The Arbitration Tribunal for Sport of the Polish Olympic Committee has overturned WFM Patrycja Waszczuk's two-year ban from chess for alleged cheating. According to her lawyer, the now 18-year-old Waszczuk was deprived of the right of defense and ...
Tiebreaks on Wednesday will decide 19 matches in the 2021 FIDE World Cup and nine matches in the Women's World Cup. A total of 97 players reached the second round without needing a tiebreak. How to watch?The games of the FIDE World Cup can be ...
Chess.com is excited to announce the 2021 FIDE Online Chess Olympiad, a incredible online chess event open to chess federations from all over the world. Federations are invited to send their best players and top juniors to compete in rapid chess m...
The 2021 FIDE World Cup began on Monday in Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi (Russia) with 156 players in the open section and 78 players in the women's section. The Chilean grandmaster Pablo Salinas Herrera played the Game of the Day (and possibly the year...
July's Winner Stays event occurred on July 9. For the second straight month, streamer Ludwig and Youtuber NM Kurt Hugo Schneider won their matchups, as ChessBrah Aman Hambleton was joined this time on commentary by NM James Canty III. In the Maste...
GM Jeffery Xiong beat IM Denis Lazavik 15.5-10.5 on Sunday in the last match in the round of 16 of the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. Lazavik put up an excellent fight and actually managed to beat Xiong in the bullet s...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave has won the Croatia Rapid & Blitz. The French grandmaster secured the $37,500 first prize with a round to spare when GM Garry Kasparov, who struggled again on Sunday, lost on time in a drawn position. Thanks to an exc...
After just arriving in Sochi, Russia, for the FIDE World Cup, GM Nihal Sarin beat GM Nicholas Checa in the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. Playing from his hotel, the Indian prodigy won in all three time controls. The...
It was a painful day of chess for GM Garry Kasparov and his many fans. The 13th world champion, who joined the field at the Croatia Rapid & Blitz today, scored a disastrous 0.5/9. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi still leads but GM Maxime Vachier-La...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi came in first in the rapid part of the Croatia Rapid & Blitz. The Russian grandmaster finished a point ahead of the pack, with 18 rounds of blitz to go on Saturday and Sunday. GM Garry Kasparov will now be taking over fro...
For the first time in the main event of the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship, the lower seed won in an upset as #10 IM Christopher Yoo defeated #7 GM Hans Niemann by a score of 23-9 on Thursday. The next match in the championship is GM Nihal...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi still leads the Croatia Rapid & Blitz despite a loss in round six to the local wildcard participant GM Ivan Saric. GM Vishy Anand and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who both scored plus one on Thursday, are tied for...
16-year-old GM Nihal Sarin has a fantastic month of chess behind him. The Indian prodigy won two strong tournaments in a row in Serbia and gained 35 Elo points, reaching a virtual rating of 2655. How to watch?The games of the Silver Lake Open ...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, the challenger of GM Magnus Carlsen in the world championship in November, made his mark on the first day of the Zagreb Rapid & Blitz. The third leg of the Grand Chess Tour will have GM Garry Kasparov playing in the...
GM Haik Martirosyan defeated GM Vincent Keymer convincingly in their round of 16 match in the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The Armenian grandmaster won in all three time controls. The next match in the championship...
GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the top of Titled Tuesday this week, winning outright with a score of 10/11. GM Parham Maghsoodloo, coming off a win in the Round of 16 in the Junior Speed Chess Championship, scored 9.5/11 for second place. Five pla...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina is the first woman ever to qualify for the open section of the Russian Championship Superfinal. The 22-year-old grandmaster from Orsk, Russia, finished in shared second place at the Higher League tournament in Cheboksary,...
GM Amin Tabatabaei narrowly defeated GM Anton Smirnov in an exciting match on Tuesday in the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. Tabatabaei is the second Iranian player to move on to the quarterfinals after GM Parham Maghsoodloo...
Overcoming both a 1-7 deficit and internet disconnections, GM Parham Maghsoodloo defeated GM Praggnanandhaa R. on Monday in their round-of-16 match of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The next match in the championship ...
GM Boris Gelfand won the 34th edition of the Leon Masters, held on Chess.com for the second year in a row due to the pandemic. Gelfand beat GM Leinier Dominguez in the blitz tiebreak of the final to win his second Leon title. How to watch?The ga...
GM Arjun Erigaisi beat GM Kirill Shevchenko on Sunday in the second match in the round of 16 in the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The tournament is a knockout competition for top junior chess players with a $35,000 prize f...
On a somewhat anticlimactic last day, GM Levon Aronian won the Goldmoney Asian Rapid final rather quickly. Needing just two game points, Aronian defeated GM Vladislav Artemiev twice to clinch the $30,000 first prize after an hour and 25 minutes of...
GM Levon Aronian took the lead in the Goldmoney Asian Rapid final and needs only two game points vs. GM Vladislav Artemiev on Sunday to win the tournament. Aronian drew three times and won one game on Saturday, just like GM Magnus Carlsen vs. GM D...
GM Hou Yifan won the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship after beating GM Harika Dronavalli 15-13 in the final on Saturday. Hou clinched the $20,000 first prize in a tight match where she won the final two bullet games. Harika won $12,...
