GMs Magnus Carlsen and Nodirbek Abdusattorov advance to the Winners Final in Division I of the Champions Chess Tour Aimchess Rapid 2023 after defeating GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian, respectively, in four regular games and without armagedd...
Challenger GM Lei Tingjie overpowered the defending champion Ju Wenjun in game five of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship to take a 3-2 lead with just one game to go before the match switches from Shanghai to her home city of Chongqing. ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Levon Aronian move on to the Winners Bracket in Division I of the Champions Chess Tour Aimchess Rapid 2023 after winning their matches on the first day. Carlsen and Caruana beat the...
The SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia 2023 came to a close on Sunday with one clear winner, GM Magnus Carlsen. The former world champion kept up his formidable run and scored 6/9 on the second day of blitz to take his total to 26/36. Not...
The longest game of the match so far saw GM Ju Wenjun shrug off an opening surprise to torture GM Lei Tingjie for five hours in game four of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship. Lei didn't crack, however, so the scores are still tied, at 2-2,...
GM Hikaru Nakamura smashed records on Saturday when he scored 75 wins and 276 points to claim his fifth Bullet Brawl crown along with the $400 first prize. After falling short in the previous edition, he was nearly invincible in the two-hour, 106-...
With an unbelievable perfect score on Saturday, GM Magnus Carlsen seized the lead by a three-point margin at the SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia 2023. His 9-0 blitz performance plus his victories in the last two rapid games add up to an 11-gam...
Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun was surprised in the opening but pounced on the chance to grab a central pawn, leaving challenger GM Lei Tingjie on the ropes in game three of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship in Shanghai. Lei held firm,...
In their first-ever tournament encounter, GM Gukesh D. defeated his mentor, GM Viswanathan Anand, on day three of the SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia 2023. GMs Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi shared first for the rapid segment, ...
All 16 participants in the 2023 Bullet Chess Championship are now determined. Along with 10 invited players, the six additional spots have been filled—four of them on Friday. GMs David Paravyan and Denis Lazavik won in Qualifier 2, while G...
The 17-year-old IM Eline Roebers gained her first Dutch Women's Championship on Thursday in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in an event disrupted by a row over a freak "code red" storm that resulted in one player dropping out. Roebers won a double round...
After a winless day one, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi came back with a vengeance today, winning all three of his games to join GMs Viswanathan Anand and Fabiano Caruana in the lead at the SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia 2023. Caruana also had...
GM Jose Martinez and IM Emin Ohanyan won the Qualifier 1 Winners and Losers brackets, respectively, to qualify for the 2023 Bullet Chess Championship main event, which begins on July 17. In the Winners Bracket, Martinez won a one-sided matc...
Challenger GM Lei Tingjie once again seized the initiative in game two of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship in Shanghai, but a lack of time, and precise defense from reigning champion GM Ju Wenjun, saw the game end in a 40-move draw. The sc...
GM Viswanathan Anand emerged as the early leader, defeating GMs Richard Rapport and Constantin Lupulescu on day one of the SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia 2023. Rapport himself beat GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, the previous leader, in the la...
GM Magnus Carlsen became only the second player, and first in nearly two years, to score a perfect 11/11 in Titled Tuesday, achieving the feat in the late tournament on July 4, 2023. He won the event by two full points—a half-point better th...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun had to fight hard to hold a draw in game one of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship Match after challenger GM Lei Tingjie opened with an aggressive pawn sacrifice in her first-ever match at the very highest le...
GM Fabiano Caruana has been crowned the winner of the 2023 No Castling World Masters after scoring 4/6 in a double round-robin classical tournament in Dortmund, Germany, and finishing half a point ahead of GM Vladimir Kramnik. As part of the 50t...
The Triveni Continental Kings completed their comeback story with a victory in the finals of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 that went all the way down to sudden death. The 19-year-old GM Jonas Bjerre was the hero for the Kings as he to...
GM Daniel Naroditsky outclassed the field in the first weekly Bullet Brawl and convincingly won the event ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen on Saturday. Naroditsky scored 242 points during the two-hour arena, playing out 67 wins, six...
On a blockbuster final day of the regular season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023, GM Levon Aronian's Triveni Continental Kings and the GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave-led UpGrad Mumba Masters stole the two finals spots on offer from the lo...
GM Levon Aronian and the Triveni Continental Kings stole the show on day nine of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023, winning vs. both the SG Alpine Warriors and Balan Alaskan Knights to join the tie for first. Aronian defeated fellow ico...
GM Ray Robson won the Prague Chess Festival Masters after finishing in shared first with GM Bogan-Daniel Deac on 5.5/9 points. In the blitz tiebreak, the American grandmaster won the first game with Black and then offered a draw in a winning posit...
It’s the amateur event that fueled a massive chess boom, spawned a mountain of memes, and became one of the game’s biggest sensations ever. Now Chess.com is delighted to reveal that its celebrity-packed PogChamps tournament is back for...
