After beginning the last leg with a massive lead in tour points, GM Fabiano Caruana has clinched the 2023 Grand Chess Tour with two rounds to spare at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup. He and GM Leinier Dominguez scored their second wins in a row on Tue...
Mongolia is the nation ranking highest for promoting gender equality in chess but—perhaps surprisingly—the Nordic countries occupy three of the four worst spots, a new study has revealed. Research commissioned by the World Chess Fede...
It was a day of victories on Monday at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup. GM Wesley So defeated GM Levon Aronian to extend his lead, while GMs Fabiano Caruana and Leinier Dominguez scored their first wins. The Sinquefield Cup continues with round seven o...
Artem Sachuk, Vice President of the Ukrainian Chess Federation, is reported to have been killed in Ukraine on Sunday. Sachuk would have turned 39 years old today and leaves behind a wife and two children. The circumstances of his death are yet t...
Mohamed Salah, one of the world's greatest soccer players, revealed that he is addicted to chess and wants to meet GM Magnus Carlsen. The former world champion responded with a waving-hand emoji. The Egyptian goal-scoring machine is considered o...
GM Levon Aronian joined GM Wesley So in the lead at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup after dispatching GM Alireza Firouzja in a rook endgame on Saturday. The game very nearly came to an end early as Firouzja came within one second of being flagged but in ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura scored 73 wins and conceded just three draws and three losses in one of his most dominant Bullet Brawl performances yet, finishing with a 42-point buffer over the second-placed GM Daniel Naroditsky to claim the $400 first prize....
GM Wesley So scored the first victory at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup on Friday. When GM Richard Rapport sacrificed for dynamic ideas in the King's Indian Defense, So navigated his way to safety while increasing his material edge. GMs Maxime Vachier...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and top players in the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals (CCT Finals) next month have been immortalized in a new collection of stunning fan posters made by Displate, Chess.com can reveal. The unique magnet-mou...
No decisive results were produced for the third round in a row at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup on a day that was headlined by the withdrawal of GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda and an intriguing duel between the imaginative GMs Richard Rapport and Alireza Firouz...
World Champion GM Ding Liren will make his return to the global chess stage in Wijk aan Zee, while the former champion and eight-time Tata Steel Chess winner GM Magnus Carlsen is missing for the first time since 2014. The lineups have been annou...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Fabiano Caruana came the closest to scoring the first victories of the Sinquefield Cup 2023 on Wednesday. In his usual confident, fast-paced playing style, Nepomniachtchi pressed with an extra pawn for over five hours vs...
GM Hou Yifan is the first player to win two WSCC titles. After defeating GM Harika Dronavalli in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Final 15-11, the Chinese grandmaster is a two-time champion. "Ever since her first victory, sh...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the early Titled Tuesday tournament on November 21 with a 10.5/11 score and then led the late event with one round to go, but GM Liem Le would end up catching him and winning on tiebreaks. It was Le's third Titled Tuesday win...
Each competitor opened the Sinquefield Cup 2023 with a balanced and accurate performance on Tuesday. Though every clash ultimately ended in a draw, GM Leinier Dominguez gained attacking chances and pressed in the ending vs. GM Fabiano Caruana whil...
GM Harika Dronavalli will face GM Hou Yifan in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Final. On Tuesday, she defeated GM Kateryna Lagno in the Semifinals by a score of 12-10. It was a fairly even match in the first two segments, t...
IM Stefan Docx has been handed a one-year ban from taking part in FIDE-rated tournaments after refusing a metal detector body scan during an incident in Spain. Docx was found not guilty of computer cheating and says he has appealed the suspension....
Tenth-seed Serbia has won the 2023 European Team Chess Championship after finishing a single tiebreak point ahead of Germany, which took silver despite remaining unbeaten and winning their head-to-head clash. Team chess specialists Armenia took br...
Six out of eight players are confirmed for the 2024 FIDE Candidates tournament, but the race is still on for the remaining two spots. Here's the status less than six weeks before we get to know the complete field. GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru ...
Saint Louis University (SLU) has won its second straight college title after dismantling the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) by an 11.5-4.5 margin in the Final of the 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) fall season. A 3.5/4 MVP performa...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen escaped with just two minor pieces against Danish GM Jonas Bjerre's queen to help struggling Norway to a second win in a row, while top-seed Azerbaijan is in freefall, symbolized by GM Teimour Radjabov losing in 19 ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura claimed first place in Bullet Brawl and won $400 for the second week in a row after accruing a winning score of 242. During the two-hour arena, the 67 wins, four draws, and eight losses for Nakamura meant that he was abl...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz by half a point after securing a draw with second-placed GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round. Caruana's 6/9 score on Saturday allowed him to overtake Vachier-Lagrave, whose 3.5...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave rose to the top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after scoring 7/9 on the first day of blitz chess, with a 2971 rating performance. A loss against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was the only blight on h...
ChessKid Stars, IM-elect Alice Lee and FM Tani Adewumi, defeated the Harvard Chess Club, represented by co-presidents WGM Jennifer Yu and FM Chris Shen, in the first-ever Harvard vs. ChessKid match. Starting off with a three-game winning streak,...