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It's been several years since the Chess.com Isle of Man International was a combination chess and poker event, but GM Levon Aronian showed in today's round ...

It turns out you don't need randomized pairings to make for an eventful opening of a chess tournament. The 2018 Chess.com Isle of Man International, the ...

After a break for the Olympiad, Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson is back to answer opening questions from chess24 Premium members. Jan's Opening Clinic 2...

Magnus Carlsen's 7-year stay as world no. 1 looked to be over on Wednesday as he blundered badly against Ding Liren, but the World Champion fough...

The Irish Sea will play host once again to the top-flight open event Chess.com Isle of Man International from October 20-28. This year's edition will be the ...

Grandmasters Jan Gustafsson and Pepe Cuenca will play chess24 Premium members non-stop for 12 hours this Thursday, 18th October. If you've ever w...

It took 16 years after Sergey Karjakin became a grandmaster at 12 years old for another person to earn the highest title in chess before turning 13. But now, four ...

If you were going to write a movie script, you couldn't have done it better,” says English GM Daniel King. A new feature documentary, Closing Gambit, is being ...

Three weeks before the start of the FIDE world championship, organizer World Chess launched chess dating app Mates. Billed as a way to find an opponent for ...

Magnus Carlsen is set to have the white pieces against Ding Liren in Round 6 of the European Club Cup, with a decisive result ending either the W...

Ding Liren handed a 3rd successive loss to Peter Svidler as top seeds Alkaloid beat 4th seeds Mednyi Vsadnik in Round 4 of the 2018 European Club...

Six teams still have a perfect score after three rounds of the European Club Cup, but it's 9th placed Valerenga Sjakklubb who have been the team ...

2800-players Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov all play in the 34th European Club Cup, which began in the Porto Carras Grand R...

Over the board, the players consider themselves equals, but online Hikaru Nakamura is still too strong for Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The American GM won ...

Reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen has played chess against Armenian-German professional boxer Arthur Abraham.

At the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament, players who draw their game will play an Armageddon game right after, forcing a decisive result. The organizers ...

The organisers of the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament have unveiled a new format aimed at reducing the rate of draws. It's either "innovative" or "bizarre" ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan is focused on the national team's upcoming fixtures against Gibraltar and Macedonia in the UEFA ...

By Harut Sassounian. Publisher, The California Courier I wrote an article in September criticizing the Trump administration's dismissal of the International ...