The USCL Championships have came to an end, proclaming the New England Nor'easters as the new reigning Champs, in their first participation in the League! And they accomplished this achievement with an unusual roster, counting no GMs in their...
Press Release: Kasparov and Short in St. Lou after Thanksgiving Tourney SAINT LOUIS, November 23, 2010 – Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, widely recognized as the world’s greatest chess player, has announced he will be making an appearance at the ...
Last month at the Univé Open in Hoogeveen one of the participants was Ukraine-born grandmaster Viktor Moskalenko (born 1960, Elo 2587) - a well-known name at this website. New in Chess editor Peter Boel interviewed him about his new book The Wonde...
Judit Polgar scored one of her best results in years on Sunday by winning the first UNAM quickplay knockout tournament in Mexico City. She first beat Vassily Ivanchuk in the semi-finals and then also managed to win the final against former world n...
Judit Polgar hasn't played much competitive chess since the distractions of motherhood, but she proved that she can still mix it with the best players at a rapid quadrangular KO tournament in Mexico. The event was part of the first UNAM Chess Fes...
The QGD: Carlsbad pawn formation by FM Valeri Lilov, brought to you by the Internet Chess Club, provides an explanation of the typical plans in positions with the Carlsbad pawn formation. It's the latest video series in ICC's webshop.(Advertisemen...
Today we present the first part of our big interview with Mark Dvoretsky, which we conducted during the Tal Memorial based on questions from visitors of this site. We publish it in parts because, as it turned out, Mr Dvoretsky wanted to answer alm...
As opposed to the well-known expression “Don’t try this at home”, Karjakin’s approach against the Petroff can easily be adopted straightaway by anyone: 5.Nc3, taking back with the d-pawn, followed by Be3, Qd2, 0–0–0 and h4. Sometimes it's enough t...
The second half of the Metropolitan FIDE Invitational, held at the Metropolitan Chess Club in downtown Los Angeles, will be played this Saturday and Sunday, November 20-21. The tournament is sponsored by Chess.com, LawyerFy, Fashion Busin...
The Pandolfini Chess Library presents: Chess Movies I.In this first offering of the series, Quick Tricks, the reader (viewer) is provided with a collection of 64 neat traps and shots in the opening. With every single move diagrammed and explained ...
Chess Grandmaster, 5-time US Champion, journalist and popular chess columnist Larry Evans has died of post-operative complications following gall-bladder surgery in Reno, Nevada. He was 78 years old. Evans was born in New York in 1932 and develo...
Levon Aronian today won the 2010 World Blitz Championship in Moscow, Russia. The Armenian scored 24.5 points out of 38 games and finished half a point ahead of Teimour Radjabov from Azerbaijan. Third came Magnus Carlsen from Norway, who won the ti...
Lev Aronian held onto his lead on the final day of the World Blitz Championship to take the title. Teimour Radjabov finished in second place and Magnus Carlsen in third. The record of the games is somewhat unreliable (as you would expect from ...
After 28 of 38 rounds have been completed, Lev Aronian leads the World Blitz Championship with a score of 18.5/28. Magnus Carlsen is in second place with 17 points, followed by Radjabov, Kramnik and Nepomniachtchi on 16, and Nakamura and Gelfand...
Grandmaster and chess journalist Larry Evans passed away on Monday, November 15th at Washoe Hospital in Reno, Nevada (USA). As reported by the the United States Chess Federation (USCF), Evans died from complications following a gall bladder operat...
Magnus Carlsen won the 2009 Chess Oscar. Yesterday, just before the start of the World Blitz Championship, Carlsen received the trophy. It was the first time that the Norwegian won the prize, which is a result of votes by chess journalists and awa...
Finally available again after being out of print for many years: Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess.This new edition of David Lawson's seminal work tells the full known story of the life of Paul Morphy, from his privileged upbringing in Ne...
Today the World Blitz Championship starts in Moscow. Magnus Carlsen, Alexander Grischuk and Hikaru Nakamura are among the favorites in a group of twenty top players, who will play a double round-robin over three days. Who do you think will win?The...
The first weekend of games from the Metropolitan FIDE Invitational are complete. The tournament is being organized by Metropolitan Chess inside the California Market Center in downtown Los Angeles, and is being sponsored by www.chess.com, LawyerFy...
At the Tal Memorial in Moscow Mamedyarov lost to Gelfand today, allowing Aronian and Karjakin to catch him in the standings. It still has to be communicated officially, but we can safely say that Aronian and Karjakin are sharing the win at this ye...
After nine entertaining rounds at the Tal Memorial, a last round loss by Mamedyarov cost him dearly and denied us all a clear-cut result. Mamedyarov came unstuck against Gelfand to remain on 5.5 points, and Aronian and Karjakin drew their games t...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov is in sole lead at the Tal Memorial in Moscow, with just one round to go. Today the grandmaster from Azerbaijan defeated co-leader Wang Hao, while Levon Aronian quickly drew with Alexander Grischuk. Alexei Shirov won his firs...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov leads the Tal Memorial in Moscow with just one round remaining. But first, the most surprising result of the tournament came in round seven when Boris Gelfand committed one of the worst chess sins: resigning in a drawn posit...
In a short match consisting of four classical games and two rapid games, Anatoly Karpov defeated Hou Yifan 3.5-2.5. In the city of Sanya, Hainan, China the 12th World Champion won the first game; the rest ended in draws. Photo © Ye RongguangThe A...
