On the last day, WR Chess completed their phenomenal run at the World Rapid Team Championship, clinching first with a round to spare. It was truly a team victory as every member contributed, with several players turning in dazzling performances....
After two days, WR Chess soars ahead of the field at the World Rapid Team Championship. Led by perfect scores from GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Hou Yifan, this star-studded team has won eight matches in a row to gain a three-point margin...
WR Chess, led by GM Wesley So, rose to clear first on day one of the World Rapid Team Championship 2023, winning all of their matches so far. The top seed, GM Viswanathan Anand's Freedom, had a rocky fourth round, nearly losing to GM Pental...
GM Daniel Naroditsky finished ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Andrew Tang in Saturday's Bullet Brawl after scoring 70 wins en route to amassing a 275 score. Following a loss to Nakamura in his first game, Naroditsky ran rampant and procured a 26-...
The Russian-born, recently Slovenian GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival 2023 | Masters, which concluded on Thursday. Undefeated, he finished ahead of 40 other grandmasters (and 142 titled players total) with seven points in the ...
GMs Alexey Sarana and Dmitry Andreikin claimed the last spots in the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase by winning their respective brackets in the SCC Qualifier 2 on Thursday. Sarana had the best event of anybody, pla...
GM Magnus Carlsen can now say that he has won every significant classical chess title that he's set his sights on. The five-time world champion won his first World Cup crown by defeating GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu 1.5-0.5 in the rapid tiebreaks ...
The last classical games of the 2023 FIDE World Cup could not have been more different from each other. In the final between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, the drawn outcome was predicted as early as move five, while in the th...
After GM Hikaru Nakamura scored the first 11/11 in Titled Tuesday history on August 17, 2021, it took 98 weeks for someone to repeat the feat until GM Magnus Carlsen finally did so on July 4, 2023. But audiences only had to wait seven weeks f...
Neither player made progress toward their first World Cup victory as GM Magnus Carlsen held GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to a draw in the first game of the 2023 FIDE World Cup final. A well-prepared Praggnanandhaa posed some problems to the ...
GMs Yu Yangyi and Vidit Gujrathi have made it into the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase after claiming two spots in the first Qualifier on Tuesday. Yu finished second in the Swiss on day one and, on the second day, w...
Indian sensation GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu will play world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen in the final of the 2023 FIDE World Cup after the 18-year-old defeated GM Fabiano Caruana 3.5-2.5 in a semifinal decided by a single tiebreak win. GM...
GM Magnus Carlsen has booked his spot in the 2023 FIDE World Cup final after winning his match against GM Nijat Abasov by a margin of 1.5/2. Abasov fought valiantly to keep his world cup hopes alive and played a near-perfect game on Sunday however...
Eighty-three wins, five draws, and three losses was the astounding scorecard posted by GM Hikaru Nakamura in August's third Bullet Brawl, resulting in a record-breaking 313 score. The rampage, which saw him finish 73 points ahead of the second-pla...
After surviving 12 games of classical games against some of the world's best players without a single loss, GM Nijat Abasov finally fell at the hands of GM Magnus Carlsen on Saturday at the 2023 FIDE World Cup. Though the world number one secured ...
Drama, plot twists, and illegal moves marked the live PogChamps 5 Finals—the first in-person Pog event in history. As the remaining four creators gathered in Los Angeles to play for PogChamps glory, no one could've predicted how the matches ...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and GM Arjun Erigaisi were engaged in 1-1 deadlocks in three sets of tiebreak games at the 2023 FIDE World Cup. After two draws in the 25+10 rapid tiebreaks, Praggnanandhaa twice took the lead by winning the first game...
GM Magnus Carlsen staved off a formidable challenge from GM Dommaraju Gukesh and held the draw he needed, while GM Nijat Abasov and GM Fabiano Caruana defeated GM Vidit Gujrathi and GM Leinier Dominguez, respectively, to advance to the semifinals ...
GM Alireza Firouzja beat out GM Levon Aronian on tiebreaks in the early Titled Tuesday on August 15, before GM Aram Hakobyan won the late event with the first 10/11 score in two weeks. For both Firouzja and Hakobyan, it was their second Titled Tue...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Arjun Erigaisi won in their typical styles against GM Dommaraju Gukesh and GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa in the first game of the quarterfinals of the 2023 FIDE World Cup Open section. While Carlsen outwitted his young oppo...
GM Vidit Gujrathi outplayed number-four seed GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in round-five tiebreaks to reach the quarterfinals of the 2023 FIDE World Cup, so that half of the remaining field now hails from the rising chess powerhouse of India. IM Nurgyul...
Three Indian players—GMs Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Dommaraju Gukesh, and Arjun Erigaisi—will play in the quarterfinals of the 2023 FIDE World Cup after scoring 1.5/2 in their respective round-five matches on Sunday. The trio will be...
On the first day of round five of the 2023 FIDE World Cup, GMs Dommaraju Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi led the way for India's young stars after both scored wins with Black over GMs Wang Hao and Nils Grandelius, respectively. GMs Magnus Carl...
GM Daniel Naroditsky won Saturday's Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize for the second week in a row ahead of a stacked field of titled players after scoring 63 wins, nine draws, and 13 losses (226 points). His closest rivals were unsurprisingly...
