Playing While, Ju Wenjun (China), a 1.d4 player, surprised her opponent with 1.e4. In the ensuing Berlin variation of the Spanish Opening, Aleksandra Goryachkina (Russia) achieved comfortable play after producing a novelty on move: 12.c6.

The 2020 Women's World Championship match between reigning champion Ju Wenjun (China) and challenger Aleksandra Goryachkina (Russia) started with two draws. After a rest day, play continues on Wednesday. You can follow the match with commentary provided by…

Click the diagram to solve this chess puzzle from the game Sengupta, Deep - Panchanathan, Magesh Chandran, Hastings 2020.

In the early 1980s, FREDERIC FRIEDEL spent a week in Moscow with Unix pioneer Ken Thompson, who was supposed to demonstrate his computer chess world champion machine Belle to the Soviet Chess Federation, and to former World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, who…

The Microsense Kramnik Gelfand chess program is here. From...

The 28th annual North American Open was again held at Bally’s Casino Resort in Las Vegas from December 26 through 30th. The pre-tournament attendance predictions...

Texas Tech chalked up the only 6-0 at the 66th consecutive Pan-American Collegiate Team Championships. This makes the second PanAms title collected by Texas Tech...

Hi Caissa’s friends. In the last days of 2019 we had the World Blitz Championship where Magnus Carlsen got the first place and became Triple World Champion. In this competition, in round 19th, there was a controversial situation in the game between 16 years…