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After just 12 moves, Veselin Topalov threw in the towel and offered a draw today. With the draw, the Bulgarian GM ensured his elimination, and his opponent Maxime Vachier-Lagrave became the first to qualify for the semifinal of the FIDE ...
On Tuesday, Jeffery Xiong of the USA plays Benjamin Gledura of Hungary in the fourth and last match of the quarterfinals of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. The winner of Tuesday's match ...
Two matches in the Riga Grand Prix's first round went all the way to the Armageddon game to force a decision. Only Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov reached the second round without needing a tiebreak. With tiebreaks at both the W...
GM Igors Rausis is under investigation for cheating after he was caught with his phone during a game at the Strasbourg Open. The 58-year-old Latvian-Czech grandmaster had raised suspicions after he increased his rating in recent years to...
Wei Yi was clearly too much to handle for Jorden van Foreest in Wednesday's Junior Speed Chess Championship quarterfinal match. The Chinese GM won 18.5-8.5 and will now face Alireza Firouzja in the semifinal. It's no surprise...
Alireza Firouzja defeated Sam Sevian by a score of 17-10 Tuesday, including a dominant 7.5-2.5 performance in the 1|1 portion to advance to the semifinals of the Junior Speed Chess Championship. Firouzja will face Wei Yi in the J...
On Wednesday, Wei Yi of China plays Jorden van Foreest of the Netherlands in the second match of the quarterfinals of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. Wednesday's match will determin...
Magnus Carlsen defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on Sunday to reach 8/11 and win the Croatia Grand Chess Tour. Even his direct rivals were full of praise. The world champion won his eighth straight tournament and earned $90,000 as well as 20 ...
An ancient chess piece kept in a drawer for 55 years and originally bought for £5 was today sold at auction for £735,000 (U.S. $927,062, or 820,232 euro). It is almost certainly one of the famous Lewis Chessmen that date from the late ...
She entered the competition as a qualifier, joined the bracket as the lowest seed and ended up winning the whole thing. Elina Danielian beat Valentina Gunina 15-13 in Thursday's final of the inaugural Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Champi...
The final of the Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship will be played Thursday between GM Valentina Gunina from Russia and GM Elina Danielian from Armenia. A prize fund of $6,000 is at stake. You can watch Valentina Gunina vs...
Coming back from a four-point deficit hadn't been seen in the history of speed chess matches on Chess.com until Valentina Gunina defeated Alexandra Kosteniuk 16.5-14.5 in Sunday's Women's Speed Chess Championship semifinal. Gunina wil...
The second semifinal of the Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship will be played today between GM Alexandra Kosteniuk and GM Valentina Gunina, both from Russia. The winner of the Women's Speed Chess Championship will qualify for the ge...
Elina Danielian defeated Harika Dronavalli 15-13 on Thursday in the first Women's Speed Chess Championship semifinal. On Sunday, the other semifinal will be played between Alexandra Kosteniuk and Valentina Gunina. She did it befo...
The Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship continues today with the first semifinal of the competition between GM Harika Dronavalli (India) and GM Elina Danielian (Armenia). The winner of the Women's Speed Chess Championship will qualif...
GM Benjamin Gledura eliminated GM Awonder Liang on Tuesday in what was a thriller of a Junior Speed Chess Championship match. Gledura had lost the bullet segment, but then won three straight bullet games in overtime. This sentence from our ...
In what was the most lopsided match in the round of 16, GM Parham Maghsoodloo of Iran was way too strong for GM Luca Moroni of Italy. The Iranian star won 20-7 in yesterday's Junior Speed Chess Championship match. It's part o...
Today GM Benjamin Gledura of Hungary plays GM Awonder Liang of the U.S. in what will be the last match in the round of 16 of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. Today's match will determine ...
Today, the Iranian GM Parham Maghsoodloo and the Italian GM Luca Moroni are the next players to take part in the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. This match will determine who will be th...
Despite losing the five-minute portion, Jeffery Xiong defeated Anton Smirnov by a wide margin in their Junior Speed Chess Championship match on Friday. The score was 19-10 for the American GM. The presage was there. Boasting ...
Fabiano Caruana played an excellent Armageddon game to become the only player to beat Magnus Carlsen at the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament despite missing a study-like win in the standard game. Levon Aronian and Yu Yangyi shar...
Sponsored by ChessKid, the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship continues on Friday with its sixth match, this time between America's top junior GM Jeffery Xiong and Australia's top junior GM Anton Smirnov. After Alexey Sarana became the fi...
Magnus Carlsen secured tournament victory in the penultimate round of the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament. The world champion has a four-point lead after beating Yu Yangyi in the standard game, while Levon Aronian lost to ...
Magnus Carlsen has a chance to win the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament with a round to spare. On Wednesday, Levon Aronian defeated Yu Yangyi to take over second place, but he is trailing the leader by two points. Aronian joined the com...