After just arriving in Sochi, Russia, for the FIDE World Cup, GM Nihal Sarin beat GM Nicholas Checa in the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. Playing from his hotel, the Indian prodigy won in all three time controls. The...
It was a painful day of chess for GM Garry Kasparov and his many fans. The 13th world champion, who joined the field at the Croatia Rapid & Blitz today, scored a disastrous 0.5/9. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi still leads but GM Maxime Vachier-La...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi came in first in the rapid part of the Croatia Rapid & Blitz. The Russian grandmaster finished a point ahead of the pack, with 18 rounds of blitz to go on Saturday and Sunday. GM Garry Kasparov will now be taking over fro...
For the first time in the main event of the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship, the lower seed won in an upset as #10 IM Christopher Yoo defeated #7 GM Hans Niemann by a score of 23-9 on Thursday. The next match in the championship is GM Nihal...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi still leads the Croatia Rapid & Blitz despite a loss in round six to the local wildcard participant GM Ivan Saric. GM Vishy Anand and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who both scored plus one on Thursday, are tied for...
16-year-old GM Nihal Sarin has a fantastic month of chess behind him. The Indian prodigy won two strong tournaments in a row in Serbia and gained 35 Elo points, reaching a virtual rating of 2655. How to watch?The games of the Silver Lake Open ...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, the challenger of GM Magnus Carlsen in the world championship in November, made his mark on the first day of the Zagreb Rapid & Blitz. The third leg of the Grand Chess Tour will have GM Garry Kasparov playing in the...
GM Haik Martirosyan defeated GM Vincent Keymer convincingly in their round of 16 match in the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The Armenian grandmaster won in all three time controls. The next match in the championship...
GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the top of Titled Tuesday this week, winning outright with a score of 10/11. GM Parham Maghsoodloo, coming off a win in the Round of 16 in the Junior Speed Chess Championship, scored 9.5/11 for second place. Five pla...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina is the first woman ever to qualify for the open section of the Russian Championship Superfinal. The 22-year-old grandmaster from Orsk, Russia, finished in shared second place at the Higher League tournament in Cheboksary,...
GM Amin Tabatabaei narrowly defeated GM Anton Smirnov in an exciting match on Tuesday in the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. Tabatabaei is the second Iranian player to move on to the quarterfinals after GM Parham Maghsoodloo...
Overcoming both a 1-7 deficit and internet disconnections, GM Parham Maghsoodloo defeated GM Praggnanandhaa R. on Monday in their round-of-16 match of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The next match in the championship ...
GM Boris Gelfand won the 34th edition of the Leon Masters, held on Chess.com for the second year in a row due to the pandemic. Gelfand beat GM Leinier Dominguez in the blitz tiebreak of the final to win his second Leon title. How to watch?The ga...
GM Arjun Erigaisi beat GM Kirill Shevchenko on Sunday in the second match in the round of 16 in the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The tournament is a knockout competition for top junior chess players with a $35,000 prize f...
On a somewhat anticlimactic last day, GM Levon Aronian won the Goldmoney Asian Rapid final rather quickly. Needing just two game points, Aronian defeated GM Vladislav Artemiev twice to clinch the $30,000 first prize after an hour and 25 minutes of...
GM Levon Aronian took the lead in the Goldmoney Asian Rapid final and needs only two game points vs. GM Vladislav Artemiev on Sunday to win the tournament. Aronian drew three times and won one game on Saturday, just like GM Magnus Carlsen vs. GM D...
GM Hou Yifan won the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship after beating GM Harika Dronavalli 15-13 in the final on Saturday. Hou clinched the $20,000 first prize in a tight match where she won the final two bullet games. Harika won $12,...
The final of the Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament will be played between GM Levon Aronian and GM Vladislav Artemiev. Both managed to come back from yesterday's losses as they won their matches today and then also the tiebreaks. As a result, GM Mag...
The final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship will be played between GM Hou Yifan and GM Harika Dronavalli. In the second semifinal on Friday, Hou defeated her compatriot GM Lei Tingjie 11.5-9.5. The final will take ...
GM Raunak Sadhwani on Thursday defeated GM Paulius Pultinevicius in the opening match of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The tournament is a knockout competition for top junior chess players with a $35,000 prize fund. ...
GM Harika Dronavalli on Thursday eliminated GM Kateryna Lagno from the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. In a thriller of a match, everything was decided in the third bullet game of the tiebreak. Lagno, the top seed in the event, ...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ding Liren won their first matches in the semifinals of the Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament. Carlsen lost his first game to GM Levon Aronian but then scored 2.5/3 in the remainder, while Ding drew one and won two games vs...
The Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament will see GM Magnus Carlsen vs. GM Levon Aronian and GM Vladislav Artemiev vs. GM Ding Liren in the semifinals that start on Thursday. Aronian and Carlsen both won their matches in the tiebreak, against GM Arj...
GM Vidit Gujrathi won Titled Tuesday on June 29 with 9.5 points out of 11. He held the tiebreaker advantage over second-place GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and third-place GM Baadur Jobava. GM Hikaru Nakamura finished with 9/11 for fourth place after tiebr...
