GM Jeffery Xiong won his third Titled Tuesday of 2021 on December 7, scoring 10/11. FM Khazar Babazada also made a 10/11 score but finished second on tiebreak; it was his second straight top-three finish. In a rarity, they finished a full point ah...
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in a record 136 moves in game six to score the first win of the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship. The world champion's victory came after five draws in the championship that has a €2 million ...
The December FIDE rating list officially confirms the meteoric rise of GM Alireza Firouzja, who is the new world number-two player, 52 points behind GM Magnus Carlsen. GM Levon Aronian now represents the U.S. while GM Hikaru Nakamura was removed f...
GM Fabiano Caruana beat GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave with a score of 13.5-12.5 in the last match of the first round of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. He will face GM Wesley So in the quarterfinal match, which starts on Thursday, D...
Going into the second rest day, the FIDE World Chess Championship is still tied as GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Magnus Carlsen also drew their fifth game on Wednesday. The challenger got a slight endgame advantage in another Anti-Marshall, bu...
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The score in the FIDE World Chess Championship is 2-2 after a fourth draw between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi on Tuesday. Did the challenger shut down Carlsen's 1.e4 in this match? It's too early to tell, but his preparation and ac...
The FIDE World Chess Championship remains in a deadlock as challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen drew their third game on Sunday. Monday is the first rest day in Dubai; game four is scheduled for Tuesday, again, at ...
The tenth game of the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship begins on Wednesday, December 8. GM Magnus Carlsen took a commanding match lead by winning game nine and is now ahead by a score of 6-3. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi will need to strike back immedi...