GM Narayanan Sunilduth Lyna is the first sole leader of the 2023 Qatar Masters after beating world number-eight Gukesh Dommaraju to move to 4.5/5. No less than 12 players are half a point back, including GM Hikaru Nakamura, and IM Vaishali R, who ...
Three wins on the fly for GM Daniel Naroditsky in October's Bullet Brawls have left the American commentator in clear second on the all-time leaderboard with seven wins and closing quickly on GM Hikaru Nakamura, who has won the two-hour arena 10 t...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Gukesh Dommaraju, and Saleh Salem all won in round four of the 2023 Qatar Masters to join a seven-way tie for first place on 3.5/4. GM Magnus Carlsen languishes a point back in 29th place after again being involved in the...
GM Fabiano Caruana increased his lead to a point, even while he let GM Sam Shankland off the hook in the eighth round of the 2023 U.S. Championship. In the U.S. Women's Championship, IM Carissa Yip and WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova continued ...
Moves were delayed 15 minutes and watches outlawed as world number-one Magnus Carlsen's tweets had an instant impact on round three of the 2023 Qatar Masters. Drama was limited on the board, as GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri were frustrat...
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) became the first team to topple the University of Missouri (Mizzou) in the SIG-sponsored 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) fall season on Saturday after a tight tussle that ended 9-7 in favor of the Texan t...
IMs Polina Shuvalova and Lawrence Trent filled the last two spots of the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinals after, respectively, winning Groups C and D. The other two semifinalists are IMs Greg Shahade and Levy Rozman (aka Gotha...
Each on a three-game winning streak, IM Carissa Yip and WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova have furthered their lead in the U.S. Women's Championship after seven rounds. They are now 1.5 points ahead of the field.
Both leaders won the...
IMs Greg Shahade and Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) advance to the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinals after winning Groups A and B, respectively, on Thursday.
Shahade's victory was a close call, and it only came after he ...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen confessed he was "completely crushed" by 23-year-old Kazakh GM Alisher Suleymenov in round two of the 2023 Qatar Masters, but afterward blamed a failure to concentrate on his opponent wearing a watch in contraventio...