GM Magnus Carlsen leads the Opera Euro Rapid tournament after what he called "a very enjoyable day of chess" when more than half of the games ended decisively. The tournament is the third leg of the Champions Chess Tour. How to watch?T...
GM Hikaru Nakamura returned as the winner of Titled Tuesday on February 2. The American grandmaster was the only player to score 10/11 and finished ahead of GMs Jeffery Xiong, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. This we...
GM Aleksey Sarana won the January 12 Titled Tuesday tournament. The Russian grandmaster edged out GM Aleksandar Indjic on tiebreak after both finished on 10/11. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament had a total of 773 participants. It was a...
GM Jeffery Xiong won the December 29 Titled Tuesday tournament. The American grandmaster edged out GMs Alan Pichot, Dmitry Andreikin, Vladimir Fedoseev, and Vahap Sanal on tiebreak. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament had a tota...
GM Gawain Jones won the European Online Blitz Championship, held online over the weekend. The English grandmaster defeated the legendary GM Alexei Shirov in the final. The championship took place on Tornelo on Dec. 18-20. Organized by the Europe...
GM Hikaru Nakamura added yet another Titled Tuesday title to his long resume. The American grandmaster edged out four other players on tiebreak. The December 1 Titled Tuesday tournament had a total of 727 participants. It was an 11-round Sw...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda (@Polish_fighter3000) started with three losses but ended up beating GM Fabiano Caruana (@FabianoCaruana) 17-9 in their match in the 2020 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. The Polish GM completely dominated in the bul...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the 19th Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix, his first victory in the series. The Uzbek grandmaster beat the GM Jose Martinez of Peru 1.5-0.5 in the knockout final. The final Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the 18th Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix, his first win in the series, or in any Titled Tuesday before. The Russian grandmaster beat the German grandmaster Matthias Bluebaum 2-0 in the knockout final. The next ...
GM Vladislav Artemiev won the 12th Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The Russian grandmaster beat his compatriot GM Boris Grachev 2-0 in the knockout final. GM Haik Martirosyan of Armenia continues to lead the overall Grand Prix standings. Th...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the 11th Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The French top grandmaster beat Russian GM Maksim Chigaev 2-0 in the knockout final. GM Haik Martirosyan of Armenia continues to lead the overall Grand Prix stan...
On Tuesday, August 4th, a day of two Speed Chess Grand Prix events, Grandmasters David Anton and Parham Maghsoodloo emerged victorious. The first event featured 875 participants. Grandmasters Vladimir Onischuk and Haik Martirosyan tied for first...
GM Pavel Ponkratov has won the International Chess Open "Ciudad de Leon." The Russian grandmaster emerged victorious from the eight-player knockout that was held after a 10-round Swiss. As part of the 2020 Leon Chess Festival, the Leon Open star...
Russian GM Dmitry Andreikin won the fourth Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix after beating UAE's GM Salem Saleh in the knockout final. GM Vladimir Fedoseev continues to lead the overall Grand Prix leaderboard. The next Speed Chess Ch...
On Sunday, Russian GM Alexey Sarana won the group for 2300+ players of the first European Online Chess Championship. The tournament was played over different rating categories between May 16 and 31 on Chess.com. Sarana won a 16-player knockout o...
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...
Edited April 2, 2020: Happy April Fool's everyone. Stay safe! The chess world was universally saddened by the postponement after seven rounds of the FIDE Candidates Tournament due to the escalating COVID-19 pandemic and the rapidly impending clo...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Ian Nepomniachtchi will face each other in the semifinals of the 2019 FIDE Grand Prix in Jerusalem. If the Frenchman wins, he qualifies for the Candidates' directly while to do the same, Nepomniachtchi needs to...
Hikaru Nakamura defeated Jan-Krzysztof Duda 15.5-11.5 in Wednesday's Speed Chess Championship quarterfinal. It was the last match of the four quarterfinals, and the Speed Chess bracket now enters the final four. Duda started...
The sixth round of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss started with seven leaders, but of those just Fabiano Caruana and Wang Hao won their games today. The two are on 5/6 going into the only rest day in Isle of Man. Y...
Luke McShane had Fabiano Caruana on the ropes in round five of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss, but after six hours and 41 minutes, Caruana "did a Magnus" and got away with a draw. Seven players are now sharing the lead with 4...
Fabiano Caruana and Wang Hao drew their game in round four of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss and were joined in first place by Parham Maghsoodloo and Luke McShane. Magnus Carlsen was lost but miraculously escaped vs. ...
After eliminating Anish Giri, 18-year-old Jeffery Xiong scored another upset at the FIDE World Cup as he knocked out 18th-seed Jan-Krzysztof Duda in an epic tiebreak on Sunday. In the all-Azerbaijani match Teimour Radjabov eliminated Sha...
With an open qualification process that began in April, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship continues the final qualification phase as it plays down to the final six players who will qualify for the quarterfinals in early October...
