GM Magnus Carlsen has booked his spot in the 2023 FIDE World Cup final after winning his match against GM Nijat Abasov by a margin of 1.5/2. Abasov fought valiantly to keep his world cup hopes alive and played a near-perfect game on Sunday however...
The Tata Steel Rapid & Blitz Women's tournament was inaugurated at Kolkata, India, on Wednesday, August 30, 2023, with a short ceremony and drawing of lots. The event pits five of the best Indian women players against five invited global stars...
GM Alireza Firouzja has become the fourth player to sweep both ends of a Titled Tuesday, joining GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in accomplishing the feat. Firouzja won the early event on August 29 with 9.5 points, then ...
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WR Chess completed their phenomenal run on the final day of the World Rapid Team Championship, clinching first with a round to spare. It was truly a team victory as every member contr...
The 2023 Speed Chess Championship is sprinting towards us, with only a week left before the main event begins! Sixteen of the game's quickest thinkers will compete to see who can make it over the finish line and be crowned as this year's Speed Che...
Chess has been given a major boost in England after the U.K. government announced a combined package worth almost £1 million ($1.25 million) to fund the English Chess Federation (ECF). The funding will support children playing chess and impr...
After two days, WR Chess soars ahead of the field at the World Rapid Team Championship. Led by perfect scores from GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Hou Yifan, this star-studded team has won eight matches in a row to gain a three-point margin...
WR Chess, led by GM Wesley So, rose to clear first on day one of the World Rapid Team Championship 2023, winning all of their matches so far.
The top seed, GM Viswanathan Anand's Freedom, had a rocky fourth round, nearly losing to GM Pental...
GM Daniel Naroditsky finished ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Andrew Tang in Saturday's Bullet Brawl after scoring 70 wins en route to amassing a 275 score. Following a loss to Nakamura in his first game, Naroditsky ran rampant and procured a 26-...
The Russian-born, recently Slovenian GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival 2023 | Masters, which concluded on Thursday. Undefeated, he finished ahead of 40 other grandmasters (and 142 titled players total) with seven points in the ...