What is GameKnot? We are an online chess community where you can play chess online whether you only have 10 minutes to spare or the whole day. Either way, you are guaranteed a good exercise for your brain and you'll have fun too! No additional software to download, free registration, online chess at its best. You choose when to move and how often to move, and you don't have to finish the games in one sitting -- they'll be waiting for you the next day. If you prefer serious competitive chess, you can also take your time and ponder your next move for hours. You can even play at work, while doing other things or whenever you get bored!
If you prefer fast real-time games, try our Blitz Chess.<new> We offer several ways to compete and win: chess league, bi-monthly tournaments, mini-tournaments, teams and more! We also have a very helpful online chess games database.
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Completed games = 5,995,083
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Karpov ready to play against Fischer
Multiple world chess champion Anatoly Karpov is ready to face Bobby Fischer, the Russian chess grandmaster told RIA Novosti Wednesday. Karpov said the possibility of such a match depended solely on Fischer and getting sponsors. ... |
Harikrishna bows out in semi-final
Grandmaster P Harikrishna failed to square up as he drew the second game of the semi-final against GM Andrei Volokitn of Ukraine in the Lausanne Young Masters International Chess tournament in Lausanne, Switzerland. Harikrishna, who had lost the first game of the two-game chess mini-match, had a tough task of pulling one back as the Ukrainian displayed fine defensive technique. ... |
Harikrishna in must-win situation
World Junior Chess Champion P Harikrishna was outdone by top seed Grandmaster Andrei Volokitin of Ukraine in the first game of the two-game semifinal at Lausanne Young Masters International Chess tournament in Switzerland. With one down in the two-game chess mini match, Harikrishna faces a tall task of winning the return game in order to force a tiebreak in which games of shorter duration will be played to determine the winner. ... |
Chess master Kasparov takes on tech execs... and Putin
Since retiring from chess, Kasparov has been devoting his time to political causes and writing a book. The book, to be published by Penguin in the spring of 2006, is tentatively titled How Life Imitates Chess. "My book will analyze the decision-making mechanism," Kasparov said. The book will also include case studies from various fields, not just chess. ... |
India's chess player favorite to win tournament in Argentina
World FIDE chess champion 2004 Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan considered on Thursday India's Vishwanathan Anand as favorite to win the continental chess tournament of San Luis, in Argentina. "He who better endures pressure will certainly be the champion," said Kasimdzhanov about the chess contest to be held on September 27-October 16 ... |
Chris's passage to India for world chess contest
Blind chess player Chris Ross is set to travel to India to compete for the title of world chess champion. Chris, a teacher at St Peter's School in Huntingdon, will take part in the World Individual Championships next year after retaining his title as British chess champion. He competed in his first world chess championship for visually impaired players in Turkey in 2002 where he put in a creditable performance, ... |
Chess event drawing Gorbachev to Kansas
Chess will bring former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and world chess champions Anatoly Karpov and Susan Polgar to an Oct. 29 chess gathering in Lindsborg, Kansas. ... |
Polgar: “It will be an extremely difficult and exhausting event”
Judit Polgar, the only woman among seven men for this World Chess Championship San Luis 2005, spoke to the Press Office of the chess event. “It is going to be an extremely difficult and exhausting event from mental and physical point of view”, she said, that’s why she is carrying on a very important physical training. ... |
Argentine teenager chess player to compete in World Cup 2006
Young Argentine chess player Gaston Needleman, 15, received a special invitation from the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to participate in the World Cup 2006, whose venue is to be defined yet. The young chess player, from the city of Godoy Cruz, had been the great revelation of the 3rd American Chess Championship, which concluded last week in Buenos Aires ... |
Anand wins fifth Mainz title
Viswanathan Anand duly retained his Chess Classic of Mainz trophy in the Grenke Leasing eight-match rapid chess series against Alexander Grischuk. ... |
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