Two of the world’s best chess players took on 26 kids Monday in a match of speed chess, a prelude to a three-day invitational in Santa Rosa. The boy rested his head on a picnic table overlooking a ...

7th and 8th rounds of Corus Chess Festival held on January 23 and 24 in the Dutch city of Wijk aan Zee. Armenian grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian in the 7th round met with Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Romania) ...

Grandmasters Varuzhan Akobian (Left) and Jeffery Xiong at the U.S. Chess Championships. (Austin Fuller, Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis) Following the biggest victory of his career, ...

WIJK AAN ZEE, Netherlands - GM Wesley So of the Philippines settled for his third straight draw, this time against GM Varuzhan Akobian of the United States, in the third round of the 72nd Corus chess ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian (U.S.) took 2nd prize in the 2012 Philadelphia Open chess tournament. He gained 6,5 points out of 9, being only 0,5 point behind tournament ...