The PBG Alaskan Knights celebrated a dream start to the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League's second season by winning their first three matches in the round-robin stage. Two were scheduled on Friday when the Knights defeated both the American Gambi...
IM Levy Rozman, (aka GothamChess) sent waves across the Twittersphere recently when he toppled GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in Titled Tuesday. However, to a crowd of chess enthusiasts at the University of Florida (UF), his recent presence on their campus...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Magnus Carlsen won the first Titled Tuesdays of October on the first of the month. Bortnyk scored 10/11 early to win outright, while Carlsen scored 9.5/11 late and won on tiebreaks over GM Grigoriy Oparin, whom he also ...
This October, five new (and familiar) faces have landed on Chess.com. Martin Krueger, Jack, Ghost Giri, Cramaline, and Beetlejuicer may seem like an unlikely group of friends—but they all have one thing in common: a cunning passion for chess...
Indian GM Gukesh Dommaraju has broken into the world top-five for the first time on the October 2024 FIDE rating list after scoring double gold at the 2024 FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest, while also growing the gap to his world championship oppon...
Mark Crowther, the founder of The Week in Chess (TWIC), single-handedly changed the chess landscape in the 90s and has provided an invaluable free resource for chess enthusiasts and professionals for 30 years. He has no plans of slowing down. Si...
We're a few days away from the second season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2024, taking place October 3-11 in London. GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand, Hou Yifan, and Vaishali Rameshbabu are among the players in wh...
GM Alireza Firouzja has advanced to play GM Magnus Carlsen in the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024 Division I Grand Final. GM Levon Aronian showed tremendous form when he defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 1.5-0.5 but was met with an immovable Firo...
At just 13 years of age, GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus has become the youngest-ever player to record a rating of 2600, demolishing the previous record by close to a year. Upon returning to school in Turkiye, he received a hero's welcome. The Turkish pr...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the 10th edition of the Gashimov Memorial on Saturday in Susha, Azerbaijan. The Russian grandmaster, who played in the tournament for the first time, finished ahead of GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is one win away from his 30th Bullet Brawl title after stringing together a 42-game winning streak during Saturday's event and claiming the $400 first prize. Nakamura's 75/78 performance earned him a score of 284, 16 points clea...
The three divisions of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024 are set to begin. After a Play-in and two Division Placement matches, we will see the following players in Division I: GMs Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Arjun Erigaisi, Levon Aronian...
The fourth and last online event of the Champions Chess Tour is underway, and soon, the full field of eight players will be all set for the finals. While we don't yet know who'll join GMs Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrav...
After GM Hans Niemann edged out GM Vladimir Kramnik on tiebreaks in the early Titled Tuesday of September 24, GM Magnus Carlsen won outright in the late event, his only blemish being a ninth-round loss to GM Hikaru Nakamura, who finished second. ...
India is the future of chess and the future is now. That's one summary of the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad, which saw GM Gukesh Dommaraju, GM Arjun Erigaisi, IM Divya Deshmukh, and IM Vantika Agrawal claim team and individual gold as India dominated t...
Russian and Belarusian chess teams will remain banned, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) decided at the General Assembly on Sunday. Instead, delegates voted in favor of a motion to consider lifting some restrictions for vulnerable groups. ...
GMs Gukesh Dommaraju, Arjun Erigaisi, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu all won as the Indian men wrapped up victory in the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad with a statement 3.5-0.5 win over Slovenia. They finished a full four points ahead of five teams, with...
India is on the brink of winning gold after beating the United States 2.5-1.5 in round 10 of the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad. Just as in Chennai, GM Gukesh Dommaraju defeated GM Fabiano Caruana while GM Arjun Erigaisi took down GM Leinier Doming...
Two days before the General Assembly of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) prepares for a possibly pivotal vote to decide whether to lift sanctions on the Russian and Belarusian chess federations, the U.S. State Department has issued a stat...
Uzbekistan is the first team in the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad to keep from losing a match against India, holding an equal 2-2 match score with four draws. India still leads by two points. GM Leinier Dominguez led the U.S. to a 2.5-1.5 victory again...
Swedish chess player and influencer WFM Anna Cramling has revealed that she is among the many female players who were harassed by a male chess player, expressing her dismay at the punishment handed down to the perpetrator. Latvian IM Andrejs Str...
IMs Eric Rosen and Nhat Minh To were the highest-ranked players to qualify for the Finals of the Chess.com Duck Chess Championship 2024. Six more Duck Chess mavens will join them in the knockout, including Kapik1337, the reigning number-one in the...
After defeating Iran 3.5-0.5, India continues to lead the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad with a perfect 16/16 score. Of 32 games played, India hasn't lost a single one. GM Benjamin Gledura won a close match for Hungary 2.5-1.5 against Armenia after defe...
Judit Polgar’s Global Chess Festival 2024 celebrated its 10th anniversary on September 17-18. Following its motto of "Chess Connects Us," each year the festival aims to create an atmosphere that is welcoming and captivating for chess enthusi...
