GM Hikaru Nakamura returned as the winner of Titled Tuesday on February 2. The American grandmaster was the only player to score 10/11 and finished ahead of GMs Jeffery Xiong, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. This we...
In a statement published on social media, the organizers of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament expressed regret and provided further explanation about how they handled the playoff situation on the last day. The statement came after an avalanche of st...
GM Jorden van Foreest became the first Dutch player in 36 years to win the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The 21-year-old grandmaster defeated his compatriot GM Anish Giri in a dramatic playoff after both had finished on 8.5...
GM Anish Giri missed a big chance to beat GM Alireza Firouzja today and increase his lead at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament to a full point. The Dutchman is still half a point ahead of the pack as GM Fabiano Caruana&...
GM Anish Giri is still the sole leader at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament with two rounds to go. The Dutchman held GM Magnus Carlsen to a draw in round 11 and saw GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Fabiano Caruana d...
The FIDE World Chess Championship between GM Magnus Carlsen and the winner of the FIDE Candidates Tournament will be held November 24-December 16, 2021 alongside the Dubai World Expo. Chess.com will be an official broadcast partner. The new dates ...
With three rounds to go, GM Anish Giri is the sole leader at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The Dutch GM managed to beat GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek from an equal endgame after GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Magnus Carlsen drew their game. G...
GM Giga Quparadze won the January 26 Titled Tuesday tournament. The Georgian grandmaster was the only player who scored 10/11 and finished ahead of the American grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura and Jeffery Xiong. This week's Titled Tuesday tournamen...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Anish Giri won their games in the ninth round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament and are now tied for first place with GM Alireza Firouzja. After six draws and a loss, GM Magnus Carlsen finally won ...
In his first-ever classical game with the world champion, GM Andrey Esipenko scored a crushing, upset victory vs. GM Magnus Carlsen. The just 18-year-old Russian GM dominated the game from start to finish. GM Alireza Firouzja won his third consecu...
GM Nils Grandelius couldn't keep his lead at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. In the seventh round, the Swedish grandmaster lost to GM Anish Giri, who is now in shared first place together with co-Dutchman GM Jorden van Foreest ...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Jorden van Foreest won their games in the sixth round in Wijk aan Zee to move up the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's standings with 3.5/6. After six hours of defending, tournament leader GM Nils Grandelius hel...
For the second time, GM Nils Grandelius is the sole leader at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. In a superb game, the Swedish grandmaster with the white pieces defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. All other games in round five ended in draws. ...
Four weeks after his first win, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the January 19 Titled Tuesday tournament as well. The Azerbaijani grandmaster finished in clear first place with 10/11. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament, our weekly blitz event fo...
The five-way tie for first place did not change as all games in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's fourth round ended in draws, although there was a lot of fighting chess. Wednesday is the first rest day. How to watch?The Tata Steel C...
In the third round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, GM Fabiano Caruana failed to convert a much better ending after having played a brilliant, sacrificial middlegame vs. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Tournament leader GM Nils Grandelius...
GM Nils Grandelius is having a dream debut in the Masters group of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The Swedish grandmaster is the only player on 2/2. There's a group of three players right behind him with 1.5 points, including GM&n...
BlockChamps, presented by the dynamic streaming sibling duo WFM Alexandra Botez and Andrea Botez and sponsored by Envy and CashApp, broke the chess viewership record for a single stream previously held by PogChamps. Over 91,000 concurrent viewers ...
GM Magnus Carlsen started his Tata Steel Chess Tournament with a win. The world champion took some risks but then was rewarded as he profited from a blunder by GM Alireza Firouzja. The other winners of the day were GMs Anish Giri and Nil...
Pandemic or not, there is always chess—even over the board. On Saturday, the 83rd Tata Steel Chess Tournament will start with the world's highest-ranked grandmasters Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana making their first moves on a physical c...
GM Aleksey Sarana won the January 12 Titled Tuesday tournament. The Russian grandmaster edged out GM Aleksandar Indjic on tiebreak after both finished on 10/11. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament had a total of 773 participants. It was a...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura are not among the main participants of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour. The two biggest stars of (online) chess might still participate as wildcards. The organizers announced the full field of participants on Wedne...
February 14 will mark the beginning of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6, a tournament poised to be one of the most viewed chess events in history. Both the first PogChamps and PogChamps 2 achieved unprecedented numbers of viewers, with live vie...
One of the chess highlights of 2020 happened shortly before the end of the year, and you might have missed it. On December 30, commentators IM Anna Rudolf and IM Levy Rozman raised $355,720 on GM Hikaru Nakamura's Twitch channel for CARE...
