With draws in both of the two classical games, American GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So were set to decide who would win the third and final leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in a rapid-play tiebreaker. After an intense dr...
"Ukraine is now on the frontline of the global war of freedom against tyranny," was one of several powerful quotes from GM Garry Kasparov in a TED Talk published on Tuesday—the day before his 59th birthday today. The pro-democracy activist a...
World Rapid Champion GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the early edition of Titled Tuesday while GM Hikaru Nakamura, who did not play last week, won the late tournament. Both players took their tournament outright with a score of 10/11. It was also a r...
GM Praggnanandhaa R. scored one of his career's best achievements so far by winning the 2022 Kvika Reykjavik Open in Iceland on Tuesday. The only 16-year-old Indian grandmaster won a crucial and dramatic game against his compatriot GM Gukesh D. (1...
American GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So also drew their second game in the final of the third and final leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix. The players quickly repeated moves in a line in the Berlin Ruy Lopez which they have played ...
Last Sunday, GM Hikaru Nakamura joined commentators GM Yasser Seirawan and GM Daniel Naroditsky after winning the week nine Rapid Chess Championship knockout and explained his Candidates preparation, his mentality going into one of the biggest eve...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG began today with the first round of 16 match between GMs Brandon Jacobson and Arseniy Nesterov, which the former won after a suspenseful match that ended 14.5-12.5 in favor o...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won week nine of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating longtime rival GM Levon Aronian in the knockout final.
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Swiss tournament and made it to ...
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Round six is in the books, and only one round remains in the regular season before the playoffs. The University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley is now the only team at 6-0 in division one and looks to go 7-0 to complete the perfect…