The two-day final of the Julius Baer Generation Cup will be played between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Arjun Erigaisi. After Carlsen knocked out GM Vincent Keymer, Erigaisi reached his first Tour final by beating GM Le Quang Liem in a blitz play...
GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Jeffery Xiong, and Alexey Sarana were the three victorious players in their round of 32 matches on Friday as the Chess.com Global Championship continued. Favorites Duda and Xiong had to shake off the nerves early against th...
In a statement released on Friday about the alleged cheating scandal, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has criticized GM Magnus Carlsen for withdrawing from the Sinquefield Cup and resigning after two moves vs. GM Hans Niemann in the Julius Baer G...
A final between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hans Niemann is not possible anymore at the Julius Baer Generation Cup after Niemann lost to GM Le Quang Liem in Thursday's quarterfinals. Carlsen eliminated GM Levon Aronian and now plays GM Vincent Keymer...
GMs Wesley So and Leinier Dominguez won their round of 32 matches in the Chess.com Global Chess Championship on Thursday, defeating the legendary GM Vasyl Ivanchuk and the popular streamer GM Eric Hansen respectively. The round of 32 contin...
GM Magnus Carlsen was in a class of his own at the preliminaries of the Julius Baer Generation Cup. Ending with three more victories, he finished first with a 2937 performance rating before giving his first interview since withdrawing from the Sin...
GM Sam Sevian achieved a spectacular upset against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to kick off the round of 32 matches in the Chess.com Global Chess Championship. Additionally, GM Dmitry Andreikin defeated GM Gata Kamsky in armageddon while GM Fabiano C...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Jeffery Xiong, the most successful and one of the most successful players in the history of Titled Tuesday, each added another victory feather to their caps in the September 20, 2022 editions. IM Anna Sargsy...
GM Magnus Carlsen is back in the lead at the Julius Baer Generation Cup after scoring three wins and a draw on the third day of the preliminaries. GM Hans Niemann is still in contention of qualifying for the knockout phase and might be paired with...
The American higher seeds, GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, and Jeffery Xiong, won the last of the round of 64 matches on day five of the Chess.com Global Chess Championship. Although the favorites ultimately won, the underdogs gave them seri...
On the second day of the Julius Baer Generation Cup, GM Magnus Carlsen sent waves through the chess world by playing just one move vs. GM Hans Niemann in their anticipated game before resigning. GM Arjun Erigaisi leads the event with 17 points, ...
GM Magnus Carlsen had a splendid start on the first day of the Julius Baer Generation Cup, scoring 10 out of a possible 12 points with three wins and a draw. All eyes are on round six on Monday, when the world champion is paired against GM Hans Ni...
Day four of the Chess.com Global Chess Championship featured electrifying matchups, remarkable upset victories, and inspiring tales of vengeance. GM Benjamin Bok knocked out GM Alexander Grischuk, one of the overall tournament favorites....
On day three of the Chess.com Global Chess Championship, GM Peter Svidler triumphed vs. GM Alexei Shirov in their veteran face-off, scoring the only 3-0 sweep of the day. World championship challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and 19-year-old GM Arjun...
GM Fabiano Caruana soared from behind on the final day of the 2022 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX to equal GM Alireza Firouzja's impressive 6.5/9, before beating him in a playoff that required an armageddon game to determine the winner. Fir...
GM Alireza Firouzja continued his fine run of form in St. Louis in the 2022 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX on Thursday with two key victories over GM Garry Kasparov and previous tournament leader GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. Firouzja's 2.5/3 score on day...
Day two of the Chess.com Global Chess Championship featured epic battles between today's up-and-comers and icons of chess history. Teenage GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Raunak Sadhwani defeated their respective veteran opponents, GMs Boris Gelfand...
The Collegiate Chess League's Fall 2022 Season begins on September 24, with college chess players from all over the world competing for their share of the $20,000 prize fund and school pride. If you're a college student, Chess.com invites you to s...
The 2022 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX commenced at the Saint Louis Chess Club on Wednesday with three rounds of electrifying Chess960 (or Fischer Random) games, pitting the world's best chess players against each other on unfamiliar playing field...
The Chess.com Global Chess Championship commenced on Wednesday with the first batch of round of 64 matches. Former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and GM Sam Sevian swept their matches with perfect 3-0 scores. GM Eric Hansen upset world number 21 ...
GM Jeffery Xiong and GM Dmitry Andreikin, the two players with more Titled Tuesday victories than anyone not named GM Hikaru Nakamura, both won another event on September 13. Meanwhile, brothers IM Mykola and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk finished second a...
After nine eventful rounds of play and lots of surrounding tumult, the 2022 Sinquefield Cup came to a conclusion on Sunday in Saint Louis. After four draws in the regulation games of round nine, a play-off, consisting of two rapid games, between...
BOOM! If the somewhat flaccid round seven at the 2022 Sinquefield Cup was a disappointment, then round eight delivered in a big way. Tournament leader GM Wesley So was taken down in a dramatic game by GM Alireza Firouzja. As GMs Ian Nepomniachtc...
The Chess.com Global Championship Knockout phase begins on September 14. An event that started with thousands of participants is down to a field of 64. In the next few weeks, there will only be 32, then 16, and then eight hopefuls. By November? On...
Kicking off Sept. 14, the Chess.com Global Chess Championship will see legendary chess players such as GM Viswanathan Anand, GM Vasyl Ivanchuk, GM Vladimir Kramnik, and GM Veselin Topalov compete against today's best (online) players, including GM...