The semifinals of the 2022 Charity Cup will see the matches GM Magnus Carlsen vs. GM Ding Liren and GM Le Quang Liem vs. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. These four players eliminated GMs Hans Niemann, Jorden van Foreest, David Navara, and David A...
The second round of the third and final leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix saw no decisive games. Each group continues to have a clear leader, with GMs Levon Aronian, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Alexandr Predke, and Nikita Vitiugov all leading thei...
Arena Kings returned on March 23 after a one-week hiatus as GM Jose Martinez came back from down 2-1 to defeat IM Renato Terry in an all-Peru final. The semifinalists this week were GM Sergey Zhigalko and IM Mahammad Muradli as...
It took the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix, where GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Daniil Dubov were both playing on Tuesday, to break their two-week Titled Tuesday winning streak. In their places were GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, winning the early tournament, and GM Dmit...
GM David Navara just made it into the knockout phase of the Charity Cup as the Czech GM had the better tiebreak over GM Richard Rapport and GM Praggnanandhaa R., who won a brilliant game in the penultimate round....
The first round of the final leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix saw four decisive games. Each group has a clear leader, with GMs Levon Aronian, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Alexandr Predke, and Nikita Vitiugov all leading their respective group...
On an excellent third day of the Charity Cup, GM Jorden van Foreest scored three wins and a draw to move to third place. GM Le Quang Liem scored "plus one" and continues to lead GM Magnus Carlsen. How to watch? ...
GM Le Quang Liem continues to lead the preliminaries of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Charity Cup. With three wins on the second day, World Champion Magnus Carlsen is now in second place together with GM Jan-Krzysztof Du...
GM Maxim Matlakov won the knockout phase of week six of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. GM Dmitry Andreikin finished second in both the knockout and the Swiss tournament. GMs Daniil Dubov and Vladimir Fedoseev ma...
GM Le Quang Liem and GM Hans Niemann, underdogs for overall victory, are sharing the lead after day one at the Charity Cup. In what is the second leg of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, World Champion Magnus Carlsen suffered an e...
Week five was the first BYE week scheduled in the regular season, but there was still plenty of action as many teams rescheduled matches to be this weekend. This was also an exciting week for Princeton's captain GM Andrew Tang who made his way to ...
The 2022 Bullet Chess Championship presented by DigitalOcean reached its conclusion today with a series of edge-of-the-seat finals matches that resulted in GM Hikaru Nakamura being crowned the champion! Nakamura, undefeated across his matches...
The most exciting matches so far of the 2022 Bullet Chess Championship presented by DigitalOcean were in full swing today, headlined by a clash between bullet titans GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Andrew Tang. With both players neck and neck until...
For the second consecutive week, the winners of the March 15 Titled Tuesday were GM Daniil Dubov and GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura, GM Dmitry Andreikin, and GM Amin Tabatabaei all finished in the top five in both events, while&n...
The 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad will be held this summer in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. This news was announced at a press conference in Chennai on Wednesday, after the FIDE Council had approved the city's bid the night before. Originally, the e...
The 2022 Bullet Chess Championship presented by DigitalOcean soared to new heights today after a dazzling showdown between pre-tournament favorites GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Daniel Naroditsky, which Nakamura won in stylish fashion. GM An...
GM Hikaru Nakamura seized first place in the fifth week of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, holding his nerve after a series of close matches against a number of the world's best players. Nakamura finished ...
On the first day of the final in the second leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade, Russian GM Dmitry Andreikin and Hungarian GM Richard Rapport played a solid, correct draw. After his dramatic last-round win of the pool play agains...
With two draws in yesterday's games at the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade, GM Richard Rapport qualified to the final by ousting GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, while GM Dmitry Andreikin and GM Anish Giri booked another day of games, in a rapid c...
The Collegiate Chess League is officially over halfway through its fourth season. With only three rounds remaining, teams are already fighting for playoff spots, and every match from now on is even more important for the teams' standings leading u...
The second round of the Losers Bracket of the 2022 Bullet Chess Championship presented by DigitalOcean ended with four decisive winners: GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk, Arjun Erigaisi, Brandon Jacobson, and Jose Martinez. Notably, the l...
Wednesday's games of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade saw GM Richard Rapport win with the white pieces against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, whereas the game between GM Anish Giri and GM Dmitry Andreikin ended in a draw after wild complicati...
The 2022 Bullet Chess Championship presented by DigitalOcean resumed today with a blockbuster lineup of matches that featured the world's number one bullet chess player GM Hikaru Nakamura as well as a masterclass from "The Prophet," GM&n...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the sixth week of Arena Kings on Wednesday, just moments before beginning a quarterfinal match in the Bullet Chess Championship. He defeated GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in the Arena Kings final. This week's semifinalists we...
