GM Haik Martirosyan defeated GM Vincent Keymer convincingly in their round of 16 match in the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The Armenian grandmaster won in all three time controls. The next match in the championship...
GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the top of Titled Tuesday this week, winning outright with a score of 10/11. GM Parham Maghsoodloo, coming off a win in the Round of 16 in the Junior Speed Chess Championship, scored 9.5/11 for second place. Five pla...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina is the first woman ever to qualify for the open section of the Russian Championship Superfinal. The 22-year-old grandmaster from Orsk, Russia, finished in shared second place at the Higher League tournament in Cheboksary,...
GM Amin Tabatabaei narrowly defeated GM Anton Smirnov in an exciting match on Tuesday in the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. Tabatabaei is the second Iranian player to move on to the quarterfinals after GM Parham Maghsoodloo...
Overcoming both a 1-7 deficit and internet disconnections, GM Parham Maghsoodloo defeated GM Praggnanandhaa R. on Monday in their round-of-16 match of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The next match in the championship ...
GM Boris Gelfand won the 34th edition of the Leon Masters, held on Chess.com for the second year in a row due to the pandemic. Gelfand beat GM Leinier Dominguez in the blitz tiebreak of the final to win his second Leon title. How to watch?The ga...
GM Arjun Erigaisi beat GM Kirill Shevchenko on Sunday in the second match in the round of 16 in the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The tournament is a knockout competition for top junior chess players with a $35,000 prize f...
On a somewhat anticlimactic last day, GM Levon Aronian won the Goldmoney Asian Rapid final rather quickly. Needing just two game points, Aronian defeated GM Vladislav Artemiev twice to clinch the $30,000 first prize after an hour and 25 minutes of...
GM Levon Aronian took the lead in the Goldmoney Asian Rapid final and needs only two game points vs. GM Vladislav Artemiev on Sunday to win the tournament. Aronian drew three times and won one game on Saturday, just like GM Magnus Carlsen vs. GM D...
GM Hou Yifan won the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship after beating GM Harika Dronavalli 15-13 in the final on Saturday. Hou clinched the $20,000 first prize in a tight match where she won the final two bullet games. Harika won $12,...
The final of the Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament will be played between GM Levon Aronian and GM Vladislav Artemiev. Both managed to come back from yesterday's losses as they won their matches today and then also the tiebreaks. As a result, GM Mag...
The final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship will be played between GM Hou Yifan and GM Harika Dronavalli. In the second semifinal on Friday, Hou defeated her compatriot GM Lei Tingjie 11.5-9.5. The final will take ...
GM Raunak Sadhwani on Thursday defeated GM Paulius Pultinevicius in the opening match 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. ...
GM Harika Dronavalli on Thursday eliminated GM Kateryna Lagno from the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. In a thriller of a match, everything was decided in the third bullet game of the tiebreak. Lagno, the top seed in the event, ...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ding Liren won their first matches in the semifinals of the Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament. Carlsen lost his first game to GM Levon Aronian but then scored 2.5/3 in the remainder, while Ding drew one and won two games vs...
The Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament will see GM Magnus Carlsen vs. GM Levon Aronian and GM Vladislav Artemiev vs. GM Ding Liren in the semifinals that start on Thursday. Aronian and Carlsen both won their matches in the tiebreak, against GM Arj...
GM Vidit Gujrathi won Titled Tuesday on June 29 with 9.5 points out of 11. He held the tiebreaker advantage over second-place GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and third-place GM Baadur Jobava. GM Hikaru Nakamura finished with 9/11 for fourth place after tiebr...
IM Abhimanyu Mishra became the youngest chess grandmaster in history today. The 12-year-old player from New Jersey scored his third GM norm in Budapest, having already crossed the required 2500 Elo rating barrier. Mishra (often called "Abhi") br...
The Main Event of the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid starts on Thursday, July 1. The first match in the round of 16 will see GM Raunak Sadhwani of India vs. GM Paulius Pultinevicius of Lithuania at 10 a.m. Pacific / 19:...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Vladislav Artemiev won their first quarterfinal matches in the Goldmoney Asian Rapid knockout. Carlsen defeated GM Wesley So with two wins vs. one loss, while Artemiev won three straight games vs. GM Anish Giri. The othe...
With lovely combinative play, GM Levon Aronian finished at the top of the leaderboard in the Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament's preliminaries. He made it to the knockout phase with seven other players, including the 17-year-old Indian GM Arjun Eri...
GM Lei Tingjie joined GMs Kateryna Lagno, Hou Yifan, and Harika Dronavalli in the semifinals of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. Lei beat former women's world champion GM Antoaneta Stefanova 11-9 in their quarterfinal on M...
After the second day of the preliminaries in the Goldmoney Asian Rapid, GMs Levon Aronian and Ding Liren are tied for first place with 7/10, closely followed by GM Wesley So and Vladislav Artemiev. GM Alireza Firouzja and Daniil Dubov ne...
The Goldmoney Asian Rapid, the seventh leg of the Champions Chess Tour, began on Saturday. Despite a loss in the first round to GM Alireza Firouzja, World Champion Magnus Carlsen is tied for first place with GMs Ding Liren, Levon Aronian,&nbs...
