Grand Chess Tour in the News

The Russian men's team have won the World Team Championship for the first time since 2013 after they crushed Sweden while England lost to China and India ...

After a year of absence, Magnus Carlsen is back as a participant of the Grand Chess Tour. The other 11 main players are Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime ...

Team France will have to expect the unexpected in next week's Team Chess Battle against the USA. Ahead of the anticipated battle on March 15, IM Daniel ...

This week IM Lawrence Trent covers a player who has flown a bit under the radar: Niclas Huschenbeth. Lawrence is on-demand this week and free for a limited ...

Courtesy our friends at New in Chess: GM MATTHEW SADLER gives his assessment of ChessBase's tenth volume in the Master Class series on the sixth World ...

What do these things have in common? Cream cheese and bagels Danny Rensch and Robert Hess PRO Chess League (PCL) and Computer Aggregated ...

Vladislav Artemiev celebrated his 21st birthday with victory over 15-year-old prodigy Alireza Firouzja to give Russia a narrow win over Iran as the 2019 World ...

It was an eventful weekend in the Bundesliga, as leaders and clear favourites OSG Baden-Baden lined up their best squad but ended up giving up two crucial ...

We're now in Season 23 of Jan's Opening Clinic, where Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson takes a break from working for World Champion Magnus Carlsen to ta...

Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson is back for his first Opening Clinic since helping a certain Magnus Carlsen retain his World Championship title agains...

GM Luke McShane took top honours in the Masters group at the 26th Bunratty Chess Festival — the annual fun-filled tournament in Ireland held this year from ...

Chess News: TOI had reported on January 29 about the possibility of another Carlsen versus Viswanathan Anand clash in India, six years after the duo had ...

The Champions Showdown ended with five clear winners as Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Veselin Topalov and Richard Rapport practicall...

Vladimir Kramnik's decision to quit professional chess shook the chess world. Many people even sense deja vu. Indeed, there is an uncanny resemblance to 14 ...

Vladimir Kramnik's decision to quit professional chess shook the chess world. Many people even sense deja vu. Indeed, there is an uncanny resemblance to 14 ...

Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura were dominant in their blitz matches against Pentala Harikrishna and Jan-Krzysztof Duda; Richard Rapport got the ...

Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura were dominant in their blitz matches against Pentala Harikrishna and Jan-Krzysztof Duda; Richard Rapport got the ...

Veselin Topalov took Leinier Dominguez on a trip to Vienna to get a clear lead on their match at the Saint Louis Champions Showdown. However barely played ...

The Saint Louis Chess Club organised yet another compelling event, as five rapid and blitz matches between top-notch competitors are being played from ...

At the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2019, he beat Vladimir Kramnik and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to showcase that his career is now perhaps primed to take off.