Yesterday's results at the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix third leg awarded chess fans with a bonus day of chess with two tiebreak matches on Tuesday to decide who should make it through from Groups B and C. In Group B, GM Shakhriyar Mamed...
With today’s victory in the sixth round of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix's third leg, GM Hikaru Nakamura scored a hat trick and won Group A, securing a spot in the semifinals. More importantly, the American GM joined GM Richard Rap...
GM Ding Liren started a 12-game tournament in Hangzhou, China with three wins in two days, which brought him back to second place in the world rankings. According to the Chinese GM's upcoming schedule, he will reach the 30 rated games that he need...
GM Dmitry Andreikin won week seven of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Le Quang Liem in a hard-fought final blitz playoff. GM Fabiano Caruana won the Swiss tournament and made it to the semifinal...
The fascinating battle for the Candidates qualification continues as both GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Levon Aronian won their games in Berlin on Sunday. The two are leading Group A together. The fifth round of leg three of the 2022 FI...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2022 Charity Cup on Saturday after beating GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in a playoff, necessary as the Polish grandmaster won the second regular match. Having won the Airthings Masters, this tournament is the&nb...
On Friday GM Magnus Carlsen convincingly won the first of two matches vs. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the final of the 2022 Charity Cup. Carlsen described the affair as "fascinating" and the last two games as "exceptionally interesting...
The fourth round of leg three of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix saw no fewer than five decisive games. GM Grigoriy Oparin's win in Group A means that he takes the lead. In the same group, GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Levon Aronian ...
After five rounds of the regular season, most teams know where they stand in the race to make the playoffs. With only two rounds remaining, many teams are facing must-win situations going into round six, and the teams at the top are fighting to cl...
Chess.com is excited to announce the 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG which will showcase 16 of the brightest under-20 stars in the world fighting for a prize fund of $35,000. Qualifiers begin on March 31 and ...
The final of the 2022 Charity Cup will be played between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, the Polish player who ended Carlsen's 125-game unbeaten streak in October 2020 and eliminated the world champion from the 2021 FIDE World Cup. ...
The third round of leg three of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix produced only one decisive game. With today’s win, GM Vincent Keymer joins GM Leinier Dominguez Perez in the lead in Group B. All the other games ended in draws and so the other g...
The semifinals of the 2022 Charity Cup will see the matches GM Magnus Carlsen vs. GM Ding Liren and GM Le Quang Liem vs. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. These four players eliminated GMs Hans Niemann, Jorden van Foreest, David Navara, and David A...
The second round of the third and final leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix saw no decisive games. Each group continues to have a clear leader, with GMs Levon Aronian, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Alexandr Predke, and Nikita Vitiugov all leading thei...
Arena Kings returned on March 23 after a one-week hiatus as GM Jose Martinez came back from down 2-1 to defeat IM Renato Terry in an all-Peru final. The semifinalists this week were GM Sergey Zhigalko and IM Mahammad Muradli as...
It took the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix, where GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Daniil Dubov were both playing on Tuesday, to break their two-week Titled Tuesday winning streak. In their places were GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, winning the early tournament, and GM Dmit...
GM David Navara just made it into the knockout phase of the Charity Cup as the Czech GM had the better tiebreak over GM Richard Rapport and GM Praggnanandhaa R., who won a brilliant game in the penultimate round....
The first round of the final leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix saw four decisive games. Each group has a clear leader, with GMs Levon Aronian, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Alexandr Predke, and Nikita Vitiugov all leading their respective group...
On an excellent third day of the Charity Cup, GM Jorden van Foreest scored three wins and a draw to move to third place. GM Le Quang Liem scored "plus one" and continues to lead GM Magnus Carlsen. How to watch? ...
The FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has banned GM Sergey Karjakin for six months from participating as a player in any FIDE rated chess competition. The 32-year-old Russian grandmaster, who is a fierce supporter of Russian president ...
GM Le Quang Liem continues to lead the preliminaries of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Charity Cup. With three wins on the second day, World Champion Magnus Carlsen is now in second place together with GM Jan-Krzysztof Du...
GM Maxim Matlakov won the knockout phase of week six of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. GM Dmitry Andreikin finished second in both the knockout and the Swiss tournament. GMs Daniil Dubov and Vladimir Fedoseev ma...
Russia's warfare in Ukraine has left Arkady Dvorkovich, a former Russian deputy prime minister, in a precarious situation. Now 24 days into the war, some are calling for the FIDE president to resign while others continue to support him. Altho...
GM Le Quang Liem and GM Hans Niemann, underdogs for overall victory, are sharing the lead after day one at the Charity Cup. In what is the second leg of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, World Champion Magnus Carlsen suffered an e...
