GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda are in a tie for first place at the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals. They are the only players to gain six points for winning both of their matches without a tiebreak. GM Anish Giri won his second ...
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals began on Monday in San Francisco with a win for the world champion. GM Magnus Carlsen toppled GM Wesley So, the recent winner of the Chess.com Global Chess Championship, in the opening round. How to watc...
GM Alexander Grischuk won the second qualifier of the 2022 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship on Sunday following a convincing triumph over compatriot GM Vladislav Artemiev in the final. Having claimed he hadn't looked at chess for two or three ...
The 2022 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship commenced on Thursday with a cutthroat qualifier where GM David Paravyan emerged victorious after defeating GM Tuan Minh Le in a dazzling armageddon tiebreaker. Amidst a field of 142 titled players, Mi...
GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Alireza Firouzja were the victors in Titled Tuesday on November 8, both with scores of 9.5/11, Andreikin on tiebreaks and Firouzja outright. It was Andreikin's 10th Titled Tuesday victory of the year and Firouzja's second,...
GM Wesley So triumphed at the inaugural Chess.com Global Championship, defeating GM Nihal Sarin in the final with two games to spare. Unfazed by a couple of recent performances, So showed us what it means to be a grandmaster of his caliber, coming...
The FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships will be held December 26-30, 2022 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The International Chess Federation confirmed the dates and the host city on Monday in a press release. Traditionally, two of the most excitin...
GM Wesley So gained a commanding two-point lead in the Chess.com Global Championship final, winning twice with white and drawing both games with black. Despite playing more adventurously than usual, sacrificing in nearly every game, So went undefe...
GM Lei Tingjie qualified for the final of the 2022-23 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament after beating GM Anna Muzychuk in the fourth game of their match in Monaco. Lei, who knocked out her opponent's sister, GM Mariya Muzychuk, in the quarte...
GMs Wesley So and Nihal Sarin confirmed their progression to the Chess.com Global Championship final after winning arduous semifinal matches on Saturday. The players will compete for the top prize of $200,000, and the winner will be crowned the in...
GMs Wesley So and Anish Giri almost hit the front in their respective semifinals against GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Nihal Sarin at the Chess.com Global Championship on Friday but were both held to 2-2 following some resolute defense by their opponent...
The Women's Candidates semifinals match between GM Anna Muzychuk and GM Lei Tingjie started with two draws. If the match remains tied in the remaining two games, a tiebreak will be played on Sunday. The third game is scheduled to start on Fri...
Coming off of his Fischer Random World Championship victory, GM Hikaru Nakamura continues his unstoppable winning streak, sweeping GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda 4-0 on Wednesday at the Chess.com Global Championship Finals. This leaves the world numb...
GM Hikaru Nakamura, who won the Fischer Random World Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland on October 30, and is now in Toronto, Canada for the Chess.com Global Championship Finals starting November 2, found time to take home yet another Titled Tuesd...
GM Anna Muzychuk reached the semifinals of the 2022-2023 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament after winning her tiebreak match vs. GM Humpy Koneru on Sunday. After three draws, the Indian grandmaster blundered a full piece and quickly resigned. Mu...
GM Hikaru Nakamura was crowned as the FIDE Fischer Random World Chess Champion on Sunday after winning a thrilling armageddon tiebreaker final against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. Having split the points in their four-game mini-match, Nakamura saved h...
GM Anna Muzychuk defeated GM Humpy Koneru on demand in Saturday's fourth game of their Women's Candidates quarterfinal, thus forcing a tiebreak to be played on Sunday. The winner will face GM Lei Tingjie, who reached the draw she needed again...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura were confirmed on Saturday as the grand finalists for the 2022 Fischer Random World Championships after winning their respective semifinals by convincing margins. Nakamura only needed three games ...
On June 19, 1996, GM Bobby Fischer, hoping to enhance the creative potential of chess, announced a variant he saw as the future of the game, Fischer Random. Twenty-six years later on the 50th anniversary of his world championship victory in R...
On Wednesday GM Humpy Koneru missed a great chance to take a 2-0 lead in her match with GM Anna Muzychuk in the 2022-23 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament in Monaco. The game ended in a draw, which also happened in GM Mariya Muzychuk vs. GM L...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov swept both matches vs. GM Hjorvar Gretarsson to increase his lead in group A of the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship on Wednesday. GM Magnus Carlsen also won two matches to join GM Hikaru Nakamura―who was held t...
GM Sam Shankland began Titled Tuesday with a 9/9 score before winning the early event with a score of 10/11. In the late event, a six-way tie for first place on nine points was not completely broken, leaving GMs Alexey Sarana and Bogdan-Daniel Dea...
It wasn't a good first day for the Muzychuk sisters at the 2022-23 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament in Monaco, as both lost their games as Black. GM Humpy Koneru found a nice tactic to quickly beat GM Anna Muzychuk, while GM Lei Tingjie defeated...
GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Hikaru Nakamura both won their matches on Tuesday to lead groups A and B at the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland. Abdusattorov swept vs. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and defeated GM Wesley So. Nak...
