After surviving 12 games of classical games against some of the world's best players without a single loss, GM Nijat Abasov finally fell at the hands of GM Magnus Carlsen on Saturday at the 2023 FIDE World Cup. Though the world number one secured ...
Three Indian players—GMs Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Dommaraju Gukesh, and Arjun Erigaisi—will play in the quarterfinals of the 2023 FIDE World Cup after scoring 1.5/2 in their respective round-five matches on Sunday. The trio will be...
On the first day of round five of the 2023 FIDE World Cup, GMs Dommaraju Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi led the way for India's young stars after both scored wins with Black over GMs Wang Hao and Nils Grandelius, respectively. GMs Magnus Carl...
GM Daniel Naroditsky won Saturday's Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize for the second week in a row ahead of a stacked field of titled players after scoring 63 wins, nine draws, and 13 losses (226 points). His closest rivals were unsurprisingly...
GM Daniel Naroditsky won first place and $400 in August's first Bullet Brawl on Saturday after scoring 74 wins and amassing a score of 275 in the two-hour arena. Previous winners GMs Jose Martinez and Oleksandr Bortnyk, who finished in second and ...
Ukraine's GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won July's final Bullet Brawl after chalking up 70 wins in the two-hour arena en route to an insurmountable 261 score. His journey to the top was marked by a 26-game win streak in the final 30 minutes of the event. ...
GM Liem Le has been crowned as the winner of the Grandmaster Triathlon at the 2023 Biel International Chess Festival for the second year straight after a dominant classical performance. Following his 5/7 score and 2853 rating performance in the ...
Three things in life seem to be a surety: death, taxes, and GM Hikaru Nakamura winning the $400 first prize in Bullet Brawl. Hours after securing victory for the fourth time in Chess.com's Bullet Chess Championship, Nakamura was back online again,...
GM Hikaru Nakamura once again won Saturday's Bullet Brawl and claimed the $400 first prize after scoring 263 points in the two-hour arena. This victory follows his record-breaking 75-win run in the previous event. In the most stacked edition yet...
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...
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-...
GM Fabiano Caruana has been crowned the winner of the 2023 No Castling World Masters after scoring 4/6 in a double round-robin classical tournament in Dortmund, Germany, and finishing half a point ahead of GM Vladimir Kramnik. As part of the 50t...
The Triveni Continental Kings completed their comeback story with a victory in the finals of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 that went all the way down to sudden death. The 19-year-old GM Jonas Bjerre was the hero for the Kings as he to...
GM Daniel Naroditsky outclassed the field in the first weekly Bullet Brawl and convincingly won the event ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen on Saturday. Naroditsky scored 242 points during the two-hour arena, playing out 67 wins, six...
On a blockbuster final day of the regular season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023, GM Levon Aronian's Triveni Continental Kings and the GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave-led UpGrad Mumba Masters stole the two finals spots on offer from the lo...
The ambitious crossover between gridiron and chess continued on Wednesday with BlitzChamps: Michigan and was won by Wolverines wide receiver Cornelius Johnson after he swept the offensive lineman Ladarius Henderson in the champions final with a sc...
GM Hikaru Nakamura made it four wins from four starts in the sixth edition of Bullet Brawl on Saturday, claiming the $400 prize after scoring 59 wins, five draws, and nine losses en route to a winning score of 210 points. Moreso than usual, Naka...
GM Praggnanandhaa R. was the hero on the fourth day of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 after scoring a win with black over UpGrad Mumba Masters' GM Javokhir Sindarov, securing victory for the SG Alpine Warriors and pushing them into the...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Wesley So, and Eduardo Iturrizaga each secured qualifying spots for the 2023 Champions Chess Tour's fourth leg, the Aimchess Rapid, on Monday after progressing through a challenging Swiss event before winning the...
The second round of the Cairns Cup 2023 again saw four out of five games finish decisively, with GM Alexandra Kosteniuk's victory over GM Harika Dronavalli the most notable as she pushed herself out to a 2/2 start. GM Nana Dzagnidze as...
Chess.com and the nonprofit Lide Haiti raised $42,794 to empower at-risk adolescent girls in Haiti (including via chess programs) during a star-studded live event featuring Rainn Wilson on Friday. The June 2 event—hosted by IM Danny Rensch...
GM Jose Martinez won his second Bullet Brawl crown and $1,000 on Saturday with an imperious 209 points, eclipsing his nearest challengers, the second and third-placed GMs Sergei Zhigalko (190) and Andrew Tang (180) by multiple wins. In a May edi...
WGM Dinara Wagner secured victory with the black pieces in the fourth leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022-2023 after defeating GM Bela Khotenashvili and moving to 7/11. After Wagner suffered a loss in round nine that allowed GMs Harika Dr...
GM Arjun Erigaisi won the Sharjah Masters International Chess Championship 2023 on Thursday after winning his final-round game against GM Nodirbek Yakubboev. Eight players were tied on 5.5/8 heading into the final round and only Arjun was able t...
