GM Daniel Naroditsky returned to the winner's circle and scooped up the $400 first prize in December's second Bullet Brawl after accruing 227 points, four more than GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, who finished four points behind on 224. The contest for th...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's supremacy over Bullet Brawl has continued into December as the world number-three coasted to a 253 score and his fourth-straight $400 victory. Landing in second place on Saturday was GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, who finished on 229, ...
Poland's IM Marcin Szymanski won the final round of the 2023 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship by half a point in October ahead of the second-placed "DanilinDP," and IMs Kacper Drozdowski and Mark Timmermans. This year's Championship broug...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Leinier Dominguez, and Wesley So lead the 2023 Sinquefield Cup on 4.5 points heading into the final round following a day of high-accuracy draws in all four matchups. The $100,000 first prize will likely be determined by the g...
IM Levy Rozman, (aka "GothamChess") was recently announced as one of Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 in the class of 2024 in the "games" category, joining an illustrious group of entrepreneurs who were judged to be "leading a technological and artis...
GM Levon Aronian joined GM Wesley So in the lead at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup after dispatching GM Alireza Firouzja in a rook endgame on Saturday. The game very nearly came to an end early as Firouzja came within one second of being flagged but in ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura scored 73 wins and conceded just three draws and three losses in one of his most dominant Bullet Brawl performances yet, finishing with a 42-point buffer over the second-placed GM Daniel Naroditsky to claim the $400 first prize....
No decisive results were produced for the third round in a row at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup on a day that was headlined by the withdrawal of GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda and an intriguing duel between the imaginative GMs Richard Rapport and Alireza Firouz...
Saint Louis University (SLU) has won its second straight college title after dismantling the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) by an 11.5-4.5 margin in the Final of the 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) fall season. A 3.5/4 MVP performa...
GM Hikaru Nakamura claimed first place in Bullet Brawl and won $400 for the second week in a row after accruing a winning score of 242. During the two-hour arena, the 67 wins, four draws, and eight losses for Nakamura meant that he was abl...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz by half a point after securing a draw with second-placed GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round. Caruana's 6/9 score on Saturday allowed him to overtake Vachier-Lagrave, whose 3.5...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave rose to the top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after scoring 7/9 on the first day of blitz chess, with a 2971 rating performance. A loss against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was the only blight on h...
GM Ray Robson leads the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after scoring 11/18 in the rapid segment. 3/6 was enough for Robson to maintain the lead on Thursday, but GM Fabiano Caruana, who scored 4/6 on day three, looms one point shy of the lead, ...
GM Ray Robson scored a crucial win over GM Alireza Firouzja in round six of the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz on the white side of the King's Indian Defense: Makogonov Variation on Wednesday. Robson entered the sole lead thanks to day-one l...
After standing for nearly three years, the record for the highest blitz rating on Chess.com (previously 3332) has twice been beaten by GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura posted new rating highs of 3334 and 3336 while streaming live on Kick on Monday and...
Clinical wins over GMs Wesley So and Jeffery Xiong have left GM Le Quang Liem in the sole lead on 5/6 at the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after the first day of play. The start would have been a perfect 6/6 if not for a mistake that cost him...
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) and Saint Louis University (SLU) both won their quarterfinal playoff matches in the 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) fall season on Saturday by hefty margins, owing to standout performances by GM...
GM Hikaru Nakamura finished first in Saturday's $1,000 Bullet Brawl after GM Daniel Naroditsky fell agonizingly short of wresting the title from his rival's grasp. A single point was all that split the all-time leaders after two hours of play, and...
The regular season of the 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) fall season has come to a close and the University of Texas Dallas sits atop the table after their 14-2 drubbing of Columbia University (CU) on Saturday. Three of their players—GMs...
GM Vidit Gujrathi has been confirmed as the winner of the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss after defeating GM Alexandr Predke and finishing on 8.5/11 in what has been described as one of the strongest open tournaments of all time. Along with receiving $80,...
GM Jose Martinez was crowned as November's first Bullet Brawl winner after surviving a late resurgence by GM Oleksandr Bortnyk on Saturday. Having built a solid lead in the first half of the event, Martinez looked to be running away with the ...
A top-of-the-table clash between Saint Louis University (SLU) and The University of Texas Dallas (UT Dallas) saw SLU steal the match and ascend to first place in the 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) on Saturday. Powered by SIG, the matchup pro...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won October's fourth and final Bullet Brawl after he scored 74 wins, one draw, and four losses on his way to a commanding 283 score. The $400 winner was challenged by GMs David Paravyan and Jose Martinez, who earned $250 and $...
Yale University brought their season back to life on Saturday in the SIG-sponsored 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) after toppling the heavily favored University of Missouri (Mizzou) by a single point. Scores of 3/4 by GM Nico Checa and NM Lin...
