The 2012 London Chess Classic kicked off today with fiercely fought battles in all four games in the first round. First to finish was Vladimir Kramnik who extended his excellent record against Judit Polgar with another comfortable win. The #1 wo...
The official chess rating list for the month of December 2012 has been published by FIDE. After a busy tournament schedule led to lots of changes on the November list, this time there have been fewer events and not much movement (the on-going Tas...
FLASH REPORT - Anna Ushenina of Ukraine has become the 2012 Women's World Chess Champion by defeating Antoaneta Stefanova on tie-breaks 1½-½. Ushenina drew the first rapid tie-break game with the black pieces and won the second wit...
The 2012 Women's World Championship will be decided by a tie-break playoff after Antoaneta Stefanova dramatically equalised the scores with Anna Ushenina in the last game of the 4-game final match. Tie-breaks take place today (Saturday) at 15:00 ...
The opening ceremony of the 2012 London Chess Classic took place today, and is available for replay here. Following the conference, the players took on the Twittersphere and scored an easy victory in 22 moves! The tournament organiser Malcolm Pe...
Peter Leko scored his first win of the Tashkent Grand Prix by beating Gata Kamsky in round 8. The former world championship challenger outplayed his American opponent, who is clearly in bad form in this tournament. Joint tournament leaders Serg...
The 2012 London Chess Classic runs from 1-10 December at the Olympia Conference Centre. This is the 4th edition of the tournament, and has the strongest line-up yet. The select group of players are: World #1 Magnus Carlsen, world #2 Lev Aronian,...
Sergey Karjakin defeated the early leader Alexander Morozevich in round 7 of the Tashkent Grand Prix to take the lead. Morozevich was struggling to hold on for a draw in a rook endgame, when he erred with 52...Rc7+?? which allowed Karjakin to an...
Anna Ushenina wins the third game of the final match! Official website report: In the third games of the Women’s World Championship final Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) and Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) played the Slav Defense. The Bulgarian went f...
Alexander Morozevich regained the sole lead at the FIDE Grand Prix in Tashkent by beating Leinier Dominguez in round six. Morozevich's win was the only decisive game of the round, leaving him half a point clear. Leinier Dominguez (right) was Al...
PRESS RELEASE: KCF Students Troff, Sevian Win Gold at World YouthSAINT LOUIS (November 26, 2012) -- Sam Sevian and Kayden Troff each won a gold medal at the World Youth Chess Championship, which concluded in Maribor, Slovenia, on November 18. (l ...
Official Website Report: The second game between Antoaneta Stefanova and Anna Ushenina was a short draw The second game of the Women’s World Championship match between Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) and Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) featured an interes...
Early leader Alexander Morozevich lost his first game in the fifth round of the Tashkent Grand Prix against Ruslan Ponomariov. That result allowed four players, including Ponomariov, to catch Morozevich on a score of 3/5 at the top of the standi...
Official Website Report: Anna Ushenina and Antoaneta Stefanova agreed to a draw. Today, November 27, Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) and Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) played the first game of the final match. The Ukrainian had White, in a well-known o...
The 2nd Gran Fiesta UNAM Chess festival took place from 16-25 November in Mexico City. The festival comprised of a number of competitions and displays including a 9-round Open event and a women's competition, but the highlight was the involvement ...
Alexander Morozevich still leads the FIDE Tashkent Grand Prix with 3/4, but the chasing pack just half a point behind is getting bigger! Fabiano Caruana won his second game in a row by beating Boris Gelfand, while Wang Hao piled on the misery fo...
64 players started the event, but after 15 days of the 2012 Women's World Chess Championship knockout tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk, we have arrived at the last 2 players that will contest the final. Former champion Anoaneta Stefanova will be aim...
The third round of the Tashkent FIDE Grand Prix produced two more decisive games in what promises to be a closely fought competition. The joint winner of the first Grand Prix in London, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, scored a nice win against Peter Svid...
Report by IM John Bartholomew From Nov. 6-19 I was in Maribor, Slovenia for the 2012 World Youth Chess Championship (WYCC). The World Youth is an annual 11-round event with multiple age categories: U-8, U-10, U-12, U-16, and U-18, with both "gi...
Alexander Morozevich took the sole lead with a score of 2/2 at the FIDE Grand Prix in Tashkent with a superb win against Fabiano Caruana in the second round. Caruana came unstuck in a rook endgame and was punished by accurate moves by Morozevich...
Official website report The first games of the Women’s World Championship semifinals were played in Khanty-Mansiysk Antoaneta Stefanova from Bulgaria took the lead against the Indian Harika Dronavalli, winning the first game of the match with Wh...
The second FIDE Grand Prix of the 2012/13 series got underway in Tashkent today with first round wins for Sergey Karjakin and Alexander Morozevich. Sergey Karjakin impressively outplayed Leinier Dominguez with the black pieces, while Alexander M...
The quarter-finals of the 2012 Women's World Championship were completed today, with three of the matches needing tie-breaks to decide the result. The only match which ended in the standard time-control games was Anna Ushenina of Ukraine defeatin...
Despite not being a full-time chess professional, Luke McShane is currently ranked the #1 English player ahead of experienced pros Nigel Short and Mickey Adams. McShane will shortly be taking part in the London Chess Classic which has been a happ...
