World number-one Magnus Carlsen escaped with just two minor pieces against Danish GM Jonas Bjerre's queen to help struggling Norway to a second win in a row, while top-seed Azerbaijan is in freefall, symbolized by GM Teimour Radjabov losing in 19 ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura claimed first place in Bullet Brawl and won $400 for the second week in a row after accruing a winning score of 242.
During the two-hour arena, the 67 wins, four draws, and eight losses for Nakamura meant that he was abl...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz by half a point after securing a draw with second-placed GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round. Caruana's 6/9 score on Saturday allowed him to overtake Vachier-Lagrave, whose 3.5...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave rose to the top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after scoring 7/9 on the first day of blitz chess, with a 2971 rating performance. A loss against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was the only blight on h...
ChessKid Stars, IM Alice Lee and FM Tani Adewumi, defeated the Harvard Chess Club, represented by co-presidents WGM Jennifer Yu and FM Chris Shen, in the first-ever Harvard vs. ChessKid match.
Starting off with a three-game winning streak, the p...
The London Chess Classic will return with its 13th edition this December in a field headed by Indian prodigy GM Gukesh Dommaraju. The event could potentially be decisive for the 18-year-old's hunt for a Candidates spot.
The return of the flagshi...
GM Ray Robson leads the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after scoring 11/18 in the rapid segment. 3/6 was enough for Robson to maintain the lead on Thursday, but GM Fabiano Caruana, who scored 4/6 on day three, looms one point shy of the…
GM Hou Yifan defeated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 12.5-9.5 to secure her spot in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Final.
The 22-game match saw just three draws. Kosteniuk led by one point at the end of each of the first two...
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GM Ray Robson scored a crucial win over GM Alireza Firouzja in round six of the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz on the white side of the King's Indian Defense: Makogonov Variation on Wednesday.
Robson entered the sole lead thanks to day-one l...