As the first week of the 2023 Pro Chess League came to a close, the Shanghai Tigers and the California Unicorns became the final teams to secure victories in their opening fixtures. The Shanghai Tigers, who fielded world number-29 GM Wei Yi as w...
The Pro Chess League returned on Wednesday with two thrilling matchups which the Levitov Chess Wizards and the Norway Gnomes won in contrasting styles. The number-one seed by average rating, the Wizards put on a strong performance against the Ga...
The Pro Chess League 2023 started with a bang on Tuesday with two high-octane matchups that resulted in convincing wins for the prodigious Indian Yogis and the GM Magnus Carlsen-led Canada Chessbrahs. The Yogis kicked off their campaign in the b...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk was crowned as the winner of the second leg of the 2022/2023 FIDE Women's Grand Prix on Monday with a score of 7.5/11 despite losing her final game to WGM Zhu Jiner. Peace was the theme of the final round in Munich as five...
The penultimate round of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix took place on Sunday in Munich and featured a miraculous escape from GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, who managed to save a completely lost endgame against GM Koneru Humpy in the round's most important m...
A commanding 6.5/8 score has planted GM Alexandra Kosteniuk firmly atop the leaderboard in Munich at the FIDE Women's Grand Prix after she consolidated her 1.5-point lead with a win over Ukrainian GM Anna Muzychuk in round eight. The "Chess Quee...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk continued her unbeaten run in the Munich FIDE Women's Grand Prix in round four after slaying GM Tan Zhongyi's Hyper Accelerated Dragon. The fourth straight victory for the "Chess Queen" pushes her out to a remarkable 1.5-poi...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov was one of four winners in the seventh round of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess Tournament and moved to 5.5/7 after scoring his fourth win of the event over GM Arjun Erigaisi on Saturday. The 18-year-old was joined in the winn...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri joined GMs Ding Liren and Nodirbek Abdusattorov on 1.5/2 after scoring victories over GMs Gukesh D and Vincent Keymer in the second round of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The world championship challenge...
GM Magnus Carlsen earned the 2022 FIDE World Blitz Championship title on Friday with a score of 16/21, one point ahead of silver medalist GM Hikaru Nakamura and bronze medalist on tiebreak, GM Haik Martirosyan. Carlsen's victory, which was confi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura attained a commanding lead after scoring 10/12 on the first day of the 2022 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship on Thursday. He defeated eight grandmasters en route to his imperious score, conceding only four draws against GMs M...
GM Magnus Carlsen claimed his fourth world rapid chess crown on Wednesday and finished with a commanding score of 10/13 in the 2022 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship. A round-11 hiccup against GM Vladislav Artemiev pulled Carlsen's tourn...
GM Magnus Carlsen assumed the pole position heading into the third and final day of the 2022 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship having scored key wins over GMs Jorden van Foreest and Giga Quparadze on Tuesday. The classical world champion's 7.5...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Fedoseev, Jorden van Foreest, and Arjun Erigaisi share the lead after an action-packed first day of the 2022 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship. After five rounds the leaders dropped only half a point each having fe...
The showdown between two of Chess.com's pre-eminent blitz and bullet chess players in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship was comfortably won by GM Hikaru Nakamura on Thursday. The defending champion took an early lead over GM Nihal Sarin and neve...
GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa was crowned the winner of the 2022 Julius Baer Challenger Championship on Tuesday after overcoming rising star GM Pranav Venkatesh, requiring only three of their four scheduled mini-matches to do so. Praggnanandhaa w...
The 2022 Speed Chess Championship continued on Monday with an electric quarterfinal performance from GM Hikaru Nakamura as he overcame GM Levon Aronian with a 15.5-8.5 score. Nakamura gained a two-point lead early, which he never let go, and was...
GM Aman "Chessbrah" Hambleton was able to confirm a resounding, albeit controversial, win over IM Lawrence Trent via technical knockout (TKO) during Sunday's landmark Mogul Chessboxing Championship, organized by the 2022 Game Awards Creator of the...
GM Nihal Sarin emerged victorious from his intergenerational clash with world championship challenger GM Ding Liren in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals on Friday with a score of 17-9 after outpacing his opponent as the time control ...
The 2022 Speed Chess Championship continued on Thursday with a high-octane double-header that saw GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So brush past their respective contenders, GMs David Paravyan and Nodirbek Abdusattorov. Nakamura was particularly i...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave convincingly won his round of 16 match against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi by the greatest margin yet in Chess.com's 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Monday after an exceptional run in the bullet portion. Vachier-Lagrave...
The 2022 Speed Chess Championship continued on Sunday with a round of 16 clash between world championship challenger GM Ding Liren and SCC qualifier GM Alexander Grischuk. The match, which ultimately ended in a 14-12 victory for the Chinese supers...
GM Fabiano Caruana was the first player to progress to the quarterfinals of the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday after defeating GM Arjun Erigaisi in a nail-biting curtain-raiser for the main event. Erigaisi built a strong lead early; ...
GM Alexander Grischuk won the second qualifier of the 2022 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship on Sunday following a convincing triumph over compatriot GM Vladislav Artemiev in the final. Having claimed he hadn't looked at chess for two or three ...
