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...
GM Wei Yi became the winner of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament on Sunday after winning a thrilling four-player tiebreak that also involved GMs Anish Giri, Gukesh Dommaraju, and Nodirbek Abdusattorov. For the first time, Wei entered the world'...
In the wake of a 2024 Candidates qualification cycle plagued with tumult and controversy, the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced new regulations aimed at "enhancing the competitive landscape, encouraging player participation, and ensuring...
The Saint Louis and Webster University teams ascended to the top of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) leaderboard after winning their second-week matchups in contrasting styles. SLU relished a landslide 15-1 victory over the Prague University...
GM Hikaru Nakamura secured $400 and his 17th Bullet Brawl title after putting on a tactical exhibition during Saturday's arena, adding to his Titled Tuesday win earlier in the week. Scoring 67.5/73, Nakamura accrued 246 points and was able to outl...
After a wild round on Saturday, there is a five-way tie for first place in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's Masters group. With GM Vidit Gujrathi, GM Anish Giri, GM Gukesh Dommaraju, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and GM Wei Yi all on 7.5/12, chances ...
After beating GM Ju Wenjun in round 11, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov went into the final weekend of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament as the sole leader in the Masters group. A spectacular day of chess saw lots of fascinating games, including a bri...
With three rounds to go, GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Nodirbek Abdusattorov lead the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's Masters. Whereas Gukesh defeated GM Alexander Donchenko fairly smoothly, Abdusattorov needed over six hours to beat GM Max Warmerda...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda took home Titled Tuesday on January 23 with 9.5 points. After Nakamura held tiebreaks over GM Wesley So and GM Vladimir Fedoseev, Duda became the first outright winner of 2024 (with seven people tied be...
GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu won their white games in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's ninth round to join GMs Anish Giri and Gukesh Dommaraju in the lead. GM Max Warmerdam lost in just about the worst possible way to G...
GM Alireza Firouzja's topsy-turvy Tata Steel Chess Tournament continued on Sunday with another bounce-back victory, this time good enough to join GMs Anish Giri and Gukesh Dommaraju in first place. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov is not in that group any...
The 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) kicked off on Saturday with two telling matchups. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley gained vengeance vs. their UT counterparts in Dallas, led by top scorer IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux with 3.5/4. In t...
With six rounds to go, the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament is wide open again after GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov beat GM Anish Giri on Saturday. In doing so, the 19-year-old Uzbek grandmaster caught Giri in first place. Soon after, GM Gukesh Dommaraj...
With the 2024 Candidates Tournament mere months away, GM Hikaru Nakamura has shown no signs of reducing his online tournament participation, taking January's third Bullet Brawl with a commanding score of 269. Amassing 72 wins in two hours, Nakamur...
GM Alireza Firouzja is trailing GM Anish Giri by half a point again after Friday's sixth round of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. While the tournament leader missed several chances to beat GM Parham Maghsoodloo, Firouzja did score the full p...
A draw in the fifth round was enough for GM Anish Giri to increase his lead to a full point at the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Second-placed GM Alireza Firouzja suffered an unexpected loss against Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun, who won a ...
As Titled Tuesday gets more crowded, with 700+ players in the early tournament and 500+ in the late tournament both of the last two weeks, ties atop the standings seem to be getting more commonplace. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave emerged from a five-w...
For the first time in his career, GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu took the number-one spot among Indian players in the live ratings on Tuesday. The 18-year-old prodigy from Chennai beat World Champion Ding Liren at the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournamen...
