Colin McGourty led news at Chess24 from its launch until it merged with Chess.com a decade later. An amateur player, he got into chess writing when he set up the website Chess in Translation after previously studying Slavic languages and literature in St. Andrews, Odesa, Oxford, and Krakow.
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament after grinding out a trademark classical win over GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus and then beating GM Arjun Erigaisi 2-1 in blitz tiebreaks. Arjun began the day as sole leader but needed luck...
GM Arjun Erigaisi ground out a 67-move win over GM Zhu Jiner to go into the final round of the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament as the sole leader on 4.5/6. GM Magnus Carlsen is half a point back after using the King's Indian Defense to take dow...
GM Arjun Erigaisi pounced on a blunder by GM Jorden van Foreest to grab his second win and join GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus in the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament lead. Erdogmus escaped with a 104-move draw vs. GM Andy Woodward, while GM Magnus Carl...
GM Jorden van Foreest is the first player to beat GM Magnus Carlsen in classical chess since GM Gukesh Dommaraju's famous win in Norway Chess 2025. Carlsen looked set to escape a tough game intact but finally fell in a nail-biting endgame, while G...
GMs Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus and Arjun Erigaisi picked up their first wins of the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament to reach a five-way tie for the lead with GMs Magnus Carlsen, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Andy Woodward. Erdogmus is up to 2711.9 and wo...
"That was a fun game, for sure!" said GM Magnus Carlsen after risking the Benoni to beat GM Nils Grandelius and join the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament leaders after round two. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov let a winning position slip three times a...
World number-four Nodirbek Abdusattorov and 15-year-old rising star GM Andy Woodward took the early lead in Malmo as the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament began. They both pounced on game-deciding blunders, with Abdusattorov beating GM Zhu Jiner ...
WFM Alexandra Botez got off to a shaky start in the seventh episode of Kids vs. Stars when she found herself lost in seven moves against her 13-year-old Canadian compatriot WFM Ashley Qian. That game couldn't be saved, but despite serious time tro...
GM Javokhir Sindarov's historic win at the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament saw him return home a hero to Uzbekistan, where he was met in Tashkent Airport by the prime minister before being awarded a second medal in six months by the president. Can...
Seventeen-year-old Ukrainian IM Roman Dehtiarov has made history as both the youngest and lowest-seeded player ever to win the European Individual Chess Championship. He started the event in Katowice, Poland ranked 126th out of 501 players, with a...
GM Javokhir Sindarov blew away the field in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament in Cyprus to win €170,000 (~$200k) and, much more importantly, earn a world championship match against GM Gukesh Dommaraju. The 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates ...
24-year-old Indian star GM Vaishali Rameshbabu will play Chinese GM Ju Wenjun for the women's world championship title after clinching the 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates with a final-round win over GM Kateryna Lagno. GM Bibisara Assaubayeva could ha...
GM Javokhir Sindarov is guaranteed at least a playoff to win the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament after a 35-minute draw vs. GM Hikaru Nakamura put him two points clear with two rounds to go. GM Anish Giri came agonizingly close to moving within 1....
GM Anish Giri played a positional masterpiece to take down GM Fabiano Caruana and grab sole second place in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament after round nine. GM Javokhir Sindarov could have scored a record sixth win, but slipped up against GM ...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri took revenge for first-half losses to shake up the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament standings. Nakamura's first win of the event came against GM Fabiano Caruana, who was caught in second place after Giri outplayed...
GM Javokhir Sindarov has ended the first half of the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament with a record 6/7, though GM Anish Giri built a fortress to deny him yet another win. GM Fabiano Caruana remains 1.5 points back after a draw against GM Praggnana...
Once again it was all about GM Javokhir Sindarov in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament as the Uzbek star won a difficult position against GM Wei Yi to move to a mind-blowing 5.5/6. He leads his closest pursuer GM Fabiano Caruana by 1.5 points aft...
GM Javokhir Sindarov's dream run continued after GM Hikaru Nakamura thought for 67 minutes on move 13, chose badly, and sank without a trace in round five of the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. Sindarov, now world number-five, is on 4.5/5, with o...
GM Fabiano Caruana ended his curse against GM Hikaru Nakamura when it mattered most by battling to a six-hour win in round one of the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. There were two more wins, with GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu surprising GM Anish ...
India's GM Nihal Sarin was the only unbeaten player as he won the final Play-In of the 2026 Chess.com Open and made what he joked was "a very tough choice" to play GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and not GM Magnus Carlsen in the Playoffs. The playe...
Fifteen-year-old GM Sina Movahed won Play-In 3 of the 2026 Chess.com Open with 7.5/9 and picked GM Arjun Erigaisi as his knockout opponent. Four players scored 7/9, with GMs Vladislav Artemiev and Nihal Sarin missing out on tiebreaks, while GMs Da...
GM Awonder Liang beat GM Hikaru Nakamura 6-4 in the Hikaru vs. Awonder Candidates Training Match held in the Saint Louis Chess Club on March 13-15, 2026. The players made two draws in classical chess, then Liang won 3-1 in rapid, before the final ...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov is the first player to win the Prague Chess Festival Masters twice after an effortless draw against GM Hans Niemann in the final round was enough to win by a full point. Long-term leader GM Jorden van Foreest crashed and b...
GM Hans Niemann's first win of what he called "probably the worst tournament of my life" looked to be the highlight of the penultimate round of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters until some shocking late drama. The key games looked headed for ...
"At the end I made it far too exciting!" said GM Vincent Keymer after almost letting GM David Anton escape in round seven of the 2026 Prague Chess Festival Masters. GM Aravindh Chithambaram did spoil a win against GM Nodirbek Yakubboev, while the ...
