Deciding the match in the very last bullet game, eighth seed GM Elina Danielian of Armenia Wednesday kicked out top seed GM Kateryna Lagno of Russia from ...

In a thrilling battle that came down to the final games, Stockfish won the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship this week, edging out the machine-learning ...

Chess in a Filipino park, chess as a therapy for tough times and as a source for marketing and for cartoons. There are interesting new facts about female ...

Ian Nepomniachtchi will be Alexander Grischuk's opponent in the final of the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow which starts on Monday. Today, the Russian ...

Magnus Carlsen, Vishy Anand, Ding Liren and Sergey Karjakin will this weekend play each other twice in rapid chess in the Lindores Abbey Chess Stars ...

Both semifinal games—Ian Nepomniachtchi vs. Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Hikaru Nakamura vs. Alexander Grischuk—ended in draws rather abruptly today at the ...

Alireza Firouzja was the clear favorite, and he proved it. The Iranian rising star crushed José Martinez of Peru 18-7 in their Junior Speed Chess Championship ...

Yes, you read that right! The two crucial factors that will make Carlsen's task difficult of winning the Lindores Abbey Chess Stars 2019 are Ding Liren, who has ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke of his passion for chess at the opening of the Arnold Chess Classic games in Johannesburg, South Africa. “I started when I was ...

After the thrilling season opener Van Foreest-Tari, the Junior Speed Chess Championship continues on Tuesday with the Iranian rising star Alireza Firouzja ...

UltraChess is a vintage chess game for the 8-bit MSX platform, running on the Z80. [flok] wondered just how capable the game really was, and set forth to test it ...

IM Attila Turzo is a familiar face to students on Chess.com. His streams at Twitch.tv/attilaturzo have a strong emphasis on instruction, breaking down lots of ...

The inaugural Chess.com Women' Speed Chess Championship starts today, with the first quarterfinals matchup between GM Kateryna Lagno (Russia) and GM ...

Dota 2: Playing a Warrior strategy in Auto Chess just got a little spicier. Whereas the lineup usually is a sturdy one indeed, it tended to come across one problem ...

High school is hard; the internet is messing with our self-esteem. Then my friends insisted I download Chess Time.

After kicking out Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Radoslaw Wojtaszek also eliminated Peter Svidler from the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow. The other three quarterfinal ...

Below is the full list of non-titled players who've qualified for the first-ever Fischer Random World Chess Championship. There is still time to register and be a ...

The inaugural Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship starts Thursday, with the first matchup in the round of 16 between GM Jorden van Foreest ...

Famous Men Who Never Lived, K Chess (Tin House Books 978-1947793248, $24.95, 324pp, hc) March 2019. Over the last couple of years, there's been a ...

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley chess team was in Austin at the State Capitol on Wednesday, accepting congratulations and a proclamation from ...

The American grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So both won their FIDE Grand Prix tiebreaks in the shortest way possible to reach the second round.

The Wildcats captured the K-5 championship at the National Elementary School Chess Championship in Nashville, Tennessee. Joseph A. Williams Elementary ...

5/23/2019 – ChessBase invites you to follow the top players and the top tournaments live — with the WebApp "Live Chess". This section of the ChessBase ...

The chess world was following the FIDE Grand Prix happening in Moscow. There's the women's candidates tournament coming up and there is also the Norway ...

Animal Kingdom is a recent piece by the Italian contemporary artist Alessandro Gallo, who combines his usual style, where animals play an important role, with ...

World champion overawes rivals at opening Grand Tour event in Ivory Coast with his new-look aggressive Sicilian style. Leonard Barden. Fri 17 May 2019 07.00 ...

Elina Danielian won the 2019 Women's Speed Chess Championship qualifier on Wednesday. The Armenian grandmaster earned $750 and a spot in the first ...

Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Dmitry Jakovenko, Sergey Karjakin, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Nikita Vitiugov all had to leave the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow early ...

The 11th annual Philly Girls Play Chess tournament brings young women together to compete in a game usually dominated by boys. They also gain confidence ...

Chess has been fascinating players and spectators for nearly 2000 years. With the technological revolution of the last 100 years, computers have become an ...

On May 16, 160 strategy masters from 14 different schools faced off across the board at Princess Anne Public School, in the second annual all-day inter-board ...

Alexander Grischuk, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura won their tiebreaks today and qualified for the third round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow.

Filmmakers love to use chess in their movies to emphasize the protagonist's intellectual abilities. Naturally you can see chess in many spy movies, since even a ...

