February 23, 2020 from Chess | The Guardian
Shohreh Bayat warned after images circulated appearing to show her without a headscarf at Shanghai tournament A chess referee from Iran has fled to the UK after being warned that she could be arrested for being in breach of Iran’s strict...February 21, 2020 from Chess | The Guardian
Teenager beats India’s Vidit Gujrathi in a speed play-off at the Prague Masters The chess world’s rising star Alireza Firouzja, aged 16 and exiled from Iran, won his first major trophy last night when he defeated India’s Vidit Gujrathi,...February 16, 2020 from Chess | The Guardian
Nikita Pearl Waligwa was much-loved following the 2016 Disney film about a local chess prodigy A Ugandan student who played a memorable role in a 2016 Disney film about a local chess prodigy has died at the age of 15. Nikita Pearl...February 14, 2020 from Chess | The Guardian
The Surrey club have not lost since 5 May 2012 while Michael Adams, 48, is now the world’s second oldest 2700-rated player Guildford’s stranglehold on Britain’s Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) is set to continue for an eighth...February 7, 2020 from Chess | The Guardian
• Magnus Carlsen’s defence set for €2m series • Carlsen risks Fide dispute with Unibet sponsorship Magnus Carlsen’s next world championship defence is likely to be in Dubai. The global chess body’s president, Arkady Dvorkovich, said in...January 31, 2020 from Chess | The Guardian
The US world No 2 finished two points clear of the Norwegian on 10/13 and is now the favourite to win the candidates in March Fabiano Caruana has set down an impressive marker for a 2020 campaign which could take the US world No 2 to a...January 24, 2020 from Chess | The Guardian
Alireza Firouzja, the 16-year-old Iranian and centre of attraction, met his match in the American and Norwegian Fabiano Caruana, the world No 2 who narrowly lost the title match to Magnus Carlsen at London 2018, is well placed to gain...January 17, 2020 from Chess | The Guardian
Iranian exile Alireza Firouzja, 16, shares the lead at tournament in the Netherlands after an impressive win against Anish Giri Magnus Carlsen’s streak of 113 games without defeat is a new landmark in the 29-year-old Norwegian’s career...January 14, 2020 from Chess | The Guardian
• World’s No 1 chess player makes it 111 games without defeat • Carlsen eclipses record set by Russia’s Sergei Tiviakov in 2005 Magnus Carlsen completed another record-breaking achievement when he stretched his unbeaten record to 111...January 10, 2020 from Chess | The Guardian
Favourable early pairings give the world champion a good chance of setting a record streak of 111 games unbeaten The world champion, Magnus Carlsen, starts his 2020 campaign on Saturday when he meets his arch rival Anish Giri in the...January 9, 2020 from Chess | The Guardian
The chess world champion reached the landmark during a highly successful year and now has his sights set on a record unbeaten streak in chess “I’m not a highly cultured guy,” says the world’s strongest chess player and, for a brief giddy...January 3, 2020 from Chess | The Guardian
The world No 1 dominated his rivals in 2019, winning 10 elite tournaments, but is expected play less in his title defence year Magnus Carlsen ended his vintage year of 2019 as he began it, as a superb all-round player who outclasses his...December 27, 2019 from Chess | The Guardian
The No 1-ranked teenage player opts to play under Fide’s flag at the world speed chess championships in Moscow Alireza Firouzja, the 16-year-old Iranian, who ranks as the world’s top teenager, is competing this weekend under the...December 21, 2019 from Chessdom
The Top Chess Engine Championship TCEC is going to start in about 10 days time. And it is going to be amazing! TCEC S17 will have a solid hardware upgrade, a new adjusted format and a new structure, a dedicated news website with a...December 20, 2019 from Chess | The Guardian
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will be eliminated this weekend unless a Chinese talent upsets the Russian favourite, Ian Nepomniachtchi Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, the world No 6, has long dreamed of qualifying as a world title candidate and going...December 13, 2019 from Chess | The Guardian
The world No 3 is on form and has established himself as the clear favourite to become Magnus Carlsen’s 2020 challenger Ding Liren’s impressive triumph in last weekend’s Grand Tour final at London Olympia has made China’s world No 3 the...December 12, 2019 from Chess | The Guardian
While the more deserving await the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award verdict on Sunday night, here is our list of sporting anti-heroes from 2019 The Military World Games may have received little publicity in Britain, which is...December 8, 2019 from Chess | The Guardian
Magnus Carlsen climbs to sixth spot in Fantasy Premier League but puts his success down to ‘luck’ Magnus Carlsen, the world’s best chess player for the last decade, is on the brink of reaching the top in another game – fantasy football....December 6, 2019 from Chess | The Guardian
The Norwegian has won a record eight tournaments in 2019 but Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won a chaotic London game Magnus Carlsen in 2019 has been the most active and arguably successful world champion ever, yet inconsistency at speed has...December 6, 2019 from Chess | The Guardian
Hampstead theatre, London Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer’s 1972 match is a proxy war in this intriguing but overcomplicated chess drama There has already been a musical, Chess , inspired by the contest between a Soviet master and an...November 30, 2019 from Chess | The Guardian
Female chess players, like me, thrive when they play against the world’s best men • Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and was the highest-ranking female player until her retirement in 2014 I am used to being cited as living...October 19, 2019 from Chessdom
Saturday, Oct. 19 – Sunday, Oct. 20 9:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. Location: JO Performance Hall Four Board match between UT Dallas, Texas Tech and UT Rio Grande Valley. Each school will have their ‘A’ Team and ‘B’ Team playing. Winner gets to...September 18, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
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...September 17, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
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...September 16, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
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...September 16, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
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...September 16, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
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...September 15, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
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...September 15, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
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...September 14, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
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...September 14, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
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)....July 13, 2019 from Chessdom
Season 16 of the Top Chess Engine Championship starts this Sunday July 14th at 15:00 CEST. A total of 18 engines will battle for six promotion spots in the newly formed Qualification Division. Among them are three Neural Networks –...July 3, 2019 from Chessdom
TCEC Season 16 is going to start mid July with the participation of the strongest computer chess software. For the first time ever a Neural Network – Leela Chess Zero aka Lc0 – will defend both a league title and a Cup title....June 22, 2019 from Chessdom
Written by Guy Haworth and Nelson Hernandez Reading, UK and Maryland, USA Corresponding author: g.haworth@reading.ac.uk This is the latest in our series of analytical articles on past TCEC events. The main text can be read below on this...June 18, 2019 from Chessdom
The Russian chess player Aleksandra Goryachkina won the Women Candidates Chess 2019 with two rounds to spare. The youngest participant of the tournament finished with 9.5 points out of 14 and secured the right to play the Women’s...May 30, 2019 from Chessdom
Written by Guy Haworth and Nelson Hernandez Reading, UK and Maryland, USA [Corresponding author: g.haworth@reading.ac.uk] This is the next article in our series of analytical articles on past TCEC events. The main text can be read below...April 27, 2019 from Chessdom
TCEC Cup starts Monday at 19:00 UTCMarch 11, 2019 from Chessdom
Written by Guy Haworth and Nelson Hernandez Reading, UK and Maryland, USA Corresponding author: g.haworth@reading.ac.uk This is the latest in our series of analytical articles on past TCEC events. The main text can be read below on this...March 8, 2019 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
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 ...March 5, 2019 from Chessdom
Season 15 of the Top Chess Engine Championship will begin this March 5th at 20:00 CET. It will feature a record number of engines to accommodate the booming sector and a record ELO of the participants. A total of 44 engines will face off...