Anish Giri could enjoy the title for about eight months, but now there's a new youngest grandmaster in the world: Ray Robson from the USA. By winning the Panamerican Junior Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay Robson clinched his 3rd GM norm, just ...
After a week of fantastic chess by America's top female chess talent, the competition has concluded. Anna Zatonskih clinched the title last night and finished her run today with another victory. Her performance over the last week was inspired and ...
Will Anna Zatonskih continue on undefeated and without chance of being caught today? Or will she stumble and let Camilla Baginskatie play catch up in this 2nd to last round. That'll be tough however as she's playing former U.S. Women's Championshi...
The young American chess player, Ray Robson (pictured), has just achieved his third and final GM-norm result, and therefore qualifies as a Grandmaster at just 14 years, 11 months and 16 days! It's a close run thing, but it looks like Robson might...
Economist-SGSEU-1 Saratov (Evgeny Alekseev, Pavel Eljanov, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Bu Xiangzhi, Ni Hua, Alexander Moiseenko, Dmitry Andreikin and Michael Roiz) became the winners of this year's European Club Cup in Ohrid, Macedonia by winning all of t...
In the week that YouTube let the world know about their new milestone of 1 billion views per day, we discovered several videos posted on the site which are of considerable historical value to the chess world. The videos contain unknown photos of B...
With only 3 rounds left to play, Round 7 begins today at the Saint Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center. With only 2 players undefeated, Zatonskih and Baginskatie, there are possibilities of an upset today, but most commentators are leaning to a...
Nana Dzagnidze was leading the standings for most of the tournament, but in the final phase she was caught by Xu Yuhua. The former World Champion from China won the 2nd FIDE Women Grand Prix with a score of 8/11 and a 2619 performance rating. Dzag...
After the "rest day" which involved most of the competitors participating in chess promotional events, various simuls, the kick off of Chess for Life at Barnes Hospital's Siteman Cancer Center, Sci-Fest at the Saint Louis Science Center and a co-o...
The 2009 Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing, China, has ended with yet another win from Magnus Carlsen. Some commentators suggested that Carlsen would play for a draw in the final round, but he clearly meant business against Jakovenko despite al...
Already sure of a sole victory, Magnus Carlsen added even more brilliancy to his Pearl Spring victory by defeating Dmitry Jakovenko in the last round. In doing so, at only 18 years old the Norwegian set a performance rating over 3000 and broke the...
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 7, 2009 -- The quartet of undefeated women was reduced by one in Wednesday's round four of the 2009 U.S. Women's Chess Championship, held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. All four women played each other tod...
If Magnus Carlsen (pictured) eventually becomes what many believe he is destined to be - the world chess champion - the 2009 Pearl Spring tournament may be remembered as a turning point. In round 9 at Nanjing, Carlsen comfortably held a draw agai...
Drawing quickly with Teimour Radjabov in a Grünfeld, Magnus Carlsen today secured sole victory at the Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing, with one round to go. The Norwegian thus scored his best career performance ever, finishing clear first at a ...
The more you understand of chess, the harder it is to understand how difficult it really is. At least, this is my personal experience when explaining beginners the absolute basics of chess. Suddenly, a capture is not obvious anymore; a developing ...
The most anticipated encounter of the 2009 U.S. Women's Championship took place in round three, with the top two seeds facing off for the first time since their controversial finish to the 2008 Championship. This time, as last time, the top seed, ...
Three of the seven rounds have been played at the European Club Cup in Ohrid, Macedonia and in the open section there are six teams left with a perfect score. In the women section, Samaia Tbilisi is the sole leader with 5 board points.The 25th Eur...
In a fantastic 8th round of the Pearl Spring tournament all three games were decided: Topalov crushed Leko with Black in a Grünfeld, Jakovenko grinded down Radjabov in a Dragon ending and in a tough Slav fight that should have ended in a draw, Car...
Defending U.S. women's chess champion WGM Anna Zatonskih is using her versatility to keep her opponents off balance at the 2009 championship at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis . After two games, she was the ...
After a rather subdued round 7 in Nanjing, round 8 was a heartstopping delight. Carlsen pressed hard in a terrific battle against Wang Yue, and was finally rewarded when Yue went astray after defending bravely for a long time. Heartbreaking for ...
We have just received from our printers the new and enlarged edition of Genna Sosonko's modern classic: Russian Silhouettes.In this masterpiece (out of print for many years), Sosonko observes the Golden Age of Soviet Chess from a privileged dual ...
Already in the second round of the European Club Cup two top teams met: Mika Yerevan (Aronian, Akopian, Sargissian, Pashikian, Andriasian and Petrosian) and ShSM-64 Moscow (Gelfand, Karjakin, Caruana, Najer, Nepomniachtchi and Grachev). Sargissian...
Round 7 at Nanjing was a relatively quiet affair, with all games ending in fairly quick draws. In descending order of excitement... Carlsen held Topalov (pictured) with the black pieces in a Sveshnikov Silician and now looks certain to win the t...
All three games ended in a draw in round 7 of the Pearl Spring tournament today. In the crucial game between Topalov (White) against Carlsen (Black), a highly theoretical Sveshnikov, the tournament leader used an impressive amount of opening prepa...
