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Online Chess Simul with Women's World Chess Champ Hou Yifan: FIDE Online...
Hello chess friends, you can now play the women's world chess champion Hou Yifan of China in an online chess simul!The FIDE Chess Online Arena has some special events coming up.Women’s World Champion...
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Magnus Carlsen heads Norwegian Chess Olympiad Teams
Hello chess friends, the Norwegian Chess Federation has announced the four chess teams that will represent Norway at the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, according to the official website update. The top...
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Photo Chess Trivia: Which Country held their 1st Ever National Chess...
Hello chess friends, one Asian country has just got their first-ever national chess champion! Can you name the country and the champion? Click photo to read the detailed FIDE report on the event. From...
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U.S. Chess 2014 Men R6, Women R5: Akobian, Lenderman and Krush, Zatonskih in...
Hello Chess Blog friends, here's the latest updates from the U.S. Chess Championships 2014 in Saint Louis where the men have played six rounds and the women have played five rounds. Brian Jerauld...
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9Queens Chess Fourth Friday Family Fun Knight May 23 in Tucson
Hello chess friends, we keenly follow all the chess activities of 9Queens - doing amazing things to make chess so popular in Arizona. Here is news of their next chess event: Fourth Friday Family Fun...
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FIDE Chess Ratings Blitz, Rapid: Spot Your Favourite GMs!
Hello chess friends, it is exciting to see chess ratings for blitz and rapid chess published by FIDE. The top players in the men's rapid ratings are Hikaru Nakamura 2841, Fabiano Caruana 2840,...
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Nepal Chess News: MK Kayastha wins Mt Gauri Shankar Chess Open
Hello chess friends, Nepal is a growing chess country that has taken to chess only in the last few years. We like to share any chess news coming from the country which was, earlier, known as the...
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World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen vs. Himself as a 7-Year-Old on Play...
Hello chess friends, this particular chess video of World Chess Champion could surely have been possible thanks to modern technology. The World Chess Champion takes on 'himself' as a seven-year-old in...
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U.S. Chess Championships 2014: Akobian, Zatonskih in Front; Reigning Champs...
Hello chess friends, there's no going away from the U.S. Chess Championships 2014 even on the rest day. Big excitement happening with the leads swinging so, here's the report by Brian Jerauld:SAINT...
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Russian GM Boris Savchenko wins Nakhchivan Chess Open 2014
Dear chess friends, Russian Grandmaster Boris Savchenko has won the 2014 Nakhchivan Chess Open that was held on 4-12 May at the Chess Center in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.Savchenko, Aleksandr Shimanov...
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GM Rinat Jumabayev is Kazakhstan National Chess Champion 2014
Hello chess blog readers, considering the upcoming Chess Olympiad, here's more national chess news: The 2014 Kazakhstan Chess Championship for men was held from 3rd to 12th May, 2014 in Astana, the...
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Funny Chess Scene (Big Bang Theory) - How Boys Behave when they Lose to Girls!
Hello chess friends, time for some chess fun! So how do guys behave when they lose a chess game to a girl? Check out the video. The first part of the video is when Penny beats Leonard at chess in The...
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Aussie Chess History: Giant Old Chess Set Found in Town Hall Store
Hello chess blog friends, they've found an old giant chess set in a town hall building! Daily Mercury reports: KINGS, Queens and their knights in shining armour lost their gloss and their kingdom as...
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Super-Star Chess GMs Trivia Photo: Name them, Name Event!
Hello chess friends, this is a high-powered gathering of chess stars for sure. Question for you - Where and what was the event? It surely wasn't the Candidates though it could easily pass of as one at...
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Hay Festival: Timetable at World's Biggest Literary Festival Features Chess
Hello chess friends, here's a neat chess story from Wales Online. Last year a giant chess board at Hay featured not only Kings and Queens but a real life Duchess. Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall,...
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Akobian, Zatonskih Create Space; 2014 U.S. Women’s Title On the Line
Hello chess friends, the round after a rest day in a chess tournament is usually quite interesting - will the overnight leader extend lead or lose rhythm? What happened at the U.S. Chess Championships?...
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Elementary Chess Championship in Texas: Thomas Edison Charter School Team wins
Hello chess friends, One of the best young chess teams in America comes from an inner-city school in Wilmington. Four students from Thomas Edison Charter School tied for first place among 600 teams and...
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Logjam Atop Leaderboards at U.S. Chess Championships 2014
Hello chess blog friends, the U.S. Chess Championships 2014 is heading towards its exciting conclusion, reports Brian Jerauld: SAINT LOUIS (May 18, 2014) -- Irina Krush has decided to play this one...
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Where are 2014 World Youth Chess Championships to be Held?
Hello chess friends, do you know where the 2014 World Youth Chess Championships are going to be held? Chess South Africa and its partners have won the rights to host the chess event in the beautiful...
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Kamsky, Krush Repeat as U.S. Chess Champions 2014!
Hello chess blog friends, have you been following the U.S. Chess Championships 2014? It's interesting that both the men and women's U.S. Chess Champions have retained there title! Here's the official...
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