GM Ian Nepomniachtchi now leads the 2022 Candidates Tournament by a full point, with his score of 6/8, after GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Fabiano Caruana in the eighth round. The eight candidates are fighting for the right to challenge GM Magnus...
A quick draw with GM Ding Liren proved to be an excellent strategy for GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who increased his lead to a full point at the 2022 Candidates Tournament on Sunday. GM Hikaru Nakamura, who beat runner-up GM Fabiano Caruana for the fir...
In round seven of the 2022 Candidates Tournament, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won his fourth game of the event but nevertheless only leads by half a point as GM Fabiano Caruana responded by scoring a win of his own. The Russian tournament leader took ...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won his third game in the 2022 Candidates Tournament but still leads by half a point as GM Fabiano Caruana also scored the full point on Thursday. While the tournament leader defeated GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in a kingside attac...
GMs Vladimir Fedoseev and Wesley So were the victors in Titled Tuesday on June 21. In addition to his victory in the day's late tournament, So finished in third place early. Brothers GM Rasmus Svane and IM Frederik Svane each had a top-five finish...
In round five, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was in serious trouble for a while against GM Hikaru Nakamura but escaped with a draw and kept his half-point lead at the 2022 Candidates Tournament. On the second day where all games were drawn, GM Ding L...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi stormed to the sole lead in the 2022 Candidates Tournament as the Russian grandmaster swiftly beat France's GM Alireza Firouzja, whose Najdorf preparation backfired as he got both checkmated and flagged. The other three games...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defended brilliantly in his first-ever classical game against GM Alireza Firouzja to hold the draw after 51 moves. It was the fourth draw of the day, meaning that GMs Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi continue to lead ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura came back strongly in the second round of the 2022 Candidates Tournament. The American grandmaster ground down GM Teimour Radjabov in an endgame to score the full point, with the other three games ending in draws. How t...
An exciting first round at the 2022 Candidates Tournament saw two winners. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi defeated GM Ding Liren while GM Fabiano Caruana beat his compatriot GM Hikaru Nakamura. The two winners play each other on Saturday in round two. Ho...
More than any other chess event, the FIDE Candidates Tournament, which starts on Friday in Madrid is a winner-takes-all tournament. Finishing first, and only first, means facing World Champion Magnus Carlsen in a match. GM Fabiano Caruana, who att...
Titled Tuesday on June 14 was won by American GM Jeffery Xiong in the early tournament and Ukrainian GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy in the late tournament. Both players won outright with scores of 9.5/11. Bernadskiy, seeded 51st in the late field, defeated...
"If it's entertaining, it must be entertainment!" said a couple of TV show hosts when I lived in England, and the same can be said about this year's edition of Norway Chess. The headline, of course, paraphrases the famous Gary Lineker (English f...
With more plot twists than a whole season's worth of "Game of Thrones," the eighth round of Norway Chess delivered more surprises, shocks, and horrors than anyone could have counted on setting up an exciting last round of the tournament. T...
The FIDE presidential elections, to be held on August 7, 2022, will be fought among no fewer than four candidates. This became clear after the FIDE Electoral Commission approved the four ticket candidacies on June 7 (in PDF here, which was publish...
All good things must come to an end, and Chess.com Chief Chess Officer IM Danny Rensch saw his amazing run into the semifinals of the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship conclude on Wednesday, as IM Eric Rosen became the first finalist of th...
GM Hikaru Nakamura dominated Titled Tuesday on June 7, winning both the early and late tournaments by a full point. He scored nine wins and two draws in both events for a 10/11 score in each. Nakamura is still the only player to sweep both...
As the World Champion Magnus Carlsen on Tuesday struggled in yet another armageddon duel, losing his fourth of the kind, the situation at the top of the leaderboard is making us eager to see the players return from their day off to finish the tour...
IM Danny Rensch eliminated the reigning Women's World Blitz Champion IM Bibisara Assaubayeva in the quarterfinals of the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship on Tuesday. Chess.com's Chief Chess Officer Rensch was leading after the 5+1 and 3+1...
World Champion Magnus Carlsen on Monday picked up another one of those victories he has become famous for, squeezing blood from stones vs. GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Carlsen now leads the 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger alone after six rounds and go...
With the top four players in the tournament standings playing each other in round five, the situation at the top of the leaderboard is sharpening further at the 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger. The current world champion, GM Magnus Carlsen, said ...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament. GM Vladimir Fedoseev won week 17 of the Rapid Chess Championship, presented by Coinbase, tying with and edging out GM Levon Aronian by tiebreaks.&nbs...
The situation at the top of the leaderboard is beginning to sharpen at the 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger. The current world champion, GM Magnus Carlsen, announced his intentions to play for the tournament title by winning the second classical g...
IM Lawrence Trent overcame the match favorite and fifth seed, IM Alina Kashlinskaya, in the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship on Friday. The players traded victories for much of the match until the finish of the bullet segment wh...
Has GM Viswanathan Anand been retigered? As the events unfold this week at 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger, the 52-year-old is certainly beginning to make it look like it. The former world champion continued to demonstrate that he is still ...