A decades-long unbeaten run, believed to be one of the longest in sporting history, has ended after a team of amateur chess players toppled a club dubbed the "Manchester City of chess." Hammersmith Chess Club in west London beat the invincible k...
CM Matfey Rogov prevailed in the Atomic Chess Championship of the Variants Community Series (VCS) on Thursday. In a sibling rivalry-fueled Final, he overcame his older brother, Timofey Rogov. Along the way, Matfey also defeated the top see...
Round 11 of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament featured three decisive games out of a possible four. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the longest game of the round with Black against GM Vidit Gujrathi, again taking the sole lead. A half-point behin...
If you had doubts about how big an event Titled Tuesday has become, you can look at just how many players from the ongoing Candidates Tournament played the April 16 edition anyway (during a rest day in the Candidates). One of them, GM Hikaru Nakam...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana won their games in round 10 of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament to inch closer to the tournament lead. Co-leaders GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Gukesh Dommaraju made a draw in their game and are now chased...
GM Arjun Erigaisi won the 2024 Menorca Open on Sunday. The Indian top-GM edged out GMs Kirill Alekseenko and Maksim Chigaev on tiebreaks after all finished on 7.5/9. Arjun reached a career-peak live rating of 2761 and briefly occupied the fifth pl...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored a brilliant win, then pulled off a great escape, to beat GM Richard Rapport 1.5-0.5 and win the GRENKE Chess Classic for a third time. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat GM Vincent Keymer in blitz tiebreaks to take third place...
The state of Missouri has stamped its supremacy on collegiate chess after Saint Louis University won the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) final against Webster University and the University of Missouri (Mizzou) secured victory in their third-pla...
Webster and Saint Louis have eliminated all the other teams in their path to reach the Final of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL). Though the favorites ultimately prevailed, their rivals gave them a massive fight. A Botez Gambit in the last s...
The semifinalists for the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) have been decided after The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) staved off a late comeback by the National Technical University of Athens, while the University of Missouri (Miz...
Maryland Terrapins defensive back Chantz Harley took top honors in the sixth installment of BlitzChamps after defeating fellow back Dante Trader Jr. in the fourth game of their finals match with a "Hail Mary" pawn promotion that secured the title....
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac were the winners of Titled Tuesday on March 12. For Nakamura, it was his third week in a row with a win and his first early tournament win in that time. For Deac, it was his first win in over a year. Co...
Team C-Squared (GMs Fabiano Caruana and Cristian Chirila) claimed the first Team Chess Battle title this Friday, a new format that elevates chess from a silent duel on the 64 squares. Not quite hand-and-brain or Banter Blitz, but a sort of combina...
Saint Louis and Webster cemented their places as the top two to close the regular season of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL). Webster's victory was a true team effort. Every single player―GMs Benjamin Gledura, Harsha Bharathakoti, Ge...
GM Bu Xiangzhi edged out GMs Yu Yangyi and Arjun Erigaisi on tiebreaks to win the fifth edition of the Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters on Thursday. All three finished on 4.5/7, with Bu having the best tiebreaks. It wasn't a good week for GM A...
GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Robert Hess won their semifinal match against GM Hikaru Nakamura and IM Levy Rozman in the 2024 Team Chess Battle on Tuesday. The commentator duo pressed with an extra pawn in game one but was met with stiff, 99%-accura...
Saint Louis and Missouri defeated major rivals in week six of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL). The unstoppable GM Mikhail Antipov led Missouri to victory vs. Rio Grande, scoring 3.5/4. For Saint Louis, GMs Benjamin Bok and Dambasure...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Cristian Chirila are off to the Final of the 2024 Team Chess Battle. On Friday, they defeated GM Wesley So and IM Alice Lee 1.5-0.5 to advance. Some say the hardest thing in chess is to win a won position. Both...
They’ve got their offensive lines ready, and they’re ready to sack! But we’re not talking gridiron here, this is a game on another grid—chess. Next month the Maryland Terrapins become the latest team to take the field for...
In our second consecutive match to go to an armageddon tiebreaker this season, GM Hikaru Nakamura and IM Levy Rozman defeated GMs Jorden van Foreest and Eric Hansen 2-1. Next, they'll play the legendary commentator team, GMs Daniel Naroditsky and ...
GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Robert Hess knocked out the commentators who inspire them, GMs Peter Svidler and Jan Gustafsson, as they advanced to the Semifinals of the 2024 Team Chess Battle. Gustafsson and Svidler brought their trash-talk A-games ...
GM Wesley So and IM Alice Lee advance to the Semifinals of the 2024 Team Chess Battle. On Thursday, they defeated GM Peter Leko and GM Pia Cramling 2-0, following up on yesterday's sweep with another. Even the seeds of trash talk bloomed into co...
GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Cristian Chirila cut the proverbial opening ribbon of the inaugural 2024 Team Chess Battle by beating GM Anish Giri and IM Danny Rensch with a 2-0 score. After losing game one while trash-talking his own team...
Cleveland Guardians outfielder Steven Kwan stepped up to the challenge and earned locker-room bragging rights after taking out the first edition of SlugChamps on Tuesday. In a high-octane final against shortstop Daniel Schneemann, Kwan scored 2.5/...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen enhanced his claim to be the greatest of all time Friday as he won the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge by defeating world number-two Fabiano Caruana in the final match. We take a look at what else we learned...
