GM Hikaru Nakamura won a good game against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu on Thursday to take over the lead from his opponent at Norway Chess 2024. Two more classical results included GM Magnus Carlsen scoring a vintage bounce-back-after-a-loss...
Norwegian chess enthusiasts Askild Bryn and CM Odin Blikra Vea aim to make history by playing for 61 hours straight. Their ambitious GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ attempt for the Longest Chess Marathon will take place next week. Staying awake fo...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is the new leader at Norway Chess 2024 after beating world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen for the first time in classical chess in Wednesday's third round. Fabiano Caruana was the other player to earn the full three...
GM Alexander Grischuk, two weeks removed from the best second-place finish in Titled Tuesday history (or most painful, depending how you look at it), won the early edition of the tournament on May 28. That was followed by a win for GM Minh Le in t...
GM Magnus Carlsen captured the sole lead of Norway Chess 2024 after defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura in armageddon in round two. White won the other two armageddons as well, after GM Ding Liren outplayed GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and GM Alireza Fir...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu lead Norway Chess 2024 after armageddon wins in round one, with the much-anticipated clash between Carlsen and GM Ding Liren most notable for the Norwegian eating dinner after the ...
World Champion Ding Liren will play his first classical game against former champion Magnus Carlsen as the new-look 2024 Norway Chess starts on Monday in Stavanger. Defending champion GM Hikaru Nakamura and 2023 runner-up GM Fabiano Caruana also c...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has reaffirmed his status as the king of Bullet Brawl after going 74 games without a single loss during Saturday's arena. With 70 wins, four draws, no losses, and 269 points to his name, Nakamura was the deserving winner of the ...
GMs Vladimir Fedoseev, David Paravyan, Sam Sevian, and Christopher Yoo fought through the Play-Ins to advance to the main event of the Bullet Chess Championship 2024. In the first Play-In, Paravyan defeated Sevian in the Winners Final. Yet, Sevi...
Kansas City Chiefs' safety Justin Reid was crowned the winner of BlitzChamps III after sweeping Cardinals' quarterback Kyler Murray 2-0 in the Grand Final of an eight-player double-elimination bracket on Wednesday. Outplaying BlitzChamps I winner ...
The strong Sharjah Masters in the UAE finished today in a four-way tie for first place among, in order of tiebreak, GMs Bardiya Daneshvar, Volodar Murzin, Sam Shankland, and Shamsiddin Vokhidov. With two of them being only 17 years old, it showcas...
The victors in Titled Tuesday on May 21, 2024, were GM Vladislav Kovalev in the early tournament and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the late tournament. FM Faustino Oro, the 10-year-old from Argentina who already has bullet wins against the very best co...
The Kids, FM Rose Atwell and WFM Megan Paragua, defeated the Stars, WGM Nemo Zhou and WFM Anna Cramling in the first Kids vs. Stars match on Tuesday. With a combination of tactical awareness, endgame technique, and superior time management...
GM Magnus Carlsen triumphed at Casablanca Chess 2024, clinching first in a dynamic finish vs. GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura himself won second while GM Viswanathan Anand finished third. The 15th world champion's compelling last-round victor...
GM Magnus Carlsen gained a full-point lead at Casablanca Chess 2024 on day one. Combining his knowledge of chess history and his enjoyment of venturing beyond modern opening theory, Carlsen scored 2.5/3, defeating his longtime rivals GMs Viswanath...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk is Bullet Brawl's latest victor after he dispatched GM Jose Martinez in a winner-takes-all final game during Saturday's two-hour arena. Finishing on 246 points, Bortnyk built a 25-game win streak when it mattered most, ca...
21 years after her mother won the title, WGM Lu Miaoyi clinched her first Chinese Women's Championship on Thursday in Xinhua, Jiangsu, China. The 14-year-old prodigy defeated WGM Ni Shiqun in a blitz playoff after both had tied for first place wit...
A one-day, $1 million, poker-style buy-in chess tournament is on the agenda for November 21, to be battled out among GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Hans Niemann. The whole thing sprung out of a conversation thi...
GM Alireza Firouzja just won Division I of the Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic 2024 on Wednesday, while GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took Division II and GM Dmitry Andreikin Division III. It's not often we see GM Magnus Carlsen lose even a g...
GM Alireza Firouzja is the second player to defeat GM Magnus Carlsen two times in a Grand Final of the Champions Chess Tour, a feat that only GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave achieved previously. On Wednesday, the French number-one won the Chess.com Clas...
It's always tough to stop GM Hikaru Nakamura, but it's becoming nigh impossible in Titled Tuesday. He swept both tournaments on May 14, the second time in just the past four weeks, giving him a total of 12 victories for the year when no one else h...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won Division II of the Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic 2024, earning $15,000, 50 tour points, and automatic entry into Division I of the next event. Although GM Wesley So won on demand to reach the match reset, the...
GM Alireza Firouzja eliminated GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Vincent Keymer to reach the Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic 2024 Division I Grand Final. On Wednesday, he will take on GM Magnus Carlsen. GM Wesley So lost his very first match in ...
GM Pranav V won the strong Masters section of the inaugural Dubai Police Global Chess Challenge, held May 4-12 in Dubai. The 17-year-old grandmaster from Chennai (born in Bangalore) edged out GM Aravindh Chithambaram on tiebreak, both with seven p...
