Ding Liren has won the 2019 Grand Chess Tour after blowing away Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final. The French no. 1 admitted his opponent, “struck when it counted and he struck very, very hard,” after the Chinese no. 1 won the first rapid game of the final day and drew the second to clinch victory before the blitz began. Magnus Carlsen took 3rd place, but not before prolonging his match against Levon Aronian by blundering into mate in a winning position. His 3rd place among 7 million players in Fantasy Premier League was much more impressive!
The World Chess Federation today announced the pairings for the tournament that will determine the next challenger for World Champion Magnus Carlsen. The 2014 Candidates Tournament starts a month tomorrow, with Viswanathan Anand - L...
The World Chess Federation today announced that all the players qualified to play in the 2014 Candidates Tournament have confirmed their participation. Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand will therefore be one of eight players c...
Norwegian news site VG reports that World Champion Magnus Carlsen is planning to trademark his name in Norway, with his manager Espen Agdestein describing it as a formality to “protect the brand Magnus Carlsen”
Magnus Carlsen won’t have long to bask in the glory of his World Championship title before he faces a new challenge. The World Chess Federation today announced the next match in 2014 will run from the 6th to the 25th November. The d...
82-year-old Viktor Korchnoi is set to play top-level chess again, a little over a year after suffering a stroke that some feared would put an end to his chess career. The indomitable Russian features on the starting list of players ...
Chess sponsor Oleg Skvortsov was in Chennai for the start of the recent World Championship match and spotted a factor he thinks may have been overlooked – Magnus Carlsen was more familiar with the chess set used
Chess24 author Peter Svidler has been named as the organiser’s nominee for the 8-player Candidates Tournament in March 2014. That event in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia will determine the challenger for the next World Championship match...
Former World Junior Champion Elisabeth Paehtz was recently featured in the “satirical chess magazine” Kingpin. Topics ranged from the most irritating player she’d ever faced at the board to her love of opera, but there were also so...
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