Every single game of the first round of the Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022-2023 ended decisively. With imaginative and fearless play, GM Tan Zhongyi defeated her fellow women's world champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk. WGM Dinara Wagner's deter...
GM Fabiano Caruana won clear first at the Superbet Classic Romania 2023 on Monday. Entering the last round with a half-point lead, he drew a sharp theoretical battle in the English vs. GM Richard Rapport. The four players—GM Anish ...
The penultimate round of the Superbet Classic Romania 2023 ended on Sunday with one win and four draws, leaving GM Fabiano Caruana as the sole leader on 5/8 after GM Alireza Firouzja was defeated by GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Threefold repetiti...
The Gotham Knights overcame the Shanghai Tigers with a dominating score of 9.5-6.5 in the Finals to emerge as the champions of the 2023 Pro Chess League. The Knights won the top prize of $25,000 while the Tigers settled for $20,000. GM Vladimir ...
In round seven of the Superbet Classic Romania 2023, GM Alireza Firouzja caught GM Fabiano Caruana, the tournament leader for most of the event, by defeating GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and breaking down his attempt at a fortress. The two are now tied f...
The Shanghai Tigers convincingly routed the Indian Yogis with a strong 9-7 score in spite of off-the-board inconveniences, while the Gotham Knights crushed Team MGD1 in just three rounds to move into the Finals of the 2023 Pro Chess League. It w...
The all-Indian Team MGD1 and Indian Yogis prevailed over the Levitov Chess Wizards and Blitz, respectively, in contrasting styles in the last two Quarterfinals to move into the Semifinals of the 2023 Pro Chess League. Though leading by a score o...
As the Superbet Classic Romania 2023 nears the home stretch, GM Fabiano Caruana continues to lead despite blundering away his winning chances at a critical moment vs. GM Alireza Firouzja in round six. With this stroke of luck, Firouzja remains in ...
The Shanghai Tigers defeated the Norway Gnomes with a score of 9-7 while the Gotham Knights overcame the Saint Louis Arch Bishops with an 8.5-7.5 margin in the first two Quarterfinals of the 2023 Pro Chess League. Even though both the teams look...
On Wednesday, 18 months after playing his last classical chess tournament, GM Peter Svidler won the 28th edition of the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in Malmo, Sweden. The 46-year-old Russian GM drew his final round game and no tiebreak w...
GM Alireza Firouzja gained his very first classical victory vs. a world champion in round five of the Superbet Classic Romania 2023. The youngest player to break 2800 defeated GM Ding Liren in a back-and-forth duel for the initiative, scoring his ...
GM Magnus Carlsen rejoined the Titled Tuesday winners column on May 9, his first time since November of last year. He scored 10 points to clear the rest of the early tournament field by a full point. GM Alexey Sarana won the late tournament, ...
Winning a second game in a row, GM Fabiano Caruana gained his first classical victory vs. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in round four of the Superbet Classic Romania 2023. This win propels the American grandmaster into clear first. GM Alireza...
GM Fabiano Caruana was the sole winner of round three at the Superbet Classic Romania 2023, demolishing GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's King's Indian Defense with the radical 3.h4―tossing classical opening principles to the wind. He joins GM Ian Nepom...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Richard Rapport were the two winners in the second round of the Superbet Classic Romania 2023 in Bucharest on Sunday. The round featured two contrasting decisive results as well as three draws that were all decided ...
GM Wesley So scored the first victory at the Superbet Classic Romania 2023, defeating the 2022 Grand Chess Tour champion, GM Alireza Firouzja, in round one on Saturday. The kickoff event of the 2023 Grand Chess Tour promises an array of explosiv...
Eight players won the Olympic Esports Series 2023 Preliminaries after accumulating three match wins on Thursday and Friday: GMs Shant Sargsyan, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Oleksandr Bortnyk, Alexey Sarana, Bassem Amin, Maksim Chigaev, Ngoc Truong Son Ngu...
NASA literally took chess out of this world in April as the International Space Station (ISS), situated in space, played against the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Mission Control, on Earth. The first game occurred concurre...
The second edition of ChessKid Stars vs. Streamers is set for Sunday, May 14 at 1 p.m. Pacific / 4 p.m. Eastern. Some of the world’s top young chess talents will take on some of the most famous faces in the world of chess content creation,...
GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Aram Hakobyan took home the victories in Titled Tuesday on May 2, both of them scoring 9.5 points out of the possible 11. Duda won on tiebreaks over higher-rated GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana in the first ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura picked up first place and $1,000 in the April edition of Bullet Brawl on Saturday after leapfrogging March's winner, GM Jose Martinez, with 10 seconds remaining on the arena clock. With 69 wins to his name in the two-hour arena,...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Kirill Shevchenko, Dmitrij Kollars, Anish Giri, and Levon Aronian fought their way through a field of 144 players, mostly grandmasters, and qualified through match play for Division I of the Champions Chess Tour ChessKid Cup ...
GM Ding Liren is the new world champion after beating GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the final rapid tiebreak game of the 2023 FIDE World Championship. Following a 7-7 tie in a thrilling 14-game classical match, it all came down to the final rapid game,...
GM Ding Liren pulled off a clutch 90-move escape to stop GM Ian Nepomniachtchi from winning the 2023 FIDE World Championship after his opening with White unraveled in the 14th game. With the scores locked at 7-7, the contenders will face off in th...
