IM Christopher Yoo was victorious in his round of 16 match today against GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa in the 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG. Few points separated the players for the majority of the match, but i...
Another dramatic match ensued at the 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG on Thursday, with GM Awonder Liang edging out GM Andrew Hong by a mere point after winning the final game of the match. It was a tough bout, with non...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his third consecutive Arena Kings on April 13 and has now claimed victory in all six weeks he's played in Season 9. For the second straight week, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk was Nakamura's opponent in the final while the semif...
World Rapid Champion GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the early edition of Titled Tuesday while GM Hikaru Nakamura, who did not play last week, won the late tournament. Both players took their tournament outright with a score of 10/11. It was also a r...
GM Praggnanandhaa R. scored one of his career's best achievements so far by winning the 2022 Kvika Reykjavik Open in Iceland on Tuesday. The only 16-year-old Indian grandmaster won a crucial and dramatic game against his compatriot GM Gukesh D. (1...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG began today with the first round of 16 match between GMs Brandon Jacobson and Arseniy Nesterov, which the former won after a suspenseful match that ended 14.5-12.5 in favor o...
Round six is in the books, and only one round remains in the regular season before the playoffs. The University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley is now the only team at 6-0 in division one and looks to go 7-0 to complete the perfect season before the...
The final qualifier of the 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG was won by IM Mahammad Muradli in a dominating display of chess. Muradli swept his final matchup 8-0 in a resounding victory over IM Platon Galperin and also won...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG continued today with the second qualifier in which GM Andrew Hong ousted GM Brandon Jacobson in a thrilling final match that went all the way to the final game of the bullet tiebreaker...
GM Magnus Carlsen once again tops the field of this year's Norway Chess tournament, scheduled for May 30-June 10, 2022 in Stavanger, Norway. A surprising name this year is that of GM Wang Hao, who comes back from retirement. The tournament ...
GM Matthias Bluebaum won the 2022 European Championship in Terme Catez, Slovenia on Wednesday. The German grandmaster edged out GM Gabriel Sargissian on tiebreak. Bronze went to the 2018 champion, GM Ivan Saric, of Croatia. The top 20 pl...
"At the end of the day there was little incentive," GM Hikaru Nakamura said about his quick draw against GM Wesley So in the final of the third leg of the FIDE Grand Prix. Both players commented on it in an interview after the tournament...
Saint Louis University (SLU) won their first ever President's Cup this past weekend by out-scoring Webster University, Texas Tech University, and University of Texas at Dallas in the Final Four. These four teams earned their spots in the tournamen...
Shortly after winning the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix and qualifying for the FIDE Candidates Tournament, GM Hikaru Nakamura won the ninth week of Arena Kings (making it two weeks in a row). He won in the final with a score of 3-1 against G...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi earned Titled Tuesday victories on April 5. GM Vladimir Fedoseev had to settle for second place in both events, and by a thin tiebreak margin in the late tournament. GM Alexey Sarana and IM Volodar Mu...
With draws in both of the two classical games, American GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So were set to decide who would win the third and final leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in a rapid-play tiebreaker. After an intense dr...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo was the winner of the eighth week of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship tournament presented by Coinbase, emerging victorious from an action-packed final against GM Jeffery Xiong. Maghsoodloo was also able to top the Sw...
American GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So also drew their second game in the final of the third and final leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix. The players quickly repeated moves in a line in the Berlin Ruy Lopez which they have played ...
With clear victories in Friday's tiebreakers, American GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So were set to meet in the final of the third leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix series. The first game of the final, with So play...
Yesterday a couple of things became clear: GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix series and the results in the semifinals meant that we would have the pleasure of not just one tiebreaker but two. Although not without his s...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix series by earning a half-point against GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov on Thursday. Although there are still games to be played in the third leg, Nakamura has already earned more po...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG commenced today with a series of hard-fought matches where IMs reigned supreme. IM Aronyak Ghosh was the deserving winner after taking down WGM Zhu Jiner and IM Rahul Sr...
The March 30 Arena Kings featured one of the more entertaining knockout rounds of the season, although it ended fairly predictably with a victory for GM Hikaru Nakamura. He defeated IM Le Tuan Minh in the final in a 3-0 sweep. The s...
The 2022 President's Cup returns to over-the-board for the first time since 2019, and the best four teams from the 2022 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship have been invited to Texas Tech University to compete for the U.S. College Champ...
