While GM Sam Sevian continues to lead the FTX Road to Miami tournament preliminaries after the third day, top GMs such as Anish Giri, GM Levon Aronian, and GM Leinier Dominguez are not certain of the knockout phase just yet. There are three rounds...
The FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship resumed on Tuesday with a clash between two of the tournament's powerhouses, with GM Valentina Gunina overcoming GM Tan Zhongyi with a resounding score of 19.5-9.5.
After a shaky 0-2 start...
FM Tanitoluwa Adewumi, age 11, has earned his second IM norm, of the three required to earn the coveted international master title, at the NY Summer Invitational IM C closed round-robin tournament which concluded on July 11, 2022. He won the tourn...
GM Vidit Gujrathi and GM Alexey Sarana won the first and second Play-ins of the Chess.com Global Championship.
Vidit and Sarana advance to the main event along with GMs Rasmus Svane and Oleksandr Bortnyk, victors of the two-game matches be...
GM Sam Sevian captured the lead on day two of the FTX Road to Miami tournament as he won three games back-to-back before a walkover vs. GM Teimour Radjabov, who left the tournament due to illness.
GM Ju Wenjun had a splendid second day of…
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who had already secured his victory with a round to spare, drew his last game with GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda to win the 2022 Candidates Tournament undefeated, with a 2902 performance rating and a record 9.5/14 score. GM Ding Lir...
Chess.com's BlitzChamps came to a close on Sunday when Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Chidobe Awuzie was crowned the inaugural winner of the event that looked to discover the best chess player in the NFL.
The final saw longtime locker room chess ...
GM Jeffery Xiong leads the FTX Road to Miami tournament after the first day of play. The 21-year-old American grandmaster, who is making his debut in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, was the only player to win three games, which gave him nine p...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won week 20 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Wesley So in the final in a bullet tiebreaker.
GMs Vladimir Fedoseev and David Paravyan made it to the semifinals. GM Oleksandr Bo...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi secured the victory in the 2022 Candidates Tournament with a round to spare by drawing with GM Richard Rapport on Sunday. Nepomniachtchi has now qualified for the 2023 World Championship against GM Magnus Carlsen.
GM Hikaru...