GM Ding Liren beat GM Levon Aronian by a score of 15-11 in the second quarterfinal match of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. In the semifinals, he will face the winner of GM Hikaru Nakamura vs. GM Anish Giri. The last quarterfi...
GM Magnus Carlsen is on the verge of defending his world title after scoring his third win in the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship on Tuesday. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi committed an even bigger blunder than in the previous game, this time allowing a...
With another win in game eight of the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship, GM Magnus Carlsen extended his lead to two points going into the third rest day. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi initially defended creatively in another Petroff but then blundered a ...
Lasting just two and a half hours, game seven of the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship was the fastest draw in the match so far. GM Magnus Carlsen repeated his 8...Rb8 line against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi's 8.a4 Anti-Marshall and quickly equalized ...
Jonathan Penrose, a 10-time British champion, grandmaster as well as correspondence grandmaster who famously defeated reigning world champion Mikhail Tal at the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad, has died at the age of 88. This was reported by The Guardian. ...
GM Nihal Sarin beat GM Richard Rapport by a score of 18-9 in the first quarterfinal match of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. On Monday, December 6 we will have a doubleheader as GM Ding Liren will face GM Levon Aronian at 6:00 a...
The 2022 FIDE Grand Prix, a series of three tournaments that will qualify two players for the 2022 Candidates Tournament, will start on February 3, 2022. Details were announced on Thursday by World Chess. While GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ian Nepom...
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in a record 136 moves in game six to score the first win of the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship. The world champion's victory came after five draws in the championship that has a €2 million ...
There was a four-way tie at the top of the Titled Tuesday leaderboard on November 30, with NM Valery Sviridov winning on the tiebreak system. He was joined on 9.5/11 by GM Baadur Jobava in second place, FM Khazar Babazada in third, and GM Mustafa ...
The December FIDE rating list officially confirms the meteoric rise of GM Alireza Firouzja, who is the new world number-two player, 52 points behind GM Magnus Carlsen. GM Levon Aronian now represents the U.S. while GM Hikaru Nakamura was removed f...
Going into the second rest day, the FIDE World Chess Championship is still tied as GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Magnus Carlsen also drew their fifth game on Wednesday. The challenger got a slight endgame advantage in another Anti-Marshall, bu...
GM Fabiano Caruana beat GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave with a score of 13.5-12.5 in the last match of the first round of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. He will face GM Wesley So in the quarterfinal match, which starts on Thursday, D...
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The score in the FIDE World Chess Championship is 2-2 after a fourth draw between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi on Tuesday. Did the challenger shut down Carlsen's 1.e4 in this match? It's too early to tell, but his preparation and ac...
The FIDE World Chess Championship remains in a deadlock as challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen drew their third game on Sunday. Monday is the first rest day in Dubai; game four is scheduled for Tuesday, again, at ...
The reigning world chess champion, GM Magnus Carlsen, from Norway, and his Russian challenger, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, faced each other today in the second game of their FIDE World Championship 2021 match in Dubai. After some trickery in the openin...
World Champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi started their FIDE World Championship match on Friday in Dubai with a draw. Nepomniachtchi had a slight opening advantage but got under some pressure soon after, and then impressed...
Starting from this upcoming Friday, GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi will be enemies at the board—but they remained friends at today's opening press conference. The players expressed mutual respect and made jokes, while eagerly aw...
With every passing second, the ultimate chess battle approaches, and chess fans worldwide can't wait to see what will happen in the 2021 FIDE World Championship. Now, even before the first moves are played, freestyle rap extraordinaire Harry Mack ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura took home his second Titled Tuesday of the month on November 23. With a score of 9.5/11 on +8 =3, Nakamura claimed victory on tiebreaks over IM Minh Le. GM Jeffery Xiong took third place for the second straight week, finishing w...
With three days to go until the 2021 FIDE World Championship match, the chess world can't wait until GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi finally sit down at the board on Friday in Dubai. The big question—who is going to win?—is...
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Ukraine won its first ever European Team Chess Championship in Brezice, Slovenia on Sunday. The gold medal winners edged out France on tiebreak, a team whose silver medals were largely the result of GM Alireza Firouzja's historic performance. Russ...
