Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Tactics
To get in the mood, here's a warm-up: The position below is from a game between Gabor Papp and Maxime...
To get in the mood, here's a warm-up: The position below is from a game between Gabor Papp and Maxime...
It all started on a rather ordinary day while studying one of the games in Ludek Pachman’s great trilogy, “Complete Chess...
The Collegiate Chess League is officially past the halfway mark, and teams are starting to jock for playoff positions. With...
Mongolia beats Zimbabwe in the final Press release by FIDE Team Mongolia became the winner of the first Intercontinental Online...
Recently, the Milner-Barry Gambit in the Advance Variation of the French has gained in popularity again. In the old main...
Interview with WGM & IM Jovanka Houska The British #1 female player Jovanka Houska was born in 1980 in South...
Larry Evans once aptly described one of the games in Bobby Fischer's collection of games as a magnificent adventure that...
Grand Swiss exempt from the new coronavirus restrictions in Latvia FIDE press release, 21 October 2021 The 2021 FIDE Chess.com...
The FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss and Women’s Grand Swiss will go on despite a new COVID-19 lockdown in Latvia that...
With Svitlana Demchenko and Arne Kaehler Svitlana Demchenko is an 18-year-old, Canadian WIM, and chess coach. Here and now, she...
Vitiugov’s first national title In his fifteenth attempt, Nikita Vitiugov won the Russian Championship for the first time in his...
On his 15th attempt, GM Nikita Vitiugov won his first-ever Russian championship title on Wednesday in Ufa. The 2017 runner-up...
Game of the Week #486 The German Bundesliga season 19-21 was completed in the past week and the OSG Baden-Baden...
GM Hikaru Nakamura scored 10/11 and won Titled Tuesday on October 19, his first victory in the event since a...
A third US title for So Wesley So defended his US Championship title on Tuesday, after beating both Fabiano Caruana...
Over-the-board: The British Championships 2021 The British Championships are traditionally held as a large chess festival with tournaments in different...
Bundesliga 2019/21 Usually, the matches in the Bundesliga are played on weekends, but this year, the clubs agreed to play...
Matlakov beats Goryachkina Maxim Matlakov is one of three players who have gone ten rounds undefeated at the open section...
GM Nihal Sarin defeated fellow-Indian GM Raunak Sadhwani 16.5-10.5 to retain his title at the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented...
GM Wesley So won the playoff tiebreaks and is the 2021 U.S. Chess Champion. After 11 rounds of play in...
A likely outcome Before the last round of the US Open Championship, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So and Sam Sevian were...
But first, a warm-up: The position below is from the first game of the final of the Julius Baer Challenge,...
The first of many? Carissa Yip’s road to her first US Women’s Championship title has been full of records and...
Rook endings often have drawish tendencies, but pawn races usually spice things up. In the diagram position it is Black...
In round 11 of the 2021 U.S. Chess Championship, all three leaders drew their games which resulted in a three-way...
GM Alexey Sarana won the Super Swiss on Sunday. The 21-year-old grandmaster from Moscow earned $4,000 and qualified for the...
Among other things, Karsten and Arne look at strong and not so strong fortresses and at a difficult pawn endgame....
Caruana is back! A look at the standings table, one round before the end of the event, shows how close...
Carlsen's 4.c4 against the Caro-Kann Advance Variation Jan Werle examines 3.e5 Bf5 4.c4 e6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.cxd5 A look with...
The Pivotal Pawns won the first edition of the Chess Super League on Sunday. The Kingslayers were beaten in one...
Free entries, free food At the 62nd Annual US Armed Forces Open Chess Championship, players received boards, sets, awards, entries,...
Alekseenko blunders The incredibly fighting Russian Superfinal could have easily gone into the three final rounds with Kirill Alekseenko sharing...
A clean sweep Vladimir Kramnik had already praised Praggnanandhaa’s form while providing commentary in the semifinals, noting that the youngster...
Round 10 of the 2021 U.S. Chess Championship reshaped the tournament standings before the decisive day. GM Fabiano Caruana won...
The Kingslayers and Pivotal Pawns will play the finals of the Chess Super League on Sunday. Two more teams were...
In round nine of the 2021 U.S. Chess Championship, which took place after a rest day, all leaders drew their...
Round eight of the 2021 U.S. Chess Championship was very peaceful, as all six games ended in a draw. GM...
GM Maxim Chigaev triumphed in a tense knockout final against GM Jeffery Xiong to win the third Speed Chess Championship...
Russia has defeated India 2.5-1.5 and 3-1 to confidently triumph in both rounds of the finals of the World Women's...
In round seven of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals, the two leaders, GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Teimour Radjabov, faced...
Meltwater Champions Chess Tour - Round 6 The four regular games between Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri had all ended...
Oliver Reeh in ChessBase Magazine Do you like these lessons? There are plenty more by tactic expert Oliver Reeh in...
Earlier this week, FIDE, the International Chess Federation, announced a sponsorship for women's chess with Establishment Labs, a company producing...
with Lawrence Trent and Arne Kaehler Lawrence Trent and Arne Kaehler talk about what happened chess-wise last week. They give...
Tournament-favorites Russia defeated the Ukraine 2.5-1.5 and 3-1 in the two rounds of the semifinals to score a 2-0 win...
In round six of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals, GM Magnus Carlsen reinforced his lead as he beat GM...
by André Schulz 10/1/2021 – The FIDE world ranking lists in October 2021 are headed by the "usual...
Opening videos Jan Werle: Caro-Kann Advance Variation 3…Bf5 4.c4 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.c4 At the FIDE World...
In the years 2001-2012 the rating floor was lowered step by step. This process was guided by rating conferences to...
Russia and Georgia reached the semifinals of the 2021 World Women's Team Championship with solid performances, while India and Ukraine...
The 2021 FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss and the inaugural Women's Grand Swiss are approaching fast, with the first games starting...
A couple of weeks ago we looked at the latest developments with the move 3.h4 against the King's Indian and...
Thanks to his performance in the previous Meltwater Chess Champion tournaments, Magnus Carlsen started the finals of the series with...
The history of the Sigeman & Co tournaments goes back to 1993. Since then 26 Grandmaster Tournaments tournaments have been...