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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 fifth day of game play at the 7th Tal Chess Memorial currently being played at the Pashkov House in Moscow saw two decisive games. Alexander Morozevich capitalised on Aronian’s piece sacrifice for ...

For years, Alexander Morozevich stood out among the best players because of his creative play. But with creativity comes unpredictability, and Morozevich has had his ups and downs. Two years ago, ...

Tomsk400 Yukos led by Alexander Morozevich won the prestigious Russian Team Championships held at the Hotel Dyomis at the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Tomsk400 were led by Alexander Morozevich who ...