Day seven of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters saw the conclusions of Divisions II and III. Although both matches went to the second set, the younger players won in each division. GM Vincent Keymer defeated GM Levon Aronian in Divi...
The chess world had a busy year in 2023. From the World Championship in the spring to a busy December that featured the Champions Chess Tour Finals and a mad dash to the next Candidates Tournament, there was no shortage of chess being played. Th...
It was a day of victories on Monday at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup. GM Wesley So defeated GM Levon Aronian to extend his lead, while GMs Fabiano Caruana and Leinier Dominguez scored their first wins. The Sinquefield Cup continues with round seven o...
GM Hou Yifan is the first player to win two WSCC titles. After defeating GM Harika Dronavalli in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Final 15-11, the Chinese grandmaster is a two-time champion. "Ever since her first victory, sh...
WGM Divya Deshmukh bulldozed over the field with three impressive victories in three games on day two to take the sole lead with a score of 5.5/6 in the Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid tournament. Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun had another ...
WR Chess, led by GM Wesley So, rose to clear first on day one of the World Rapid Team Championship 2023, winning all of their matches so far. The top seed, GM Viswanathan Anand's Freedom, had a rocky fourth round, nearly losing to GM Pental...
Top seeds GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and Ju Wenjun commence battle in the 2023 FIDE World Cup in Wednesday's round two, but first, there were 33 places to be decided in tiebreaks. It took six hours, with 18-year-old local star GM Aydin S...
Russian chess continues to lose its top players. Former Candidates participant GM Kirill Alekseenko has now completed the transfer to Austria and becomes the country's highest-rated player. The 26-year-old from St. Petersburg who was ranke...
For the second time ever, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday on the same day. It previously occurred on October 11, 2022. Just like last time, Nakamura won the early tournament and Carlsen the late event. Nakamura also finis...
He's a chess icon normally known for his fast play, not his fast food. But that could be about to change as GM Viswanathan Anand appears in a commercial for the restaurant giant Subway. Fresh from appearing in the inaugural Global Chess League, ...
GM Alexey Sarana won the inaugural Olympic Esports Series 2023 Finals chess event after defeating GM Maksim Chigaev with a perfect 3-0 score in the final match. This is one of the first major victories for Sarana since he changed federations from ...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda fought a memorable and thrilling final round of the Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz 2023, where the former held his nerve to hold a draw and win the event with a score of 24 points and pocket the top p...
With more than 87,000 members and 2,400 clubs nationwide, the German Chess Federation (DSB) is one of the biggest and most powerful chess associations in the world. But after years of infighting, alleged mismanagement, and controversy, this gran...
Eight players won the Olympic Esports Series 2023 Preliminaries after accumulating three match wins on Thursday and Friday: GMs Shant Sargsyan, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Oleksandr Bortnyk, Alexey Sarana, Bassem Amin, Maksim Chigaev, Ngoc Truong Son Ngu...
GM Ding Liren is the new world champion after beating GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the final rapid tiebreak game of the 2023 FIDE World Championship. Following a 7-7 tie in a thrilling 14-game classical match, it all came down to the final rapid game,...
The Indian Yogis are the first team to qualify for the playoffs after defeating the Levitov Chess Wizards in the Pro Chess League. In the other match, the Canada Chessbrahs defeated the Garden State Passers. The two siblings, GM Praggnanan...
The Norway Gnomes and Spanish Maniac Shrimps defeated the Brazil Capybaras and Charlotte Cobras, respectively, to kick off week three in the Pro Chess League. The Norway Gnomes pulled off a shocking comeback after losing the first two rounds of ...
Round four of the WR Chess Masters 2023 saw all five games end in draws. This leaves GM Levon Aronian in the sole lead on three points after his draw with GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. GM Gukesh D played a stunning pawn sacrifice, and later an exchange...
GM Gukesh D finished first in the inaugural Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters Play-In Swiss 2023. With six wins and three draws, he went undefeated to secure the top spot in the grandmaster-only Swiss Event. Gukesh, as well as five other pl...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave convincingly won his round of 16 match against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi by the greatest margin yet in Chess.com's 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Monday after an exceptional run in the bullet portion. Vachier-Lagrave...
GM Lei Tingjie qualified for the final of the 2022-23 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament after beating GM Anna Muzychuk in the fourth game of their match in Monaco. Lei, who knocked out her opponent's sister, GM Mariya Muzychuk, in the quarte...
Continuing with their good form in the event, Uzbekistan and Armenia prevailed over higher seeds Netherland and Spain respectively in the 11th and final round to tie for first-second places with 19 match points in the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad, wit...
The 12th-seeded Armenia defeated the sixth-seeded Azerbaijan with a convincing 3-1 victory to reach 17 match points and become the joint leaders at the end of the 10th and penultimate round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad. Dramatic developments in...
The 14th-seeded young Uzbekistan team with an average age of 20 prevailed over the overnight leader, 12th-seeded Armenia, by a strong 3-1 score to jump into sole lead with 16 match points at the end of the ninth round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympi...
Continuing their remarkable run in the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad, the 12th-seeded Armenia defeated second-seeded India 2.5-1.5 and maintained their sole lead with 15 match points at the end of the eighth round. The 11th-seeded India 2 defeated the ...
