. Krush, Kamsky Remain Perfect at U.S. Championships By FM Mike Klein UPDATE INTERVIEW WITH WGM ABRAHAMYAN: SAINT LOUIS (May 6, 2013) -- Two premium matchups were the top layer on a chess cake that featured 13 winners in 17 games i...
Rising U.S. Chess star and Chess.com member Kayden Troff celebrates his 15th birthday today! Kayden hails from Utah, and learned to play chess at the age of 3 by watching his father Daniel playing against his brothers. Kayden's talent has develo...
Official Website Report Anna Muzychuk, Bela Khotenashvili and Katerina Lagno are the leaders after a very exciting round three. The most unexpected result was the victory of lowest seed, Mongolian WGM, 2298, over top seed and former world cha...
The hotly-anticipated new super-tournament Norway Chess 2013 runs from 7th -18th May in Stavanger. When the original line-up was announced it included the top 8 players in the world at that time, but the withdrawal of Vladimir Kramnik and the vag...
. Five Remain Perfect at U.S. Championships By FM Mike Klein SAINT LOUIS (May 5, 2013) -- After two rounds of the 2013 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship, there are curiously more perfect scores remaining in the latter tournament,...
FLASH REPORT Eye-witnesses at the FIDE Presidential Board meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan (from 4-7 May 2013) say that Chennai, India has today been confirmed as the host city for the Anand v Carlsen match from 6-26 November 2013. Magnus Carlsen and...
. The first round of the 14th European Individual Chess Championships gets underway today. The championship takes place in Legnica, Poland and the format is an 11-round Swiss system with 285 players taking part, including more than 140 grandmas...
Official Website Report - Round 2 Hou Yifan defeated Bela Khotenashvili to take an early lead after two rounds together with Anna Muzychuk, who made a draw against Katerina Lahno. Another Chinese player Ju Wenjun managed to recover after yesterd...
Decisive Results Abound at 2013 U.S. Championships By FM Mike Klein The action got a running start today as the majority of the first-round battles at the 2013 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship produced a clear victor. Half ...
. Official Website Report - Muzychuk and Khotenashvili draw first blood The first round of the first stage of Grand Prix tournament in Geneva got under way on the 3rd of May 2013, after the founder of Neva Fondation Elena Timtchenko made the f...
The Norwegian Chess Federation has written an open letter to FIDE to urge them to organise a full bidding process to decide the venue for the World Chess Championship match between Vishy Anand and Magnus Carlsen. FIDE have already signed a Memora...
The first Women's Grand Prix of the 2013/14 series is underway in Geneva, Switzerland, sponsored by Fondation Neva. The competition dates are 2-16 May, with the first round on 3rd May and final round on 15th May. The official website for the Ge...
The 48th Capablanca Memorial took place in Havana, Cuba from 20 April - 1 May (exactly the same dates as the Alekhine Memorial!). The Hungarian grandmaster Zoltan Almasi (pictured) took first place in the 6-player double round-robin Elite section...
GM Timur Gareev Defeats 29 Players in Blindfold Simul PRESS RELEASE: SAINT LOUIS (May 1, 2013) -- It took 10 hours and 39 minutes for Grandmaster Timur Gareev to topple the final king and leave the chess community in Saint Louis dazed and amazed...
There was a final twist in the tale as the destiny of the Alekhine Memorial tournament was decided on the final day. Lev Aronian defeated former leader Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to catch Boris Gelfand in the standings on 5½/9 points. The tie-break ...
. The 2013 U.S. Chess Championship and 2013 U.S. Women’s Championship take place from 2-13 May at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. The opening ceremony takes place on May 2, and the first round for both events starts at 13:0...
FIDE have published the official rating list for May 2013. The ratings include the very recently finished Zug Grand Prix, and as a result Veselin Topalov has soared up to #4 in the rankings, gaining a whopping 22 rating points. This is Topalov'...
Veselin Topalov finished the FIDE Zug Grand Prix in style by winning his final round game against Sergey Karjakin. That victory, the only decisive game of the final round, ensured that Topalov scored the maximum 170 Grand Prix ranking points fo...
French hearts were broken in the penultimate round of the Alekhine Memorial in St.Petersburg when co-leader Maxime Vachier-Lagrave unexpectedly lost to Nikita Vitiugov. Nikita Vitiugov had drawn all his games since a painful first round loss to V...
Official Website Report In the tenth round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Zug Veselin Topalov defeated his rival Fabiano Caruana and now is in the sole lead with 7 points, one point ahead of Hikaru Nakamura. American player won against Shakhriyar Mam...
GM Timur Gareev to Conduct 33-Board Blindfold Simul PRESS RELEASE: SAINT LOUIS, April 29, 2013 - On Tuesday, April 30, Grandmaster Timur Gareev will conduct a 33-board blindfolded simultaneous exhibition at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of...
After a round of draws to start the second half of the Alekhine Memorial in St.Petersburg, round seven delivered two decisive games. Firstly, world champion Vishy Anand moved to a plus score by recording his second victory of the tournament since...
Official Website Report It was raining hard during the second free day and most of the players preferred to stay in the hotel and relax before the final part of the tournament. Three decisive games were played in the ninth round. Two more coul...
The Alekhine Memorial resumed with round six today, having moved from the Louvre in Paris to the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg. The fighting spirit survived the flight to Russia, but alas the decisive games did not. For the first time in...
