17-year-old GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu continues to climb the highest rungs of professional chess. On Wednesday, he won the V. Geza Hetenyi Memorial | GM, held in Budapest, and will cross the 2700-rating threshold on the next official FIDE list....
Russian chess continues to lose its top players. Former Candidates player GM Kirill Alekseenko has now completed the transfer to Austria and becomes the country's highest-rated player.
The 26-year-old from St. Petersburg who was ranked amo...
Challenger GM Lei Tingjie briefly threatened to take over in game 10 of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship, but Defending Champion GM Ju Wenjun "took back" a questionable move and soon even had a nominal advantage before the game fizzled out...
GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Hikaru Nakamura won their matches by the highest margins in the quarterfinals of the Bullet Chess Championship 2023 on Tuesday. They each defeated formidable grandmasters, Andrew Tang and Jose Martinez respectively, by an...