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...
From the pool phase of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade, GMs Dmitry Andreikin, Anish Giri, Richard Rapport, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave qualified to the semifinals, with Andreikin and Giri meeting in one match while Rapport and Vachier-Lag...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the early edition of Titled Tuesday on March 8, scoring 9.5/11 after defeating GM Daniil Dubov in the final round and winning on tiebreaks. Dubov went on to win the late edition and was the only player to reach the top five ...
Chess.com is thrilled to announce that the 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship has been confirmed and is set to start on May 24. The event was born from a partnership between Chess.com and FIDE and is the most important online tournament for tit...
The 2022 Bullet Chess Championship presented by DigitalOcean continued today with the first round of the Losers Bracket. Although these players lost their first match in this double-elimination tournament, they are some of the fastest bullet chess...
Wow! The last round of the FIDE Grand Prix Belgrade pool phase turned out to be everything we could have hoped for or more. In Group A, GM Dmitry Andreikin emerged as the victor after winning a turbulent game. GM Anish Giri punched his tic...
GM Levon Aronian won the fourth week of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship tournament presented by Coinbase. Last week's winner, GM Fabiano Caruana, finished second. GM Hikaru Nakamura finished first in the preliminary Swiss tournament but fel...
Drama on Sunday was taken care of courtesy of Group C, where both games found victors, most importantly by GM Richard Rapport, who is leading by a full point ahead of the last round. In Group A, two draws mean that GM Dmitry Andreikin and GM Sam S...
The 18-year-old GM Arjun Erigaisi won the 58th MPL National Senior Championship, and 16-year-old WGM Divya Deshmukh clinched the 47th MPL National Women's Championship. Scoring 8.5 points out of 11 rounds, Arjun tied for first place with G...
The 2022 Bullet Chess Championship presented by DigitalOcean kicked off with excellent performances by traditional bullet favorites such as GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Daniel Naroditsky, who both convincingly won matches they were heavily favored in, ...
The fourth round of the FIDE Grand Prix Belgrade saw seven draws and only one win, nearly everything remained at a status quo. This means that GMs Sam Shankland and Dmitry Andreikin remain in the lead in Group A. In Group B, GM Anish Giri retain...
The Collegiate Chess League's third week concluded last weekend, and the matches were packed with brilliant games filled with tactics and sacrifices. Now that we are deeper into the season, the matches are also becoming more closely contested with...
Two wins and six draws—those were the results of today's efforts in the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix leg two in Belgrade. In Group A, B, and D, all of the games ended in draws, which means that GM Dmitry Andreikin and GM Sam Shankland continue to sh...
The second round of the group stage in the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade featured intense battles and some notable high points. In Group A, GM Sam Shankland won to join GM Dmitry Andreikin in the lead. In Groups B and C, GM Anish Giri and GM Vi...
It was the first of two Chess960 weeks in Season 9 of Arena Kings when GM Vugar Rasulov emerged victorious, defeating GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in the finals by a 3.5-2.5 score. Bortnyk had advanced by defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura in the semifinals, wh...
GMs Jose Martinez and Aryan Tari won Titled Tuesday on March 1. They both held off GM Hikaru Nakamura, who finished third in the early tournament and second in the late event while streaming for 12 hours to support Ukraine. GM Raunak Sadhwani fini...
The first round of the group stage in the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade saw four decisive games, three hard-fought draws, and several surprises. After the first of six rounds, GM Dmitriy Andreikin has taken the lead in Group A, GMs Anish Giri a...
An all-American semifinals led GM Fabiano Caruana to best the field for the second week in a row, winning week three of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. GM Jeffery Xiong finished second while the other American heroes, GM H...
World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2022 Airthings Masters by defeating GM Ian Nepomniachtchi on the second day of their match by the count of 2.5-0.5. How to watch? The games of the Airthings Masters knockouts can be found here as part of...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi drew all their games during day one of the final match. Carlsen has to be disappointed not to take the first set because he was winning in three out of the four games. Credit goes to Nepomniachtchi for his...
It's GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi who will renew their rivalry when they meet in the final match played over two days of competition. Both of these chess giants won their respective semifinal matches by a score of 2.5-0.5. How to ...
The second week of the Collegiate Chess League wrapped up last weekend, and many matches were rescheduled due to numerous colleges traveling to play over-the-board in the regional US Amateur Team events that were also taking place. Many CCL teams ...
After missing two straight weeks during his victory in the first part of the FIDE Grand Prix, GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to Arena Kings for the fourth week of season nine and took home the victory in the finals over GM Baadur Jobava. The semifina...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladislav Artemiev, and Andrey Esipenko won their respective quarterfinals matches of the Airthings Masters to move on to the semifinals. How to watch? The games of the Airthings Masters knockouts can be ...
