Isa Kasimi, better known as Igors Rausis, the Latvian International Master and coach who was banned for six years and was stripped of his GM title after being caught cheating, has died at the age of 62. The news was confirmed by his ex-wife Olita ...
We are three rounds into the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss and nobody's left on a perfect score in the Open. In the Women's, two players won to continue their perfect run. GMs Tan Zhongyi and Anna Muzychuk are the two players left with a perfect score a...
While chess players are battling it out on the chessboard, GM Igor Kovalenko is fighting for his own and his countrymen's lives in Ukraine. His fight has now seen him receive an award from the Ukrainian president. The 34-year-old grandmaster is ...
Round five of Norway Chess 2023 was a dramatic turning point as GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov with Black beat GM Fabiano Caruana in the classical portion. With a win over GM Aryan Tari, GM Hikaru Nakamura regained the world number-two spot for the firs...
GM Simon Williams (a.k.a. GingerGM) added yet another candidate for Game of the Year in his round-two game at the Reykjavik Open 2023 on Wednesday. The English grandmaster has long been known for his daring, sacrificial, and "YOLO" style o...
A chess player was expelled from the Romanian Chess Championship after a phone was found in the restroom with a chess app showing his game's position after move 15. Although certain information on the phone strongly suggested it was his, the playe...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Viswanathan Anand, the two biggest names in action at the 2022 European Club Cup in Mayrhofen, Austria, had to settle for draws in the first round. The tournament is a seven-round Swiss event for European club teams with o...
Throughout chess history, there have always been great players who we admire and look up to. But every now and then, we get to witness true chess legends—those who push the game to new heights. And now, for the first time, anyone in the worl...
WARNING: This reporting includes disturbing information of a sexual nature. Letters with pages from porn magazines and used condoms have been sent to at least 15 female chess players for over a decade. This troubling news was revealed today by t...
Profiting from a mistake by GM Evgeniy Najer in a rook endgame, GM Alireza Firouzja regained the sole lead in the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss with four rounds to go. GM Lei Tingjie continues to lead the women's section and now has IM...
There's a five-way tie for first place at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss going into the rest day. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and GM Krishnan Sasikiran won their games and joined the leaders GM Evgeniy Najer, GM Alexei Shirov, and GM Alireza Firouzj...
Russian GM Evgeniy Najer and former world number-two GM Alexei Shirov caught GM Alireza Firouzja in the lead in round five of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Riga. The two won their games, while Firouzja drew the all-French clash with GM Maxime ...
With a quick draw, GM Alireza Firouzja maintained his sole lead at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Riga on Saturday. Russian GM Evgeniy Najer was close to catching Firouzja but missed a win in the endgame against GM Ivan Saric. China's GM L...
After two rounds, there are three players in the open section on 2/2 and seven women players on the same score at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss in Riga, Latvia. There are nine rounds to go in the tournament. How t...
Following a precautionary move from the Isle of Man to Riga and despite a new local lockdown in Latvia, the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss took off on Wednesday. Top-seed GM Fabiano Caruana and third-seed GM Alireza Firouzja we...
The FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss and Women’s Grand Swiss will go on despite a new COVID-19 lockdown in Latvia that started on Thursday. The Latvian government included the chess tournament, scheduled for Oct. 27-Nov. 8, in a list of exceptions...
The Russian-Latvian grandmaster, former world senior champion, chess opening revolutionary, writer, trainer, and outspoken GM Evgeny Sveshnikov has passed away at the age of 71. His death came only a few months after his mother had died at the age...
FIDE has recently announced that the 2021 FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss, initially planned to take place at Isle of Man, will move to Riga. The two events are part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship, w...
IM Igors Rausis, who was banned from FIDE rated tournaments and stripped of his grandmaster title after he was caught cheating, showed up at a small rapid tournament in Latvia on Saturday. He was playing under his new name but withdrew from the to...
Even with just two games, the sixth day of the Chess.com PogChamps brought the event's biggest surprise when moistCr1tikal shocked xQc with a six move win. After non-stop trash talk from both players in the build-up, the result shocked t...
The year 2019 was very busy for the chess world, especially at the highest level. The calendar was packed, and the fans had so much to enjoy watching from the different playing halls but mostly online, of course. In this article we look back and...
Igors Rausis, the 58-year-old Latvian-Czech player who was caught with his phone during a game at the Strasbourg Open earlier this year, was stripped of his GM title and received a six-year ban from the FIDE ethics commission. The news was ...
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...
Both Fabiano Caruana (U.S.) and Wang Hao (China) won their third game at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss. As the only players on 3/3, they will play each other on Sunday. You can follow the games here as part of our live portal Chess.com/e...
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 ...
