Titled Tuesday presented by SEOCrawl took a surprising turn on May 10 as none other than GM Magnus Carlsen played in the early event, his first games on Chess.com since February 2021. Carlsen delivered, effectively clinching the tournament with a ...
Just coming off his victory at the Capablanca Memorial, GM Hans Niemann also emerged victoriously at the Tepe Sigeman & Co Tournament in Malmo, Sweden. The 18-year-old American grandmaster finished on 5/7, a point clear of the pack.
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Another brutal round in Bucharest has concluded with a similar pattern as the first three rounds: one victory and four draws. This time, it was GM Fabiano Caruana who beat the luckless winner of last year's event GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. There we...
The first round of 16 match in this year's I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship featured an exciting battle between two well-known names in the chess streaming community: IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess), the number one chess streamer on YouTube...
The 13th week of the Rapid Chess Championship, brought to you by Coinbase, saw GM Hikaru Nakamura outwit a strong field and take home the top spot in the knockout while GM Samuel Sevian won the Swiss event by a convincing one-point margin.
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If you were getting used to just one decisive game per round, then Sunday's round rocks your world with three decisive games, lots of blunders, and electrifying action.
Winners were GM Wesley So who prevailed over co-loader GM Ian Nepomniachtchi...
For the third round in a row, the players delivered one win and four draws. This round saw the hometown hero, GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac, win against GM Richard Rapport after the latter first let go of a decisive advantage and then a perpetual check.
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After lots of tension and complicated battles, just one game ended decisively when GM Ian Nepomniachtchi beat GM Alireza Firouzja. That the remaining games would all end in draws was far from obvious during the round.
Round three will begin on S...
GM Yuri Averbakh, the world’s oldest grandmaster, a trainer, international arbiter, chess composer, endgame theoretician, writer, historian, honorary member of FIDE, and the last living participant of the famous Zurich 1953 Candidates Tourna...
NM Griffin McConnell earned the national master title on March 19, 2022, at the age of 17, after undergoing four brain surgeries. Despite having seizures since childhood and undergoing several operations—after various medications failed to h...