Dota 2's hugely popular custom game mode Dota Auto Chess is set to get not one but two standalone spin-offs. Dota 2's publisher Valve made the ...

Scoring another 2.5/3 on the final rapid day, Magnus Carlsen goes into the blitz with a three-point lead at the Côte d'Ivoire Rapid & Blitz in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Chess.com is thrilled to announce the release of our "Mastery" series of chess lessons. On New Year's Day 2019, we released an update to Chess.com/lessons, ...

Magnus Carlsen had no trouble securing a win at the Côte d'Ivoire Rapid & Blitz in Abidjan, as he had the tournament in his pocket with two rounds to spare.

Another close-to-perfect score in day two gave Magnus Carlsen a two-point lead in the Côte d'Ivoire Rapid & Blitz in Abidjan, with three more rapid rounds to ...

Chess.com and Twitch will partner once again for season four of the new Arena Kings chess tournament series starting on Monday, May 13. As in season three, ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) -- Checkmate! Hidden Oak Elementary held its 20th annual chess challenge today. In February, the Gainesville Chess Club began ...

image by: Cuong Le Manh Although Valve announced their plan for a standalone Dota Auto Chess game, development that will go separate ways with Drodo ...

Anish Giri tells David Cox about the multicultural upbringing that shaped his chess talent, why social media has been huge for the game and the moments when ...

In the early 1800s, competitive chess was a time commitment, with games lasting 8-10 hours. Players would often try to stall and exhaust each other.

Magnus Carlsen is still first in the Côte d'Ivoire Rapid & Blitz after one day of blitz. However, not everything went according to the script for the world champion, ...

WHO ARE THEY? Everyone wants to win a brilliancy prize, but few get to experience it. In this article, I've found several “unknown players” who actually were ...

Four of the world's greatest chess players are competing in a tournament at a Scottish abbey where monks played the game 500 years ago.The players ...

We all love our ancient game for its beauty and inner logic, but have you thought about what attracts you most to chess? Some people would swear that there is ...

As the tournament name suggests, the race is to the swift at the Côte d'Ivoire Rapid & Blitz. One day into the rapid section of the tournament, Magnus Carlsen ...

It's the beginning of the new world championship cycle, and it's starting tomorrow. The first leg of the 2019 FIDE Grand Prix series will be officially opened on ...

Some press coverage of the 2019 IMSA World Masters tournament, including articles on ChessBase, mentioned a "Women's" section and an "Open" section.

It came down to the wire. Jorden van Foreest led for most of the match, but his opponent Aryan Tari come back and took over the lead in the bullet before van ...

Former top grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk showed his class in Havana this week where he won the Capablanca Memorial for the eighth time. The Ukrainian GM ...

The noble art of chess-playing has a history of at least 1500 years and can still grab the popular attention. Check, mate! Norwegian chess comet shows who's ...

Roguelike games (previously) are "a subgenre of role-playing video game characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based ...

Well, I'm back with six chess puzzles, with each game being given a brilliancy prize. However, a little secret: I like the little bios as much as the puzzles! Anyway ...

Charles Jones rested his chin against his left hand, stared down at the chessboard in front of him and patiently plotted his next move in silence.His opponent ...

"Right now we are in some sort of cyber Cold War, and deterrence is the only response," says former world chess champion Garry Kasparov.

The Junior Speed Chess Championship kicks off on May 16 and will feature 16 of the top players in the world age 21 and under. The players are seeded by their ...

FIDE has increased the length of the next world championship match from 12 to 14 classical games, and now recommends a prize fund of two million euros.

The city of Sunrise had a keen rooting interest in the 2019 United States Chess Championship in St. Louis, Missouri when Hikaru Nakamura won his fifth ...

The 2019 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) kicked off in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. The best chess players from all over the world assembled in the coastal city to fight.

5/16/2019 – What would you do if you could have a different chess training regimen every day of the week? Beginning Monday with Openings and finishing ...

James Holzhauer is rewriting the Jeopardy record books on a nightly basis. The professional sports gambler from Las Vegas is playing the trivia game show at ...

Tribune News *Service*. Jalandhar, May 25. A four day National Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship 2019 was inaugurated by joint secretary of All India Chess ...

As the only winner of the first round, Gawain Jones took an early lead at the Tepe Sigeman & Co Tournament in Malmo, Sweden. You can follow this tournament ...

Anish Giri won the $20000 first prize at the Shenzhen Masters in China after beating Dmitry Jakovenko in the final round and seeing tournament leader Pentala ...

