The title of the 10th USSR chess championship [1937] was decided exceptionally in a 13-game match between two players, Grigory Levenfish and Mikhail Botvinnik. Levenfish and Botvinnik via wikicommons Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish [21 March 1889, Piotrków…

William Lombardy led the US to victory in the student chess Olympiad at Leningrad in 1960, beating Boris Spassky in the process, his country’s only team win against the Soviet Union

Our BOOK OF THE WEEK is FIDE's Book of the Year: Together with the Candidates. Also known as the Averbakh/Boleslavsky Award in respect of these two giants of chess literature, GM Artur Jussupow presided over the three-man independent jury, which also included…

Replay the Monaco FIDE Women's Grand Prix Round 2 game played on 04/12/2019 with computer analysis

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave defeated Magnus Carlsen to reach the final of the Grand Chess Tour playoff. The Frenchman beat the world champion in a tiebreak of their semifinal and will now face Ding Liren in the final. Ding won against Levon Aronian in their semifinal…