GM Hikaru Nakamura won week nine of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating longtime rival GM Levon Aronian in the knockout final. GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Swiss tournament and made it to ...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi earned Titled Tuesday victories on April 5. GM Vladimir Fedoseev had to settle for second place in both events, and by a thin tiebreak margin in the late tournament. GM Alexey Sarana and IM Volodar Mu...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo was the winner of the eighth week of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship tournament presented by Coinbase, emerging victorious from an action-packed final against GM Jeffery Xiong. Maghsoodloo was also able to top the Sw...
Yesterday's results at the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix third leg awarded chess fans with a bonus day of chess with two tiebreak matches on Tuesday to decide who should make it through from Groups B and C. In Group B, GM Shakhriyar Mamed...
With today’s victory in the sixth round of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix's third leg, GM Hikaru Nakamura scored a hat trick and won Group A, securing a spot in the semifinals. More importantly, the American GM joined GM Richard Rap...
The fascinating battle for the Candidates qualification continues as both GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Levon Aronian won their games in Berlin on Sunday. The two are leading Group A together. The fifth round of leg three of the 2022 FI...
The fourth round of leg three of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix saw no fewer than five decisive games. GM Grigoriy Oparin's win in Group A means that he takes the lead. In the same group, GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Levon Aronian ...
The third round of leg three of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix produced only one decisive game. With today’s win, GM Vincent Keymer joins GM Leinier Dominguez Perez in the lead in Group B. All the other games ended in draws and so the other g...
The second round of the third and final leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix saw no decisive games. Each group continues to have a clear leader, with GMs Levon Aronian, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Alexandr Predke, and Nikita Vitiugov all leading thei...
It took the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix, where GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Daniil Dubov were both playing on Tuesday, to break their two-week Titled Tuesday winning streak. In their places were GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, winning the early tournament, and GM Dmit...
The first round of the final leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix saw four decisive games. Each group has a clear leader, with GMs Levon Aronian, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Alexandr Predke, and Nikita Vitiugov all leading their respective group...
GM Maxim Matlakov won the knockout phase of week six of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. GM Dmitry Andreikin finished second in both the knockout and the Swiss tournament. GMs Daniil Dubov and Vladimir Fedoseev ma...
For the second consecutive week, the winners of the March 15 Titled Tuesday were GM Daniil Dubov and GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura, GM Dmitry Andreikin, and GM Amin Tabatabaei all finished in the top five in both events, while&n...
GM Hikaru Nakamura seized first place in the fifth week of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, holding his nerve after a series of close matches against a number of the world's best players. Nakamura finished ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the early edition of Titled Tuesday on March 8, scoring 9.5/11 after defeating GM Daniil Dubov in the final round and winning on tiebreaks. Dubov went on to win the late edition and was the only player to reach the top five ...
GM Levon Aronian won the fourth week of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship tournament presented by Coinbase. Last week's winner, GM Fabiano Caruana, finished second. GM Hikaru Nakamura finished first in the preliminary Swiss tournament but fel...
Forty-four top Russian chess players published an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, voicing firm opposition to the war in Ukraine and expressing solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Signees include the most ...
GMs Jose Martinez and Aryan Tari won Titled Tuesday on March 1. They both held off GM Hikaru Nakamura, who finished third in the early tournament and second in the late event while streaming for 12 hours to support Ukraine. GM Raunak Sadhwani fini...
An all-American semifinals led GM Fabiano Caruana to best the field for the second week in a row, winning week three of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. GM Jeffery Xiong finished second while the other American heroes, GM H...
GM Baadur Jobava and GM Daniel Naroditsky, some of the earliest winners of Titled Tuesday back in 2014, won Titled Tuesday again on February 22, 2022. Neither player needed the tiebreak system as Jobava had the best score of the day with 10/1...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the knockout phase of week two of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship tournament presented by Coinbase. GM Hikaru Nakamura finished second in the knockout—after taking first in the preliminary Swiss tournament, like GM A...
The second game of the final between GM Levon Aronian and GM Hikaru Nakamura ended in a draw in only 29 moves after a threefold repetition, leaving the scores tied at the end of the classical games of the final of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first le...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won his first Titled Tuesday in nearly a year, while GM Hans Niemann earned his first-ever victory. For the first time in the three weeks since Titled Tuesday expanded to two tournaments, no one placed in the top five in both ...
The last round of the group stage of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first leg produced high-voltage drama in Berlin with GM Hikaru Nakamura joining GM Levon Aronian for the semifinal lineup after winning Group A and Group C respectively. It was a day of...
