WHEN a tournament player oversteps the time limit, by exhausting the allotted minutes on his clock, in chess jargon it is said that he “overslept.” But that was literally true last month for Alexander ...

With eight rounds still to come in the strongest super-tournament of the year, Mamedyarov, Carlsen and Caruana nosed ahead with victories and the Russian trio of Sergey Karjakin, Dmitry Andreikin and ...

BIEL, Switzerland: Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran scored a brilliant victory over local hope Yannick Pelletier and joined top seed GM Alexander Morozevich of Russia at the top of the tables after the ...

World champion Viswanathan Anand ended the opening day of the Mainz Chess Classic on a positive note defeating Russian Alexander Morozevich to emerge as the joint leader in the Grenkeleasing rapid ...

Monaco: Viswanathan Anand defeated Boris Gelfand of Israel 1.5-0.5 in the 11th and final round and finished third in overall standings in the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament that concluded ...

Alexander Morozevich won the blindfold section of the 13th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament at the Grand Hotel in Monaco with a score of 8.5/11. The twenty seven year old from St Petersburg ...

The British Land UK Chess Challenge is at its second stage with 39 Megafinals either completed or shortly to take place across the UK. Founder and organizer International Michael Basman has again ...

Anand notched his fourth victory in the World Chess Championship beating Alexander Morozevich in the 11th round of the tournament. MEXICO CITY, September 26: Viswanathan Anand crashed through ...

The 7th Tal Chess Memorial in Moscow has some of the strongest chess players in attendance. The round robin event, is taking place from June 8-18 at the Pashkov House. On Thursday, in Round 6, leader ...