1/3/2014 – The 37th Zurich Christmas Open took place on 26-30th December at the Crowne Plaza Zürich in Zurich, Switzerland. The seven-round Master Tournament, for players rated over 2000, drew 118 participants of which 50 were titled, including 23 grandmasters from around the world. Top seed Polish grandmaster Radoslaw Wojtaszek took clear first with 6.0/7 after a powerful last-round win.

12/24/2013 – It's not official yet, but it looks like that for the first time in chess history we are going to see a category 23 (average 2801) tournament. Six players – Carlsen, Aronian, Nakamura, Caruana, Gelfand and Anand – will play in the classical round robin Zurich Chess Challenge, from January 29 to February 4th 2014 – with a rapid tagged on. In related news due to health reasons chess legend Viktor Korchnoi's plan to return to tournament chess unfortunately failed.

3/4/2013 –  A round of blunders! Even top players in the world are human, and they proved it today. Exhaustion has taken its toll on the players, and this changed the final standings. With a win over Boris Gelfand the youngest participant, Fabiano Caruana, clinched victory in the tournament by a full point, gaining twelve rating points in the process. Anand beat Kramnik to finish at 50%. Final report.

3/1/2013 –  Who's complaining? Today's round continued to provide some spectacular chess. Kramnik and Caruana decided that the Benoni was a super battleground, and that is always good for the spectators. Anand may have been a tad lucky since his opening was far from perfect, but both games ended in exciting draws. We have videos, postgame analysis and  guest commentator.

3/1/2013 –  What a round! Two great games were played today and the spectators cannot be unhappy. The more rational one was a victory and the crazy game turned out to be a draw! And once again Garry Kasparov was present, commenting and even participating in the postgame analysis. In addition to the video coverage of all this we have some lovely impressions from an Alpine excursion on the free day.

2/26/2013 – An exciting round for sure, despite the lack of decisive results. Boris Gelfand played a Najdorf against his 2012 World Championship opponent Vishy Anand, sacrificed a pawn and was able to hold him to a draw in 42 moves. Vladimir Kramnik used a Benoni against Fabiano Caruana and had the advantage in a well-fought draw. Guess who dropped in to assist with the commentary.

2/25/2013 – In a tournament where there are only two boards, the spectators run the risk that in both games the white pieces will be neutralized with some precise opening preparation and the games will simply wither into a stale draw. Luckily that was the case in only one of the games. Round two report with video commentary and postgame analysis.

2/24/2013 – The first round of the four-player category 21 event saw two games with unusual openings. Vladimir got a small advantage against Boris Gelfand but could not turn it into a full point; while Fabiano Caruana relinquished his advantage in time trouble against Vishy Anand and had to fight for 65 moves to secure the draw. Round one report with video commentary and postgame analysis.

2/23/2013 – It's a category 21 four-player double round robin event, with two World Champions, a WCh challenger and the one of the brightest young talents in the current chess scene. The venue is the elegant Savoy Hotel in Zurich, Switzerland. The event started on Friday with an opening ceremony and a Blitz tournament, which was won by the youngest participant.