The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals, brought to you by SIG, commenced today with GM Nihal Sarin taking on IM Christoper Yoo in an explosive encounter that ended with a 15-11 score in favor of the reigning champion.
Proving dom...
Another regular season of Arena Kings in the books, with the Championship Final of Season 9 coming next week. Week 12 ended the way the last four weeks had, with a victory for GM Hikaru Nakamura. Despite falling behind 2-0 in the final against GM…
Chess.com is delighted to announce the Chess.com Global Championship (CGC), our biggest tournament ever. With a total prize fund of $1,000,000, including $500,000 for our final live event at the five-star 1 Hotel in Toronto, Canada, this is an eve...
In two hard-fought matches in the Elimination Brackets, day seven decided who would make it to the finals of The American Cup and face GMs Fabiano Caruana and Irina Krush.
In group A, GM Levon Aronian outlasted GM Lenier Dominguez; in Group...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won a Titled Tuesday event for the third straight week on April 26 and was joined in the day's winners' circle by GM Baadur Jobava after the late tournament. For the second time in three weeks, no one played quite consistently e...
GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is again the sole leader of the event after day five. After him comes GM Magnus Carlsen with nine points, closely followed by GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Le Quang Liem and Jorden van Foreest with eight points.
Both GMs A...
After each having won their first game in the Winners' Brackets, GMs Fabiano Caruana and Irina Krush secured the victories in their matches respectively against GM Lenier Dominguez and FM Alice Lee.
Meanwhile, in the Elimination Brackets, GM Lev...
After day four—halfway through the event—GM Magnus Carlsen shares the lead with GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa at nine points after defeating him in their match today. GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Le Quang Liem&nbs...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG saw a tenacious turnaround today: a nearly-down-and-out GM Arjun Erigaisi flipped a colossal deficit to overcome staunch IM Denis Lazavik.
Erigaisi upped the heat in the 3+1 se...
GM Alexey Sarana won week 11 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Andrey Esipenko in the knockout final.
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the Swiss tournament and made it to the semifinals along wit...