GM Hou Yifan defeated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 12.5-9.5 to secure her spot in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Final. The hotly contested 22-game match saw just three draws. Kosteniuk led by one point at the end of each ...
GM Kateryna Lagno moves on to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after defeating WGM Priyanka Nutakki 17.5-4.5. She will play GM Harika Dronavalli in the Semifinals on Friday. Priyanka got off to a fantastic start b...
GMs Hou Yifan and Harika Dronavalli move on to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after convincingly defeating IM Polina Shuvalova and GM Valentina Gunina, respectively. Hou, the favorite, was actually at a tw...
The 2023 Women’s Speed Chess Championship starts on November 13, promising plenty of fast and furious action for speed chess fans to enjoy. Eight of the game's quickest-thinking women will compete to see who will be crowned as this year's WS...
IM Polina Shuvalova and WGM Priyanka Nutakki earned their seats in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 after emerging on top of a two-day qualifier, which was a 14-round Swiss followed by a double-elimination knockout. The main...
Four players share the lead after round eight of the FIDE Grand Swiss 2023. In the Women's, the same three players continue to share the lead. All winning with the white pieces, GMs Andrey Esipenko, Fabiano Caruana, and Bogdan-Daniel Deac ...
Two spots for the 2024 Candidates Tournament are up for grabs in the strongest open tournament of the year, the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss, which takes place in Douglas, Isle of Man, from October 25 to November 5, with a prize fund of $460,000. Who wil...
Chess.com’s top event for women, the $70,000 Julius Baer Women’s Speed Chess Championship, is back next month and this time with a big-name sponsor and six of the strongest players on the planet. Defending champion GM Kateryna Lagno ...
On the last day, WR Chess completed their phenomenal run at the World Rapid Team Championship, clinching first with a round to spare. It was truly a team victory as every member contributed, with several players turning in dazzling performances....
GM Magnus Carlsen has booked his spot in the 2023 FIDE World Cup final after winning his match against GM Nijat Abasov by a margin of 1.5/2. Abasov fought valiantly to keep his world cup hopes alive and played a near-perfect game on Sunday however...
GM Magnus Carlsen is in danger of tumbling out of the 2023 FIDE World Cup after 18-year-old GM Vincent Keymer pounced on a blunder to beat the world number-one for the first time. GM Wesley So is also in a must-win position in Thursday's second ga...
In a dramatic affair, GM Javokhir Sindarov knocked GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave out of the 2023 FIDE World Cup in the second game of round three, while GM Fabiano Caruana and Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun came dangerously close to exiting the e...
GM Peter Svidler glided to victory over GM Jorden van Foreest, GM Magnus Carlsen displayed his incredible endgame skills, and GMs Daniele Vocaturo and Ivan Schitco pulled off wins against their higher-rated opponents in the third round of the 2023...
It was a bad day for the world's strongest chess couple as GMs Alexander Grischuk and Kateryna Lagno were both knocked out of the 2023 FIDE World Cup in round-two tiebreaks. Grischuk lost to 17-year-old Iranian GM Bardiya Daneshvar, while Women's ...
Singapore's GM Tin Jingyao, seeded 120 in the 2023 FIDE World Cup, knocked out ninth seed GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in a dramatic day of round-two action. A dark horse to win the event, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, fell to 112th seed GM Vahap Sanal, w...
Fourteen-year-old IM Ediz Gurel found a brilliant sacrifice to take down GM Velimir Ivic as the 2023 FIDE World Cup kicked off in Baku. Top seeds such as GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, and Ju Wenjun start their campaigns in ...
GM Ju Wenjun has won a wild final game of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship to claim her fourth title with a 6.5-5.5 victory over GM Lei Tingjie. The 17th women's world champion, who has held the title since 2018, also picks up the €30...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun had to fight hard to hold a draw in game one of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship Match after challenger GM Lei Tingjie opened with an aggressive pawn sacrifice in her first-ever match at the very highest le...
The Triveni Continental Kings completed their comeback story with a victory in the finals of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 that went all the way down to sudden death. The 19-year-old GM Jonas Bjerre was the hero for the Kings as he to...
Day eight of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 featured two combative matchups that came down to photo finishes. In a match of almost all decisive games, GM Levon Aronian defeated fellow icon, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, leading the Triveni ...
GM Viswanathan Anand scored yet another victory, defeating GM Jan-Krysztof Duda, but it wasn't enough for the Ganges Grandmasters, who lost a nailbiter to the Chingari Gulf Titans on day six of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023. W...
The Balan Alaskan Knights leaped back out of last place with a victory over the previously leading SG Alpine Warriors in a close battle on day five of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023. The Knights' gained the match win despite victories ...
Former World Champions Vishy Anand and Hou Yifan both scored big wins as their team, the Ganges Grandmasters, cruised to victory on day one of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 in Dubai. GM Alexander Grischuk was the day's o...
FM Alice Lee earned the international master title at age 13 and reset the record as the youngest American-born female to do so. Lee gained her third IM norm at the 2023 Canadian Transnational Chess Championship, facing eight grandmasters and on...
