The favorites again advanced to the last stages of the knockout competition to determine the event's quarter-finalists with the top four seeds contesting a very even and tense bracket semifinal. Whether it was the makeup of the field or the starti...
The discipline might be called Fischer Random, but the scenario that unfolded in the first four quarterfinal Knockout Qualifiers has been anything but. So far in the event, despite a regular helping of upsets and inspired underdog performances, ea...
With an open qualification process that began in April, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship continues the final qualification phase as it plays down to the final six players who will qualify for the quarterfinals in early October...
Ding Liren clinched the 2019 Sinquefield Cup as the first player since 2007 to beat Magnus Carlsen in a playoff. The Chinese GM earned $82,500 and 16.5 Grand Chess Tour points as he won the two blitz games. Ding was the under...
By beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round, Magnus Carlsen caught Ding Liren in first place at the 2019 Sinquefield Cup. The two will now decide the tournament in a playoff on Thursday. After a very disappointing rapid a...
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Drawing his game in round 10 was enough for Ding Liren to grab sole lead at the 2019 Sinquefield Cup with one round to go, as Ian Nepomniachtchi blundered and lost to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. After nine draws, Magnus Carlsen won...
A powerful and distinctly Russian-flavored bracket provided the kind of excitement that is becoming familiar in the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. For the fourth successive time the top two seeds faced each other in the final knocko...
Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi escaped from a group of five leaders as they won their games in round nine of the 2019 Sinquefield Cup. The two are tied for first place with two rounds to go. It was Ding who scored the more impressive of ...
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The Hungarian-American grandmaster Pal Benko has died at the age of 91. A two-time candidate for the world title, he was also an author and composer of endgame studies and chess problems. The Benko Gambit is named after him. The news of Ben...
It was the day everyone had been waiting for at the 2019 Sinquefield Cup. Round eight saw two wins after a dozen draws as the two Russian stalwarts Ian Nepomniachtchi and Sergey Karjakin scored resounding victories to join the leaders. Else...
GM Evgeny Tomashevsky and WGM Olga Girya are the winners of 2019 Russian Championships Superfinals, which took place in Izhevsk and Votkinsk, Udmurt Republic. A view of Votkinsk. | Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com. Each year the Russ...
It was a new day, a new round but sadly the same old story at the 2019 Sinquefield Cup. Round seven again ended with all draws. More than the result itself, the players have taken a safety-first approach, which has resulted in just four ...
With an open qualification process that began in April, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship continues the final qualification phase as it plays down to the final six players who will qualify for the quarterfinals in early October...
After yesterday's rest day, everyone expected some action at the 2019 Sinquefield Cup! But round six saw an anti-climatic end to a round where once again all six games ended in draws. Joint leader Viswanathan Anand had Anish Giri on...
On Thursday, the Indian super-grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi survived one of the strongest brackets of the knockout qualifier stage to reach the quarterfinals of the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. In a bracket that featured ...
What a difference a day makes at the 2019 Sinquefield Cup! After most players in this elite round-robin started with four consecutive draws, the field decided to make the tournament an "open" with all kinds of fun in round five. Both Ian Ne...
With an open qualification process that began in April, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship continues the final qualification phase as it plays down to the final six players who will qualify for the quarterfinals in early October. T...
Levon Aronian said before the 2019 Sinquefield Cup that he wanted to be the first to win both it and the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz in the same year. He took care of the first part of business last week, but in round four of the classical event...
Puzzle Rushers, rejoice! For today we added two new modes! You can think of them as time controls for Rush! Puzzle Modes 3 min Don't have time for a 5-minute Rush? No problem! Now you can start working on your high score in the new 3-minut...
Getting 5.5% return on your money will satiate most long-term investors, but not many chess fans. After day three of the 2019 Sinquefield Cup, a field that now includes the top 10 players in the world are all choosing a conservative portfolio. Aga...
Saturday's Group D finale was only the start of an action-packed weekend in the PRO Chess League Summer Series. The Montreal Chessbrahs completed their group stage by beating the Minnesota Blizzard in their live club match...
On Sunday, the 16-year-old Iranian chess prodigy GM Alireza Firouzja weathered a seven-hour barrage of tough opponents to reach the quarterfinals of the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. Firouzja defeated IM Nicol...
