Chess.com announces the Speed Chess Championship Super Swiss, a two-day qualification event from which one player will qualify for the 2020 Speed Chess Championship Knockout Final. It will run October 3-4, 2020 and has a $15,000 prize fu...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 15th Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix, his second week straight and already his fourth win since the start of the series. The American grandmaster beat his compatriot GM Sam Sevian 1.5-0.5 in the knockout final and co...
India and Russia both received FIDE Online Olympiad gold medals after a ruling from FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich as Sunday's final was marred by a major internet disruption. Five weeks of online play with more than 1,500 internatio...
India, Poland, Russia, and the United States qualified for the FIDE Online Olympiad's semifinals that are played on Saturday. Armenia defaulted their second match with India after a conflict over a disconnect. How to watch?The games of the FIDE ...
The FIDE Online Olympiad's Top Division got underway on Friday with the top favorites entering the fray. Azerbaijan, India, Russia, and the U.S. lead their respective pools after the first day. The top three teams from each pool will qualify ...
GM Haik Martirosyan has won the eighth Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The 20-year-old Armenian grandmaster beat Russian GM Vladislav Artemiev 2-0 in the knockout final and is now in fourth place in the overall Grand Prix standings. Th...
On Sunday GM Alexandra Kosteniuk won the fourth and final leg of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. Thanks to her 7-5 win against Indian GM Humpy Koneru, Kosteniuk finished first in the overall Grand Prix and qual...
GM Humpy Koneru and GM Alexandra Kosteniuk will play in Sunday's final of the fourth leg of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The two grandmasters beat GM Hou Yifan and IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk won the fourth and final FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The Russian GM defeated GM Humpy Koneru 7-5 and qualified for the Super Final against GM Anna Ushenina on Monday, July 20. ...
On Sunday GM Kateryna Lagno won the third leg of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The Russian GM beat GM Hou Yifan, who made a great comeback but dramatically lost the second bullet game of the tiebreak due...
On Sunday GM Kateryna Lagno won the third leg of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The Russian GM beat GM Hou Yifan, who made a great comeback but lost the second bullet game of the tiebreak dramatically due...
GM Valentina Gunina beat GM Anna Ushenina 7-5 in Sunday's final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix's second leg. It was a repeat of the first leg's final, won by Ushenina. GM Kateryna Lagno defeated...
GM Valentina Gunina won the second leg of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The Russian grandmaster beat GM Anna Ushenina 7-5 in the final on Sunday, which was a repeat of the final of the first leg, won by Ushen...
GM Anna Ushenina beat GM Valentina Gunina 7-4 in Sunday's final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix's first leg. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk defeated Vaishali Rameshbabu 7-4 in a match for third place hel...
GMs Anna Ushenina beat GM Valentina Gunina 7-4 in the final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix's first leg. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk had defeated Vaishali Rameshbabu 7-4 in a match for third place hel...
FIDE and Chess.com have announced the 2020 FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship, an online competition for female players to be held between June 18 and July 20, 2020. The tournament has a total prize fund of $52,000. ...
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...
There's more news about GM Hikaru Nakamura this week, as the American grandmaster won the May 12 edition of Titled Tuesday with 9.5/10, finishing ahead of the Iranian prodigy Alireza Firouzja and 1,083 other participants. The...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is the new number four in the world rankings. The Russian grandmaster reached a career-high rating in the April FIDE rating list, published by the International Chess Federation on Wednesday. Note that the new ratin...
GM Nana Dzagnidze won the Women's Grand Prix in Lausanne as she edged out GM Aleksandra Goryachkina on tiebreak. IM Zhansaya Abdumalik came third as all games in the final round ended in relatively quick draws. This repo...
The third tournament in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019-2020 will begin Monday in Lausanne, Switzerland. The top seed is GM Ju Wenjun, while GM Aleksandra Goryachkina and GM Alexandra Kosteniuk will have a chance to topple the Gran...
GM Gennady Kuzmin, a very strong Soviet grandmaster in the early 1970s and a coach of Women's World Champion Maia Chiburdanidze, died on Feb. 28 at the age of 74 in his home in Lugansk, Ukraine. The sad news was confirmed by the Ukrainian Chess ...
The 2020 Cairns Cup will be remembered for two players in particular. While GM Humpy Koneru scored her third big victory after a two-year hiatus from chess, WGM Carissa Yip showed great resilience and potential. During the Cairns Cup, we brought...
