World number-one Magnus Carlsen missed a chance for more as he made a draw with Black against GM Fabiano Caruana in game one of the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge Final. GM Levon Aronian found a miracle escape against GM Nodirbek Abd...
They may be playing Chess960 instead of regular chess, but it's world number-one Magnus Carlsen and number-two Fabiano Caruana who will contest the Final of the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge after Carlsen eased past GM Nodirbek Abdusatto...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda and GM Kirill Alekseenko, two former world championship candidates, emerged from tied standings to win Titled Tuesday on February 13. Duda needed to overcome four other players in tiebreaks, while Alekseenko only had to outsc...
GM Magnus Carlsen won what he described as "a very interesting, strategic game" to take the lead against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge Semifinals. GM Levon Aronian also left GM Fabiano Caruana needing to w...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen hit back with three wins to beat GM Alireza Firouzja and book a 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge Semifinal against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who eased past GM Ding Liren. It was the day the "veterans" struck ...
World Champion Ding Liren and world number-one Magnus Carlsen both have to hit back on Monday to keep alive hopes of winning the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge after they erred in the opening and were put to the sword by GMs Nodirbek Abdu...
The top of the scoreboard has narrowed to just two teams, Webster and Saint Louis, in week three of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL). GM Benjamin Bok turned in his second 4/4 score of the season to lead Saint Louis University to anot...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov beat GM Magnus Carlsen in the final round of the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge Rapid to top the standings with an unbeaten 5.5/7. That set up a Quarterfinal against World Champion Ding Liren, who made a last-roun...
Bullet Brawl records fell on Saturday after Chess.com's highest-rated bullet and blitz chess player, GM Hikaru Nakamura, swept through the field and amassed a score of 320. With 82 wins, one draw, and one loss to his name, only Peru's IM Renato Te...
GM Dommaraju Gukesh beat the GOAT, GM Magnus Carlsen, after whom the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge is named, as a new Chess960 super-tournament began in Germany. He also took down World Champion Ding Liren, who lost all four games, while...
The first event of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour, the 2024 Chessable Masters, is in the books, and plenty has happened in the tournament that lasted eight days. Some things aren't new, like the fact that GM Magnus Carlsen won again. But plenty i...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Division I of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters on Wednesday. GM Alireza Firouzja took the first set of the Grand Final, impressively winning the first two games in a row, but the world number-one struck back in...
GM Hikaru Nakamura continued his hot start to the year in Titled Tuesday on February 6, finishing third in the early tournament and winning the late tournament, his third win of 2024. The early event was won by Polish GM Kacper Piorun. Both he and...
Day seven of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters saw the conclusions of Divisions II and III. Although both matches went to the second set, the younger players won in each division. GM Vincent Keymer defeated GM Levon Aronian in Divi...
GM Alireza Firouzja will face GM Magnus Carlsen in the Grand Final of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters. On Monday, the French number-one defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi by drawing the armageddon and then GM Denis Lazavik 1.5-0.5 to w...
On day five, GM Magnus Carlsen claimed his spot in the Grand Final of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters. He defeated GM Denis Lazavik 2.5-1.5 in the Winners Final on Sunday. In the Division I Losers Quarterfinals, the favorit...
GM Daniel Naroditsky secured $400 and his 11th Bullet Brawl title after scoring 70.5/78 in February's first edition ahead of 125 other titled players. A race of titanic proportions between Naroditsky and Chess.com's two highest-rated active bullet...
GM Magnus Carlsen will play GM Denis Lazavik in the Division I Winners Final of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters. On day four, they respectively defeated GMs Vladimir Fedoseev and Jose Martinez. In the Losers Bracket of Division I...
World Champion GM Ding Liren and World Rapid Champion GM Magnus Carlsen top the field for the GRENKE Chess Classic, which returns March 26-31 after a five-year hiatus. Carlsen will be looking to win a third title to add to his wins in 2015 and 201...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Jose Martinez, Vladimir Fedoseev, and Denis Lazavik won their matches on day three of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters to stay in the Winner's Bracket. In a day of upsets in Division I, Martinez played the Game o...
Day two of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters separated 56 advancing players into three divisions. In Division I Placement, the standout was 17-year-old GM Denis "the Menace" Lazavik who defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura 2-0 before also s...
On his 25th birthday, GM Jose Martinez finished first in the all-GM Play-in of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters. The penultimate round against GM Hikaru Nakamura was absolutely critical, as the Peruvian GM managed to draw a losing e...
In a long-awaited moment, GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hans Niemann have played another game of chess against each other, their first since September 2022. It was an 87-move draw in the early Titled Tuesday event of January 30, won by Carlsen with a 1...
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is traditionally the first super-tournament of the year. It's often packed with top-level clashes, dramatic storylines, and 11th-hour plot twists, but 2024 will certainly remain one of the most memorable years in it...
