The 10,000-euro first prize in Grandmaster Group A at the 74th annual Tata Steel Chess Tournament was up for grabs again after an exciting eleventh round played havoc with the standings Friday. Tournament leader Levon Aronian, one point free of the pack at the outset of the round, went down with white against David Navara [...]

Live commentary from Tata Steel 2012

GM Sedlak will comment live Carlsen - Kamsky from Tata Steel 2012

Analysis of the strong women event in Moscow 2012.

Moscow closed GM round robin with analysis

Magnus Carlsen and Gata Kamsky talking about the 12th round game in the Tata Steel A tournament. Replay the game Carlsen – Kamsky with the commentary by GM Nikola Sedlak. by Freshmen media

Teimour Radjabov and Vassily Ivanchuk sharing their impressions about the 12th round game in the Tata Steel tournament. Replay the games from the Tata Steel A tournament with computer analysis and commentary by GM Nikola Sedlak. by Freshmen media

Tata Steel 2012 with commentary

The final games of Tata Steel with commentary

The Armenian grandmaster and member of the 2800 club Levon Aronian won the 2012 edition of the Tata Steel Chess tournament. In the last round he made a quick draw with Teimour Radjabov to finish with a total of 9.0 points and at least half a point ahead of the nearest follower. Aronian started with [...]

Levon Aronian gave a brief statement for Freshmen media after securing the overall victory in the Tata Steel A tournament.

Hikaru Nakamura, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Teimour Radjabov and Gata Kamsky with final statements about the Tata Steel tournament. by Freshmen media

The Turkish Chess Championships among women and men have started on 29th January, 2012 in Kemer, Antalya, and will continue over ten rounds of Swiss system until 5th February. The top seeds in the men’s Championship are GM Dragan Solak, GM Baris Esen and GM Emre Can, among 309 participants (52 more compared to previous [...]

GM Harikrishna and GM Turov were victorious in the Tata Steel B and C events. GM Harikrishna came on top of Tata B after scoring 9,0/13 and finishing half a point ahead of the favorites GM Bruzon and GM Motylev. GM Turov was the maximum scorer of all three groups with 10,5/13, half a point [...]

The Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012 continues to bring excitement to the chess calendar, this time attracting not only some of the best Grandmasters, but also the women chess elite. As a result of that just a few days ago we witnessed the battle between Judit Polgar, the top rated women on the planet for many [...]