The 2021 FIDE World Women Team Championship kicked off at Sitges, Spain on Monday, September 27, with favorite Russia showing brilliant form. The team scored the maximum 4 match points after the first two rounds in Pool-A. Known as "Jewel on the M...
Welcome to the third round of the Champions Chess Tour Finals, a 10-player super grandmaster tournament that took place on September 27. As those of you who have been following the previous rounds know, so far only GMs Magnus Carlsen and M...
A critical blunder that ended a game in one move, a symmetrical fianchetto Grunfeld played twice in one match, and two players repeating their same moves from a previous game were some of the highlights in the second round of the Meltwater Champio...
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals began on Saturday. The format is a round-robin event with 10 super-GM participants, namely Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Teimour Radjabov, Vladislav Artemiev, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxim...
The second event of the Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix on September 25 with an individual prize fund of $11,000 saw GM Jeffery Xiong beat GM Aleksandr Shimanov in a dramatic final after Russian GM Sanan Sjugirov won the initial Swiss part of ...
Mednyi Vsadnik of St. Petersburg has won the 2021 European Club Cup in Struga, North Macedonia. South Ural (also Russia) won the women's tournament. Playing for Norway's Offerspill, GM Magnus Carlsen scored 2.5/3 in his last classical OTB event be...
Friday, September 24, turned out to be one of the most anticipated and thrilling days of the year for chess fans—and the 2021 PRO Chess League Arena Royale finals did not disappoint! As those who were following the previous days of the eve...
Thursday, the 23rd of September, treated chess fans all around the world to the 2021 Pro Chess League's Arena Royale's semifinals. Many of you have been following previous stages of the event, but it wouldn't hurt to remind you that the four...
The 73rd Emmy Awards is over, and The Queen's Gambit once more blew chess fans away by winning 11 awards. The show, which even got the trophy for the coveted "Best Limited Series" award, once more put chess under the spotlight. As the ceremony u...
PogChamps 4 presented by Coinbase was a huge hit filled with drama, incredible twists, and clippable moments. If you're still not ready to say goodbye to our beloved Pog participants, we have good news! You can now play against poggers Harry Mack,...
On Tuesday, chess fans around the world followed the quarterfinals of the Pro Chess League's Arena Royale. Before we take a look at how the event unfolded, you need to be aware of a change: as you might have read, there were supposed to be three...
The Netflix hit series The Queen's Gambit won a total of 11 Emmy Awards, including the top prize for limited series. At Sunday's Primetime Emmy Awards, director Scott Frank received a trophy as well, a week after the series had already clinched ni...
Saturday, September 18, brought to chess fans all around the world the next leg of one of the most anticipated online tournaments of the year: the Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. This event consists of four tournaments that take place betwe...
It's time for the eighth season of the wildly popular Arena Kings tournament on Chess.com! Once again featuring a doubled $40,000 prize fund, this season begins Wednesday, September 22 at 10 a.m. PT/19:00 CEST. Streamers from around the world do...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the Norway Chess tournament for the third time in a row, and the fourth in total. Like in the first half of the tournament, the world champion won the armageddon game against world title challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who ...
GM Nona Gaprindashvili has filed a lawsuit against Netflix for "false light invasion of privacy" and defamation after a line in the hit series The Queen's Gambit erroneously suggested that she was playing only against women. The fifth women's wo...
He was close to a defeat this time but GM Magnus Carlsen turned his game with GM Sergey Karjakin around, won his fourth in a row, and became the new leader at Norway Chess with one round to go. GM Alireza Firouzja defeated GM Aryan Tari to enter t...
The Norway Chess tournament is wide open again as leader GM Richard Rapport lost his first classical game, to runner-up GM Magnus Carlsen. The Hungarian GM still leads but only by half a point, so anything is possible in the final two rounds. In...
The PRO Chess League: Arena Royale is right around the corner, with action beginning on September 16. Be sure to catch your favorite PCL teams in battle during this exciting eight-day event! The Saint Louis Arch Bishops are loaded as usual. They...
GM Rustam Khusnutdinov won Titled Tuesday on September 14 by a full point with a score of 10.5/11. GM Rasmus Svane scored a sole second-place finish with 9.5/11 ahead of six players tied with 9/11. In third on tiebreaks was GM Arseniy Nesterov and...
Wednesday, September 15, has been circled on the calendars of many chess fans around the world, as it is the 2021 FIDE Online Olympiad's final. Some have been hoping their favorite team would make it all the way to the last stage of the tournament...
For the first time, the Norway Chess tournament saw three decisive classical games and therefore no armageddons. GM Richard Rapport defeated GM Sergey Karjakin to jump to world number-six in the live ratings. He is now 3.5 points ahead of the ne...
By Tuesday, September 14 we only had the four strongest teams left in the 2021 FIDE Online Olympiad: China, Russia, India, and the USA. It was a truly exciting semifinal to expect, and what happened didn't let spectators down in terms of excitemen...
Monday, September 13 saw some exciting quarterfinals action in the 2021 FIDE Online Olympiad. As a reminder, last week we had the top division's matches, from which eight teams qualified. We are now down to the final four teams. The format of...
GM Richard Rapport increased his lead at Norway Chess to a commanding three points after scoring his third classical win on Monday. The Hungarian GM defeated GM Aryan Tari for the second time. GM Magnus Carlsen is back in third place after scori...