A day after the end of the FIDE Candidates Tournament, the top three finishers GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, GM Ding Liren, and GM Teimour Radjabov gave a press conference in Madrid. Below you'll find a selection of quotes from the players. Radjabov on...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who had already secured his victory with a round to spare, drew his last game with GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda to win the 2022 Candidates Tournament undefeated, with a 2902 performance rating and a record 9.5/14 score. GM Ding Lir...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi secured the victory in the 2022 Candidates Tournament with a round to spare by drawing with GM Richard Rapport on Sunday. Nepomniachtchi has now qualified for the 2023 World Championship against GM Magnus Carlsen. GM Hikaru...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi increased his lead to two points and only needs a draw on Sunday to clinch the 2022 Candidates Tournament. After drawing his game with GM Hikaru Nakamura in just seven minutes today he saw GM Ding Liren, his closest rival, lo...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is on the brink of winning the 2022 Candidates Tournament after beating GM Alireza Firouzja with the black pieces on Thursday. The French-Iranian grandmaster was over-ambitious and put up poor resistance, having played online...
With four rounds to go, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is 1.5 points ahead of the pack in the 2022 Candidates Tournament in Madrid. A draw with GM Teimour Radjabov was enough for that because GM Fabiano Caruana ended up losing to GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. G...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi survived the important clash with GM Fabiano Caruana in round nine of the 2022 Candidates Tournament on Monday. The Russian grandmaster held the draw from a difficult position based on deep preparation from Caruana, who is st...
A quick draw with GM Ding Liren proved to be an excellent strategy for GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who increased his lead to a full point at the 2022 Candidates Tournament on Sunday. GM Hikaru Nakamura, who beat runner-up GM Fabiano Caruana for the fir...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won his third game in the 2022 Candidates Tournament but still leads by half a point as GM Fabiano Caruana also scored the full point on Thursday. While the tournament leader defeated GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in a kingside attac...
In round five, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was in serious trouble for a while against GM Hikaru Nakamura but escaped with a draw and kept his half-point lead at the 2022 Candidates Tournament. On the second day where all games were drawn, GM Ding L...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi stormed to the sole lead in the 2022 Candidates Tournament as the Russian grandmaster swiftly beat France's GM Alireza Firouzja, whose Najdorf preparation backfired as he got both checkmated and flagged. The other three games...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defended brilliantly in his first-ever classical game against GM Alireza Firouzja to hold the draw after 51 moves. It was the fourth draw of the day, meaning that GMs Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi continue to lead ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura came back strongly in the second round of the 2022 Candidates Tournament. The American grandmaster ground down GM Teimour Radjabov in an endgame to score the full point, with the other three games ending in draws. How t...
An exciting first round at the 2022 Candidates Tournament saw two winners. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi defeated GM Ding Liren while GM Fabiano Caruana beat his compatriot GM Hikaru Nakamura. The two winners play each other on Saturday in round two. Ho...
More than any other chess event, the FIDE Candidates Tournament, which starts on Friday in Madrid is a winner-takes-all tournament. Finishing first, and only first, means facing World Champion Magnus Carlsen in a match. GM Fabiano Caruana, who att...
The FIDE presidential elections, to be held on August 7, 2022, will be fought among no fewer than four candidates. This became clear after the FIDE Electoral Commission approved the four ticket candidacies on June 7 (in PDF here, which was publish...
IM Danny Rensch eliminated the reigning Women's World Blitz Champion IM Bibisara Assaubayeva in the quarterfinals of the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship on Tuesday. Chess.com's Chief Chess Officer Rensch was leading after the 5+1 and 3+1...
GM Richard Rapport no longer plans to play for Hungary but will represent Romania instead. His wife Jovana will join him, making the switch from Serbia to Romania. This news was announced by the Romanian Chess Federation. Meanwhile, the Hungarian ...
It is probably a record: scoring two norms in a time span of fewer than 24 hours. GM-elect Frederik Svane, the brother of GM Rasmus Svane, managed to do so last weekend in Hamburg, Germany. 17-year-old Svane, the younger of two brothers (Rasmus ...
GM Ding Liren won the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters despite a comeback by GM Praggnanandhaa R, who won Thursday's second mini-match. It was Ding who clinched the title and the $25,000 first prize by winning a two-game pla...
GM Ding Liren took a first step to winning the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters. The Chinese grandmaster beat GM Praggnanandhaa R in their first mini-match on Wednesday and needs only a tie on Thursday to win the $25,000 fir...
The two-day final of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters will be played between GMs Ding Liren and Praggnanandhaa R. Both scored upset victories in the semifinals. Ding ousted World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen, and Prag...
Last Friday, Russia's Ministry of Justice added GM Garry Kasparov to the list of individuals acting as "foreign agents" for receiving donations or funding from outside Russia and carrying out political activities. For Kasparov, who is living abroa...
The semifinals of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters will see the matches GM Magnus Carlsen vs. GM Ding Liren and GM Anish Giri vs. Praggnanandhaa R. played on Tuesday. The winners will qualify for the final that...
Scoring 29 out of a possible 45 points, GM Anish Giri finished first while remaining undefeated in the preliminaries of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters. Also qualifying for the knockout phase were GMs Magnus Carlsen, Di...