Dominguez wins Dortmund despite late Nepo surge
Leinier Dominguez has set another milestone on his return from a 2.5 year break from classical chess by winning the 47th edition of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting and entering the world Top 10. His unbeaten +2 left him half a point ahead of the other 2700 players in the field, with Ian Nepomniachtchi winning his last two games to finish above Radek Wojtaszek, Richard Rapport and Teimour Radjabov on the tiebreak of most wins.
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Big Swiss open to decide a 2020 Candidates spot
One spot in the 2020 Candidates Tournament to decide Magnus Carlsen’s next World Championship challenger will be determined in an 11-round Swiss Open later this year. The new “FIDE Grand Swiss” will invite the Top 100 rated playe...
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Tal's last game
Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (Riga, 9 November 1936 – Moscow, 28 June 1992) was a chess player with a unique style of play that at the time was revolutionary, completely changing how people looked at the game. In this article Paraguay...
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Caruana back in action for the London Chess Classic
Fabiano Caruana is back in London this week for the finale of the Grand Chess Tour, knowing that a win at the start of his semi-final against Hikaru Nakamura would see him become the first person to overtake Magnus Carlsen on the...
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AlphaZero really is that good
One year since the bombshell announcement that DeepMind’s AlphaZero needed only the rules of chess and four hours of self-play to be able to beat Stockfish in a match, the long-awaited full paper has now been published in the aca...
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AlphaZero on Carlsen-Caruana Games 9-12
2-time British Chess Champion Matthew Sadler is back to share the insights of AlphaZero into the final four classical games of the 2018 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana. AlphaZero is DeepMind's gen...
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AlphaZero on Carlsen-Caruana Games 1-8
What would AlphaZero think of the current World Chess Championship match in London? That seemed a hypothetical question, and Alexander Grischuk even declared “AlphaZero does not exist” during one of our live broadcasts, but we’re...
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Ding 100 & out, Naka wins in Kolkata & more
The interest in Magnus Carlsen’s match against Fabiano Caruana is so great that it’s tough for other chess events to compete, though we have a number that would otherwise have gained top billing. The Shenzhen Masters has stolen s...
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Carlsen & Caruana true to form in press opener
“Women hate me, I repel them!” was something you never expected to hear from World Champion Magnus Carlsen, but that was his reply when asked if he had female support for the match. He came up with more memorable one-liners, but ...
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Norway Chess 2019 tries radical new format
Each encounter in Altibox Norway Chess next year will produce a winner, as one of the world’s top supertournaments has decided to trial an idea long championed by the likes of Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Sergey Shipov. In each match-...
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Carlsen beats Trent Alexander-Arnold & co. 13:0
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen had a long day on Monday. First he was in Manchester, England, where Kaspersky Lab sponsored an exhibition game against Liverpool footballer Trent Alexander-Arnold. A somewhat gruesome encounte...
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