Two draws on the final day were enough for GM Wesley So to win the 2020 U.S. Championship and the $40,000 first prize. It was his second title that came three years after his first. So's victory can be regarded among some of the best p...
GM Wesley So is on the verge of winning his second U.S. Championship title. With two rounds to go, he is a point ahead of the pack. GM Hikaru Nakamura shockingly lost two more games on Wednesday. With two rounds to go, So is ...
GM Sergey Karjakin won the October 27 Titled Tuesday tournament, his first-ever Titled Tuesday victory. The Russian grandmaster edged out GMs Alireza Firouzja and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov on tiebreak. The tournament, an 11-round Swiss at a 3+1 time...
GM Wesley So continues to lead the U.S. Championship with 5.5/6 points after two days of play. GM Jeffery Xiong and GM Ray Robson are still tied for second place while GM Hikaru Nakamura is on a disappointing 50 percent score. "To have...
Australia won the 2020 Asian Nations Cup on Sunday after beating India 4.5-3.5 in the final. India convincingly won the women's section, scoring 6-2 vs. Indonesia in the final. Almost all events in 2020 are being played online, and the Asian Nat...
GM Wesley So leads the U.S. Championship as the only player to win his first three games. The tournament is a 12-player round-robin played online at a rapid time control. The field of this year's championship has all of the American stars except...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda won the Speed Chess Invitational on Sunday. The Polish grandmaster defeated GM Sergey Karjakin in the final to clinch the $1,500 first prize. More importantly, Duda has qualified for the Speed Chess Championship Main Event. ...
GM Irina Krush won the 2020 U.S. Women's Championship on Sunday, her eighth title in total. This year the tournament was held online due to the pandemic. Krush scored an undefeated 8.5/11 in a 12-player single round-robin, played online at ...
The final stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix will be held on January 17-29, 2021 in Gibraltar. The announcement came shortly after the organizers had canceled its annual chess festival. The Gibraltar tournament will be the fourth and final leg...
The Queen’s Gambit is a seven-episode series, debuting October 23 on Netflix. Set in the Cold War-era, it is a coming-of-age story that explores the true cost of genius: that of Beth Harmon, a highly talented female chess player. Initially...
Top chess players play at their best between ages 35 and 45, according to a scientific paper published on Monday that discusses performance data based on games of chess world champions and their opponents. Playing strength increases rapidl...
The Speed Chess Grand Prix might be over, but that didn't stop GM Hikaru Nakamura from winning yet another Titled Tuesday tournament. The American grandmaster finished half a point ahead of Russian GM Daniil Dubov and Ukrainian GM Pavel Eljan...
Palo Alto, Calif., October 20, 2020—World Chess Champion GM Magnus Carlsen will play in the 2020 Speed Chess Championship Main Event, the world's most prestigious online speed chess tournament with a $100,000 prize fund. Carlsen's top rival ...
Crew, players, and other attendees of the Norway Chess tournament are taking tests for the coronavirus. Norwegian medical authorities advised them to do so because they had been in close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. The...
The 1980s musical "Chess," with a storyline set around a Cold War-era chess event and with music by ABBA's Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, is world-famous. Somehow, it was never performed in Moscow—until last Saturday night. T...
Having already secured victory, GM Magnus Carlsen ended his Altibox Norway Chess tournament with a loss to GM Levon Aronian, who came third in the tournament. GM Alireza Firouzja finished in an excellent second place as he defeated GM Jan-Krzysz...
The second half of the FIDE Candidates Tournament has once again been postponed per an announcement today by FIDE. The event was planned to resume November 1, 2020, but the second wave of the pandemic has made it impossible to organize the ev...
GM Magnus Carlsen has secured victory at the Altibox Norway Chess tournament one round before the end. The world champion won his standard game with GM Alireza Firouzja, who blundered in a basic pawn endgame. With one round to go, Carlsen i...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 20th and final Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix, his fifth victory in the series. The American grandmaster beat GM Vidit Gujrathi in the knockout final. With five individual tournament wins, it's no surpri...
GM Magnus Carlsen is the new leader at the Altibox Norway Chess tournament. The world champion outplayed his compatriot GM Aryan Tari in round eight and is now a point ahead of GM Alireza Firouzja, who lost the armageddon game to GM Fabi...
With a bit of luck, GM Alireza Firouzja maintained his lead at the Altibox Norway Chess tournament after GM Levon Aronian lost on time in their armageddon game in round seven. GM Magnus Carlsen was under pressure vs. GM Fa...
GM Alireza Firouzja is the new leader of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament with four rounds to go after beating GM Aryan Tari in round six. GM Magnus Carlsen took revenge for his loss to GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda and beat the Pol...
IM Igors Rausis, who was banned from FIDE rated tournaments and stripped of his grandmaster title after he was caught cheating, showed up at a small rapid tournament in Latvia on Saturday. He was playing under his new name but withdrew from the to...
Hey, chess lovers! October is upon us, and you know what that means: It's time to review all the things that happened around the site in September 2020—and what a month it was! Let's dive in. Web We released a new version of Lessons, pu...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda achieved a tremendous upset in round five of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament. The Polish grandmaster, who hadn't won a game yet, defeated GM Magnus Carlsen, thereby ending the world champion's unbeaten stre...