In a day marked by underdog dominance, GMs Teimour Radjabov and Nihal Sarin defeated the two 2023 World Championship challengers Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren in the 2022 Chess.com Global Championship round of 16, presented by Brave. clinching...
GM Hikaru Nakamura just keeps on winning Titled Tuesday, taking home the early tournament on October 11, his fourth straight week with at least one tournament victory. GM Magnus Carlsen finished in third place despite missing the first round, but ...
A day of decisive results with the black pieces ruled the sixth round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championship on Tuesday. GM Fabiano Caruana was able to extend his lead to a full point after beating GM Elshan Moradiabadi while GMs Ray Robson and Dariu...
Novy Bor won the 2022 European Club Cup on Sunday after beating Asnieres Le Grand Echiquier in the final round. The Czech team won the tournament nine years after their first European gold in 2013. Third-seeded ASVOe Pamhagen became the surpr...
The fifth round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships saw a new contender, GM Awonder Liang, rise to challenge GM Fabiano Caruana after a scintillating win over one of the pre-tournament favorites, GM Levon Aronian.
In the Women's event, four dec...
The 2022 U.S. Chess Championship continued on Saturday with electric games across the board in round four. GMs Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Alex Lenderman won their respective games with the former rising above the rest of the field by half a p...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Christopher Yoo, and Awonder Liang all won their third-round games at the 2022 U.S. Championships on Friday, with the former two joining GMs Sam Sevian and Hans Niemann atop the leaderboard on 2/3.
Players with the white pie...
IM Joachim Birger Nilsen (29) resigned as the president of the Norwegian Chess Federation, a day after admitting to cheating on Chess.com during one match in the 2016-2017 season of the PRO Chess League. Nilsen was part of the Norway Gnomes team, ...
The third and fourth rounds at the European Club Cup round saw nice wins for both GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Viswanathan Anand, but their respective teams fell down in the standings. Novy Bor (Czech Republic) is the only team that scored four victor...
The second day of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships was a day of upsets as GM Christopher Yoo stunned 2021 champion GM Wesley So with the black pieces in a remarkably aggressive clash. Several results went the way of the underdogs in the Women's e...