In a day of intense fighting games, contenders for the throne appeared on the horizon to challenge the leader IM Anna Zatonskih by lessening her lead to half a point after the seventh round of the Cairns Cup 2023. As Zatonskih stayed on 4.5 points...
GM Fabiano Caruana increased his lead to 2.5 points after outwitting GM Wesley So through the armageddon tiebreaker to move on to 16 points with just one round to go at Norway Chess 2023. In the crucial final round on Friday, he will face another ...
IM Anna Zatonskih outplayed joint overnight leader GM Alexandra Kosteniuk with admirable strategic play from the black side of a French Defense to jump into the sole lead with three points after the fourth round of the Cairns Cup 2023 on Tuesday. ...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda fought a memorable and thrilling final round of the Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz 2023, where the former held his nerve to hold a draw and win the event with a score of 24 points and pocket the top p...
The Gotham Knights overcame the Shanghai Tigers with a dominating score of 9.5-6.5 in the Finals to emerge as the champions of the 2023 Pro Chess League. The Knights won the top prize of $25,000 while the Tigers settled for $20,000. GM Vladimir ...
The Shanghai Tigers convincingly routed the Indian Yogis with a strong 9-7 score in spite of off-the-board inconveniences, while the Gotham Knights crushed Team MGD1 in just three rounds to move into the Finals of the 2023 Pro Chess League. It w...
The all-Indian Team MGD1 and Indian Yogis prevailed over the Levitov Chess Wizards and Blitz, respectively, in contrasting styles in the last two Quarterfinals to move into the Semifinals of the 2023 Pro Chess League. Though leading by a score o...
The Shanghai Tigers defeated the Norway Gnomes with a score of 9-7 while the Gotham Knights overcame the Saint Louis Arch Bishops with an 8.5-7.5 margin in the first two Quarterfinals of the 2023 Pro Chess League. Even though both the teams look...
GM Arjun Erigaisi captured the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz with a round to spare, while IM Vaishali Rameshbabu caught up with the overnight leader, GM Mariya Muzychuk, and outpaced her in the final rounds to win the 2022 Tata Steel Ches...
GM Arjun Erigaisi shot into the lead with 6.5 points from nine rounds after the first day of the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz, while GM Mariya Muzychuk scored an impressive eight points from nine rounds to lead the 2022 Tata Steel Chess ...
GM Nihal Sarin won the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid with a round to spare, while GM Anna Ushenina tied for first and won the tiebreak match to win the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid. In the Open section, while Nihal scored 6...
GM Nihal Sarin and GM Nana Dzagnidze are in the sole leads of their respective groups with an identical 4.5 points from six games in the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid and 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid. Overnight leader GM Sh...
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan and GM Nana Dzagnidze of Georgia won all three rounds to jump into the sole lead of the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid and 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid, respectively, by a full-point marg...
The Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid were inaugurated at a short evening ceremony in Kolkata, India. At its fourth edition, the iconic event with separate rapid and blitz sections and a total prize fund of $41,...
Continuing with their good form in the event, Uzbekistan and Armenia prevailed over higher seeds Netherland and Spain respectively in the 11th and final round to tie for first-second places with 19 match points in the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad, wit...
The 12th-seeded Armenia defeated the sixth-seeded Azerbaijan with a convincing 3-1 victory to reach 17 match points and become the joint leaders at the end of the 10th and penultimate round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad. Dramatic developments in...
The 14th-seeded young Uzbekistan team with an average age of 20 prevailed over the overnight leader, 12th-seeded Armenia, by a strong 3-1 score to jump into sole lead with 16 match points at the end of the ninth round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympi...
Continuing their remarkable run in the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad, the 12th-seeded Armenia defeated second-seeded India 2.5-1.5 and maintained their sole lead with 15 match points at the end of the eighth round. The 11th-seeded India 2 defeated the ...
The 12th-seeded Armenia held the top-seeded U.S. to a 2-2 draw in a dramatic conclusion to a tense match involving a touched-piece blunder by GM Sam Shankland. Armenia retained the lead with 13 match points after the seventh round of the 44th FIDE...
GMs Samvel Ter-Sahakyan and Robert Hovhannisyan scored crucial wins to enable Armenia to prevail over India 2 with a 2.5-1.5 score and capture the lead with 12 match points at the end of the sixth round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad. GM Fabiano ...
11th-seeded India 2 scored an upset victory over fourth-seeded Spain, while 12th-seeded Armenia defeated 10th-seeded England, both with an identical score of 2.5-1.5, to jointly lead the open section with 10 match points at the end of the fifth ro...
India 2, Israel, England, Spain, and Armenia lead with eight match points at the end of the fourth round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad. The U.S. and India, the top two seeds, were held to 2-2 draws by Uzbekistan and France respectively. Norway s...
Italy inflicted a shocking defeat on third-seeded Norway with a convincing score of 3-1 in the third round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad, as Netherlands and India 2 scored impressive 4-0 victories against Sweden and Switzerland respectively. Ind...
At the end of the second round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad, 43 teams have four match points, and nine teams won clean 4-0 victories and thus have eight game points. In the 44th FIDE Women's Chess Olympiad, 40 teams have four match points; 11 t...
