Magnus Carlsen Retires!
In a stunning turn of events, Magnus Carlsen announced his retirement from chess after a loss to the unknown amateur Max Deutsch. The two had played an exhibition game in Hamburg in 2017, which...
Category: The World of Chess
The First Women’s World Champion: Vera Menchik
When you look superficially at the world of chess, all you see are men. And, with really horrible logic, when a woman shows prowess and skill in the so-called Game of Kings, the fact...
Happy Birthday Maurice Ashley!
Maurice Ashley was born on March 6, 1966 in St. Andrews, Jamaica. He moved to the United States with his family at the age of 12. They settled in Brooklyn, where Ashley grew up...
Wesley So Wins the Opera Euro Rapid!
Filipino-American Grandmaster Wesley So coolly sailed to victory in the recently completed Opera Euro Rapid, the latest tournament in the online Champions Chess Tour. The event ran from February 6 to 14 online, and...
A Thrilling Conclusion To The 2021 Tata Steel Chess Tournament
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament, held annually in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands since 1938, has grown to become one of the largest and most prestigious chess tournaments in the world. The fourteen-player Master section...
Teimour Radjabov Wins the Airthings Masters Tournament
Today was the final round of the tumultuous and exciting Airthings Masters online chess tournament, and in so doing became the first player guaranteed a place in the four-player Chess Champion Tour that will...
16-year-old Alireza Firouzja Wins Prague Masters Tournament
Today, the young Iranian Grandmaster, Alireza Firouzja, won his first major international tournament. Firouzja is sixteen. After regular play there were five players with a score of 5/9. Firouzja and Vidit Gujrathi topped the...
Congratulations to GM Fabiano Caruana!
Congrats to Fabiano Caruana for winning the 2020 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Caruana won with a round to spare, with six wins and no losses, leaving Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand and others in the...
