With less than two months to go before the 2018 World Championship match begins in London, Magnus Carlsen spoke to Norwegian media at his training camp in the Kragerø Resort southwest of Oslo. He was hoping the pressure of playing …
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A very exciting round was played on Sunday at the Accentus GM Tournament in Biel. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Peter Svidler won their games, while Magnus Carlsen and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave drew after a hard fight. That left Mamedyarov with a one-point …
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Ian Nepomniachtchi crashed through against Georg Meier to win the 2018 Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund by a full point. It was a thriller of a last round, with the four other players in contention for first place all fighting …
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The Dortmund supertournament again has a relaxed schedule this year, with rest days after Rounds 2 and 4, something usually seen only in World Championship matches. The aim seems to be to allow the short event to make full use …
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Hikaru Nakamura overtook Sergey Karjakin on the final day of blitz to take home the winner’s trophy from the Paris Grand Chess Tour. The American displayed his great skills at accelerated time controls as he only lost one game in …
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Fabiano Caruana beat Sergey Karjakin in Altibox Norway Chess Round 5 to return to 50% while dragging his opponent down to the same level. That was good news for Magnus Carlsen, whose somewhat shaky draw against Vishy Anand meant he …
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Fabiano Caruana’s rocky start to Altibox Norway Chess 2018 continued in Round 2 as he again made a “kind of ridiculous” blunder, this time against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. He gave up a pawn for no reason, but luckily by that point …
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The 2017/2018 Chess Bundesliga season was decided in a playoff held in Baden-Baden on Thursday 24th May, after the two teams couldn’t be separated by the 15-round normal season. Peter Svidler and Rustam Kasimdzhanov were the heroes as Baden-Baden …
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Ju Wenjun has beaten Tan Zhongyi 5.5:4.5 to become the new Women’s World Chess Champion. The Chinese grandmaster and women’s no. 2 dominated the 10th and final game of the match in Chongqing, though in the end she settled for …
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Ju Wenjun takes a one-point lead into the final classical game of the Women’s World Championship on Friday, meaning a draw is enough to make her champion for the first time. If Tan Zhongyi can win with the black pieces, …
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