In the last round of the Russian Championship Super Final, Alexander Morozevich defeated Peter Svidler, who had already secured the title yesterday. Vladimir Kramnik beat Alexander Galkin after yet again sacrificing a piece with the black pieces. ...
Hou Yifan seemed to be cruising to victory easily, but then she suddenly lost to Kateryna Lahno in round 9. However, draws with Ruan Lufei and Antoaneta Stefanova were then enough to finish clear first at the Rostov Grand Women Prix, a full point ...
Peter Svidler has already secured victory at the Russian Championship Super Final. On Sunday he defeated 2010 champion Ian Nepomniachtchi and with one round to go, Svidler has a 1.5-point lead over Grischuk, Karjakin and Morozevich.General info Th...
Peter Svidler has excellent chances to win his 6th Russian title. With two rounds to go, the grandmaster from St. Petersburg is a full point ahead of the rest of the field in Moscow. In the 5th round he beat Artyom Timofeev, while co-leader Alexan...
Hou Yifan is well on her way to win the first Women Grand Prix tournament in the 2011-2012 series. In Rostov, Russia the Chinese GM has a two-point lead, with three rounds to play. Hou Yifan and Tatiana Kosintseva at the round 8 press conference ...
Again, Vladimir Kramnik bounced back from a loss with Black to score a win with White at the Russian Championship Super Final. Thursday he avoided a move repetition and beat Ian Nepomniachchti. After four rounds, Alexander Morozevich and Peter Svi...
By tearing down his Berlin Wall, Sergey Karjakin defeated Vladimir Kramnik with White in the third round of the Russian Championship Super Final. As the other games ended in draws, Karjakin now shares the lead with Morozevich and Svidler.General i...
At the World U-20 Alex Rombaldoni started with six consecutive wins and a draw, before losing his first game today. In Chennai, India the Italian IM is now half a point behind FM (!) Koushik Girish (India) and GM Robert Hovhannisyan (Armenia), who...
After beating Alexander Grischuk on Tuesday, Alexander Morozevich joined Peter Svidler in the lead at the Russian Championship Super Final. Vladimir Kramnik recovered from his first round loss and defeated Artyom Timofeev.General info The Super Fi...
Vladimir Kramnik started the Russian Championship Super Final in Moscow right where he had left the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund: with an unsuccessful piece sacrifice. Peter Svidler defended well and eventually was the only player to claim...
Michael Adams won the 2011 British Championship on Saturday. The 39-year-old grandmaster defeated Nigel Short 1.5-0.5 in a rapid play-off match after the two had finished shared first with 8.5/11. Macauley Peterson reports from Sheffield, England....
Hou Yifan is seems to have recovered from her bad form in recent months. In Rostov, Russia the Women World Champion started the first in a new series of Women Grand Prix tournaments with 4/4. Second is Kateryno Lahno, with 2.5/4. Two former Women ...
Although officially on a sabbatical from chess, in between his poker events GM Loek van Wely does play some chess tournaments here and there. Recently he participated in the Curaçao open, won all his games and saw his live rating climb back to exa...
Tournament winner Vladimir Kramnik took some risks, and then unexpectedly lost with the white pieces to Hikaru Nakamura in the last round of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund. The games Le Quang Liem-Giri and Meier-Ponomariov ended in draws...
Vladimir Kramnik on Saturday won the Sparkassen Chess Meeting for the 10th time. The Russian quickly drew with Anish Giri to secure first place. Hikaru Nakamura won his first game, against Georg Meier. Ruslan Ponomariov and Le Quang Liem drew. Ge...
In the last round of the Accentus GM tournament in Biel Alexander Morozevich defeated Yannick Pelletier. The Russian finished second behind Magnus Carlsen, who drew with Fabiano Caruana. The other game, between Alexei Shirov and Maxime Vachier-Lag...
Ruslan Ponomariov also won his second game against Hikarua Nakamura. In today's 8th round in Dortmund Vladimir Kramnik maintained his 2-point lead after drawing with second placed Le Quang Liem. The game between Georg Meier and Anish Giri also end...
Vladimir Kramnik is very close to winning his 10th Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund. Today the Russian defeated Georg Meier and extended his lead to two full points, as Le Quang Liem drew with Hikaru Nakamura. Anish Giri won against Ruslan Pon...
With one round to go Magnus Carlsen on Thursday already secured victory at the Accentus GM tournament in Biel. The Norwegian drew with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and saw his closest rival Alexander Morozevich losing to Fabiano Caruana. The game betwee...
The Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund resumed on Wednesday with draws on all three boards. Vladimir Kramnik is still 1.5 points ahead of Le Quang Liem with four rounds to go.General info The 39th Sparkassen Chess Meeting takes place July 21-31,...
Magnus Carlsen retained his three-point lead in Biel after his game with Alexander Morozevich was drawn relatively quickly today. In the 8th round of the Accentus GM tournament Maxime Vachier-Lagrave defeated Yannick Pelletier and after many hours...
The seventh round of the Accentus GM tournament in Biel saw three decisive games. Magnus Carlsen beat Alexei Shirov with Black, but runner-up Alexander Morozevich kept pace with a win against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. In the last game to finish, Fab...
Armenia won the World Team Championship in Ningbo, China. In the last two rounds 2-2 twice, against Azerbaijan and Ukraine, was enough to finish clear first. Host country China finished strongly and won the silver medals.General info The World Tea...
After beating Anish Giri in the 5th round on Monday Vladimir Kramnik finished the first half of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund with a superb 4.5/5. Le Quang Liem is in clear second place after beating Ruslan Ponomariov. Georg Meier and H...
