GM Hikaru Nakamura attained a commanding lead after scoring 10/12 on the first day of the 2022 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship on Thursday. He defeated eight grandmasters en route to his imperious score, conceding only four draws against GMs M...
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...
GM Magnus Carlsen claimed his fourth world rapid chess crown on Wednesday and finished with a commanding score of 10/13 in the 2022 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship. A round-11 hiccup against GM Vladislav Artemiev pulled Carlsen's tourn...
GM Magnus Carlsen assumed the pole position heading into the third and final day of the 2022 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship having scored key wins over GMs Jorden van Foreest and Giga Quparadze on Tuesday. The classical world champion's 7.5...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the 2022 Vugar Gashimov Memorial on Thursday with such a commanding lead that he clinched the tournament victory with five rounds to spare. GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov finished second with the top score in the blitz segme...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Fedoseev, Jorden van Foreest, and Arjun Erigaisi share the lead after an action-packed first day of the 2022 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship. After five rounds the leaders dropped only half a point each having fe...
The Chessable Sunway Sitges Chess Festival 2022 was won by GM Kirill Alekseenko. He scored 8.5/10 in the ninth edition of the Spanish tournament, taking home the first-place trophy and €5,000. Coming in second was GM Hans Niemann, who beat GM...
Chess.com is excited to announce that the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour and the Chess.com Global Championship are coming together in 2023 to form one unified chess series. This huge event kicks off on February 6 and spans the entire year. With si...
Chess.com, the world’s largest chess website, has acquired Play Magnus Group, a leading chess entertainment and education company. The proposed acquisition was initially announced on August 24, 2022 and was unanimously recommended by Pl...
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...
IM Stefan Docx was expelled from the Benidorm Open in Spain, after refusing a metal detector body scan. The chief arbiter of the tournament is preparing a report for the FIDE Fair Play Commission. Docx, a 48-year-old international master from Be...
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...
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship second semifinal match on Friday. The world champion steamrolled through yet another match in what has become a series of dominant wins over th...
After years of uncertainty, 12-year-old FM Tanitoluwa Adewumi and his family have been officially granted political asylum in the United States. The family fled from Nigeria to the U.S. in 2017 after Adewumi's father became a target of a religious...
The showdown between two of Chess.com's pre-eminent blitz and bullet chess players in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship was comfortably won by GM Hikaru Nakamura on Thursday. The defending champion took an early lead over GM Nihal Sarin and neve...
On December 15, 2022, FIDE announced the paths of qualification for the next Candidates Tournament, which will be held in 2024 and will determine the challenger in the 2024 World Championship. The paths are: Runner-up at the 2023 World Champio...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave overcame GM Wesley So in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday. Early in the match, Vachier-Lagrave gained as high as a four-point lead, but So fought back to even the score in the bullet segment. With just ...
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 Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa was crowned the winner of the 2022 Julius Baer Challenger Championship on Tuesday after overcoming rising star GM Pranav Venkatesh, requiring only three of their four scheduled mini-matches to do so. Praggnanandhaa w...
The annual Chess.com Daily Chess Championship is back for 2023. Over 12,000 players have already signed up for the event, and that number continues to climb! Do you want to join the largest tournament of the year? Then the Chess.com Daily Chess ...
GM Magnus Carlsen bested GM Fabiano Caruana with an undefeated 18-point lead in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Tuesday. Carlsen achieved this unprecedented feat by excelling at every facet of the game, including his trademark skill of capita...
Following a controversial ruling at the Mogul Chessboxing Championship, which took place on Sunday, the organizer's Twitter account "Mogul Moves" announced an updated result on Tuesday regarding the match between WGM Dina Belenkaya and Andrea Bote...
GM Arjun Erigaisi has signed a five-year sponsorship deal with Singapore-based quantitative trading firm Quantbox. This marked Erigaisi's first-ever sponsorship deal in his chess career as a professional player of the sport. GM Arjun ...
What a year this has been for chess! We have not one, but two world championship challengers as the World Champion Magnus Carlsen stepped away from the competition. A new wave of talent from Uzbekistan, India, and other countries took the wor...
