It was another day of sweeps in PogChamps 4 presented by Coinbase, with all three matches going 2-0. 5uppp defeated JakenbakeLIVE after Botez Gambits on each side. QTcinderella, taking down Tectone despite blunders, won confidently in both games...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the first of two matches vs. GM Vladislav Artemiev in the final of the online Aimchess U.S. Rapid tournament. The world champion scored 2.5-1.5 on Saturday and needs just two game points tomorrow to win his third tournament i...
GM Magnus Carlsen will be facing GM Vladislav Artemiev in the final of the online Aimchess U.S. Rapid tournament. On the second day of the semifinals, Carlsen was too strong for GM Levon Aronian, and then Artemiev won the armageddon game...
Both first matches of the online Aimchess U.S. Rapid tournament's semifinals started with a 2-2 tie. Whereas GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Levon Aronian drew four games, GM Vladislav Artemiev and GM Alireza Firouzja scored one win each. How to w...
Four matches today in PogChamps 4 presented by Coinbase, fairly well-played overall other than several occasions of the now-infamous Botez Gambit. It's just not PogChamps without a hanging queen or three. IamCristinini defeated Punz for her firs...
GM Wesley So managed to level the score but then lost the playoff to GM Alireza Firouzja in a thrilling quarterfinal of the online Aimchess U.S. Rapid tournament. The other semifinalists are GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Levon Aronian, and GM Vladislav Ar...
The fourth day of PogChamps 4 presented by Coinbase brought an unparalleled mixture of drama and shock to the more than 30,000 concurrent viewers enjoying the show live on Twitch. Tectone got his first PogChamps victory after defeating NickEh30,...
IM Minh Le won the August 31 Titled Tuesday outright with an undefeated 10/11 score, a repeat of his July 20 performance. Three players finished tied a half-point behind him, with GM Aleksei Priodrozhni taking second on tiebreaks, GM Vitaly Bernad...
The FIDE Management Board is currently looking at proposals for tightening grandmaster norm criteria. It is part of a larger debate that followed upon Abhimanyu Mishra becoming the youngest GM in history by playing a series of round-robin tourname...
GM Alireza Firouzja defeated America's GM Wesley So 2.5-0.5 in their first quarterfinal match of the online Aimchess U.S. Rapid tournament. GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Levon Aronian also started with wins against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda and GM Sha...
PogChamps 4 presented by Coinbase entered day three with two matches. Both matches featured Group D, which after today is looking like perhaps the scariest in the field as even both players who lost their matches showed strong signs of chess abili...
GM Vladislav Artemiev won the preliminary stage of the Aimchess U.S. Rapid and will play GM Leinier Dominguez in the quarterfinals. GM Anish Giri and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave were among the players who failed to qualify. The other matchups in t...
GM Nihal Sarin prevailed over GM Amin Tabatabaei with a score of 23.5 - 4.5 in the last remaining quarterfinal match of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. Sarin scored an identical 7-2 crush in both the 5|1 and 3|1 segments...
The 2021 FIDE Online Olympiad resumed over the weekend as the matches of Division 3 were played in five round-robin groups. Malaysia, Chinese Taipei, Sri Lanka, Ireland, Lebanon, Iraq, Scotland, Angola, Wales, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela...
GM Vladislav Artemiev leads the preliminary stage of the Aimchess U.S. Rapid after two days. The 23-year-old Russian grandmaster scored 7.5/10, half a point more than GM Magnus Carlsen, who is back in the field for this final leg of the Champions ...
PogChamps 4 presented by Coinbase has begun, and day one was quite the show, headlined not by action on the board but by Harry Mack's crowd-pleasing improvisation with his trademark freestyle rap. Action began with Magic: The Gathering star and ...
Team Ludwig/Hess has won the 2021 edition of Twitch Rivals Chess: Hand & Brain. The duo defeated Team Sardoche/Blitzstream 2-0 in the final of the championship bracket to clinch the $5,000 first prize as well as a year's supply of Doritos. ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the Sinquefield Cup for the second time in his career, finishing half a point ahead of the American trio of GMs Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Leinier Dominguez Perez. GM Richard Rapport finished in fifth place with ...
All five games were drawn today in round eight of the 2021 Sinquefield Cup. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave maintains his half-point lead over the trio of American GMs Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Leinier Dominguez. The rest of the field can only wat...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo won Titled Tuesday this week with a 9.5/11 score, beating out second-place IM Minh Le and third-place GM Rustam Khusnutdinov on tiebreakers. GM Dmitry Andreikin finished fourth on 9/11. Maghsoodloo previously won Titled Tuesd...
A quick win by GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave over GM Jeffery Xiong in round seven of the 2021 Sinquefield Cup put the French star on top of the leaderboard with 5/7. This is the first time in the entire tournament that we're having a sole leader. GM...
Round six of the 2021 Sinquefield Cup saw all five games drawn. GM Peter Svidler missed a big chance to score his first win of the tournament against GM Leinier Dominguez, who stays on top of the standings alongside GMs Wesley So and Maxime Vachie...
The 2021 FIDE Online Olympiad began over the weekend as the matches of Division 4 were played in five round-robin groups. Hong Kong, Nepal, Lebanon, Kenya, Namibia, Palestine, Angola, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Suriname, Aruba, Ghana, Puerto Rico, Trinidad...
The first upset of the 2021 Sinquefield Tournament happened when GM Fabiano Caruana lost to GM Jeffery Xiong in round five. Fabiano's place in the three-way tie on top of the standings was taken by GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave who defeated GM Darius ...
