After they led for most of the event, it was unsurprising to see the PBG Alaskan Knights become the first team to secure a spot in Saturday's final of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League. The Knights defeated the Triveni Continental Kings, who n...
GM Pepe Cuenca and IM David Martinez ("Ratata Spanish Squad") defeated IM Kostya Kavutskiy and IM David Pruess ("ChessDojo") 2-0 in the third quarterfinal match of the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2. They slew the King's Indian Defense with a slow squee...
Team "Oh Yes My Queen," IM Eric Rosen and WGM Nemo Zhou, won their 2024 Team Chess Battle 2 quarterfinal match 2-0 against Team 'Dandinavian,' IM Danny Rensch and IM John Bartholomew. Although Chess.com's Chief Chess Officer blamed the outcome on ...
A week into the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League, only three teams still have a chance to reach one of the two much-coveted spots in Saturday's final. On Wednesday, the PBG Alaskan Knights lost their second match but are still three points ahead ...
GMs Kirill Shevchenko and Frederik Svane are your winners for the October 8 editions of Titled Tuesday. While Shevchenko led wire-to-wire and won outright with 10 points, victory did not come easily for Svane, who came out of a four-way, 9.5-point...
GM Anish Giri scored his first win on Tuesday to lead the PBG Alaskan Knights to their sixth win in seven matches as the team is on the brink of securing a spot in Saturday's final of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League. It was a strange day tha...
The mother-daughter duo of GM Pia Cramling and WFM Anna Cramling reigned supreme in the first quarterfinal match of the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2. They controlled the match against Team ChessKid—IM Alice Lee and FM Mike Klein—for the mo...
The Alpine Sg Pipers were the first team to beat the PBG Alaskan Knights on Monday at the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League in London. The Pipers are now just three points behind the leaders, along with the Triveni Continental Kings. Scoring their...
The PBG Alaskan Knights won their fifth match on Sunday to lead the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League with a six-point margin halfway through the round-robin stage. The Triveni Continental Kings and the Alpine Sg Pipers are sharing second place wi...
The University of Missouri delivered a 14-2 drubbing to Athens in the second week of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall Season and debuted the competition's new strongest player, GM Aryan Tari. Scores of 4/4 for GMs Mikhail Antipov and Lu...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk has turned a good week into a great one after winning his eighth Bullet Brawl by a 39-point margin and claiming the $400 first prize following a Titled Tuesday masterclass earlier in the week. GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Ch...
Adding a fourth win in Saturday's early round, the PBG Alaskan Knights maintained their firm lead in the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League's round-robin phase. The leaders defeated the Ganges Grandmasters, who went on to score their first, narrow ...
The PBG Alaskan Knights celebrated a dream start to the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League's second season by winning their first three matches in the round-robin stage. Two were scheduled on Friday when the Knights defeated both the American Gambi...
Beating reigning champions Triveni Continental Kings with a dominating 15-3 score, the PBG Alaskan Knights started the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League's second season impressively. The no-increment time control of 20 minutes for the whole game s...
GM Magnus Carlsen just won the 2024 Julius Baer Generation Cup, meaning he's won two out of the four Champions Chess Tour events this year. We also saw GM Wesley So win Division II and GM Fabiano Caruana Division III. Let's go over what we've lear...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Magnus Carlsen won the first Titled Tuesdays of October on the first of the month. Bortnyk scored 10/11 early to win outright, while Carlsen scored 9.5/11 late and won on tiebreaks over GM Grigoriy Oparin, whom he also ...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Division I of the 2024 Julius Baer Generation Cup after defeating GM Alireza Firouzja 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final. After three hard-fought draws, the world number-one found a brilliant way to break through (40.e6!!) in the fou...
We're a few days away from the second season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2024, taking place October 3-11 in London. GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand, Hou Yifan, and Vaishali Rameshbabu are among the players in wh...
GM Alireza Firouzja has advanced to play GM Magnus Carlsen in the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024 Division I Grand Final. GM Levon Aronian showed tremendous form when he defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 1.5-0.5 but was met with an immovable Firo...
GM Magnus Carlsen staved off a spirited challenge from GM Alireza Firouzja to prevail with a score of 2.5-1.5 in the Winners Bracket Finals of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024. He will now face the Losers Bracket winner in the tournament's Gran...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the 10th edition of the Gashimov Memorial on Saturday in Susha, Azerbaijan. The Russian grandmaster, who played in the tournament for the first time, finished ahead of GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. ...
The underdogs roared as the 2024 Collegiate Chess League Fall (CCL) began on Saturday. The bottom boards led Saint Louis to victory over Athens. In an even bigger twist, Virginia defeated the top-seeded Missouri team. Boards three and four, GM D...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is one win away from his 30th Bullet Brawl title after stringing together a 42-game winning streak during Saturday's event and claiming the $400 first prize. Nakamura's 75/78 performance earned him a score of 284, 16 points clea...
GM Magnus Carlsen's dramatic match against GM Levon Aronian and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's brilliant attacking masterpiece against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi were the highlights of day four of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024. GM Alireza Firouzja...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, Levon Aronian, and Alexander Grischuk advance to the Division I Winners Semifinals of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024, after respectively defeating GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladimir Fedoseev, Maxime Vachier...
