GM Teimour Radjabov won the Airthings Masters on Sunday. The Azerbaijani grandmaster beat GM Levon Aronian in one more game and drew twice to clinch the $60,000 first prize. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave came in third after be...
GM Teimour Radjabov took the lead in the Airthings Masters final, winning one game and drawing three vs. GM Levon Aronian on Saturday. Despite starting with two losses, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave tied the first match with G...
GM Levon Aronian and GM Teimour Radjabov will play the final of the Airthings Masters on January 2-3. Both avoided a loss after winning their first match: Radjabov secured his place with two wins against GM Daniil Dubov while Aronia...
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GMs Levon Aronian and Teimour Radjabov won their matches on the first day of the Airthings Masters semifinals. Both won two games and drew two, against GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Daniil Dubov, respectively. How to wa...
The Chess.com Puzzle Week will begin January 4, and $23,000 will have been distributed by its end on January 8. However, each day will be its own event, and viewers will be able to see beloved streamers such as IM Eric "Oh no my queen!" Rosen and ...
GM Magnus Carlsen suffered a shockingly early elimination at the Airthings Masters. The world champion was knocked out by GM Daniil Dubov, who won both his white games on Wednesday. GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomnia...
GM Jeffery Xiong won the December 29 Titled Tuesday tournament. The American grandmaster edged out GMs Alan Pichot, Dmitry Andreikin, Vladimir Fedoseev, and Vahap Sanal on tiebreak. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament had a tota...
GM Levon Aronian and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won their first quarterfinal matches at the Airthings Masters against GM Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So respectively. The other two matches ended in 2-2: GM Dani...
GMs Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk, Pentala Harikrishna, and David Anton didn't make it to the knockout phase of the Airthings Masters. The four grandmasters failed to finish among the top eight in a group where GM Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru...
GM Magnus Carlsen needed just one win to join the leaders at the Airthings Masters. The second playing day saw a very high percentage of games ending in draws. How to watch?The games of the Champions Chess Tour Airthing...
The Airthings Masters, the second leg of the Champions Chess Tour, began on Boxing Day. After the first four rounds of the preliminary phase, there's a five-way tie for first place. GM Magnus Carlsen started with four draws. ...
GM Ivan Cheparinov has won the Sunway Sitges Chess Festival in Sitges, Spain. The Bulgarian grandmaster won 5,000 euros as the only player to finish on 8/10. The American IM Hans Niemann broke the 2500 Elo threshold, the last hurdle for ...
IM Not A GM is back with a sequel, and it will feature some of the most famous non-GM players in the chess community. Even famous streamer WFM Alexandra Botez will be joining, although she is not an IM. The event will run January 3-March 1, 2021, ...
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won his first Titled Tuesday tournament on December 22. The Azerbaijani grandmaster edged out GMs Raunak Sadhwani, Eltaj Safarli, and Alexander Zubov on tiebreak. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament had a total of...
GM Gawain Jones won the European Online Blitz Championship, held online over the weekend. The English grandmaster defeated the legendary GM Alexei Shirov in the final. The championship took place on Tornelo on Dec. 18-20. Organized by the Europe...
Dallas, Texas (December 21) – Meet the dynamic duo taking the online chess world by storm: 24-year-old Alexandra Botez and her 18-year-old sister, Andrea. The pair, known online as the Botez sisters, signed as content creators and streamers ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Alireza Firouzja in the final to win the Chess.com Bullet Open Championship on Sunday. Nakamura won the $5,000 first prize while Firouzja earned $2,000. The live broadcast of the second day...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura, Daniel Naroditsky, and Andrew Tang are the favorites to win the Chess.com Bullet Open Championship on Sunday. Among 12 qualifiers, these four grandmasters are directly seeded into the quarterfinals. You can...
The tiebreaker of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier concluded with GM Aleksandr Lenderman beating IM Christopher Yoo. With this, Lenderman earned a seat at the 2021 U.S. Chess Championship, along with $2,500. Yoo, who tu...
Day seven of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier yielded a result that perhaps many did not expect, but one that is sure to please anybody who has enjoyed the high-quality chess in this event. With GM Elshan Moradiabadi and IM Ch...
As one of the few strong open chess tournaments during the pandemic, the Sunway Sitges Chess Festival is underway in Sitges, Spain. While the participants enjoy playing chess as never before, the tournament hall showcases a wonderful variety of fa...
The penultimate round of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier featured exciting, double-edged games as it was the last chance for some players to stay in the running for first place. The game of the day was between GMs Daniel Naroditsk...
Day five of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier was relatively quiet, with GMs Daniel Naroditsky, Aleksandr Lenderman, Timur Gareyev, Dariusz Swiercz, Elshan Moradiabadi, and IM Christopher Yoo all drawing the...
