14-year-old IM Christopher Yoo won his first Titled Tuesday this week, scoring 9.5 in the October 5 event to finish in sole first. There was a six-way tie for second place on 9 points out of 11. After tiebreakers were applied, GM Artem Timofeev ca...
GM Nihal Sarin comfortably reached the final of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid, after a 20.5-9.5 win over GM Haik Martirosyan on Monday. Sarin will be defending his 2020 title against the winner of GM Raunak Sadhwani vs....
GM Teimour Radjabov won the battle for second place and $60,000 on the last day of the 2021 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals, having scored the most points in the last leg of the Tour. GM Magnus Carlsen, who had secured overall victory with t...
In Sunday's round eight of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals GM Teimour Radjabov moved up to second place after beating his countryman, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. GM Magnus Carlsen failed to recover from yesterday's loss and lost 1-3 to GM ...
GM Maxim Chigaev triumphed in a tense knockout final against GM Jeffery Xiong to win the third Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix tournament, but it was the runner-up, Xiong, who managed to amass enough points to guarantee himself a Grand Prix vi...
Russia has defeated India 2.5-1.5 and 3-1 to confidently triumph in both rounds of the finals of the World Women's Team Championship that concluded in Sitges, Spain. If the semi-rapid event can be considered for historical continuity, this victory...
In round seven of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals, the two leaders, GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Teimour Radjabov, faced each other. The Azeri star won the match, but... this day still turned out amazing for the world champion, who won ...
Tournament-favorites Russia defeated the Ukraine 2.5-1.5 and 3-1 in the two rounds of the semifinals to score a 2-0 win by match points to reach the finals of the World Women's Team Championship being held at Sitges, Spain. In the other semifina...
In round six of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals, GM Magnus Carlsen reinforced his lead as he beat GM Anish Giri in the blitz tiebreaks, but GM Teimour Radjabov kept the chase alive, having won 3-1 against GM Wesley So. Besides those ma...
Russia and Georgia reached the semifinals of the 2021 World Women's Team Championship with solid performances, while India and Ukraine overcame their rivals in varying levels of difficulty and drama during the quarterfinals. While India's victory ...
Azerbaijan and FIDE Americas qualified to the knockout stage of the World Women's Team Championship from their respective pools in contrasting fashion after an eventful fifth and final round of the Round-Robin stage of the tournament. Russia and G...
In round five of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals GM Magnus Carlsen recovered from yesterday's loss and remains the sole leader, while GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, and Teimour Radjabov keep chasing him. Today was very entertaini...
The Chess Super League, an online competition with international top grandmasters as well as Indian players and juniors, will kick off on October 11, 2021. The league has a prize fund of Rs.40 lakh ($54,000 USD). The games will be played on Chess....
GM Boris Savchenko won Titled Tuesday on September 28 with a score of 10/11 after declining an early draw offer and beating GM Hikaru Nakamura in the final round. It was his second-ever Titled Tuesday win and his first since 2018. GM Federico Pere...
After the first day of the 2021 FIDE World Women Team Championship at Sitges, it was no doubt that Russia was the dominant force of Pool A, while Pool B looked like a comparatively open race for all teams. The second day of the event was expected ...
GM Vladislav Artemiev defeated GM Magnus Carlsen convincingly in round four of the Champions Chess Tour. The world champion still leads, thanks to the bonus points he earned earlier in the tour. GM Wesley So is four points behind with five ro...
The 2021 FIDE World Women Team Championship kicked off at Sitges, Spain on Monday, September 27, with favorite Russia showing brilliant form. The team scored the maximum 4 match points after the first two rounds in Pool-A. Known as "Jewel on the M...
Welcome to the third round of the Champions Chess Tour Finals, a 10-player super grandmaster tournament that took place on September 27. As those of you who have been following the previous rounds know, so far only GMs Magnus Carlsen and M...
A critical blunder that ended a game in one move, a symmetrical fianchetto Grunfeld played twice in one match, and two players repeating their same moves from a previous game were some of the highlights in the second round of the Meltwater Champio...
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals began on Saturday. The format is a round-robin event with 10 super-GM participants, namely Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Teimour Radjabov, Vladislav Artemiev, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxim...
The second event of the Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix on September 25 with an individual prize fund of $11,000 saw GM Jeffery Xiong beat GM Aleksandr Shimanov in a dramatic final after Russian GM Sanan Sjugirov won the initial Swiss part of ...
Mednyi Vsadnik of St. Petersburg has won the 2021 European Club Cup in Struga, North Macedonia. South Ural (also Russia) won the women's tournament. Playing for Norway's Offerspill, GM Magnus Carlsen scored 2.5/3 in his last classical OTB event be...
Friday, September 24, turned out to be one of the most anticipated and thrilling days of the year for chess fans—and the 2021 PRO Chess League Arena Royale finals did not disappoint! As those who were following the previous days of the eve...
Thursday, the 23rd of September, treated chess fans all around the world to the 2021 Pro Chess League's Arena Royale's semifinals. Many of you have been following previous stages of the event, but it wouldn't hurt to remind you that the four teams...
