Champions Showdown

1/28/2019 – Magnus Carlsen won his seventh Tata Steel Chess title after holding a draw against Anish Giri despite all of the latter's attempts to keep the game ...

Ding Liren matched Mikhail Tal's 95-game unbeaten streak with a draw in Round 1 of the Shenzhen Masters against the last player to beat him in a ...

The 64-player FIDE Women's World Championship knockout starts today in Khanty-Mansiysk, and it's also the start of changes in women's chess. Reig...

Now that FIDE has published its November rating list, it's official: the 2018 world championship match will be played between the world's top two players.

Jan begins Episode 4 of Series 22 of his Opening Clinic with, "I should add a disclaimer here that I'm not a real doctor", but when it comes to che...

Talented chess players from all around the world will converge on St. Louis once again next week as the Saint Louis Chess Club concludes its fourth and.

Talented chess players from all around the world will converge on St. Louis once again next week as the Saint Louis Chess Club concludes its fourth and.

With a two-vote margin, Lewis Ncube was re-elected as president of the African Chess Confederation (ACC) at the FIDE congress last month. Our correspondent ...

The 2018 World Youth Chess Championship in Greece was a celebration of how diverse chess has become, with 626 players from 78 federations competi...

Husband and wife team Radek Wojtaszek and Alina Kashlinskaya triumphed in the Chess.com Isle of Man International. Radek drew with Arkadij Naidit...

Of the top nine seeds at the start of the Chess.com Isle of Man International only one player, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, goes into the final day wi...

Mickey Adams beat Abhijeet Gupta in Round 7 of the Chess.com Isle of Man International to join what is now a group of seven leaders on 5.5/7 goin...

Hikaru Nakamura ended the giant-killing run of Abhijeet Gupta as the race for the £50000 top prize in the Chess.com Isle of Man International he...

Peter Svidler and Sam Shankland both won with the white pieces as their 6-game classical match at the Hoogeveen Chess Tournament got off to an ex...

The St. Louis Fall Chess Classic has become a regular fixture on the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis calendar. Grandmaster ELSHAN ...

R Praggnanandhaa scored a major upset defeating elite GM Pavel Eljanov while Viswanathan Anand and Vidit Gujrathi were held to a draw by lower-ranked ...

13-year-old Praggnanandhaa played a game of frightening imagination, calculation and technique as he beat Pavel Eljanov in Round 3 of the Chess.com Isle of ...

The rating gap between the top seeds and their less accomplished opponents had narrowed in the second round of the Chess.com Isle of Man Masters.