Champions Showdown

The news about AlphaZero beating Stockfish 64-36 without a single loss after just four hours of self-training has shocked the chess world. Chess.com has early ...

Arkady Dvorkovich has been elected FIDE president for the coming four years at the World Chess Federation's General Assembly in Batumi, Georgia.

China and the USA meet in the last round in Batumi knowing that whoever wins will be the 2018 Olympiad Champions. China ended Poland's brilliant ...

Kacper Piorun was the hero as he beat Hikaru Nakamura while his Polish teammates hung on to hand the USA their first defeat at an Olympiad in fou...

Fabiano Caruana is now a mere 4.5 live rating points behind Magnus Carlsen after beating world no. 3 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in Round 8 of the Batumi ...

Arkady Dvorkovich has defeated Georgios Makropoulos 103:78 and will follow Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as the 7th President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

Four of the top five matches finished drawn in Round 7 of the Batumi Olympiad, allowing the USA to catch leaders Poland and Azerbaijan with just ...

The regular readers of my column know that I hate political correctness. In my old article I explained it is probably the biggest threat to Western civilization.

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov's latest victim was David Navara as his third win in a row helped Azerbaijan to a perfect 12/12 after six rounds of the 2018 Batumi ...

World Champion Magnus Carlsen sprung a surprise on Monday when he joined the chess24 Spanish Olympiad broadcast and spent 90 minutes discussing t...

The regular readers of my column know that I hate political correctness. In my old article I explained it is probably the biggest threat to Western civilization.

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov played a fine attacking game to beat Levon Aronian in Round 5 as Azerbaijan maintained a 100% score at the expense of Armeni...

Fabiano Caruana beat Vishy Anand in 26 moves as the USA lived up to their status as top seeds to beat India in Round 4 of the Batumi Olympiad. Th...

Wesley So won a third game in a row while Jorden van Foreest self-destructed as the USA beat the Netherlands 3:1 in the biggest match-up so far in Batumi.

Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Vladimir Kramnik, Ding Liren, Vishy Anand, MVL and more stars were rested for Round 1 of the Batumi Olympiad, ...

The 43rd Chess Olympiad starts this weekend, with 1600 players descending on Batumi, Georgia for the biggest event in chess. The surprise this ye...