Magnus Carlsen (pictured) recovered from a loss yesterday to record his fourth win at Biel, completing the double over Yannick Pelletier. Alexander Morozevich and Alexei Shirov had a wild encounter which the Russian really should have won, but wh...
Armenia's lead was cut to two match points in the penultimate round of the World Team Championships in Ningbo, but they are still favourites to take the title. Armenia drew their match with fierce local rivals Azerbaijan, leaving only China and U...
The 98th British Championships will take place in Sheffield from 25 July - 6 August. This year's competition has attracted many of the top British players, including reigning champion Mickey Adams, former world title challenger Nigel Short (pictu...
In Sunday's round Vladimir Kramnik extended his lead to a full point in Dortmund. The Russian grandmaster defeated Hikaru Nakamura with the black pieces, while Ruslan Ponomariov had to be satisfied with a draw against Georg Meier. The game between...
Armenia is getting closer and closer to winning the World Team Championship in Ningbo, China. With two rounds to go, the team led by Levon Aronian is three match points ahead of China and Ukraine. Yasser Seirawan, who plays for the USA team, is in...
Vladimir Kramnik (pictured) looks to be well on course to a record 10th Dortmund title after crushing Hikaru Nakamura in the fourth round. The Russian heaped more misery on the American, beating him with the black pieces in 47 moves. Nakamura tw...
The Armenian team extended their lead in the World Team Championships with a 2½-1½ victory over Hungary, thanks to a win from Sergei Movsesian against Zoltan Almasi. In fact, every match in round seven was decided by this close scoreline. Russia...
The inaugural Hangzhou Women's Tournament from 14-23 July has been won by a Chinese player - but not the one you might have expected. Ju Wenjun (pictured) took the first place prize of $5,000 with a score of 6½/9, a point clear of her nearest riv...
Ruslan Ponomariov won his second game in a row at the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund, Germany. On Saturday he beat Hikaru Nakamura with the black pieces, and is now half a point behind Vladimir Kramnik, who drew with Le Quang Liem. Anish Gir...
Magnus Carlsen suffered his first loss at the Biel Chess Festival on Saturday. With the white pieces Maxime Vachier-Lagrave held a small advantage for long, and eventually managed to break through the Norwegian's defence with a pawn sac, to score ...
Ruslan Ponomariov (pictured) beat Hikaru Nakamura with the black pieces in the third round of the 2011 Dortmund tournament. It was a fine win for Ponomariov, and some measure of revenge for his match loss to the American in St.Louis in May. Vlad...
The #1 ranked French player Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (pictured) ended Magnus Carlsen's undefeated run in round five of the 2011 Biel tournament. It was a below-par performance from Carlsen, on a very sad day for Norwegians following the Oslo bombin...
The chess news has exploded this week with three super tournaments taking place at the same time. We're catching up here and there, and we still owe you a final report about the strong opens in Leiden (won by GM Sergei Tiviakov) and Amsterdam (won...
The Armenian team extended their lead at the World Team Championships in Ningbo, China, after beating India in round six. Lev Aronian's sparkling victory against Pentala Harikrishna on top board was enough to take the match 2½-1½. Armenia's near...
Vladimir Kramnik won his second round game at the Dortmund tournament to establish a clear point lead over the field. Kramnik won with the black pieces against Georg Meier, taking advantage of his opponent's time trouble. Kramnik's first round v...
Vladimir Kramnik also won his second game at the Sparkassen Chess Festival in Dortmund, Germany. In the second round the Russian defeated Georg Meier of Germany. Ruslan Ponomariov recovered from his first round loss and defeated Anish Giri. Le Qua...
Magnus Carlsen defeated Fabiano Caruana at the Biel Chess Festival on Friday. The Norwegian strengthened his lead to 4 points in the football scoring system. The games Alexei Shirov vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alexander Morozevich vs Yannick Pel...
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Magnus Carlsen continued to show that he is the class of the field by making his third win in four rounds at the Biel tournament in Switzerland. Carlsen beat Fabiano Caruana to stretch his lead to four points (under the the Bilbao 3-1-0 scoring s...
The 2011 Chess World Cup will take place from 26 August - 21 September in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. The tournament will follow the usual KO format of previous World Cup events, with paired players meeting in two-game mini-matches, with rapid tie-b...
Nine-times winner Vladimir Kramnik defeated last year's winner Ruslan Ponomariov in the first round of the Sparkassen Chess Festival in Dortmund, Germany. The other games, Meier-Le Quang Liem and Giri-Nakamura, ended in draws.General info The 39th...
Former FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimdzanov from Uzbekistan has sent an open letter to the World Chess Federation with quite a revolutionary idea: to abolish the draw in chess altogether. "This way the expectations of the crowd will never b...
Thanks to a 2.5-1.5 victory over host country China, Armenia retained the lead at the World Team Championship in Ningbo. Russia defeated Egypt 3-1 and the USA recovered by beating India with the same score. Hungary had a good day with a 3.5-0.5 wi...
The Dortmund tournament got underway today, with 9-time winner Vladimir Kramnik getting off to a winning start. Kramnik beat recently crowned Ukrainian champion Ruslan Ponomariov in a King's Indian. In the other games Hikaru Nakamura and Anish G...
