GM Jeffery Xiong won the May 25 Titled Tuesday tournament outright with a score of 10/11, his second win in as many months. GM Vladimir Dobrov finished second with 9.5/11 on a tiebreak over third-place GM Salem Saleh after both won in the final ro...
Another modest 3/5 score on day three of the FTX Crypto Cup was enough for GM Magnus Carlsen to make it to the knockout stage, which starts on Wednesday. World Championship contender GM Ian Nepomniachtchi also just made it, while GM Fabiano Caruan...
Scoring 4/5 on the second day, GM Fabiano Caruana jumped to shared first place at the FTX Crypto Cup. The American GM shares the lead with 2022 FIDE Candidate GM Teimour Radjabov and GM Hikaru Nakamura. GM Magnus Carlsen, on the other hand, is in ...
GM Anish Giri had the best first day at the FTX Crypto Cup, the sixth leg of the Champions Chess Tour. The Dutch GM scored 4/5 on Sunday. World Champion Magnus Carlsen scored just 50 percent and said he had played "awful" chess. How to watch?The...
Over-the-board chess is slowly returning and now, finally, that is also the case for top female players. On Saturday, the fourth and final leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix starts in Gibraltar. How to watch? You can find, play through, and ...
GM Levan Pantsulaia won the May 18 Titled Tuesday tournament with a score of 9.5/11. Five players finished on that score but Pantsulaia held the advantage on tiebreaks for his first-ever Titled Tuesday victory. GM Vladislav Artemiev (last week's w...
On Tuesday, GM Garry Kasparov interacted with fans via a Reddit AMA. The 13th world champion answered questions about his favorite topics such as A.I., Russian politics, and, of course, chess. A Reddit AMA ("Ask Me Anything") is an interactive Q...
Two weeks after clinching the Shenzhen Masters (online), GM Yu Yangyi won his third Chinese Championship title (over the board!). GM Ju Wenjun, who chose to play in the open section, was one of two players to beat the eventual champion. How to...
The simultaneous exhibitions on Chess.com with top Indian players to support COVID relief in India raised over $50,000. All proceeds go to RedCross India and the Checkmate COVID initiative of the All India Chess Federation (AICF). On Thursday, G...
GM Yu Yangyi won the Shenzhen Masters, held April 20-May 1, 2021 on Chess.com. The 26-year-old grandmaster from Huangshi finished ahead of GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, GM Richard Rapport, and GM Wei Yi. How to watch? You can find, play through, an...
GM Vladislav Artemiev won the May 11 Titled Tuesday tournament with a score of 10/11. Of seven players tied for second place entering the final round, three won to finish on 9.5/11. After tiebreaks, GM Daniil Dubov took second place, GM Levan Pant...
GM Andrey Esipenko, the 19-year-old Russian who beat GM Magnus Carlsen at the 2021 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, continued to impress this week. At the Russian Team Championship, Esipenko scored 6.5/7 while playing for the winning team, Mednyi Vsad...
Tanitoluwa (Tani) Adewumi, a 10-year-old Nigerian refugee who won the New York State K-3 Championship at eight years old, reached a new milestone last week: he conquered the title of national master (NM). Adewumi did so on May 1 at the Fairfield...
The first Chess for Freedom program, aimed at the introduction of chess as a tool for education and social inclusion in prisons, takes place May 11, 2021. The project is co-organized by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and the Cook County...
GM Viswanathan Anand, as well as GMs Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Nihal Sarin, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, will be offering simultaneous exhibitions on Chess.com to support COVID relief in India on May 13 at 19:30 IST/7 a.m. PDT/16:00 CEST....
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the May 4 Titled Tuesday on tiebreaks, his third win in his last three attempts (while playing the New In Chess Classic on April 27 instead). GM Haik Martirosyan finished second and GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac third, all on 9.5/11...
GM Hikaru Nakamura took the first step toward the final of the New in Chess Classic. The American GM defeated GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 3-1 and now needs just two game points on Friday to qualify. GM Levon Aronian or GM Magnus Carlsen started wit...
GM Levon Aronian, GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, and GM Hikaru Nakamura qualified for the semifinals of the New in Chess Classic. Carlsen beat GM Teimour Radjabov in one game in their second match while GM Wesley So, GM Alireza ...
GM Jeffery Xiong won the April 27 Titled Tuesday tournament. One of four players to finish with 9.5/11, Xiong held the tiebreak advantage over GM Sam Sevian, GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, and GM Conrad Holt, who finished 2nd-4th, respectively. Xiong had...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the preliminaries but couldn't beat GM Teimour Radjabov on the first day of the New in Chess Classic's quarterfinals. They drew all four games. GMs Levon Aronian, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, and Hikaru Nakamura did win their ...
The FIDE Candidates Tournament finished with three decisive games on Tuesday. GM Ding Liren quickly defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi, who had already secured tournament victory. Just as quickly, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat GM Wang Hao, who announc...
Undefeated GM Magnus Carlsen finished the preliminaries of the New In Chess Classic in first place with 10.5/15. GMs Hikaru Nakamura (who also went undefeated) and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov finished with 9.5/15 each, taking seeds two and three. ...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the FIDE Candidates Tournament with a round to spare. The 30-year-old Russian grandmaster will now play GM Magnus Carlsen for the world championship in November. While Nepomniachtchi drew his game with GM Maxime Vachier...
GM Magnus Carlsen took the lead at the New in Chess Classic on day two of the preliminaries. With an undefeated 7/10, Carlsen is half a point ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura (also unbeaten) and GM Alireza Firouzja. How to watch?The games of the New...
