The team from Hoogeveen in the Netherlands has won the 2012 World Cities Chess Championship held from 22-28 December in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Hoogeveen were represented by Anish Giri, Ivan Sokolov, Sergey Tiviakov and Jan Smeets. They ...
At last the wait is finally over, so without further ado, welcome to the 2012 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler! What better way to entertain yourself over the holiday season than by trying to answer the questions in our fun seasonal chess quiz? There...
PRESS RELEASE The team of Paris, France is top seed in the World Cities Chess Team Championship starting 21st December in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Twenty four strong teams shall vie for the Sheikh Zayed Cup and a total of $150,000 in cash pr...
Lev Aronian and Hou Yifan won the blindfold sections of the 2012 SportAccord Mind Games. Lev Aronian took the gold medal with a score of 5½/7 points, with Hikaru Nakamura picking up a third silver medal to go with his rapid and blitz silvers! Sh...
The 'Old Hands" made a dramatic comeback to defeat the Snowdrops in the 2012 edition of this challenge in the Czech Republic. The team of 4 young women players, the "Snowdrops", had enjoyed a significant 10-6 lead at the halfway stage of this dou...
Sergey Karjakin and Alexandra Kosteniuk won the blitz sections of the SportAccord Mind Games. Karjakin dominated the blitz competition, scoring +12 =1 -2 to win with 12½ points, a full 1½ points clear of Hikaru Nakamura in second place. That's t...
Laurent Fressinet and Kateryna Lahno won the rapid sections of the SportAccord Mind Games. French GM Laurent Fressinet took the gold medal with 5½ points on superior tie-breaks from Hikaru Nakamura, who finished with a silver. Ale...
The 20 year-old Italian-American Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana has expressed an interest in playing in the 2013 US Chess Championships. Caruana was born in Miami but relocated to Europe with his family when he was 12. He is now rated #5 in the worl...
The 5th annual "Snowdrops versus Old Hands" tournament is currently taking place in the spa town of Poděbrady in the Czech Republic. The event is organised by the Prague Chess Society with sponsors Czech Coal and pits a team of chess veterans (t...
The SportAccord Mind Games will take place from 12-20 December in Beijing, China. SportAccord is an international association of sports federations whose stated mission is to unite, support and promote its members common aims and interests, whi...
The players of the 2012 London Chess Classic received their prizes at a ceremony and dinner held at the historic Simpson's-in-the-Strand, where they played simultaneous games against the invited guests! Magnus Carlsen set the highest ever chess r...
Magnus Carlsen has won the 2012 London Chess Classic after an exceptional tournament that will live long in the memory. His +5 performance in earning a third Classic title was enough to break the 13-year old Elo rating record of Garry Kasparov. ...
The penultimate round of the London Chess Classic produced four more excellent games, and set-up the final round for a thrilling conclusion. Vladimir Kramnik kept the contest for first place alive by beating Gawain Jones in their encounter. That ...
The 2012 London Chess Classic has really spoiled chess fans with hard-fought games and lots of decisive results. Round seven provided yet more hard-fought chess, but there were no decisive results in today's games. Judit Polgar and Vishy Anand a...
The clash between Vishy Anand and Mickey Adams in round 6 of the London Chess Classic looked to be heading for a draw when the world champion committed a huge blunder on the move after the time control. The audience and commentators held their br...
Magnus Carlsen won yet another game at the London Chess Classic in the fifth round against Mickey Adams. It was quite a recovery in the game for Carlsen who had been a pawn down and looked to be in trouble. Yet, in just a few moves the situation...
If you were one of the many chess fans who tuned in for the live online broadcast of the opening ceremony of the London Chess Classic you will know that it started slightly later than advertised. The reason for the delay was the London traffic ho...
When Magnus Carlsen won his fourth round game against Gawain Jones in the London Chess Classic today, he not only took the sole lead in the tournament - he also achieved the highest ever 'live' Elo rating. It was a fighting display by the 2012 Br...
The 2012 FIDE Tashkent Grand Prix has ended with a 3-way tie for first place between Sergey Karjakin, Wang Hao and Alexander Morozevich on a score of 6½/11. Alexander Morozevich and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov had led into the final round, but their f...
Round three of the London Chess Classic pitted the two early leaders Vladimir Kramnik and Magnus Carlsen against each other. Between them they have also won all the previous editions of this tournament (Carlsen in 2009 and 2010, Kramnik in 2011)...
The leadership of the Tashkent Grand Prix changed yet again in the penultimate round when Sergey Karjakin lost his game to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Joining Mamedyarov to share the lead is none other than early tournament leader Alexander Morozevic...
Round two of the London Chess Classic pitted world #1 Magnus Carlsen against #2 Lev Aronian, and a dramatic 6-hour game ended in victory for the Norwegian. So Aronian has made the worst possible start with 2 losses, while in contrast Carlsen has ...
The 2012 Commonwealth Chess Championships took place in Chennai, India from 22 November - 1 December. The competition was an 11-round Swiss with 150 players taking part. Sergey Tiviakov and Lalith Babu both finished on a score of 9½ points, wi...
Sergey Karjakin is the sole leader of the Tashkent Grand Prix after his former co-leader Fabiano Caruana lost against Wang Hao in round 9. Karjakin drew his game with Boris Gelfand to lead with a score of 5½/9, but six players are just half a po...
