GM Hikaru Nakamura won his fifth title match at the 2022 Speed Chess Championship, defeating GM Magnus Carlsen in an immensely close final on Sunday. Nakamura dominated the 5+1 segment, capitalizing on his own winning chances while disrupting Carl...
The first Titled Tuesday tournaments of 2023 were won by GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Dmitrij Kollars on January 3. Duda won the first event of the year outright with a score of 10/11. Kollars followed with a 9.5/11 performance and won on tiebreaks....
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk plans to represent Switzerland for future chess events, a federation transfer that is likely to start on January 1, 2024. The news was published on the website of the Swiss Chess Federation.
Kosteniuk stopped playing for h...