The first FIDE World Championship without GM Magnus Carlsen in more than 10 years began with a dramatic game on Sunday in Astana, Kazakhstan. While there is no defending world champion, there is a returning challenger, and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi le...
GM Ding Liren was able to hold GM Ian Nepomniachtchi to a draw in game 11, the tamest encounter of the 2023 FIDE World Championship so far. All eye are now turning to the Chinese GM's second to last game with the white pieces on…
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi moved one step closer to the world championship title on Sunday after equalizing with Black and drawing in 45 moves in the 10th game of the 2023 FIDE World Championship.
GM Ding Liren reverted to the English Opening and val...
A draw in the ninth round of the 2023 FIDE World Championship was welcomed by both challengers on Friday, who both had incentives to take half a point from the round. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi moved to two and a half points of the world champions...
Grandmaster Alexey Sarana has become one of the most prolific Russian grandmasters to switch federations as FIDE on Friday confirmed that he can play under the Serbian flag.
The 23-year-old who became the European champion in March is ranked wor...
A mysterious participant in the women's section of the Kenya Open Chess Championship in Nairobi, Kenya was exposed as a male impostor and removed from the tournament. The player, whose identity was not made public, admitted to the cheating and sai...
Trials 1 through 8 of the Olympic Esports Series 2023 saw eight winners: GMs Ngoc Truong Son Nguyen, Frederik Svane, Hikaru Nakamura, Yu Yangyi, Jaime Santos Latasa, Alexey Sarana, and IMs M Pranesh and Emin Ohanyan.
While many of the "usu...
GM Ding Liren almost bounced back in sensational fashion after a gutwrenching round-seven loss, falling just short after a herculean effort from GM Ian Nepomniachtchi that resulted in a draw in the eighth round of the 2023 FIDE World Championship....
GMs Aleksandra Goryachkina, Bibisara Assaubayeva, and Zhu Jiner tied for first in the recently concluded third leg of the 2022-2023 FIDE Women's Grand Prix with scores of 6/9 in New Delhi, with Goryachkina edging out the trio on tiebreaks.
Follo...
Titled Tuesday on April 18 featured several storylines beyond GM Tuan Minh Le winning the early event and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave winning the late event. GM Igor Kovalenko, who has been on the front lines in Ukraine's attempt to fight off Russia...