GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov need to win on demand on Wednesday after losing their first quarterfinal matches of the Chessable Masters vs. GM Le Quang Liem and GM Levon Aronian respectively. GM Jorden van Foreest had a good f...
GM Haik Martirosyan defeated GM Arjun Erigaisi in the Tuesday quarterfinal of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid with a 15.5-13.5 score. Martirosyan consistently held early leads in each section and held off several str...
Not GM Magnus Carlsen but GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda has reached the final of the FIDE World Cup. On Tuesday, the Polish grandmaster beat the world champion in the second rapid game to set up a clash with GM Sergey Karjakin. Both finalists have also qu...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo narrowly defeated GM Jeffery Xiong in Monday's quarterfinal of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The Iranian GM came back from a three-point deficit and decided the match in the final bullet games. ...
GM Wesley So has finished in sole first place in the Chessable Masters preliminaries, just ahead of GM Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura, and GM Levon Aronian. GM Le Quang Liem and GM Jorden van Foreest just made the cut and have qualified fo...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk won the Women's FIDE World Cup final on Monday after drawing her second game vs. GM Aleksandra Goryachkina. GM Sergey Karjakin defeated GM Vladimir Fedoseev to qualify for both the World Cup final and the 2022 FIDE Candidate...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk grabbed the lead in the Women's FIDE World Cup final on Sunday by winning a dramatic game vs. GM Aleksandra Goryachkina. GM Tan Zhongyi and GM Anna Muzychuk started their match for third place with a draw. Both games in the ...
GM Raunak Sadhwani on Saturday defeated IM Christopher Yoo in the first quarterfinal of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The tournament is a knockout competition for top junior chess players with a $35,000 prize fund. T...
GM Wesley So leads the Chessable Masters preliminaries after the first day of play. GMs Vladislav Artemiev, Alireza Firouzja, and Hikaru Nakamura are trailing by half a point. The eighth leg of the Champions Chess Tour runs until August 8. ...
Again coming back from a one-point deficit in the rapid, GM Sergey Karjakin eventually knocked GM Sam Shankland out of the FIDE World Cup on Friday. Karjakin will now play GM Vladimir Fedoseev, which means a Russian player is guaranteed for the fi...
GM Magnus Carlsen has reached the semifinals of the FIDE World Cup after beating GM Etienne Bacrot twice. He will next play GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, who defeated GM Vidit Gujrathi on Thursday. GM Vladimir Fedoseev has also qualified as he won agai...
Using a positional queen sacrifice, an inspired GM Magnus Carlsen started his FIDE World Cup quarterfinal with a win against GM Etienne Bacrot. GM Sam Shankland might eliminate another former World Cup winner as the American GM defeated GM Sergey ...
For the third time in four weeks, GM Hikaru Nakamura has taken first place in Titled Tuesday. His 9.5 points out of 11 were enough to finish ahead of GM Giga Quparadze on tiebreaks. GM Raunak Sadhwani and GM Aleksey Sarana rounded out the top four...
GM Magnus Carlsen eliminated GM Andrey Esipenko on Tuesday from the FIDE World Cup in an epic tiebreak match that was decided in the blitz games. Carlsen will now play GM Etienne Bacrot, who defeated GM Kacper Piorun. The other winners of the ro...
GM Sam Shankland knocked out GM Peter Svidler from the FIDE World Cup on Monday. The American grandmaster won his white game to qualify for the quarterfinals. GM Vidit Gujrathi is the only other player who reached the next round without needing a ...
It's back! PogChamps 4 presented by Coinbase begins on August 29, 2021. The latest edition of the breakout series returns for what will surely be the biggest, best, and brightest PogChamps yet! $100,000 is up for grabs in the prize fund and C...
Tournament Arc 2 reached its epic conclusion, with Gigguk successfully defending the title after defeating Esam. The two-time champion proved to be the best among a field of superstars from the Anime community and Fighting Games players. Li...
GM Hans Niemann won the U.S. Junior Championship on Sunday in St. Louis. The 18-year-old grandmaster and chess streamer finished on 6/9, half a point more than a group of five players. IM Annie Wang won the girls' section. GM Gregory Kaidanov de...
GM Haik Martirosyan defeated GM Amin Tabatabaei in the only decisive game in the open section of the FIDE World Cup on Sunday. The women's section had just one winner as well: GM Alexandra Kosteniuk survived a lost position and beat GM Valentina G...
World Champion Magnus Carlsen made it to the fifth round of the FIDE World Cup on Saturday as he defeated GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek in the second game of the round-four tiebreak. A surprising name among the final 16 is 18-year-old GM Velimir Ivic, who...
GM Pentala Harikrishna was the highest-rated player to leave the FIDE World Cup on Friday after failing to level the score vs. GM Amin Tabatabaei. GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek played another tense draw and will go to tiebreaks ...
The Stockfish team has filed a lawsuit against Chessbase, claiming that the German chess software company is selling their software without having the license to do so. The lawsuit, filed in a German court, was announced last Tuesday in a blog on ...
The top seed of the Women's FIDE World Cup GM Aleksandra Goryachkina is in a must-win situation vs. GM Antoaneta Stefanova after blundering in the first game of round four. GM Nana Dzadnidze also started with a loss against IM Polina Shuvalov...
Cuba's top grandmasters GM Lazaro Bruzon and GM Leinier Dominguez as well as GM Garry Kasparov have spoken out in support of Cuban-Spanish GM Arian Gonzalez, who is on a hunger strike after being detained by Cuban authorities for participating in ...
