He had been dry for over two months but yesterday he was back. GM Hikaru Nakamura won the April 13 Titled Tuesday tournament with a 10/11 score. The American finished ahead of the trio GM Dmitry Andreikin, GM Baadur Jobava, and GM Sergei Zhigalko....
Considering the eight participants in the FIDE Candidates Tournament, GM Sergey Karjakin named GM Ian Nepomniachtchi as the most difficult opponent for GM Magnus Carlsen in the world championship. Karjakin said this during a press conference earli...
GM Praggnanandhaa R won the Polgar Challenge, the first leg of the new Challengers Chess Tour. The 15-year-old Indian grandmaster finished 1.5 points ahead of the pack and qualified for the next leg of the Champions Chess Tour. How to watch?Th...
After 10 of 19 rounds, GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu leads the Polgar Challenge, the first leg of the new Challengers Chess Tour. Competing in two teams are 20 young and talented players coached by GM Vladimir Kramnik and GM Judit Polgar. ...
WGM Nemo Qiyu Zhou won the All-Star event of the 2021 Bullet Chess Championship presented by SIG. The Chinese-Canadian woman grandmaster defeated the American NM Sean Senft in the final. The live broadcast of the All-Star event. The All-Star e...
GM Alireza Firouzja has won the 2021 Bullet Chess Championship presented by SIG. The Iranian super-GM first eliminated top favorite GM Hikaru Nakamura in the semifinals and then was too strong for GM Andrew Tang in the final. The live broadcast ...
He hadn't won a Titled Tuesday since June 23, 2020, but after winning last week, this week GM Alireza Firouzja (@Firouzja2003) came in first twice in a row. The victory, again achieved with a 10/11 score, was a nice warm-up for his match with GM V...
The semifinals of the 2021 Bullet Chess Championship Presented By SIG on Wednesday will see the matches GM Hikaru Nakamura vs. GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Andrew Tang vs. GM Daniel Naroditsky. The action starts on April 7 at 9 a.m. Pacific (18:00 C...
GM Arjun Erigaisi, GM Vladislav Artemiev, GM Eric Hansen, and GM Nihal Sarin have advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2021 Bullet Chess Championship Presented By SIG. The four players on Monday defeated GM Levon Aronian, GM Raunak Sadhwani, IM Le...
GM Alireza Firouzja (@Firouzja2003) won the Chess.com Titled Tuesday tournament on March 30 with an undefeated 10/11 score. It was his second Titled Tuesday victory, after having won on June 23, 2020. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament ...
GM Dmitry Andreikin and IM Le Tuan Minh qualified for the Main Event of the 2021 Bullet Chess Championship Presented By SIG. Both players did so by coming in second behind GM Hikaru Nakamura, who decided to play both qualifiers but was alread...
Schachfreunde Deizisau won the European Online Club Cup on Wednesday. The German team won the final group ahead of Clichy Echecs 92 of France. Top favorite Baden-Baden (Germany) had failed to make it to the finals. In the final, played on Tuesda...
The first two qualifier tournaments for the 2021 Bullet Chess Championship Presented By SIG were played on Wednesday. The winners were two teenagers from India: GM Raunak Sadhwani and GM Arjun Erigaisi. The 2021 Bullet Chess Championship Present...
A total of 20 participants of the women's rapid tournament of the FIDE World University Online Chess Championship were disqualified by the tournament's Fair Play Panel, although it stated that there was no proof of actual cheating. One player was ...
UPDATE: Hikaru Nakamura has officially cancelled Jokers Gambit for now. Join him on April 21st for his sub battle with GM Ben Finegold. On April 24th Hikaru will be playing in the next Champions Chess Tour starting at 10 a.m. PST, 1 p.m. EST, 19:0...
About a year after it started to disrupt the chess calendar completely, the COVID-19 pandemic is still doing just that. Both the Sigeman tournament (scheduled for April) and Norway Chess (planned for May) have been postponed. The Tepe Sigeman &a...
GM Pavel Anisimov (@PaulfromSPb) won the Chess.com Titled Tuesday tournament on March 23. The grandmaster from St. Petersburg (as his handle points out!) finished half a point ahead of GM Hikaru Nakamura (@Hikaru) and Dmitry Andreikin (@FairChess_...
A friendly chess match held on Monday in Indonesia, which was streamed on YouTube, attracted a record-shattering number of over a million concurrent viewers. The match was played between IM Irene Sukandar and Dadang Subur, an amateur pla...
After another 2-2 in their second match, GM Anish Giri defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the playoff to win the Magnus Carlsen Invitational on Sunday. Giri earned $60,000 for first place. GM Magnus Carlsen came in third after securi...
GM Anish Giri and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi will start their second match in the Magnus Carlsen Invitational's final with a blank sheet after drawing four times on Saturday. GM Magnus Carlsen beat Wesley So 3-1. How to watch?The games...
The final of the 2021 Magnus Carlsen Invitational will be played between GM Anish Giri and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. While Giri beat Wesley So twice, Nepomniachtchi lost his second match to GM Magnus Carlsen but then won the playo...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So both need to win their second matches (and the playoff) to set up another Champions Chess Tour final among themselves. The two favorites lost to GM Anish Giri and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi&nb...
GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Anish Giri, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, and GM Wesley So reached the semifinals of the 2021 Magnus Carlsen Invitational. None of their opponents GM Levon Aronian, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, GM Hikaru Nakamura, ...
This week's Titled Tuesday saw a surprising winner. The Belarusian FM Denis Lazavik (@DenLaz) clinched the first prize as he edged out GM Jeffery Xiong (@jefferyx) on tiebreak. Both scored 9.5/11. Only 15 years old, Lazavik was the first FM t...
