GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (also known as MVL) finished first in the World Blitz Chess Championship with 15/21 in the Swiss tournament, after defeating GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in their third blitz playoff game. Duda finished in second and GM Alireza ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave finished first in the World Blitz Chess Championship with 15/21 in the Swiss tournament, after defeating GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in their third blitz playoff game. Duda finished in second and GM Alireza Firouzja finished in...
The World Champion, a film directed by Alexey Sidorov that depicts the dramatic world championship match between GM Anatoly Karpov and GM Viktor Korchnoi in 1978, hits cinemas in Russia on Thursday.
While the 1972 "Match of the Century" in Reykj...
GM Levon Aronian, the Armenian star-player who recently moved to and now represents the United States, finished day one of the World Blitz Chess Championship with 10/12 and in clear first. Behind him are Egyptian GM Amin Bassem, the five-time Afri...
The tiebreak regulations at the World Rapid Chess Championship, which finished yesterday in Warsaw, Poland, are heavily debated on social media. This report brings an overview of the different opinions expressed online.
The World Rapid Champions...
GM Magnus Carlsen might be letting go of his world title in classical chess unless GM Alireza Firouzja will be his opponent for the next match. "If someone other than Firouzja wins the Candidates Tournament, it is unlikely that I will play the nex...
After many twists and turns on day three of the World Rapid Chess Championship, 17-year-old Uzbek GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the event with 9.5/13 in the Swiss event, after winning the second tiebreak blitz game against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi.&nb...
Palo Alto, Calif., Dec. 28, 2021—The 2022 Candidates Tournament, which will produce the challenger for the next world chess championship match, will take place in June 2022 in Madrid, Spain. As the organizing sponsor of this prestigious tour...
Avisha from our club recently participated in the annual British Junior National Chess Championship in Milton Keynes & was placed 2nd in the Blitz and 3rd in the Rapidplay events in the U-8 Girls category. This is quite inspirational for our budding juniors at the…
The British Chess Educational Trust was set up from a sum of money left to the British Chess Association by Sir George Thomas, who was the British chess champion in the 1930s and also a British badminton champion.
The trust funds an annual award for…