GM Magnus Carlsen clinched the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals with a round to spare as he won his sixth match on Saturday against GM Praggnanandhaa R. GM Wesley So is in second place, after beating GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, but five points beh...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his fifth match in a row at the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals but lost his perfect score as GM Le Quang Liem went down only in the armageddon game of their tiebreak. The Vietnamese GM thus took one match point away fr...
GM Magnus Carlsen is the only player on a perfect 12/12 score at the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals after beating GM Anish Giri 3-0 in round four. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda lost his first match to GM Le Quang Liem, while GM Arjun Erigaisi ...
FM Tani Adewumi is scheduled to play against fellow young chess sensation IM Yagiz Erdogmus at 7 a.m. Pacific Time/16:00 Central European Time on November 20 in the next episode of his regular ChessKid series "Tani vs. The World." Erdogmus ...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda defeated GM Anish Giri with a brilliant third-match game on Wednesday in round three of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals. The Polish grandmaster is still on a perfect 9/9 score but that is also the case for GM Magnus...
The 2022 Speed Chess Championship main event begins in less than a week! Sixteen of the world’s top players will find out who’s the quickest on their feet as they vie for the world’s most prestigious online speed chess title.&nbs...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Vladimir Fedoseev were the winners of Titled Tuesday on November 15, both doing so outright without needing tiebreaks. Caruana reached the coveted 10.5/11 score in the early tournament, only drawing in round five. Fedoseev ...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda are in a tie for first place at the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals. They are the only players to gain six points for winning both of their matches without a tiebreak. GM Anish Giri won his second ...
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals began on Monday in San Francisco with a win for the world champion. GM Magnus Carlsen toppled GM Wesley So, the recent winner of the Chess.com Global Chess Championship, in the opening round. How to watc...
GM Alexander Grischuk won the second qualifier of the 2022 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship on Sunday following a convincing triumph over compatriot GM Vladislav Artemiev in the final. Having claimed he hadn't looked at chess for two or three ...
The 2022 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship commenced on Thursday with a cutthroat qualifier where GM David Paravyan emerged victorious after defeating GM Tuan Minh Le in a dazzling armageddon tiebreaker. Amidst a field of 142 titled players, Mi...
GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Alireza Firouzja were the victors in Titled Tuesday on November 8, both with scores of 9.5/11, Andreikin on tiebreaks and Firouzja outright. It was Andreikin's 10th Titled Tuesday victory of the year and Firouzja's second,...
GM Wesley So triumphed at the inaugural Chess.com Global Championship, defeating GM Nihal Sarin in the final with two games to spare. Unfazed by a couple of recent performances, So showed us what it means to be a grandmaster of his caliber, coming...
The FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships will be held December 26-30, 2022 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The International Chess Federation confirmed the dates and the host city on Monday in a press release. Traditionally, two of the most excitin...
GM Wesley So gained a commanding two-point lead in the Chess.com Global Championship final, winning twice with white and drawing both games with black. Despite playing more adventurously than usual, sacrificing in nearly every game, So went undefe...
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...
GMs Wesley So and Nihal Sarin confirmed their progression to the Chess.com Global Championship final after winning arduous semifinal matches on Saturday. The players will compete for the top prize of $200,000, and the winner will be crowned the in...
GMs Wesley So and Anish Giri almost hit the front in their respective semifinals against GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Nihal Sarin at the Chess.com Global Championship on Friday but were both held to 2-2 following some resolute defense by their opponent...
The Edinburgh Chess Club, the second oldest chess club in the world, celebrates its bicentenary today. Founded on November 4, 1822, over the two centuries the club has been visited by famous players such as Howard Staunton, Joseph Blackburne, Jose...
In a day loaded with decisive games and shocking comebacks, GMs Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, Nihal Sarin, and Anish Giri advanced to the semifinals on Thursday at the Chess.com Global Championship Finals. Nakamura won an all-decisive-games match ...
Chess.com is excited to announce the 2022 Speed Chess Championship, beginning in late November. World #1 GM Magnus Carlsen returns to an absolutely star-studded 16-player field that also includes four-time Speed Chess Champion GM Hikaru ...
The Women's Candidates semifinals match between GM Anna Muzychuk and GM Lei Tingjie started with two draws. If the match remains tied in the remaining two games, a tiebreak will be played on Sunday. The third game is scheduled to start on Fri...
Coming off of his Fischer Random World Championship victory, GM Hikaru Nakamura continues his unstoppable winning streak, sweeping GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda 4-0 on Wednesday at the Chess.com Global Championship Finals. This leaves the world numb...
GM Hikaru Nakamura, who won the Fischer Random World Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland on October 30, and is now in Toronto, Canada for the Chess.com Global Championship Finals starting November 2, found time to take home yet another Titled Tuesd...
