The final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship will be played between GM Hou Yifan and GM Harika Dronavalli. In the second semifinal on Friday, Hou defeated her compatriot GM Lei Tingjie 11.5-9.5. The final will take ...
GM Raunak Sadhwani on Thursday defeated GM Paulius Pultinevicius in the opening match of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The tournament is a knockout competition for top junior chess players with a $35,000 prize fund. ...
GM Harika Dronavalli on Thursday eliminated GM Kateryna Lagno from the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. In a thriller of a match, everything was decided in the third bullet game of the tiebreak. Lagno, the top seed in the event, ...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ding Liren won their first matches in the semifinals of the Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament. Carlsen lost his first game to GM Levon Aronian but then scored 2.5/3 in the remainder, while Ding drew one and won two games vs...
The Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament will see GM Magnus Carlsen vs. GM Levon Aronian and GM Vladislav Artemiev vs. GM Ding Liren in the semifinals that start on Thursday. Aronian and Carlsen both won their matches in the tiebreak, against GM Arj...
GM Vidit Gujrathi won Titled Tuesday on June 29 with 9.5 points out of 11. He held the tiebreaker advantage over second-place GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and third-place GM Baadur Jobava. GM Hikaru Nakamura finished with 9/11 for fourth place after tiebr...
IM Abhimanyu Mishra became the youngest chess grandmaster in history today. The 12-year-old player from New Jersey scored his third GM norm in Budapest, having already crossed the required 2500 Elo rating barrier. Mishra (often called "Abhi") br...
The Main Event of the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid starts on Thursday, July 1. The first match in the round of 16 will see GM Raunak Sadhwani of India vs. GM Paulius Pultinevicius of Lithuania at 10 a.m. Pacific / 19:...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Vladislav Artemiev won their first quarterfinal matches in the Goldmoney Asian Rapid knockout. Carlsen defeated GM Wesley So with two wins vs. one loss, while Artemiev won three straight games vs. GM Anish Giri. The othe...
An 88-year-old chess player from Venezuela recently received a very nice surprise: his FM title. He was informed that FIDE had acknowledged the title application based on results that he scored in the 1960s. It's a record that won't be easy to b...
With lovely combinative play, GM Levon Aronian finished at the top of the leaderboard in the Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament's preliminaries. He made it to the knockout phase with seven other players, including the 17-year-old Indian GM Arjun Eri...
GM Lei Tingjie joined GMs Kateryna Lagno, Hou Yifan, and Harika Dronavalli in the semifinals of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. Lei beat former women's world champion GM Antoaneta Stefanova 11-9 in their quarterfinal on M...
After the second day of the preliminaries in the Goldmoney Asian Rapid, GMs Levon Aronian and Ding Liren are tied for first place with 7/10, closely followed by GM Wesley So and Vladislav Artemiev. GM Alireza Firouzja and Daniil Dubov ne...
The Goldmoney Asian Rapid, the seventh leg of the Champions Chess Tour, began on Saturday. Despite a loss in the first round to GM Alireza Firouzja, World Champion Magnus Carlsen is tied for first place with GMs Ding Liren, Levon Aronian,&nbs...
GM Hou Yifan and GM Harika Dronavalli both won their quarterfinals on Friday in the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. Hou beat IM Bibisara Assaubayeva 13.5-9.5. Then Harika won her match vs. GM Anna Muzychuk with almost the sam...
The FIDE World Cup takes place between July 12 and August 6, 2021 in Sochi, Russia. The prize fund is $1,892,500. It is part of the world championship cycle: the top two players qualify for the 2022 FIDE Candidates Tournament. GM Viswanath...
GM Kateryna Lagno is the first player to reach the semifinals of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. The reigning women's world blitz champion from Russia defeated Georgia's number-one female, GM Nana Dzagnidze, 14-8 on Thurs...
While others have come close, GM Anton Korobov became the first player to score 10.5/11 in Titled Tuesday, earning him a full-point tournament victory on June 22. GM Aryan Tari came in second with 9.5/11 on a tiebreak over GM Oleksandr Bortnyk. Ro...
Leading from start to finish, GM Wesley So won the Paris Rapid & Blitz tournament as the best and most consistent player in the field. The American player secured the $37,500 first prize with a round to spare before beating his closest rival G...
GM Wesley So is still leading the Paris Rapid & Blitz tournament after the first nine rounds of blitz chess. The American grandmaster is half a point ahead of GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. GM Alireza Firouzja surged in the standings after scoring a f...
GM Sam Shankland won the third edition of the Prague Masters. Playing his first over-the-board tournament in 16 months, the California-based grandmaster finished on 5.5/7, half a point more than Polish GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. How to watch?The g...
In her first official chess event in 2021, GM Hou Yifan reached the quarterfinals of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. The former women's world champion from China beat Azerbaijan's IM Gulnar Mammadova 15-6 on Sunday. The next...
GM Wesley So is leading the Paris Rapid & Blitz tournament after nine rounds of rapid chess. The American grandmaster is one point ahead of GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who played a brilliant sacrifice in the ninth round. GM Etienne Bacrot, who will...
Two more players qualified for the quarterfinals of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship on Saturday. First, GM Lei Tingjie (China) defeated WGM Vaishali R. (India) and in the second match, GM Anna Muzychuk beat IM Iulija Osmak...
