The third day of the Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters 2023 presented the matchup of the ages, the duel for which the online chess sphere holds its breath: triple-crowned World Champion Magnus Carlsen vs. five-time Speed Chess Champion Hikaru...
On a day when he played a match in the Champions Chess Tour, GM Wesley So also found the time to win both Titled Tuesday events on February 7. He is now the only player besides GM Hikaru Nakamura to achieve this feat in the roughly one year since ...
For the third week in a row, GM Hikaru Nakamura took home first place in a Titled Tuesday tournament. This week it earned him $2,000 of a $5,000 prize fund in the early event on January 31. Normal prizes resumed for the late tournament, won by GM ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura was victorious in another Titled Tuesday on January 24, his second in a row. Nakamura started 6/6, went undefeated, and scored 9.5/11 to defeat GMs Baadur Jobava and Matthias Bluebaum on tiebreaks. There was only one tournamen...
GM Daniil Dubov became the first two-time Titled Tuesday winner of 2023 on January 17 and was followed by GM Hikaru Nakamura entering the winner's circle for the first time this year. Both scored 9.5/11, Dubov winning on tiebreaks over GM Denis La...
GM Daniil Dubov and GM Dmitry Andreikin were the champions of Titled Tuesday on January 10, both of them taking sole first place with scores of 10/11. Andreikin's win came by a full point in the standings. Early Tournament (Dubov) Late Tourna...
The Iranian international arbiter Shohreh Bayat was reprimanded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) for wearing pro-human rights clothing at the 2022 Fischer Random World Chess Championship in Reykjavik. While FIDE considered it "unprofes...
The first Titled Tuesday tournaments of 2023 were won by GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Dmitrij Kollars on January 3. Duda won the first event of the year outright with a score of 10/11. Kollars followed with a 9.5/11 performance and won on tiebreaks....
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Jose Martinez won the last Titled Tuesday tournaments of 2022 on December 27. Both did so with undefeated performances of eight wins and three draws, although Firouzja needed tiebreaks over GM Aleksandr Lenderman. Marti...
Coming off winning his fifth consecutive Speed Chess Championship, GM Hikaru Nakamura's online blitz dominance may be at an all-time high. On December 20, he won both the early and late Titled Tuesday tournaments. He has now won three in a row a...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his fifth title match at the 2022 Speed Chess Championship, defeating GM Magnus Carlsen in an immensely close final on Sunday. Nakamura dominated the 5+1 segment, capitalizing on his own winning chances while disrupting Carl...
The December 13 edition of Titled Tuesday ended with two familiar winners, GMs Daniil Dubov and Hikaru Nakamura. Both won their tournaments outright. Early Tournament (Dubov) Late Tournament (Nakamura) Early Tournament Dubov outlasted t...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura, the two biggest stars in chess, will be among the participants at the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan. As always, the tournament will be held during the last week of the ye...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Vladimir Fedoseev were the winners of Titled Tuesday on November 15, both doing so outright without needing tiebreaks. Caruana reached the coveted 10.5/11 score in the early tournament, only drawing in round five. Fedoseev ...
GM Alexander Grischuk won the second qualifier of the 2022 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship on Sunday following a convincing triumph over compatriot GM Vladislav Artemiev in the final. Having claimed he hadn't looked at chess for two or three ...
The 2022 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship commenced on Thursday with a cutthroat qualifier where GM David Paravyan emerged victorious after defeating GM Tuan Minh Le in a dazzling armageddon tiebreaker. Amidst a field of 142 titled players, Mi...
GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Alireza Firouzja were the victors in Titled Tuesday on November 8, both with scores of 9.5/11, Andreikin on tiebreaks and Firouzja outright. It was Andreikin's 10th Titled Tuesday victory of the year and Firouzja's second,...
GM Hikaru Nakamura, who won the Fischer Random World Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland on October 30, and is now in Toronto, Canada for the Chess.com Global Championship Finals starting November 2, found time to take home yet another Titled Tuesd...
GM Hikaru Nakamura was crowned as the FIDE Fischer Random World Chess Champion on Sunday after winning a thrilling armageddon tiebreaker final against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. Having split the points in their four-game mini-match, Nakamura saved h...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura were confirmed on Saturday as the grand finalists for the 2022 Fischer Random World Championships after winning their respective semifinals by convincing margins. Nakamura only needed three games ...
On June 19, 1996, GM Bobby Fischer, hoping to enhance the creative potential of chess, announced a variant he saw as the future of the game, Fischer Random. Twenty-six years later on the 50th anniversary of his world championship victory in R...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov swept both matches vs. GM Hjorvar Gretarsson to increase his lead in group A of the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship on Wednesday. GM Magnus Carlsen also won two matches to join GM Hikaru Nakamura―who was held t...
GM Sam Shankland began Titled Tuesday with a 9/9 score before winning the early event with a score of 10/11. In the late event, a six-way tie for first place on nine points was not completely broken, leaving GMs Alexey Sarana and Bogdan-Daniel Dea...
GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Hikaru Nakamura both won their matches on Tuesday to lead groups A and B at the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland. Abdusattorov swept vs. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and defeated GM Wesley So. Nak...
