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Now in its 13th edition, the extremely competitive Aeroflot Open is currently taking place in Moscow, Russia. This event, sponsored by the Russian airline Aeroflot, is famous for having three groups: A (Open to 2549+ [!] with a few excep... | Read More
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Hou Yifan maintained her one-point lead against Mariya Muzychuk in the world championship match in Lviv as games three and four both ended in draws.
A ten-game match is over before you know it and so the draws in games three and f... | Read More
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The IMSA Elite Mind Games were held from February 25th to March 3th in Huai'an, China. Like in previous years the players battled in blitz, rapid and the Basque system, playing two games at the same time against one opponent.
Huai'an is a city o... | Read More
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It was a splendid day to be a Titled Tuesday favorite as top seed GM Hikaru Nakamura claimed sole first place in the late event and second seed GM Dmitry Andreikin garnered his own confident first place in the early event.
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On Thursday, Hou Yifan grabbed the lead in her world championship match with reigning champion Mariya Muzychuk. The challenger won the second game after drawing the first.
From March 1-18, the Women's World Championship between M... | Read More
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The Chess Western Province of South Africa organized the South African Juniors Chess Championship under the auspices of The South African Chess Federation. The tournament was held at the University of Cape Town Hall in the Western Province of Sout... | Read More
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Much like the Viswanathan Anand-Magnus Carlsen 2013 championship match, the 2016 Women’s World Championship features a world champion competing on home soil against a challenger whom everyone expects to win.
Photos courtesy of FIDE.
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The Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, the concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
The 2016 World Championship will be held in New York City, as was announced today by Agon.
Long-held rumors that the next world title match will... | Read More
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Nakamura. Vachier-Lagrave. Grischuk. Aronian. Caruana.
$40,000 in prizes. Blitz. Bullet.
What could make Chess.com's Grandmaster Blitz Battle Championship better?
We offered the final open slot to World Champion Magnus Carlsen, and... | Read More
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Three chess legends will join the elite list of players inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. On April 13, GM David Bronstein, Howard Staunton, and WIM Sonja Graf-Stevenson will have their names added to the 24 others already enshr... | Read More
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For the second installment of "In Other News," we take a small liberty. Usually these stories only go back a few weeks, but in the case of one presidential candidate and his chess-playing exploits, below you'll find a story from 2014.
You'... | Read More
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The final rounds in the Tehran FIDE Women's Grand Prix featured a war of attrition as upsets flipped the leaderboard in every round.
Emerging from the rubble was GM Ju Wenjun, whose consistent play brought victory. Ju fi... | Read More
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In my recent blog I mentioned that I'd be playing four (!) consecutive open tournaments in Europe, starting with the ultra-strong Gibraltar Chess Festival toward the end of January. After a week's rest in Paris, my next tournament was the 32n... | Read More
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More than 100 years ago a newspaper birthed the Tour de France, and now another venerable European periodical has brought us the largest Magnus Carlsen simul in years.
"Die Zeit," the esteemed German weekly, celebrated its 70th anniversary ... | Read More
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This edition of "In Other News" is surely the first to feature references to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," Stephen Hawking, and quantum physics, and that's all just the first item!
It is our second consecutive month where playing chess i... | Read More
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Chess.com asked Maret Thorpe, Chicago-area resident, to remember International Arbiter and International Organizer Sevan Muradian. Photo: Andi Rosen
Sevan Muradian, a prolific chess organizer who worked tirelessly to promote FIDE-rated... | Read More
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After several years of shifting formats, the U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship have settled in to a consistent scheme, but that doesn't mean the fields are static. The new normal — smaller numbers competing in a round robin &md...; | Read More
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The recently-concluded 2016 Zurich Chess Challenge was notable for it's experimental time control of 40+10. The idea was largely birthed by tournament's sponsor, Oleg Skvortsov and Zurich Chess Club President Christen Issler. GM Hikaru Nakamura wo... | Read More
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GM Nana Dzagnidze and WGM Natalija Pogonina have taken the lead in the hotly contested FIDE Women's Grand Prix held in Tehran, Iran.
Each has scored an undefeated four wins and three draws and sits at 5.5/7 with a narrow half-point lead ove... | Read More
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GM Francisco Vallejo Pons, the top-rated Spaniard, will take on former world champion GM Ruslan Ponomariov in Death Match 37 on March 14. But you already knew that! Let's learn more about the players.
First, you might be wondering, is our headli... | Read More
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If you missed the 2015 Zurich Chess Challenge, that's OK, the 2016 edition had pretty much the same finish.
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Viswanathan Anand tied, again, this time in both rapid and blitz, but unlike 2015 there was no Armageddon playo... | Read More
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With an up-and-down afternoon effort but a more convincing game in the evening, GM Viswanathan Anand's two draws on the second day of the Zurich Chess Challenge were enough to hold off his five challengers.
Now only one day of competitive c... | Read More
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Is it possible to play better chess at faster time controls in worse weather against stronger opponents? The life of GM Viswanathan Anand over the last month poses that exact question.
After a massively underwhelming performance in Gibraltar aga... | Read More
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There's two speeds to the Fifth Annual Zurich Chess Challenge: fast and faster. Actually, the event will be faster, fast, faster -- two blitz events bookend the main event, which will not quite be classical either.
GM Hikaru Nakamura, fresh off ... | Read More
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The 2016 Grand Chess Tour, in only its second season, looked to be losing steam with the news last month that Norway Chess would be leaving. Instead, the tour announced today that it is doubling its contests and keeping its $1 million+ prize fund.... | Read More