John Hartmann
Turns out the death of classical chess may have been "greatly exaggerated" after all. The Zagreb stop of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour got underway… Read More »
The 18 players contesting the three Summer Chess Classic groups are on their rest day today in Saint Louis. With five more rounds to be played in the… Read More »
The 2019 Summer Chess Classic kicked off yesterday in Saint Louis. Hosted by the Saint Louis Chess Club, the Summer Classic is part of a quarterly… Read More »
Aleksandra Goryachkina, Winner of the 2019 Women's Candidates (photo FIDE)
Aleksandra Goryachkina is the clear winner of the 2019 Women’s… Read More »
Life in the Internet age is both a blessing and a curse for chess fans. On the plus side, there is an utter avalanche of top-level tournaments taking… Read More »
Two rest days. Two tournament leaders. Two very different stories.
Standings after Rd 6 (courtesy Mark Crowther / TWIC)
Magnus… Read More »
Call it chance or call it kismet, but it is immensely useful to this writer that both the Altibox Norway Chess and Women’s Candidates Tournaments… Read More »
Aleksandra Goryachkina leads the 2019 Women’s Candidate Tournament after five rounds with a score of 4/5, a half-point ahead of Nana Dzagnidze.… Read More »
CROSSVILLE, TN: US Chess has renamed a premier scholastic national championship as the Ruth Haring National Girls Tournament of Champions (RHNGTOC).… Read More »
The June 2019 issue of Chess Life includes a review of Grandmaster Boris Avrukh’s newest book with Quality Chess, Grandmaster Repertoire 2B: 1. d4… Read More »