The recent Grenke chess tournament turned out to be a one-person show, since everyone was watching and talking about Magnus Carlsen. The world ...

We've all heard the cliche that chess is war on 64 squares. So, if it is a war between two armies, then I assume that the chess pieces are soldiers. And just like in ...

Admit it: When you think of chess, an image immediately forms in your mind of two older men, possibly bearded, hunched over a board in a dimly-lit.

Valve has announced it will make its own version of the immensely popular Dota Auto Chess mod. What will become of the original mod is now unclear.

Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian world champion, can contest the title of greatest of all time with the legendary Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov in the wake of ...

Magnus Carlsen is the first reigning world champion to compete in Africa.

Haran Da had retired by then. He was a bachelor. Every day on our way to school and back, we saw him sitting in the balcony of his single-storey ancestral ...

Volker Rieck transformed vintage old chess boards into fantastically nerdy coat racks to sell on his Etsy shop CreativeHolz. Chess club bonus points for the ...

Gawain Jones and Pentala Harikrishna are sharing the lead at the Tepe Sigeman & Co Tournament in Malmo, Sweden with two rounds to go. Both players are ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (CBS4) – Kids and adults gathered Saturday to play against some of the best chess players in the world. Children as young as 10 ...

Magnus Carlsen is the first world champion in the history of chess to officially play in a tournament in the African continent. The Norwegian star is ready to begin ...

PASTOR FIDEL James, president of the Tobago Chess Society, will be entering 18 primary school players from his chess coaching programme in the 15th First ...

Guildford kept their monopoly on the 4NCL title by defeating an ambitious challenge from the Isle of Man, extending their unbeaten run to 79 matches.

Yves Tiberghien is a professor of political science, director emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia and senior fellow at ...

By Brandon Black. Contributor. In the intellectually grueling game of competitive chess, Annie Wang,16, the top U.S. women's player in her age group, has a ...

Forget the box of chocolates – life is like a game of chess. At least this is true according to Florence High School Class of 2019 Valedictorian ...

Auto Chess is a new, popular mod for Dota 2 that's nothing like chess or Dota. It's complicated but rewarding to play. This guide will help you understand the ...

Buoyed by strong days from their top and bottom boards, the Saint Louis Arch Bishops captured another PRO Chess League title by easily defeating the ...

The Introduction The U.S.S.R team totally demolished the U.S.A. team in a Radio Chess Match played from Sept.1-4, 1945. Not only did this event shine a ...

David Zimmermann, a 13-year-old eighth grader at Clarendon Hills Middle School, has joined an elite group by being named as a 2018-19 Rising Star by the ...

Singer and guitarist Caleb McFadden, bassist Justin Daggett and drummer Mike Davis of the Fort Collins prog-rock band Chess at Breakfast don't have health ...

Today. Chess Club — Every First and Third Monday, 7 to 8 p.m. Players of all levels are welcome. Best for ages 7 and up. Come discover how fun chess can be!

Magnus Carlsen kept his full-point lead at the Grenke Chess Classic with a win vs Levon Aronian on Saturday. The only player trailing him by a point is Fabiano ...

Six students from Earle STEM Elementary School in Englewood brought home several trophies from the national junior high school chess championship.

There is indeed a "Snowballs chance" of winning a PRO Chess League championship, but will have to go through some Arches. After the Baden-Baden ...

Many will know the Hungarian Richard Réti as a world-class player, but also as a great composer of endgame studies, so — in time for his 130th birthday — we ...

Step by step guide with basic rule, castling rules, en passant, pawn promotion, each piece's moves and more on how to play chess for beginners.

The Japanese may be known for their neatness, particularly when it comes to making their bed in the morning, but all social norms went out the window on ...

The PRO Chess League Finals are this weekend, with action beginning Saturday, May 4 and a champion crowned on Sunday, May 5. Once again, the Folsom ...

Ah, Chess! The game of Kings, a game for noblemen, the strategic masterpiece boardgame. Centuries old, known in all places of the world and never changed.

Brilliant Magnus Carlsen soars towards *fresh* records.

Gawain Jones takes over as England No1 with career-best victory in Malmo.

Apii Nikao Year 7/8 students were busy researching an 'international leader' of their choice on Thursday morning for a school project. Students who...

Alexander Grischuk and Radoslaw Wojtaszek drew their first semi-final encounters with the black pieces, and will move first against Hikaru Nakamura and Ian ...