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/...
GM Magnus Carlsen will play GM Denis Lazavik in the Division I Winners Final of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters. On day four, they respectively defeated GMs Vladimir Fedoseev and Jose Martinez. In the Losers Bracket of Division I...
After beating GM Ju Wenjun in round 11, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov went into the final weekend of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament as the sole leader in the Masters group. A spectacular day of chess saw lots of fascinating games, including a bri...
With more than 87,000 members and 2,400 clubs nationwide, the German Chess Federation (DSB) is one of the biggest and most powerful chess associations in the world. But after years of infighting, alleged mismanagement, and controversy, this gran...
GM Tan Zhongyi defeated GM Lei Tingjie in game one of the final of the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022-2023 on Wednesday. Tan played enterprisingly from start to finish, sacrificing two pawns to create complex problems for Lei, who overloo...
Four players lead the WR Chess Masters 2023 after round two with 1.5 points apiece: GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Wesley So, Gukesh D, and Levon Aronian. GM Andrey Esipenko outplayed GM Vincent Keymer on Thursday and was featured in the round...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz in Zagreb, Croatia, on Sunday. After the rapid segment, the world champion was in second place behind Dutch GM Jorden van Foreest, but scoring 11.5/18 in the blitz was enough to finish in sol...
GM Valentina Gunina defeated IM Elisabeth Paehtz in their round of 16 match of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Tuesday. Gunina showed several strengths throughout the match: tactical sharpness, excellent time management...
GM Yuri Averbakh, the world’s oldest grandmaster, a trainer, international arbiter, chess composer, endgame theoretician, writer, historian, honorary member of FIDE, and the last living participant of the famous Zurich 1953 Candidates Tourna...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship on Friday after beating GM Ian Nepomniachtchi with the black pieces. The challenger made another big blunder and lost his fourth game in the match. The final score is 7.5-3.5 in favor of...
Jonathan Penrose, a 10-time British champion, grandmaster as well as correspondence grandmaster who famously defeated reigning world champion Mikhail Tal at the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad, has died at the age of 88. This was reported by The Guardian. ...
The FIDE World Chess Championship remains in a deadlock as challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen drew their third game on Sunday. Monday is the first rest day in Dubai; game four is scheduled for Tuesday, again, at ...
The Russian-Latvian grandmaster, former world senior champion, chess opening revolutionary, writer, trainer, and outspoken GM Evgeny Sveshnikov has passed away at the age of 71. His death came only a few months after his mother had died at the age...
The Superbet Chess Classic is wide open again after both tournament leaders GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac lost their games. Caruana was defeated by GM Wesley So, and Deac went down against GM Alexander Grischuk. The quick dra...
GM Magnus Carlsen won a tough first match vs. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi on the first day of the Skilling Open's semifinals. GM Wesley So started with a win against GM Hikaru Nakamura. The semifinals continue on Saturday. How to w...
Wolfgang Uhlmann, a former world-class grandmaster, the most successful player from East Germany, a chess theoretician, and a writer of several chess books, died on Monday from the consequences of a fall. He was 85 years old. "The game made up m...
The World Senior Team Championship in Prague, Czech Republic was called off two rounds before the end after the authorities decided to cancel any events with a gathering of 30 or more people. The U.S. team won the 50+ section, while Russia was the...
The first day of the FIDE World Cup fourth round saw four decisive games, all won by White: Jan-Krzysztof Duda beat Jeffery Xiong; Alexander Grischuk beat Leinier Dominguez; Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ...
Below is the full list of non-titled players who've qualified for the first-ever FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. There is still time for titled players to register and be a part of chess history! The last four FIDE Wor...
Superstars like Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Vishy Anand and Levon Aronian were among the players in Berlin this weekend, where the Bundesliga teams gathered for three joint-rounds, organized once again...
At the age of 12 years, 7 months, and 17 days, Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju became the second youngest grandmaster in chess history. He scored his third grandmaster norm at the 17th Delhi International Chess Grandmaster Open today in New D...
"It kind of felt like I got away with murder," Magnus Carlsen said about game six. In game eight, he dodged a bullet. After another draw in their world championship match, this time in a Sveshnikov Sicilian where Fabiano Caruana had good chances, ...
Now that FIDE has published its November rating list, it's official: the 2018 world championship match will be played between the world's top two players. That hasn't happened since 1990. On the new ratings list, reigning world champion Magnus C...
Whew. Candidates' took almost a month but is now done. Ditto Shamkir and the U.S. Championships. The Women's World Championship is only one game a day, so how can we quench your insatiable thirst for chess news this next week? Here's 10 che...
The 2017-2018 Schachbundesliga season will be decided in a playoff held later this month. In the final "weekend" in Berlin, both Baden-Baden and Solingen won all three matches and finished on the same amount of match points. For the final three ...
