Hikaru Nakamura started his second round at the FIDE World Cup with a loss and needs to beat Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu on Saturday to stay in the tournament. Spectacular attacks and special endgames were played in this round. Yo...
David Navara, Arkadij Naiditsch, Ruslan Ponomariov and Radek Wojtaszek are the biggest names that have to leave the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk after just two days of play. Thursday will see tiebreaks in 23 of the 64...
The first day of the 2019 FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk saw four upsets as Radek Wojtaszek, Jorge Cori, Arkadij Naiditsch and Ruslan Ponomariov lost to lower-rated opponents. Two-time winner Levon Aronian was the strongest ...
The 2019 FIDE World Cup will be officially opened today in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The first round, with 128 players from all over the world, is scheduled for Tuesday. In this tournament preview we're answering seven key questions. What is it...
With an open qualification process that began in April, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship now moves to the final qualification phase as it plays down to the final six players who will qualify for the quarterfinals to be played over-...
Vladimir Dobrov of Russia and Alireza Firouzja of Iran have qualified for the 2019 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. Dobrov earned his spot as the winner of this month's Titled Tuesday, while Firouzja won yesterday's qualifier tournament for inv...
On Tuesday, Alireza Firouzja of Iran plays Sam Sevian of the U.S in the first match of the quarterfinals of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. Tuesday's match will determine who will f...
GM Benjamin Gledura eliminated GM Awonder Liang on Tuesday in what was a thriller of a Junior Speed Chess Championship match. Gledura had lost the bullet segment, but then won three straight bullet games in overtime. This sentence from our ...
Today GM Benjamin Gledura of Hungary plays GM Awonder Liang of the U.S. in what will be the last match in the round of 16 of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. Today's match will determine ...
Today, the Iranian GM Parham Maghsoodloo and the Italian GM Luca Moroni are the next players to take part in the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. This match will determine who will be th...
Former world blitz champion Le Quang Liem scored one of the biggest wins of his career by winning the Asian Continental Championship in Xingtai, China. The Vietnamese number one defeated overnight leader S.P. Sethuraman of India in ...
Sponsored by ChessKid, the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship continues on Friday with its sixth match, this time between America's top junior GM Jeffery Xiong and Australia's top junior GM Anton Smirnov. After Alexey Sarana became the fi...
Sponsored by ChessKid, the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship continues on Tuesday with its fifth match, this time between the two Russian talents Alexey Sarana and Andrey Esipenko. Now that the left half of the bracket has deli...
Showing unforeseen bullet chess prowess, Sam Sevian defeated Nihal Sarin 17-8 on Monday. The next opponent for the American grandmaster in the Junior Speed Chess Championship is Alireza Firouzja of Iran. This match was expected to...
Sponsored by Chesskid, the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship continues on Monday with its fourth match, between Sam Sevian of the USA and Nihal Sarin of India. Alireza Firouzja defeated José Martinez with the bigges...
Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu put up a great fight, but eventually Wei Yi was a mountain too high. The Chinese grandmaster won their Junior Speed Chess Championship match on Friday with a score of 14.5-11.5. 13-year-old Praggnanandaa once ...
The Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship continues on Friday with its third match, between two rising stars from two powerhouse chess countries. It's Wei Yi of China playing Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu of India. We've seen Alireza Firouz...
Alireza Firouzja was the clear favorite, and he proved it. The Iranian rising star crushed José Martinez of Peru 18-7 in their Junior Speed Chess Championship match on Tuesday. As the current number-two in the Chess.com bullet rating...
Below is the full list of non-titled players who've qualified for the first-ever FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. There is still time for titled players to register and be a part of chess history! The last four FIDE Wor...
Gawain Jones became the sole winner of the Tepe Sigeman & Co Tournament in Malmo, Sweden after drawing with his main rival Pentala Harikrishna in the final round on Thursday. The Indian grandmaster ended in second place. Jones...
Gawain Jones and Pentala Harikrishna are sharing the lead at the Tepe Sigeman & Co Tournament in Malmo, Sweden with two rounds to go. Both players are on a plus-two score, and a full point ahead of the rest. You can follow the final r...
As the only winner of the first round, Gawain Jones took an early lead at the Tepe Sigeman & Co Tournament in Malmo, Sweden. You can follow this tournament every day starting from 2 p.m. CEST (8 a.m. Eastern, 5 a.m. Pacific) wit...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chess.com To Host Junior Speed Chess Championship Presented by ChessKid Palo Alto, Calif., April 15, 2019—Continuing the expansion of its Speed Chess Championship series, Chess.com will hold a Speed Chess Champions...
At the age of 12 years, 7 months, and 17 days, Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju became the second youngest grandmaster in chess history. He scored his third grandmaster norm at the 17th Delhi International Chess Grandmaster Open today in New D...
