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1933 Salo Flohr, Tied +2−2=8 1937 Grigory Levenfish, Tied +5−5=3 (1940 Vyacheslav Ragozin, Won +5 -0 =7, Exhibition Match) 1951 David ...

A really bad tournament for Topalov.  Everybody else did well.  In the last round, Karjakin and Caruana were both at 7.5 and faced each othe...

Carlsen won Wijk aan Zee. Grand Prix:  Tomashevsky won Tbilisi.  Jakovenko, Nakamura and Caruana tied for 1st at Khanty-Mansiysk.  Taking ...

So won the Capablanca Memorial by 1 point over Lazaro Bruzon.  (Top seed Ivanchuk ended up in last place.) US Championship:  Defending cha...

Game 2 (Carlsen wins) 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. 0-0 d6 6. Re1 0-0 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8. h3 Re8 9. Nbd2 Nd7 10. Nc4 Bb6 11. a4 ...

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Anand played a solid game while keeping tension but started making mistakes. A blunder by each player led to an endgame with an advantage fo...

Unfortunately for him, Carlsen found all the right defensive moves to hold the draw, and in the end Anand blundered and Carlsen actually pic...

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. 0-0 Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6 6. Nxe5 Be7 7. Bf1 Nxe5 8. Rxe5 0-0 9. d4 Bf6 10. Re1 Re8 11. c3 Rxe1 12. Qxe1 Ne8 13....

C'mon, man, FIGHT!  As Chessbase points out, there is a football adage in Brazil that states that losing by ten goals or by a thousand i...

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 0-0 6. 0-0 Re8 7. Re1 a6 8. Ba4 b5 9. Bb3 d6 10. Bg5 Be6 11. Nbd2 h6 12. Bh4 Bxb3 13. axb3 Nb...

1. c4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 c6 4. e4 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Bb4+ 6. Nc3 c5 7. a3 Ba5 8. Nf3 Nf6 9. Be3 Nc6 10. Qd3 cxd4 11. Nxd4 Ng4 12. 0-0-0 Nxe3 13. f...

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. 0-0 Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5 8. Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. h3 Bd7 10. Rd1 Be7 11. Nc3 Kc8 12. Bg5 h6 13....

A draw again, but a well-fought one this time. 1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 g6 3. c4 dxc4 4. Qa4+ Nc6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. Nc3 e5 7. Qxc4 Nge7 8. O-O O-O 9. d...

More moves, but just about an hour at the board (time control was 4 hours for 40 moves). 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3...

1. f3 d5 2. g3 g6 3. g2 g7 4. d4 c6 5. 0-0 f6 6. b3 0-0 7. b2 f5 8. c4 bd7 9. c3 dxc4 10. bxc4 b6 11. c5 c4 12. c1 d5 13. b3 a5 14. a3 c4 15...

Wijk aan Zee was won by Magnus Carlsen with 10/13, tying Kasparov's record from 1999. The Capablanca Memorial was won by Zoltan Almasi...

I thought y'all  might be interested in the documentary I’m making about New Orleans chessmaster Jude Acers who has been playing $5 gam...

Wanted to make sure you knew about the exciting, new film on chess and its place in schools, Brooklyn Castle ( www.brooklyncastle.com ). T...

Aronian wins Wijk aan Zee (Tata Steel) with 9/13 (January) Ivanchuk wins Capablanca Memorial for the sixth time with 6.5/10 (May) Nakamura...

What a monumentally boring match, reinforcing my continuing lack of interest in maintaining this blog. Game 1 - 24 move draw Game 2 - 25 m...

Beats Ivanchuk in 2-game speed chess tiebreak match.

It was Svidler over Grischuk in the final by 1-0 with 3 draws.  Ivanchuk clinched third place.  All three advance to the next stage of the n...

Gelfand won game 6 against Grischuk, to win the match 3.5-2.5 and earn the right to face Anand next year. Alekhine-Capablanca 1927 Tal-Bo...

with Le, who now joins the 2700 club.

Gelfand over Kamsky (on tiebreak) Grischuk over Kramnik (on tiebreak) Does it really matter now?  Neither Gelfand nor Grischuk can beat A...

Kamsky over Topalov Gelfand over Memadyarov Grischuk over Aronian (on tiebreak) Kramnik over Radjabov (on tiebreak)

Kamsky beat Schulman in the tiebreak. Anna Zatonskih is the women's champion.

US GM Hikaru Nakamura upset 1-4 seeds to win his first Super-GM tournament.

Rank Name Title Nation Rating Gms Born  1 Carlsen, Magnus  g  NOR  2814  17  1990  2 Anand, Viswanathan  g  IND  2810  17  1969  3 Aroni...