The first round of the 2022 Candidates Tournament begins at 6 a.m. Pacific/15:00 Central Europe. The eyes of the chess world are fixed on Madrid as the eight candidates are about to show what they have prepared for the most important tournament of...
More than any other chess event, the FIDE Candidates Tournament, which starts on Friday in Madrid, Spain, is a winner-takes-all tournament. Finishing first, and only first, means facing World Champion Magnus Carlsen in a match. GM Fabiano Caruana,...
Titled Tuesday on June 14 was won by American GM Jeffery Xiong in the early tournament and Ukrainian GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy in the late tournament. Both players won outright with scores of 9.5/11. Bernadskiy, seeded 51st in the late field, defeated...
IM Vaishali R defeated the reigning Women's World Blitz Champion, IM Bibisara Assaubayeva, in the first round of 16 match of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Monday. Vaishali led through the blitz games but had to fight ...
GM Dmitry Andreikin won week 17 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. He defeated GM Jeffery Xiong in the final blitz tiebreaker.
GMs Levon Aronian and Olexandr Bortnyk made it to the semifinals. GMs Hikaru ...
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GM Hikaru Nakamura won week 18 of the Rapid Chess Championship, presented by Coinbase, edging out four other grandmasters by tiebreaks.
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"If it's entertaining, it must be entertainment!" said a couple of TV show hosts when I lived in England, and the same can be said about this year's edition of Norway Chess.
The headline, of course, paraphrases the famous Gary Lineker (English f...
With more plot twists than a whole season's worth of "Game of Thrones," the eighth round of Norway Chess delivered more surprises, shocks, and horrors than anyone could have counted on setting up an exciting last round of the tournament.
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The FIDE presidential elections, to be held on August 7, 2022, will be fought among no fewer than four candidates. This became clear after the FIDE Electoral Commission approved the four ticket candidacies on June 7 (in PDF here, which was publish...
All good things must come to an end, and Chess.com Chief Chess Officer IM Danny Rensch saw his amazing run into the semifinals of the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship conclude on Wednesday, as IM Eric Rosen became the first finalist of…