The second Grand Prix of the 2012/13 series runs from 21 November - 5 December in Tashkent. The overall winner and runner-up of the 2012/13 Grand Prix series qualify for the March 2014 Candidates Tournament. The first contest in London was won ...
OFFICIAL WEBSITE REPORT Nadezhda Kosintseva, Ju Wenjun and Huang Qian advanced to the quarterfinals. The match of Kosintseva sisters lived up to expectations and was the most tense and dramatic in the round. The elder sister dominated in the...
PRESS RELEASE: The annual Polgar Chess Festival, in its sixth edition by now, has firmly established itself as a very prestigious social event, where celebrities, athletes, artists, scientists, businessmen, politicians and most importantly childr...
Five players have booked their place in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Women's World Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk. The five are Antoaneta Stefanova, Anna Ushenina, Zhao Xue, Harika Dronavalli and Marie Sebag. The three remaining 3rd round matc...
PRESS RELEASE: The pairings for the 2012 London Chess Classic are now available. This year, instead of involving the players themselves in the draw at the opening ceremony, the draw was conducted by Liverpool’s Sacred Heart Primary School as a ...
An amazing second round of the Women's World Chess Championship has ended the title challenge of the top three seeds in the competition! Reigning champion Hou Yifan and third seed Anna Muzychuk both lost on tie-breaks today, joining Humpy Koneru ...
Second seed Humpy Koneru has crashed out of the 2012 Women's World Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk at the second round stage. The Indian Grandmaster needed a win with the black pieces to take her match with Natalia Zhukova to tie-breaks, but inst...
The second round of matches in the Women's World Chess Championship got underway today in Khanty-Mansiysk. Reigning champion and top seed Hou Yifan won her first game against Monika Socko with the black pieces to put herself in a strong position ...
Eight tie-breaks from the first round of the Women's World Championship were completed today in Khanty-Mansiysk, leaving 32 players to advance to the second round. Three of the tie-breaks were decided by the 2-game rapid playoff games at 25 minu...
Vassily Ivanchuk was victorious in the Kings Tournament in Bucharest after winning a tie-break playoff with Veselin Topalov. The pair had finished level on 3½/6 after they drew their final round game with each other. Fabiano Caruana was unabl...
Veselin Topalov beat local GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in round 5 of the Kings Tournament. Despite some enterprising play during the tournament, this is only the second decisive game so far after Vassily Ivanchuk's win against the same player in t...
A total of 24 players have already booked their place in the second round of the 2012 Women's World Championship KO competition in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. All the top seeds are safely through, but 8 matches remain to be decided by tie-breaks tom...
Vassily Ivanchuk still leads the Kings Tournament in Bucharest after both fourth round games ended in draws. It was a round of missed opportunities, as local GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu let Vassily Ivanchuk escape with a repetition draw, while Fab...
The 2012 FIDE Women's World Chess Championship is underway in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The reigning champion, 18-year champion Hou Yifan of China, is defending her title in a 64-player knockout format tournament. The Women's World Championship ...
Vassily Ivanchuk still leads the Kings Tournament in Bucharest by half a point after both round three games ended in draws. Ivanchuk could make no headway against Fabiano Caruana with the white pieces, while Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu used his fir...
Fabiano Caruana missed a clear opportunity to gain his first win of the Kings Tournament in Bucharest in round two. The Italian star faced Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu and seemed to have victory in sight before a crucial slip gave his Romanian opponent...
Vassily Ivanchuk leads the the 2012 Kings Tournament after beating Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. The popular Ukrainian put his recent loss to Anatoly Karpov in Cap d'Agde behind him to make the perfect start in the first round in Bucharest. The other...
Anatoly Karpov added yet another tournament victory to his long list of triumphs by winning the Cap d'Agde rapid tournament which bears his name - the "Trophée Anatoly Karpov". The chess festival in the French resort of Cap d'Agde took place from...
The organisers of the annual Tata Steel chess festival in Wijk Aan Zee have today announced the confirmed line-ups for the A and B Groups at the 75th edition to be held from 11-27 January 2013. Despite the difficult economic environment, the A Gr...
The 16th Corsica Masters rapid tournament took place from 28-31 October. The competition started with a 9-round Swiss Open with over 150 players competing for 8 qualifying places, where they joined 8 invited players for a KO competition to decid...
GMs So, Meier Headline Thanksgiving Open in St LouisPRESS RELEASE: SAINT LOUIS (October 31, 2012) -- Grandmaster Wesley So of the Philippines and Grandmaster Georg Meier of Germany headline the strongest field in the history of the Thanksgiving Op...
The latest official rating list from FIDE comes after a busy October, so apart from a few players (most notably Vladimir Kramnik) almost everyone's rating has changed. Magnus Carlsen came within a single victory of breaking Garry Kasparov's all-t...
The 2012 Chigorin Memorial is underway in St Petersburg, Russia. The tournament is a 9-round Swiss event taking place from 27 October - 4 November. The contest has attracted a strong field in honour of the "Father of Russian Chess", with 26 playe...
Hikaru Nakamura finished a comfortable winner of the Crown Group at the 2012 Unive Tournament in Hoogeveen, Netherlands with a final score of 4½/6. Already leading by a point at the halfway mark, the American champion defeated his nearest rival S...
