translation you can leave a question (or ten), until Sunday, 27 November. After that deadline Judit will be sent all the q...
In a successful first edition of the Euwe Tournament, Zhaoqin Peng became the winner of group 1, and Robin van Kampen of group 2. A statue of Max Euwe, by José Fijnhout, stayed in the playing hall during the game | All photos © Euwe To...
Hou Yifan took a 2-point lead on Monday in the Women's World Championship Match. In the 6th match game she defeated her opponent Humpy Koneru for the second time, with the black pieces, despite having spent a few hours in the hospital the nigh...
Reigning women's world champion Hou Yifan of China won the 6th game of her title defence against Humpy Koneru to increase her lead to 4-2 with just four games remaining. Humpy tried to make the most of the white pieces, sacrificing a pawn for the...
Like in the previous round, all games in the 5th round of the Tal Memorial in Moscow ended in draws. Levon Aronian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin continue to share the lead, with 3/5. On Monday the tournament will have its...
The fifth game of the Women's World Championship match between Hou Yifan and Humpy Koneru also ended in a draw. At half-time, title holder Hou Yifan still leads by a point. The sixth game will be played on Monday, November 21st. The match take...
Round five at the Tal Memorial in Moscow had a similar outcome to round four: lots of fighting chess and interesting games, but no-one managed to deliver a knockout blow. Hikaru Nakamura had to defend well against Lev Aronian to hold on for a dra...
India's Humpy Koneru held the champion Hou Yifan to another draw with the black pieces in the fifth game of the 2011 Women's World Championship. Hou Yifan now leads 3-2 thanks to her earlier win in the third game, but Humpy has avoided another lo...
The 5th Open "Mediterranean 2017" had 13 GMs among 97 participants. Most players were from Croatia and other Balkan countries, plus a few from elsewhere including IM Kenny Solomon travelling all the way from South Africa. Second and thir...
On Saturday all games in the 4th round of the Tal Memorial in Moscow ended in draws. However, on many boards the result could have been different. Levon Aronian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin are still sharing the lead, wi...
Round four at the Tal Memorial provided more excitement, but despite some close calls there were no decisive games. Lev Aronian has a good record against the world champion Vishy Anand, and he could have won again today. It was a fortunate escape...
