GMs Magnus Carlsen, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, and Wesley So are tied for first place after the first day at the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge. The event is the second tournament in the recently announced Magnus Carlsen Tour. How to watc...
The FIDE Online Steinitz Memorial, an online blitz tournament held over the weekend, was clinched by the two reigning world blitz champions. Magnus Carlsen won the men's event with a round to spare while the women's sectio...
Over-the-board chess has shifted to the internet and this weekend is more crowded than ever with both the FIDE Online Steinitz Memorial and the Chessbrah Invitational. GM Alexander Grischuk plays both. Steinitz Memorial The Steinitz Memori...
GM Magnus Carlsen announced the Magnus Carlsen Tour, a series of five tournaments to be held online with a total prize fund of $1 million, at a press conference on May 14 in Oslo, Norway. The tour includes the already concluded Magnus ...
GM Vladislav Artemiev of Russia won the $5,000 first prize in the Abu Dhabi Super Blitz Challenge on Wednesday. The Russian grandmaster defeated GM Oleksandr Bortnyk of Ukraine in the knockout final; GM Daniil Dubov came third. Organized by the ...
One tournament can make a big difference. Thanks to his fantastic Tata Steel Chess tournament, Fabiano Caruana is just 20 points behind Magnus Carlsen in the February FIDE ratings. Caruana won 19.6 Elo points in Wijk aan Zee. That's...
On Saturday Fabiano Caruana won his first Tata Steel Chess tournament and did so with a round to spare. The American grandmaster beat Jan-Krzysztof Duda and saw his main rival, Magnus Carlsen, draw his game. The cha...
For the second time Alireza Firouzja is the sole leader in Wijk aan Zee. The 16-year-old GM defeated Jeffery Xiong, reached a 5/7 score and entered the top 20 in the world in the live ratings. Other winners in the seventh round of the ...
Back in Wijk aan Zee, the Tata Steel Chess Tournament saw wins for Anish Giri and Daniil Dubov on Friday in the masters group. Pavel Eljanov grabbed the lead in the challengers with a win against Max Warmerdam. After the almost two-hou...
Alireza Firouzja defeated Anish Giri to join Wesley So in the lead after five rounds of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, which visited the city of Eindhoven for the "Chess on Tour" day of the event. Viswanathan Anand won agai...
Alireza Firouzja defeated Vladislav Artemiev to become the sole leader after three rounds at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. With his third draw, Magnus Carlsen equaled Sergei Tiviakov's streak...
White was doing well on day two of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, as four players in the masters group won their games with that color. In both the masters and challengers groups, five players are tied for first place. You can follow th...
Alireza Firouzja and Jorden Van Foreest won their games in the first round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. The top encounter between Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri ended in a draw. The ...
The Tata Steel Chess tournament will start on Saturday with Magnus Carlsen vs. Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana vs. Wesley So. The tournament's opening ceremony took place on Friday afternoon with the drawing of lots. Round 1 pairings Ma...
The publication of the new FIDE ratings caused a bit of a stir because Magnus Carlsen is not leading on all three lists. Due to more blitz games being rated than expected, Hikaru Nakamura is the number-one player on the blitz rankings. ...
Another complete year of exciting chess has ended—2019 has had the most power-packed schedule in recent years with elite tournaments, official events and strong opens. Overall, it was a fun year that gave us plenty of awesome games. The st...
Magnus Carlsen (Norway) played himself towards pole position on the first day of the world blitz championship in Moscow. Only Maxim Matlakov (Russia) is trailing him by just half a point with nine rounds to go on Sunday. ...
After getting the titles in 2014 and 2015, Magnus Carlsen won the world rapid championship for the third time in his career on Saturday in Moscow. Playing under the FIDE flag, Alireza Firouzja sensationally clinched the silver medal while Hikaru N...
He started with two draws, but by finishing with three wins, Magnus Carlsen passed the competition to grab the lead with one day to go at the world rapid championship in Moscow. There's a four-way tie for first in the women's section w...
Five players are in the lead with 4.5/5 after the first day of the world rapid championship in Moscow, but favorites such as Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave or Hikaru Nakamura are not among them. In the women's section the current lead...
Despite losing the first rapid game in Wednesday's tiebreak Jan-Krzysztof Duda knocked out Daniil Dubov to reach the final of the FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg. That starts on Friday. It was an exciting semifinal tiebreak betwee...
Alexander Grischuk is the first finalist of the the FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg after beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the second game of the semifinals. Daniil Dubov and Jan-Krzysztof Duda drew again, and will play a tiebreak on We...
The top two players in the world, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, will meet in January for the 2020 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. With Anish Giri and Ian Nepomniachtchi, the field of the masters has four players from the current world's top 10....
Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs. Daniil Dubov and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs. Alexander Grischuk, the first two games of the FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg semifinals, both ended in draws. The return games will be played on Tuesday....
