GM Hikaru Nakamura won the Arena Kings Season 9 Championship Final on Wednesday, defeating GM Oleksandr Bortnyk 3-1 in the final round of the knockout—after also finishing first in the qualifying arena. GM Jose Martinez and IM Tuan Minh Le f...
GM Hikaru Nakamura nearly swept Titled Tuesday again, tying for first place in both tournaments but only holding better tiebreaks in the late tournament. In the early tournament, he was edged out by GM Dmitry Andreikin on the tiebreaks. Nakamura a...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship by SIG returned today with a high-octane quarterfinal between GMs Brandon Jacobson and GM Awonder Liang where viewers were graced with yet another stellar comeback in the championship. Liang wa...
It's almost time for the 2022 edition of the I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship, which begins Monday, May 9. But it's not just the players who get to enjoy the thrill of competition this year: We're running a free-to-play, cash prize bracket co...
The May FIDE rating list has GM Ding Liren back as the world's number-two player, 58 points behind World Champion Magnus Carlsen and just two points ahead of GM Alireza Firouzja, who had been in second place before. Meanwhile, the list reflects th...
Mother's Day has come to many parts of the world, and it's time to celebrate and show appreciation to that special someone who gave you life. Three new mom bots are waiting on our Play Computer page to spend some quality time with you and play che...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won week 12 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the knockout final, after also finishing first in the Saturday Swiss. GM Hikaru Nakamura finished ...
The I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship (IMSCC) is back for its 2022 edition, starting on May 9. The competition is once more bringing fan-favorite IMs and other masters to vie for their share of the $10,000 prize fund and bragging rights among ...
The inaugural American Cup crowned its first champions when GM Fabiano Caruana defeated GM Levon Aronian in the final game of the event, and GM Irina Krush confidently drew her game against the sensation of the tournament, FM Alice Lee. Bo...
After seven intense days of play, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda prevailed on the leaderboard with 14 points and won the Oslo Esports Cup, the first major of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 2022. GM Le Quang Liem finished in second with 13 points...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship by SIG continued today with a round of 16 match between GM Raunak Sadhwani and IM Mahammad Muradli, one that featured one of the greatest comebacks in Speed Chess Championship history. The early sections ...
After nine weeks, the Collegiate Chess League's fourth regular season has finally come to an end, and the playoffs have begun! The teams' standings have been finalized, and they have been placed in single elimination brackets to fight for their sh...
After intense rapid and blitz play action in the Elimination Brackets on Tuesday, the sanity of the Championship Brackets returned on Wednesday with GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian meeting in Group A while Group B saw a repeat of GM Iri...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa once again share the lead with 12 points after the penultimate day of play. They are followed closely by GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Le Quang Liem, both with 11 points. Behind them, we find GM&n...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals, brought to you by SIG, commenced today with GM Nihal Sarin taking on IM Christoper Yoo in an explosive encounter that ended with a 15-11 score in favor of the reigning champion. Proving dom...
Another regular season of Arena Kings in the books, with the Championship Final of Season 9 coming next week. Week 12 ended the way the last four weeks had, with a victory for GM Hikaru Nakamura. Despite falling behind 2-0 in the final against GM ...
In two hard-fought matches in the Elimination Brackets, day seven decided who would make it to the finals of The American Cup and face GMs Fabiano Caruana and Irina Krush. In group A, GM Levon Aronian outlasted GM Lenier Dominguez; in Group...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won a Titled Tuesday event for the third straight week on April 26 and was joined in the day's winners' circle by GM Baadur Jobava after the late tournament. For the second time in three weeks, no one played quite consistently e...
GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is again the sole leader of the event after day five. After him comes GM Magnus Carlsen with nine points, closely followed by GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Le Quang Liem and Jorden van Foreest with eight points. Both GMs A...
After each having won their first game in the Winners' Brackets, GMs Fabiano Caruana and Irina Krush secured the victories in their matches respectively against GM Lenier Dominguez and FM Alice Lee. Meanwhile, in the Elimination Brackets, GM Lev...
After day four—halfway through the event—GM Magnus Carlsen shares the lead with GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa at nine points after defeating him in their match today. GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Le Quang Liem&nbs...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG saw a tenacious turnaround today: a nearly-down-and-out GM Arjun Erigaisi flipped a colossal deficit to overcome staunch IM Denis Lazavik. Erigaisi upped the heat in the 3+1 se...
GM Alexey Sarana won week 11 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Andrey Esipenko in the knockout final. GM Hikaru Nakamura won the Swiss tournament and made it to the semifinals along wit...
GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa remains the sole leader of the event after day three with nine points and zero losses. He is followed in the standings by GM Magnus Carlsen with six points; after him, we find the GMs Jan-Krzysztof ...
