Two international masters, including last month's Chess.com Community Champion in Duck Chess, IM Nhat Minh To, and four FIDE masters were among those to qualify for the Finals of the Chess.com Fog Of War Chess Championship 2024, after the series o...
Undeterred by his win in the previous round not being counted for the tournament score, top-seed and defending champion GM Fabiano Caruana jumped into the sole lead in the 2024 U.S. Championship with 4/5. He defeated GM Grigoriy Oparin in an impre...
GM Arjun Erigaisi defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in armageddon to win the 2024 WR Chess Masters Cup, picking up the €20,000 top prize and 27.84 FIDE Circuit points. The one thing he missed out on was crossing 2800 for the first time, after h...
Contrary to IM Levy Rozman's prediction the day before, IM Eric Rosen and WGM Nemo Zhou (Oh Yes My Queen) swept IM Sagar Shah and IM Tania Sachdev (Check De India) 2-0 in the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2 Semifinals. Game one was the critical...
The Saint Louis Chess Club has expelled GM Christopher Yoo from the 2024 U.S. Championship, saying in a statement after round five that the 17-year-old was guilty of "gross violations" of the event's "Code of Conduct" and the "US Chess Safe Play P...
GM Arjun Erigaisi is just one win away from crossing 2800 after winning the first game of his 2024 WR Chess Masters Cup Semifinal and then surviving a scare in the second when GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu missed a win on his last move. Arjun now f...
IM Sagar Shah and IM Tania Sachdev (Check De India) defeated IM Levy Rozman and James Canty III (Team Swole) in the last quarterfinal match of the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2. After soundly unraveling the King's Indian Defense in game one, they lost ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the top of the Titled Tuesday standings on October 15, winning the late event with 9.5 points after finishing third in the early event, which was won by GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda with 10 points. Duda won outright, while ...
GM Alireza Firouzja was gifted a win when GM Raunak Sadhwani overslept their first game, before a draw in the second secured a spot in the 2024 WR Chess Masters Cup Semifinals. Firouzja will play GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who beat GM Nodirbek Abd...
GM Pepe Cuenca and IM David Martinez ("Ratata Spanish Squad") won 1.5-0.5 against GM Pia Cramling and WFM Anna Cramling ("Team Cramling") and advance to the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2 Final. The Cramlings lost the first game after a dubious ...
"I'm really looking forward to the world championship match in Singapore," said GM Gukesh Dommaraju in a virtual press conference held on Tuesday, with journalists from different media able to ask questions in a Zoom call. Below we provide the que...
Five leaders were whittled down to one in the fourth round of the 2024 U.S. Championship as GM Fabiano Caruana defeated GM Abhimanyu Mishra and moved to 3/4. GM Ray Robson scored the only other decisive result of the round, thwarting a dubious paw...
Five Indian grandmasters are through to the Quarterfinals of the 2024 WR Chess Masters Cup, which will feature the all-Indian clashes GM Arjun Erigaisi vs. GM Vidit Gujrathi and GM Viswanathan Anand vs. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. GM Raunak Sadh...
We're excited to announce that GM Garry Kasparov has teamed up with Chessable to upgrade a timeless classic. In addition to the written content, chess players can now enjoy My Great Predecessors Part 4 in video, presented by the legendary Kasparov...
22-year-old GM Kirill Shevchenko has been expelled from the 2024 Spanish Team Championship with his draw against GM Bassem Amin in round one and win over GM Francisco Vallejo in round two turned into losses. When Shevchenko’s regular absence...
The 2024 U.S. Championship field has been blown wide open after GMs Fabiano Caruana, Hans Niemann, and Awonder Liang won their respective games against GMs Ray Robson, Leinier Dominguez, and Levon Aronian and have joined leading GMs Wesley So and ...
GMs Wesley So and Sam Sevian notched wins with White in round two of the 2024 U.S. Championship and have taken an early half-point lead over the pack. So won a pawn against GM Christopher Yoo and never let it go, while Sevian played creatively to ...
SRM and Athens prevailed in week three of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall Season. SRM took the sole lead as the only remaining perfect score after defeating Saint Louis. The Indian team turned in a well-rounded result to edge ahea...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk has cracked the Bullet Brawl code. He outpaced GM Daniel Naroditsky to claim his second straight title and the $400 first prize on Saturday. Amassing 69 wins, seven draws, and six losses in a performance that mirrored his...
GM Alireza Firouzja's Triveni Continental Kings have retained their Tech Mahindra Global Chess League title after defeating GM Anish Giri's PBG Alaskan Knights 2-0 in the final. Firouzja thanked "key player" GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, the only player...
Draws on all boards in round one of the 2024 U.S. Championship have already dashed the chances of a player repeating GM Bobby Fischer's perfect score in the 1964 championship, but there are clear signs that the U.S. Championship title and $55,000 ...
Not GM Magnus Carlsen's Alpine Sg Pipers but GM Alireza Firouzja's Triveni Continental Kings secured the second spot in Saturday's Final of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League. The Kings will be playing for glory against the PBG Alaskan Knights,...
After they led for most of the event, it was unsurprising to see the PBG Alaskan Knights become the first team to secure a spot in Saturday's final of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League. The Knights defeated the Triveni Continental Kings, who n...
GM Pepe Cuenca and IM David Martinez ("Ratata Spanish Squad") defeated IM Kostya Kavutskiy and IM David Pruess ("ChessDojo") 2-0 in the third quarterfinal match of the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2. They slew the King's Indian Defense with a slow squee...
