GM Hou Yifan and GM Harika Dronavalli both won their quarterfinals on Friday in the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. Hou beat IM Bibisara Assaubayeva 13.5-9.5. Then Harika won her match vs. GM Anna Muzychuk with almost the sam...
The FIDE World Cup takes place between July 12 and August 6, 2021 in Sochi, Russia. The prize fund is $1,892,500. It is part of the world championship cycle: the top two players qualify for the 2022 FIDE Candidates Tournament. GM Viswanath...
GM Kateryna Lagno is the first player to reach the semifinals of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. The reigning women's world blitz champion from Russia defeated Georgia's number-one female, GM Nana Dzagnidze, 14-8 on Thurs...
While others have come close, GM Anton Korobov became the first player to score 10.5/11 in Titled Tuesday, earning him a full-point tournament victory on June 22. GM Aryan Tari came in second with 9.5/11 on a tiebreak over GM Oleksandr Bortnyk. Ro...
Leading from start to finish, GM Wesley So won the Paris Rapid & Blitz tournament as the best and most consistent player in the field. The American player secured the $37,500 first prize with a round to spare before beating his closest rival G...
GM Wesley So is still leading the Paris Rapid & Blitz tournament after the first nine rounds of blitz chess. The American grandmaster is half a point ahead of GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. GM Alireza Firouzja surged in the standings after scoring a f...
In her first official chess event in 2021, GM Hou Yifan reached the quarterfinals of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. The former women's world champion from China beat Azerbaijan's IM Gulnar Mammadova 15-6 on Sunday. The next...
GM Wesley So is leading the Paris Rapid & Blitz tournament after nine rounds of rapid chess. The American grandmaster is one point ahead of GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who played a brilliant sacrifice in the ninth round. GM Etienne Bacrot, who will...
Two more players qualified for the quarterfinals of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship on Saturday. First, GM Lei Tingjie (China) defeated WGM Vaishali R. (India) and in the second match, GM Anna Muzychuk beat IM Iulija Osmak...
After another day of exciting chess, GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, and GM Wesley So are sharing the lead at the Paris Rapid & Blitz tournament. One more day of rapid will follow and next will be two days of blitz. How to watch...
Georgia's GM Nana Dzagnidze beat U.S. GM Irina Krush on Friday in the round of 16 of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. Krush managed to win the final regular bullet game on demand but then lost three bullet games in a row i...
The second event in the 2021 Grand Chess Tour started on Friday with the first day of rapid in the Paris Rapid & Blitz. After three rounds, there's a four-way tie among GMs Levon Aronian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Wesley So, and Peter Svidler. GM Al...
Former women's world champion GM Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria defeated the Peruvian WGM Deysi Cori 16.5-6.5 in the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship's round of 16. Stefanova was the winner in all three time controls. The next ma...
FIDE and its partner World Chess announced on Thursday that the 2022 Grand Prix series will consist of three tournaments that will be held between February and April 2022. The top two finishers of the series will qualify for the 2022 Candidates To...
GM Harika Dronavalli eliminated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk from the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday. Kosteniuk started very strong, but Harika came back, leveled the score just in time, and then decided the match in the ti...
GM Kirill Shevchenko, the 18-year-old grandmaster from Ukraine, won Titled Tuesday on June 15 for his first-ever win in the event. His 10/11 score took the tournament outright. In second with 9.5/11 was GM Alexander Zubov on tiebreaks over th...
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the $90,000 first prize at the Superbet Chess Classic on Monday. The 36-year-old Azerbaijani GM finished a point ahead of the pack as he secured victory with an easy draw against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The standi...
CryptoChamps powered by Coinbase was a smashing success, bringing together some of the crypto community heavyweights for a weekend of chess battles. Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang defeated Surojit Chatterjee in the finals to win the event. On hi...
In a very close round of 16 match in the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship, reigning women's world blitz champion GM Kateryna Lagno defeated GM Valentina Gunina 11.5-10.5. The next match is on Wednesday, June 16, between GM Alexandra...
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov used a now-infamous variation in the Grunfeld to force a draw with GM Anish Giri in round eight of the Superbet Chess Classic. Mamedyarov is half a point away from sole tournament victory. While three more games ended in...
The Main Event of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship started with a surprise as IM Bibisara Assaubayeva eliminated GM Humpy Koneru. The Kazakh number-three player beat the female world number-three 14.5-7.5. The live broadcast o...
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won his third consecutive game and is suddenly a full point ahead of the pack with two rounds to go at the Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest. The Azerbaijani grandmaster defeated GM Fabiano Caruana with the black pieces ...
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and GM Alexander Grischuk moved to plus two and are sharing the lead at the Superbet Chess Classic with three rounds to go. Mamedyarov profited from tactical oversights by GM Levon Aronian while Grischuk outplayed GM Const...
Just like in 2017, GM Magnus Carlsen will be participating in the FIDE World Cup that starts July 12 in Sochi, Russia. The world champion won't be clashing with his challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who instead has chosen to focus on preparing for...
