The Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase entered its 22nd week on Sunday and was won by a rampant GM Hikaru Nakamura who toppled GM Fabiano Caruana after winning all of his games en route to his seventh knockout victory. A generational...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz in Zagreb, Croatia, on Sunday. After the rapid segment, the world champion was in second place behind Dutch GM Jorden van Foreest, but scoring 11.5/18 in the blitz was enough to finish in sol...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament. GM Fabiano Caruana won the week 22 Swiss of the Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. Participating in the event were 53 competitors&mdas...
IM Vaishali R overcame GM Harika Dronavalli in their quarterfinal match in the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Thursday. Vaishali dueled fiercely against her compatriot, the highest-rated active woman player in India. After...
GMs Aram Hakobyan and Mahammad Muradli were the winners of the fifth and sixth Play-ins of the Chess.com Global Championship. Hakobyan and Muradli advance to the main event along with GMs Hrant Melkumyan and Sam Sevian, victors of th...
Titled Tuesday on July 19 was won by FM Abtin Atakhan and GM Dmitry Andreikin. The latter tournament ended in a four-way tie on first after Andreikin defeated GM Daniel Naroditsky in the final round, and Andreikin's tiebreaks barely won out over s...
GM Kateryna Lagno overcame GM Humpy Koneru in their quarterfinal match in the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Tuesday. Koneru led the match with convincing play through the 5+1 segment. Entering the 3+1 portion, Lagno great...
The FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship continued on Monday with a showdown between the world's number-one ranked woman player, GM Hou Yifan, against the U.S. women's chess champion, IM Carissa Yip, which Hou won in a 21.5-5.5 dru...
The U.S. National Championships, held in St. Louis, crowned three new champions. GM Christopher Yoo won the U.S. Junior Chess Championship, FM Jennifer Yu won the U.S. Girls Junior Chess Championship, and GM Alexander Shabalov won the U.S. Se...
GM Wesley So won week 21 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Sam Sevian in the closely-fought final match that culminated in a bullet playoff. GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Maxim Matlakov made it to the semif...
GM Levon Aronian won the FTX Road to Miami tournament on Sunday after a convincing second match victory vs. GM Wei Yi. The American-Armenian grandmaster won both of his games with the black pieces. How to review? The games of the FTX Road to Mia...
GM Rodrigo Vasquez and IM Denis Lazavik were the winners of the third and fourth Play-ins of the Chess.com Global Championship. The two first-finishing players advanced to the knockout phase where they will be joined by GM Eric Hanse...
GM Levon Aronian leads the final of the FTX Road to Miami tournament after the first of two days. GM Wei Yi had winning positions in both the second and third games, but had to settle for draws and then lost the fourth game. How to watch? The ga...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament. GM Sam Sevian won week 21 of the Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, starting the tournament with a 3-0 winning streak. Participating i...
GM Levon Aronian and GM Wei Yi qualified for the two-day final of the FTX Road to Miami tournament. Wei needed just three games to knock out GM Richard Rapport, while Aronian defeated GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda 3-1. The final will consist of two matc...
The semifinals of the FTX Road to Miami tournament will see the matches GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs. GM Levon Aronian and GM Wei Yi vs. GM Richard Rapport. In three of Thursday's quarterfinal matches, the younger player took the lead but then was eli...
As the winner of the preliminaries, GM Sam Sevian enters the knockout stage of the FTX Road to Miami tournament as the top seed. The American grandmaster will face GM Wei Yi in the quarterfinals. GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who lost to Sevian...
After a near-miss in the early tournament, GM Hikaru Nakamura claimed another Titled Tuesday victory in the late tournament on July 12. It was his first win since a double sweep on June 7, after playing this event irregularly of late due to the 20...
While GM Sam Sevian continues to lead the FTX Road to Miami tournament preliminaries after the third day, top GMs such as Anish Giri, GM Levon Aronian, and GM Leinier Dominguez are not certain of the knockout phase just yet. There are three rounds...
The FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship resumed on Tuesday with a clash between two of the tournament's powerhouses, with GM Valentina Gunina overcoming GM Tan Zhongyi with a resounding score of 19.5-9.5. After a shaky 0-2 start...
GM Vidit Gujrathi and GM Alexey Sarana won the first and second Play-ins of the Chess.com Global Championship. Vidit and Sarana advance to the main event along with GMs Rasmus Svane and Oleksandr Bortnyk, victors of the two-game matches be...
GM Sam Sevian captured the lead on day two of the FTX Road to Miami tournament as he won three games back-to-back before a walkover vs. GM Teimour Radjabov, who left the tournament due to illness. GM Ju Wenjun had a splendid second day of chess ...
Chess.com's BlitzChamps came to a close on Sunday when Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Chidobe Awuzie was crowned the inaugural winner of the event that looked to discover the best chess player in the NFL. The final saw longtime locker room chess ...
GM Jeffery Xiong leads the FTX Road to Miami tournament after the first day of play. The 21-year-old American grandmaster, who is making his debut in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, was the only player to win three games, which gave him nine p...
