In round six of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals, GM Magnus Carlsen reinforced his lead as he beat GM Anish Giri in the blitz tiebreaks, but GM Teimour Radjabov kept the chase alive, having won 3-1 against GM Wesley So. Besides those ma...
Russia and Georgia reached the semifinals of the 2021 World Women's Team Championship with solid performances, while India and Ukraine overcame their rivals in varying levels of difficulty and drama during the quarterfinals. While India's victory ...
Azerbaijan and FIDE Americas qualified to the knockout stage of the World Women's Team Championship from their respective pools in contrasting fashion after an eventful fifth and final round of the Round-Robin stage of the tournament. Russia and G...
In round five of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals GM Magnus Carlsen recovered from yesterday's loss and remains the sole leader, while GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, and Teimour Radjabov keep chasing him. Today was very entertaini...
The Chess Super League, an online competition with international top grandmasters as well as Indian players and juniors, will kick off on October 11, 2021. The league has a prize fund of Rs.40 lakh ($54,000 USD). The games will be played on Chess....
GM Boris Savchenko won Titled Tuesday on September 28 with a score of 10/11 after declining an early draw offer and beating GM Hikaru Nakamura in the final round. It was his second-ever Titled Tuesday win and his first since 2018. GM Federico Pere...
After the first day of the 2021 FIDE World Women Team Championship at Sitges, it was no doubt that Russia was the dominant force of Pool A, while Pool B looked like a comparatively open race for all teams. The second day of the event was expected ...
GM Vladislav Artemiev defeated GM Magnus Carlsen convincingly in round four of the Champions Chess Tour. The world champion still leads, thanks to the bonus points he earned earlier in the tour. GM Wesley So is four points behind with five ro...
The 2021 FIDE World Women Team Championship kicked off at Sitges, Spain on Monday, September 27, with favorite Russia showing brilliant form. The team scored the maximum 4 match points after the first two rounds in Pool-A. Known as "Jewel on the M...
Welcome to the third round of the Champions Chess Tour Finals, a 10-player super grandmaster tournament that took place on September 27. As those of you who have been following the previous rounds know, so far only GMs Magnus Carlsen and M...
A critical blunder that ended a game in one move, a symmetrical fianchetto Grunfeld played twice in one match, and two players repeating their same moves from a previous game were some of the highlights in the second round of the Meltwater Champio...
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals began on Saturday. The format is a round-robin event with 10 super-GM participants, namely Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Teimour Radjabov, Vladislav Artemiev, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxim...
The second event of the Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix on September 25 with an individual prize fund of $11,000 saw GM Jeffery Xiong beat GM Aleksandr Shimanov in a dramatic final after Russian GM Sanan Sjugirov won the initial Swiss part of ...
Mednyi Vsadnik of St. Petersburg has won the 2021 European Club Cup in Struga, North Macedonia. South Ural (also Russia) won the women's tournament. Playing for Norway's Offerspill, GM Magnus Carlsen scored 2.5/3 in his last classical OTB event be...
Friday, September 24, turned out to be one of the most anticipated and thrilling days of the year for chess fans—and the 2021 PRO Chess League Arena Royale finals did not disappoint! As those who were following the previous days of the eve...
Thursday, the 23rd of September, treated chess fans all around the world to the 2021 Pro Chess League's Arena Royale's semifinals. Many of you have been following previous stages of the event, but it wouldn't hurt to remind you that the four teams...
Saturday, September 18, brought to chess fans all around the world the next leg of one of the most anticipated online tournaments of the year: the Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. This event consists of four tournaments that take place betwe...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the Norway Chess tournament for the third time in a row, and the fourth in total. Like in the first half of the tournament, the world champion won the armageddon game against world title challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who ...
GM Nona Gaprindashvili has filed a lawsuit against Netflix for "false light invasion of privacy" and defamation after a line in the hit series The Queen's Gambit erroneously suggested that she was playing only against women. The fifth women's wo...
He was close to a defeat this time but GM Magnus Carlsen turned his game with GM Sergey Karjakin around, won his fourth in a row, and became the new leader at Norway Chess with one round to go. GM Alireza Firouzja defeated GM Aryan Tari to enter t...
The Norway Chess tournament is wide open again as leader GM Richard Rapport lost his first classical game, to runner-up GM Magnus Carlsen. The Hungarian GM still leads but only by half a point, so anything is possible in the final two rounds. In...
The PRO Chess League: Arena Royale is right around the corner, with action beginning on September 16. Be sure to catch your favorite PCL teams in battle during this exciting eight-day event! The Saint Louis Arch Bishops are loaded as usual. They...
GM Rustam Khusnutdinov won Titled Tuesday on September 14 by a full point with a score of 10.5/11. GM Rasmus Svane scored a sole second-place finish with 9.5/11 ahead of six players tied with 9/11. In third on tiebreaks was GM Arseniy Nesterov and...
Wednesday, September 15, has been circled on the calendars of many chess fans around the world, as it is the 2021 FIDE Online Olympiad's final. Some have been hoping their favorite team would make it all the way to the last stage of the tournament...
