GM Dmitry Andreikin took home an outright and undefeated Titled Tuesday victory on November 16, scoring 10/11. GM Anton Demchenko finished in sole second, a half-point behind, with 9.5/11. In a three-way tie with a 9/11 score, GM Jeffery Xiong and...
After winning the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss, GM Alireza Firouzja's quick rise to the top continues. The French-Iranian started with 4.5/5 at the European Team Championship in Slovenia and is now the new world number-three in the live rankings.
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AlphaZero's learning process is, to some extent, similar to that of humans. A new paper from DeepMind, which includes a contribution from the 14th world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, provides strong evidence for the existence of human-understan...
GM Hikaru Nakamura beat GM Peter Svidler with a score of 22-10 in the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event and will face GM Anish Giri in the quarterfinals. The next match, between GM Wesley So and GM Jeffery Xiong, starts on Monday, November ...
With the first two rounds of playoffs complete, each division has been narrowed down to the final four remaining teams. These teams will fight this weekend in the semifinals and finals for their share of the $25,000 prize pool. You won't want to m...
GM Wesley So beat GM Jeffery Xiong with a score of 18-14 in the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. In the quarterfinals, he will face the winner of the match between GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and GM Fabiano Caruana, which starts on Monday, ...
It was a doubleheader Thursday at the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event with two matches: GM Alexander Grischuk vs GM Nihal Sarin followed by GM Levon Aronian vs GM Daniil Dubov. Nihal upstaged Grischuk impressively and will face GM Richard...
There is no doubt that GM Fabiano Caruana is one of the strongest chess players in history. Since his dominant performance at the 2014 Sinquefield Cup, where he famously started with 7/7 in a field with a 2800 rating average before winning the tou...
GM Richard Rapport prevailed against GM Alexey Sarana 16.5-14.5 in a marathon 31-game match in the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event and moves on to the quarterfinals. Rapport will face the winner of the next round of 16 match between GMs A...
In the most active Titled Tuesday since August, GM Rustam Khusnutdinov took home the victory with a 9.5/11 score, winning on the tiebreak system over second-place finisher GM Dmitrij Kollars. In a logjam on 9 points out of 11, two well-known GMs t...