- The 33-year-old Russian, a defeated world title challenger in 2021 and 2023, is in line for a third attempt as he leads in Toronto at halfway Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi leads at halfway in the €500k Candidates in Toronto, Canada, whose...
- Contest to decide Ding Liren’s challenger began on Thursday, while the world No 1 kept up his winning streak in the Grenke Classic The eight potential challengers who began the Candidates tournament in Toronto on Thursday have an...
- Lu Miaoyi jumped to the 2400 international master level at Reykjavik, while Alice Lee beat the US No 1 Irina Krush in St Louis In November 2022 this column wrote that a then little-known 12-year-old Chinese girl , Lu Miaoyi, could join...
- Classic chess game | Music memories | Kiwi confusion | Spider insider Leonard Barden’s description of the “match of the century” in 1972 ( Chess: Fischer v Spassky revisited – Reykjavik Open echoes 1972 match, 15 March ) is a masterclass...
- Freestyle Chess (also known as Fischer Random and Chess 960) has announced a $1m tournament in each of five continents Freestyle Chess, which made an impressive debut last month , has firmed up its plans to expand into five continents...
- More than 400 players, including several young English talents, are competing in Iceland’s premier event More than half a century on, the Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky series at Reykjavik in 1972 remains the most famous of all world...
- The top seed fought back from a fifth-round blunder and won the title after a playoff with Ireland’s No 1 woman, Trisha Kanyamarala Danny Gormally, the top seed, fought back from a fifth-round blunder to claim the British Rapidplay title...
- The eight-time British champion, 52, has played 63 games without defeat, while Ruqayya Rida, 12, scored against two GMs and Bodhana Sivanandan, eight, is the new world No 1 under-nine Michael Adams has now won seven major tournaments in...
- The world No 1’s impressive victory last week has put the random chess variant into the spotlight and its billionaire organiser plans to expand into all five continents next year After the success of last week’s Freestyle Chess event...
- Ashwath Kaushik of Singapore defeats 37-year-old grandmaster, beating record set days before by another eight-year-old An eight-year-old chess prodigy from Singapore has become the youngest chess player to beat a grandmaster. After a...
- The world No 1 recovers from a slow start to defeat young rivals Firouzja and Abdusattorov while China’s world champion is unable to shake off a losing spiral “Freestyle chess” is a new name for the variant where the back rank pieces are...
- The Norwegian, 33, continues to dominate online chess and has won 14 of the the past 17 Tour finals he has contested Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, maintained his outstanding record in the online Champions Tour this week with a...
- The 24-year-old was a grandmaster at 13 and the youngest ever 2700-rated player at 15, now he has jumped into the world top 10 with a chance to aim for the ultimate peak China’s Wei Yi, 24, captured first prize last weekend in a...
- The 31-year-old, who took eight months off due to illness, planned a comeback at the “chess Wimbledon” but, with just two weekend rounds left, he is only half a point clear of bottom place Ding Liren’s comeback at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee...
- The Chennai teenager is being backed by his country’s second wealthiest individual as he bids to win the Candidates at Toronto in April and qualify for a title match against Ding later in 2024 India’s rising talent Rameshbabu...
- The English prodigy, eight, totalled 8.5/13 and finished 15th in a field of 105 as well as winning the prize for best junior Bodhana Sivanandan, eight, England’s girl prodigy, produced a stunningly impressive performance on Friday...
- Ding is scheduled to return to action at the ‘chess Wimbledon’ that includes five of the eight Candidates to challenge him for the world title this year China’s world champion, Ding Liren, has become the forgotten man of chess due to his...
- Carlsen won his fifth World Rapid crown at Samarkand on Thursday with an unbeaten 10/13 total, and now goes for his seventh Blitz title over 21 rounds Magnus Carlsen, the highest ranked player in history, led a 202-player field almost...
- Witty comeback needed | Early flowering daffs | WH Smith rebrand | Accents | Knighthoods | The national anthem I was reaching for the Saturday Guardian on the newsstand last week when the guy next to me looked at me and said: “Leftwing...
- Magnus Carlsen, the highest ranked player in history, led a 202-player field almost all the way to retain his World Rapid crown at Samarkand on Thursday with an unbeaten 10/13 total, seven wins and six draws. It was the fifth Rapid title...
- The league stage of the Top Chess Engine Championship (Season 25) reaches the pinnacle of the event – the Premier Division. The defending champion Stockfish will meet its main competitor Leela Chess Zero, as well as six more of the...
- FIFA World Cup 2022 is about to start in Qatar and Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi chose to prepare for the event by playing a chess game. “Victory is a State of Mind“, wrote Ronaldo on his twitter account and shared the...
- Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren, aka Nepo – Ding is the final of the World Chess Championship 2023. The Nepo – Ding match will take place in Astana, Kazakhstan, from April 7 to May 1, at the elegant St. Regis Astana hotel....
- Wesley So – Alireza Firouzja is a semifinal game from Julius Baer Generation Cup Div 1 WinnersThe Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32...
- Fabiano Caruana – Magnus Carlsen is a semifinal game from Julius Baer Generation Cup Div 1 WinnersThe Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32...
- Pavel Eljanov – Nodirbek Abdusattorov is a Round 1 game from Julius Baer Generation Cup Div 1 Losers.The Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and...
- M. Amin Tabatabaei – Denis Lazavik is a Round 1 game from Julius Baer Generation Cup Div 1 Losers. The Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32...
- The Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a...
- The Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a...
- The Julius Baer Generation Cup, the 5th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a...
- The Round 3 tiebreaks were played on September 18. Three matches were decided in rapid games. Peter Svidler (Russia) proved his strength by stopping Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Germany). In the first game, the Russian GM had no particular...
- The return games of round 3 of the FIDE World Cup were played on September 17. None of the players who had lost in the first game managed to level the score today. The tournament’s sensation Kirill Alekseenko (Russia) defeated the...
- The game between Ju Wenjun (2576) Alina Kashlinskaya (2487) was a French Winawer with 7. Qg4 Kf8. The World Champion wasted no time on launching the attack on the kingside, as it is the standard plan in this variation. Alina looked for...
- The starting games of the Round 3 of FIDE World Cup were played in the Ugra Chess Academy on September 16. Seven encounters resulted in victories. The biggest upset of the day was Kirill Alekseenko's (Russia) beating the higher-rated...
- FIDE World Youth Rapid and Blitz Championships (under 14, 16 and 18 years old categories) finished in Salobrena, Spain. 178 players from 22 countries, including 1 GM, 5 IMs, 12 FMs, 1 WIM, 12 WFMs participated in the chess forum in...
- The first game to come to an end was the clash between Elisabeth Paethz (2479) and the tournament co-leader Ju Wenjun (2576). The World Champion went for a Petrov defence, and some early exchanges quickly lead to a dull position, in...
- Tie-breaks of the Second Round of the FIDE World Cup were played on September 15 in Khanty-Mansiysk. An overwhelming majority of matches ended after rapid chess games. Eltaj Safarli (Azerbaijan) defeated Nihal Sarin (India), Lenier...
- The tournament leader Valentina Gunina (2502) was very close to biting the dust in her game against the veteran Pia Cramling (2487). Loyal to her style, the Russian jumped into some sharp tactical skirmishes as soon as she had the...
- Second games of the Second Round of the World Cup were played on September 14 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Three players won their matches with two wins: Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland), and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)....
- World Team Chess Championships 2019, held from March, 4 - 15 2019 in Astana, Kazakhstan. Open section and Women section board results. Round 5 starts March, 9 2019 at 3 PM local time. Please visit the official website ...