GM Magnus Carlsen overcame mid-match hiccups to overpower GM Fabiano Caruana with a 14.5-7.5 final score and reach the Semifinals of the Speed Chess Championship 2025. Starting as an overwhelming favorite, Carlsen was actively pursued by Caruana...
GM Jose Martinez of Mexico, IM Mai Narva of Estonia, and IM Faustino Oro of Argentina emerged winners of the Men, Women, and U21 sections, respectively, of the month-long 2025 GCL Contenders held on the Chess.com platform. They all qualified as Am...
GM Alexander Grischuk displayed his famed blitz credentials, this time combining them with Freestyle chess abilities, winning the Freestyle Friday on August 22. He started with an amazing eight victories in the first eight rounds to capture the so...
Reigning Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun defeated Women's number-one GM Hou Yifan with a combined score of 11.5-9.5 in the all-Chinese finals of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship to claim the title for the second year in a row. Hou h...
Five-time Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun defeated IM Polina Shuvalova with a score of 17-5 in what turned out to be a one-sided semifinal of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship. In the process, she beat her own WSCC record for the large...
The first day of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup wasn't the star-studded affair that it should have been, as the top 21 seeds received a bye to proceed directly to the second round. So, it was a low-key start for the event with 107 participants fr...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram emerged as the winner of the 2024 Chennai Grand Masters after tying for first place with GMs Levon Aronian and Arjun Erigaisi and defeating Aronian in the final of the tiebreak with a 2-0 score. The format of the thre...
GM Aravindh Chithambaram's first win of the tournament in the sixth and penultimate round handed GM Arjun Erigaisi his first loss of the tournament, thus enabling GM Levon Aronian to join Arjun in the lead with four points in the Masters section o...
GM Arjun Erigaisi continues to lead the Masters section of the Chennai Grand Masters 2024 with four points after a draw with GM Parham Maghsoodloo in the fifth round. Trailing him by half a point is GM Levon Aronian who defeated GM Maxime Vachier-...
The fourth round brought the two joint leaders to face each other: GM Amin Tabatabaei vs. GM Arjun Erigaisi, and it proved to be another big fight where Arjun prevailed to continue to lead the Chennai Grand Masters 2024 Masters section with 3.5/4....
The third-round encounter between GMs Arjun Erigaisi and GM Alexey Sarana at the Chennai Grand Masters 2024 had two distinct phases: the first 23 moves, flawlessly played by both sides, and the rest marred by tactical errors. But what mattered was...
GMs Leon Mendonca and Pranav Venkatesh lead the Challengers with second straight wins, while there is a three-way tie in the Masters section between GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Amin Tabatabaei, all on 1.5, at the end of the sec...
The Chennai Grand Masters 2024 got off to an exciting start with six decisive games combined from both sections in the first round, with many see-saw encounters and generally enterprising play, instead of typical cautious starts in the beginning. ...
IM Carissa Yip continued her dream run with a win over WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan to race to 8/8 in the Women's championship while GM Fabiano Caruana maintained his half-a-point lead with 5/7 after a draw against GM Wesley So in the eighth round of t...
Undeterred by his win in the previous round not being counted for the tournament score, top-seed and defending champion GM Fabiano Caruana jumped into the sole lead in the 2024 U.S. Championship with 4/5. He defeated GM Grigoriy Oparin in an impre...
GM Magnus Carlsen staved off a spirited challenge from GM Alireza Firouzja to prevail with a score of 2.5-1.5 in the Winners Bracket Finals of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024. He will now face the Losers Bracket winner in the tournament's Gran...
GM Magnus Carlsen's dramatic match against GM Levon Aronian and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's brilliant attacking masterpiece against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi were the highlights of day four of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024. GM Alireza Firouzja...
IM Polina Shuvalova and GM Kateryna Lagno scored crucial wins in the 1+1 bullet segments to stage a comeback and win their respective matches to advance to the Quarterfinals of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship. Shuvalova rec...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun of China scored a dominating 13-3 win over IM Anna Sargsyan of Armenia in the first of the round of 16 matches of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship. Though Sargsyan had her chances in the match,...
IM Anastasia Bodnaruk emerged as the winner of the fourth and final Play-In tournament for the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship in what turned out to be the most exciting and memorable of all the qualifiers. Bodnaruk defeated Azer...
IM Eline Roebers of the Netherlands revealed after qualifying for the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship that she competed for the whole of the Swiss part in a train, using her phone. She reached home "just in time" as the Knockout ...
IM Mai Narva of Estonia convincingly triumphed in the second qualifier of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship by winning the Knockout stage of the second Play-In after defeating WFM Hong Nhung Nguyen of Vietnam in the finals with...
Seventeen-year-old WIM Alua Nurman of Kazakhstan triumphed in the first qualifier to the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship by winning the Knockout stage of the first Play-In after defeating IM Anastasia Bodnaruk in the finals with ...
GM Magnus Carlsen crushed GM Tuan Minh Le with a dominating 20.5-3.5 score in a one-sided contest in the first match of the second day of the 2024 Speed Chess Championship. But the day belonged to the former world championship contender GM Ian Nep...
GM Arjun Erigaisi prevailed over GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda with a combined score of 12-10, striking in the crucial final four games of the 1+1 bullet segment in the first match of the first day of the 2024 Speed Chess Championship. In the other match,...
