GM Levon Aronian won a tense tactical game with the black pieces against GM Vincent Keymer to reach 4/5 and qualify with a round to spare from Group C to the semifinals of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first leg in Berlin. Though GM Hikaru Nakamura won...
The third round of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix produced fighting games on all the boards in all the groups, though the leaders remain unchanged except for Group D, where GM Wesley So joined the lead with GM Leinier Dominguez on 2/3. In Group C, GM Le...
The second round of the the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix produced fierce battles in all the games except from Group C. GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek, GM Levon Aronian, and GM Leinier Dominguez emerged as sole leaders in their respective groups...
The first round of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix saw three decisive games in an intense start to the group stage of the event. After the first of the total six double round-robin games to be played among players of each group, GM Vladimir Fedoseev and ...
The FIDE Grand Prix will start on February 4 with its first leg in Berlin without the top seed GM Ding Liren. The Chinese player failed to obtain a visa in time to be able to travel to Germany and has been replaced by GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek. GM Dmi...
GM Sergey Karjakin, GM Praggnanandhaa R., and GM Jorden van Foreest finished their 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament with wins in the final round on Sunday. GM Magnus Carlsen had already won the tournament with a round to spare and got a forfe...
GM Magnus Carlsen secured his eighth victory in Wijk aan Zee with a round to spare. The world champion defeated GM Fabiano Caruana on Saturday and now leads the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament by a full point. He will earn a forfeit win tomorrow ...
GM Magnus Carlsen continues to lead the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament despite missing a win in his game with GM Vidit Gujrathi in round 11. GM Richard Rapport is half a point behind after getting a forfeit win vs. GM Daniil Dubov, who dropped o...
GM Magnus Carlsen maintained his half-point lead at the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament with three rounds to go. The world champion drew in just 20 minutes with GM Sergey Karjakin and then saw GM Anish Giri splitting the point with GM Jan-Krzyszt...
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated co-leader GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov on Tuesday to regain the sole lead at the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. GM Anish Giri is the only player trailing the world champion by half a point after scoring his fourth full po...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov are tied for first place after eight rounds at the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament and happen to be playing each other in the next round on Tuesday. GM Anish Giri and GM Vidit Gujrathi both won ...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his second game in a row and is now the sole leader after seven rounds in the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The world champion defeated GM Praggnanandhaa R. with the black pieces on Saturday. GM Daniil Dubov forfei...
With a fairly smooth win vs. GM Richard Rapport, World Champion Magnus Carlsen joined the leaders in round six of the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. GM Fabiano Caruana had just equalized a tough position in time-trouble vs. GM Anish Giri w...
GM Vidit Gujrathi is the sole leader at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament after defending brilliantly against GM Daniil Dubov, who played creatively but eventually over-pressed. Co-leaders Jan-Krzysztof Duda and GM Magnus Carlsen drew, while GM...
GM Magnus Carlsen got his first win in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's second round as the world champion scored a fairly quick full-point vs. Dutch GM Anish Giri. GM Richard Rapport was the only other winner in the Masters as the Hungarian play...
The first round of the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament saw three leaders emerge, including the 2021 winner GM Jorden van Foreest. World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen started with a quick draw vs. GM Andrey Esipenko. The Challengers group saw four de...
Following last year's controversy in Wijk aan Zee, the Tata Steel Chess Tournament today announced new regulations for tiebreaks. The biggest change is that if more than two players tie for first, all of them will be playing in the tiebreak. How...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (also known as MVL) finished first in the World Blitz Chess Championship with 15/21 in the Swiss tournament, after defeating GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in their third blitz playoff game. Duda finished in second and GM Alireza ...
The World Champion, a film directed by Alexey Sidorov that depicts the dramatic world championship match between GM Anatoly Karpov and GM Viktor Korchnoi in 1978, hits cinemas in Russia on Thursday. While the 1972 "Match of the Century" in Reykj...
GM Levon Aronian, the Armenian star-player who recently moved to and now represents the United States, finished day one of the World Blitz Chess Championship with 10/12 and in clear first. Behind him are Egyptian GM Bassem Amin, the five-time Afri...
After many twists and turns on day three of the World Rapid Chess Championship, 17-year-old Uzbek GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the event with 9.5/13 in the Swiss tournament, after winning the second tiebreak blitz game against GM Ian Nepomniachtch...
GM Magnus Carlsen finished the second day at the World Rapid Championship in sole first place with 7.5/9, notably defeating two young up-and-coming GMs: Alireza Firouzja and Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Carlsen is pursued by three GMs with 7/9: Nodirbek ...
GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Magnus Carlsen, and Baadur Jobava share first place with 4.5/5 after day one of the World Rapid Chess Championship. The Polish number one, playing in his home country, started with a fantastic 4/4 perfect score, but his rou...
With a victory in the final round, GM Jose Martinez won Titled Tuesday on December 14 with a score of 10/11. Coming in second place was last week's victor, GM Jeffery Xiong, with 9.5/11. GM Alexey Sarana and NM Valery Sviridov had the best tiebrea...
