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...
GM Teimour Radjabov won the Airthings Masters on Sunday. The Azerbaijani grandmaster beat GM Levon Aronian in one more game and drew twice to clinch the $60,000 first prize. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave came in third after be...
GM Teimour Radjabov took the lead in the Airthings Masters final, winning one game and drawing three vs. GM Levon Aronian on Saturday. Despite starting with two losses, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave tied the first match with G...
GM Levon Aronian and GM Teimour Radjabov will play the final of the Airthings Masters on January 2-3. Both avoided a loss after winning their first match: Radjabov secured his place with two wins against GM Daniil Dubov while Aronia...
GMs Levon Aronian and Teimour Radjabov won their matches on the first day of the Airthings Masters semifinals. Both won two games and drew two, against GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Daniil Dubov, respectively. How to wa...
GM Magnus Carlsen suffered a shockingly early elimination at the Airthings Masters. The world champion was knocked out by GM Daniil Dubov, who won both his white games on Wednesday. GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomnia...
GM Jeffery Xiong won the December 29 Titled Tuesday tournament. The American grandmaster edged out GMs Alan Pichot, Dmitry Andreikin, Vladimir Fedoseev, and Vahap Sanal on tiebreak. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament had a tota...
GM Levon Aronian and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won their first quarterfinal matches at the Airthings Masters against GM Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So respectively. The other two matches ended in 2-2: GM Dani...
GMs Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk, Pentala Harikrishna, and David Anton didn't make it to the knockout phase of the Airthings Masters. The four grandmasters failed to finish among the top eight in a group where GM Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru...
GM Magnus Carlsen needed just one win to join the leaders at the Airthings Masters. The second playing day saw a very high percentage of games ending in draws. How to watch?The games of the Champions Chess Tour Airthing...
The Airthings Masters, the second leg of the Champions Chess Tour, began on Boxing Day. After the first four rounds of the preliminary phase, there's a five-way tie for first place. GM Magnus Carlsen started with four draws. ...
GM Ivan Cheparinov has won the Sunway Sitges Chess Festival in Sitges, Spain. The Bulgarian grandmaster won 5,000 euros as the only player to finish on 8/10. The American IM Hans Niemann broke the 2500 Elo threshold, the last hurdle for ...
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won his first Titled Tuesday tournament on December 22. The Azerbaijani grandmaster edged out GMs Raunak Sadhwani, Eltaj Safarli, and Alexander Zubov on tiebreak. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament had a total of...
GM Gawain Jones won the European Online Blitz Championship, held online over the weekend. The English grandmaster defeated the legendary GM Alexei Shirov in the final. The championship took place on Tornelo on Dec. 18-20. Organized by the Europe...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Alireza Firouzja in the final to win the Chess.com Bullet Open Championship on Sunday. Nakamura won the $5,000 first prize while Firouzja earned $2,000. The live broadcast of the second day...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura, Daniel Naroditsky, and Andrew Tang are the favorites to win the Chess.com Bullet Open Championship on Sunday. Among 12 qualifiers, these four grandmasters are directly seeded into the quarterfinals. You can...
The tiebreaker of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier concluded with GM Aleksandr Lenderman beating IM Christopher Yoo. With this, Lenderman earned a seat at the 2021 U.S. Chess Championship, along with $2,500. Yoo, who tu...
Day seven of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier yielded a result that perhaps many did not expect, but one that is sure to please anybody who has enjoyed the high-quality chess in this event. With GM Elshan Moradiabadi and IM Ch...
As one of the few strong open chess tournaments during the pandemic, the Sunway Sitges Chess Festival is underway in Sitges, Spain. While the participants enjoy playing chess as never before, the tournament hall showcases a wonderful variety of fa...
The penultimate round of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier featured exciting, double-edged games as it was the last chance for some players to stay in the running for first place. The game of the day was between GMs Daniel Naroditsk...
Day five of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier was relatively quiet, with GMs Daniel Naroditsky, Aleksandr Lenderman, Timur Gareyev, Dariusz Swiercz, Elshan Moradiabadi, and IM Christopher Yoo all drawing the...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won his second Russian Championship title, exactly 10 years after his first. A quick draw in the final round proved enough after co-leader GM Sergey Karjakin was beaten by GM Daniil Dubov in brilliant style. GM Aleksandr...
GM Hikaru Nakamura can easily be called the Big Winner of 2020. Three days after clinching the Speed Chess Championship, he also won another Titled Tuesday, his third in eight weeks. This week's December Titled Tuesday tournament had a...
