The 2022 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship commenced on Thursday with a cutthroat qualifier where GM David Paravyan emerged victorious after defeating GM Tuan Minh Le in a dazzling armageddon tiebreaker. Amidst a field of 142 titled players, Mi...
GMs Wesley So and Nihal Sarin confirmed their progression to the Chess.com Global Championship final after winning arduous semifinal matches on Saturday. The players will compete for the top prize of $200,000, and the winner will be crowned the in...
GMs Wesley So and Anish Giri almost hit the front in their respective semifinals against GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Nihal Sarin at the Chess.com Global Championship on Friday but were both held to 2-2 following some resolute defense by their opponent...
GM Hikaru Nakamura was crowned as the FIDE Fischer Random World Chess Champion on Sunday after winning a thrilling armageddon tiebreaker final against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. Having split the points in their four-game mini-match, Nakamura saved h...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura were confirmed on Saturday as the grand finalists for the 2022 Fischer Random World Championships after winning their respective semifinals by convincing margins. Nakamura only needed three games ...
WGM Jennifer Yu was crowned the winner of the 2022 U.S. Women's Chess Championship on Thursday after a thrilling tiebreaker that had to be decided by an armageddon game. After winning the opening game of the match against GM Irina Krush, Yu very n...
GM Fabiano Caruana was crowned the winner of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships on Wednesday after scoring an unbeaten 8.5/13 in St. Louis. GM Ray Robson did all that he could to equal Caruana's score but couldn't break through against GM Jeffery X...
Tuesday's penultimate round of the U.S. Chess Championship saw leader GM Fabiano Caruana draw his fifth game straight against GM Sam Shankland and move to 8/12. GM Ray Robson, his closest challenger, trails by half a point with the two players pla...
Tensions are sky-high in St. Louis after a high-voltage 11th round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championship featured three decisive results. GM Sam Sevian scored a blistering win over GM Dariusz Swiercz with black to move into third place, while the le...
The 10th round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championship took place on Saturday with a single decisive result in favor of GM Hans Niemann. Draws for GMs Fabiano Caruana and Ray Robson left them on 7/10 and 6.5/10 respectively with chances for chasers to...
GM Sam Shankland was the sole winner in round nine of the 2022 U.S. Championships on Friday after he defeated a struggling GM Christopher Yoo. Besides this game, the remainder of the encounters were drawn with remarkably high accuracy: an average ...
Scoring his third win in a row, GM Ray Robson completed a hat trick on Thursday at the 2022 U.S. Championship. The 27-year-old grandmaster beat GM Elshan Moradiabadi with the black pieces and is now trailing the leader, GM Fabiano Caruana, by half...
Instructive attacking chess, dazzling tactics, and a 10-move disaster game all came to the fore during the seventh round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships on Tuesday. GM Fabiano Caruana won his fourth game and remains ahead of his newest challe...
A day of decisive results with the black pieces ruled the sixth round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championship on Tuesday. GM Fabiano Caruana was able to extend his lead to a full point after beating GM Elshan Moradiabadi while GMs Ray Robson and Dariu...
The fifth round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships saw a new contender, GM Awonder Liang, rise to challenge GM Fabiano Caruana after a scintillating win over one of the pre-tournament favorites, GM Levon Aronian using the Scotch Gambit. In the...
The 2022 U.S. Chess Championship continued on Saturday with electric games across the board in round four. GMs Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Alex Lenderman won their respective games with the former rising above the rest of the field by half a p...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Christopher Yoo, and Awonder Liang all won their third-round games at the 2022 U.S. Championships on Friday, with the former two joining GMs Sam Sevian and Hans Niemann atop the leaderboard on 2/3. Players with the white pie...
The second day of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships was a day of upsets as GM Christopher Yoo stunned 2021 champion GM Wesley So with the black pieces in a remarkably aggressive clash. Several results went the way of the underdogs in the women's e...
GMs Hans Niemann and Sam Sevian were the two winners on the opening day of the U.S. Championship in St. Louis as Niemann looked to put to bed any speculations about his over-the-board play. The women's section saw four decisive results, including ...
The 2022 Chess.com Global Championship presented by Brave continued on Monday with round of 16 matchups between GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Leinier Dominguez Perez, as well as GMs Fabiano Caruana and Dmitry Andreikin. Nakamura controlled his match f...
An action-packed day that saw most of the favorites proceed through their round of 32 matchups took place on Saturday in the Chess.com Global Championship. GM Anish Giri was the standout and was able to win all three of his games with flair agains...
GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Jeffery Xiong, and Alexey Sarana were the three victorious players in their round of 32 matches on Friday as the Chess.com Global Championship continued. Favorites Duda and Xiong had to shake off the nerves early against th...
GM Fabiano Caruana soared from behind on the final day of the 2022 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX to equal GM Alireza Firouzja's impressive 6.5/9, before beating him in a playoff that required an armageddon game to determine the winner. Fir...
GM Alireza Firouzja continued his fine run of form in St. Louis in the 2022 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX on Thursday with two key victories over GM Garry Kasparov and previous tournament leader GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. Firouzja's 2.5/3 score on day...
