Update: The winners have been announced! See the names below. The main event of the 2023 Bullet Chess Championship (BCC) is almost here. Sixteen elite players, including bullet legends GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Magnus Carlsen, and Alireza Firouzja,...
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You can now play chess against the star player of the U.S. national soccer team, Christian Pulisic. A fast and creative player on the field, Pulisic is ready to show you what he's got over the board! Head to our Play Computer page to challenge the...
You've been watching as GM Magnus Carlsen won the Airthings Masters to kick off the 2023 Champions Chess Tour (CCT). You've kept following to see GM Hikaru Nakamura take down the Chessable Masters. Then GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the ChessKid Cu...
For the second time ever, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen won Titled Tuesday on the same day. It previously occurred on October 11, 2022. Just like last time, Nakamura won the early tournament and Carlsen the late event. Nakamura also finis...
Lukasz Nowak's movement off the board may be restricted, but on the chessboard, he can move better than most people. Last month the remarkable 25-year-old fulfilled all requirements for the IM title. Just months after his birth, FM Lukasz Nowak ...
GM Lei Tingjie made an effortless draw with the black pieces against GM Ju Wenjun in game six of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship to lead 3.5-2.5 at the midway point. The players now move from Shanghai to another Chinese mega-city, Lei's b...
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov to secure his seat in the Division I Grand Final of the Champions Chess Tour Aimchess Rapid 2023. He won the first two games and, despite being down two pawns and dead lost in the third, found a ...
GM Simen Agdestein won his first Norwegian Championship as a 15-year-old in 1982. 41 years later, the veteran clinched his ninth title and extended his record as the oldest champion of all time. The 56-year-old emerged victorious in Oslo on Satu...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Nodirbek Abdusattorov advance to the Winners Final in Division I of the Champions Chess Tour Aimchess Rapid 2023 after defeating GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian, respectively, in four regular games and without armagedd...
He's a chess icon normally known for his fast play, not his fast food. But that could be about to change as GM Viswanathan Anand appears in a commercial for the restaurant giant Subway. Fresh from appearing in the inaugural Global Chess League, ...
Challenger GM Lei Tingjie overpowered the defending champion Ju Wenjun in game five of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship to take a 3-2 lead with just one game to go before the match switches from Shanghai to her home city of Chongqing. ...
The organizers of Norway Chess recently announced their groundbreaking vision to host an all-female super tournament in 2024 with conditions equal to their annual top-level competition. The minds behind "the world's strongest chess tourname...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Levon Aronian move on to the Winners Bracket in Division I of the Champions Chess Tour Aimchess Rapid 2023 after winning their matches on the first day. Carlsen and Caruana beat the...
The SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia 2023 came to a close on Sunday with one clear winner, GM Magnus Carlsen. The former world champion kept up his formidable run and scored 6/9 on the second day of blitz to take his total to 26/36. Not...
The longest game of the match so far saw GM Ju Wenjun shrug off an opening surprise to torture GM Lei Tingjie for five hours in game four of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship. Lei didn't crack, however, so the scores are still tied, at 2-2,...
GM Hikaru Nakamura smashed records on Saturday when he scored 75 wins and 276 points to claim his fifth Bullet Brawl crown along with the $400 first prize. After falling short in the previous edition, he was nearly invincible in the two-hour, 106-...
With an unbelievable perfect score on Saturday, GM Magnus Carlsen seized the lead by a three-point margin at the SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia 2023. His 9-0 blitz performance plus his victories in the last two rapid games add up to an 11-gam...
Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun was surprised in the opening but pounced on the chance to grab a central pawn, leaving challenger GM Lei Tingjie on the ropes in game three of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship in Shanghai. Lei held firm,...
In their first-ever tournament encounter, GM Gukesh D. defeated his mentor, GM Viswanathan Anand, on day three of the SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia 2023. GMs Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi shared first for the rapid segment, ...
All 16 participants in the 2023 Bullet Chess Championship are now determined. Along with 10 invited players, the six additional spots have been filled—four of them on Friday. GMs David Paravyan and Denis Lazavik won in Qualifier 2, while G...
The 17-year-old IM Eline Roebers gained her first Dutch Women's Championship on Thursday in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in an event disrupted by a row over a freak "code red" storm that resulted in one player dropping out. Roebers won a double round...
After a winless day one, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi came back with a vengeance today, winning all three of his games to join GMs Viswanathan Anand and Fabiano Caruana in the lead at the SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia 2023. Caruana also had...
GM Jose Martinez and IM Emin Ohanyan won the Qualifier 1 Winners and Losers brackets, respectively, to qualify for the 2023 Bullet Chess Championship main event, which begins on July 17. In the Winners Bracket, Martinez won a one-sided matc...
