GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Andrew Hong won the first Titled Tuesday events of April 2024. For Hong, it was a milestone, being his first-ever win in Titled Tuesday, and he did it outright with 10 points while Nakamura needed tiebreaks earlier a...
After GM Pranav Venkatesh won the early edition of the March 19 Titled Tuesday with relative ease, GM Magnus Carlsen needed the second tiebreak to earn his first win in the event since January 30. It was little-known Chinese GM Xu Xiangyu who push...
The Prague Masters has become a dream tournament for GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov. In a field with three candidates, the 19-year-old Uzbek GM secured victory with a round to spare today while moving to world number four in the live ratings, surpa...
GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Cristian Chirila cut the proverbial opening ribbon of the inaugural 2024 Team Chess Battle by beating GM Anish Giri and IM Danny Rensch with a 2-0 score. After losing game one while trash-talking his own team...
Cleveland Guardians outfielder Steven Kwan stepped up to the challenge and earned locker-room bragging rights after taking out the first edition of SlugChamps on Tuesday. In a high-octane final against shortstop Daniel Schneemann, Kwan scored 2.5/...
World Champion Ding Liren and world number-one Magnus Carlsen both have to hit back on Monday to keep alive hopes of winning the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge after they erred in the opening and were put to the sword by GMs Nodirbek Abdu...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Division I of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters on Wednesday. GM Alireza Firouzja took the first set of the Grand Final, impressively winning the first two games in a row, but the world number-one struck back in...
With six rounds to go, the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament is wide open again after GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov beat GM Anish Giri on Saturday. In doing so, the 19-year-old Uzbek grandmaster caught Giri in first place. Soon after, GM Gukesh Dommaraj...
GM Michael Adams said it was probably his best-ever result to win the London Chess Classic 2023 at the age of 52. He clinched the title with a draw against the future of English chess, 14-year-old IM Shreyas Royal, who described himself as "really...
GMs Wesley So, Magnus Carlsen, and Fabiano Caruana won two matches to stay on a perfect score in the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. This is the first of the eight-day Finals held in Toronto, Canada. It was a smooth day for So, who notab...
GM Mateusz Bartel beat IM Shreyas Royal in round five of the 2023 London Chess Classic to move into a four-way tie for second place. The sole leader, half a point clear, remains GM Michael Adams, but the English star seemed to miss a huge cha...
GM Kateryna Lagno moves on to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after defeating WGM Priyanka Nutakki 17.5-4.5. She will play GM Harika Dronavalli in the Semifinals on Friday. Priyanka got off to a fantastic start b...
IM Polina Shuvalova and WGM Priyanka Nutakki earned their seats in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 after emerging on top of a two-day qualifier, which was a 14-round Swiss followed by a double-elimination knockout. The main...
32 players lead the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss and 15 in the 2023 FIDE Women's Grand Swiss after round one. In the Open, top seed GM Fabiano Caruana leads the pack after winning a spectacular game against GM Ivan Saric. Other notable wins (of ma...
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) became the first team to topple the University of Missouri (Mizzou) in the SIG-sponsored 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) fall season on Saturday after a tight tussle that ended 9-7 in favor of the Texan t...
In the longest SCC match so far this year, taking over four hours and totaling 32 games, GM Wesley So emerged victorious. He defeated GM Alireza Firouzja and is the first player to reach the Semifinals of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championshi...
GM Alireza Firouzja has earned a rematch vs. GM Magnus Carlsen in the Grand Final of the 2023 Julius Baer Generation Cup by winning the Losers Final vs. GM Denis Lazavik. Despite having a losing position for most of their second game, Firouzja pul...
The last classical games of the 2023 FIDE World Cup could not have been more different from each other. In the final between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, the drawn outcome was predicted as early as move five, while in the th...
GMs Yu Yangyi and Vidit Gujrathi have made it into the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase after claiming two spots in the first Qualifier on Tuesday. Yu finished second in the Swiss on day one and, on the second day, w...
GM Magnus Carlsen has booked his spot in the 2023 FIDE World Cup final after winning his match against GM Nijat Abasov by a margin of 1.5/2. Abasov fought valiantly to keep his world cup hopes alive and played a near-perfect game on Sunday however...
After surviving 12 games of classical games against some of the world's best players without a single loss, GM Nijat Abasov finally fell at the hands of GM Magnus Carlsen on Saturday at the 2023 FIDE World Cup. Though the world number one secured ...
GM Magnus Carlsen is in danger of tumbling out of the 2023 FIDE World Cup after 18-year-old GM Vincent Keymer pounced on a blunder to beat the world number-one for the first time. GM Wesley So is also in a must-win position in Thursday's second ga...
The sixth day of PogChamps 5 was full of mercilessness and confusion—it also featured some of the most unbelievable moments in chess history. Wirtual defeated Daily Dose of Internet in a "meaningless match." Papaplatte defeated Fuslie, and...
Another avalanche of unexpected plot twists marked the fourth day of PogChamps 5. Squeex defeated Jinnitty in his debut, later losing a close match with Tyler1. Like a superhero from any given movie, Sapnap defeated his overpowered opponent Wirt...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun attacked with the black pieces in Game 11 of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship, but a creative king march saved the day for GM Lei Tingjie, leaving the scores tied at 5.5-5.5 going into the final classical g...
