The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF) opened “Clash for the Crown: Celebrating Chess Champions," an all-new exhibition on April 11, 2024
Interview: Columnist Shelby Lyman discusses the new world chess champion and his defeat of Garry KasparovSCOTT SIMON
The World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship took place on 6th – 10th June in Khanty-Mansiysk. The World Rapid Champion was known on 8 June; Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) won this event after a tremendous last day. Silver and bronze went to Ian Nepomniachtchi and Alexander Grischuk, ...
On International Chess Day, July 20, a monumental achievement was realized as over 350 events took place worldwide, both online and over the board, setting the record for the most chess games played in 24 hours
Happy New Year to all Chessdom.com readers and a very successful 2016 to everyone! This year we finish with the January 2016 rating list and a review of the player’s rating progress.The year 2015 started with four players above 2800 in January – the World Champion Magnus Carlsen, ...
For a couple of months now the meme has been that the 2016 World Championship is not, as originally stated, going to be staged in New York, but moved to Moscow. Not true. AGON, is the official partner of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) and owner the Wo
– Fritz has fascinated the chess world for thirty years. And the success story continues. In Vienna, the most popular chess program ever was once again able to underline its premier position: the newly developed neural engine with NNUE technologywon the official Chess Software World Championship!
In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat Garry Kasparov, the then world chess champion. With Deep Blue, programmers built a system that tried to analyse every outcome of every possible move. But Go is far more complex than chess. There are more possible configurations on a Go board ...
The World Junior (U20) Championship is currently being held at the Hotel del Prado in Mexico City. This prestigious event has prompted FIDÉ, the World Chess Federation, to produce a rigorous and demanding format. Eleven gruelling rounds with a time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 ...
Chess and Casablanca already have a connection through the chess scenes in Humphrey Bogart’s famous 1943 film. Bogart had a lifelong interest in chess, and was aparks hustlerbefore his acting career took off. In one of his few published games, against the blindfold champion George Koltanowski...