Another round with five draws at the Superbet Chess Classic Romania saw several missed chances. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu was completely winning for one move but failed to spot the required queen sortie against GM Wesley So. Another hard-to-fin...
GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus defeated FM Henry Tudor in the Final of the ChessKid Youth Championships 2024 for players under 13. While the Turkish prodigy was the clear favorite to win this event, Tudor managed to finish the regular games with a tied 2...
10-year-old FM Faustino Oro,, dubbed the 'Messi of Chess,' has become the youngest-ever international master and once again earned a place in chess history, securing the final norm today in Barcelona, Spain. The Argentinian prodigy is one of only ...
GM Andrew Tang made a statement in Saturday's Bullet Brawl after winning 70 games and accruing 253 points on the way to claiming the $400 first prize and his second title. For the first time since March, a player not named GM Hikaru Nakamura,...
After progressing to the ChessKid Youth Championships Knockout earlier in the day, 13-year-old GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus has commanded another headline with a historic Bullet Brawl victory on Saturday. Scoring 220 points, he finished well ahead of s...
GM Tan Zhongyi was crowned as the winner and will receive the $50,000 first prize after a quick draw with GM Alexandra Kosteniuk secured her a 6/9 score in the final round of the Cairns Cup 2024 on Saturday.
GM Anna Muzychuk finished on a…
GM Jaime Santos came from behind to beat GM Arjun Erigaisi 2.5-1.5 in a thrilling second Semifinal of the 2024 Leon Masters. The Spanish grandmaster will now attempt to defend the title he won in 2023 as he takes on the legendary GM Viswanathan An...
The fourth round of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania was a good day for GM Fabiano Caruana. The 31-year-old American grandmaster is back to being the number two in the world with a 2800+ rating after beating GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac. GM Praggnanand...
GM-elect Yagiz Erdogmus, Antoni Radzimski, FM Henry Tudor, and CM Aaron Mendes all move on to the four-player Knockout of the ChessKid Youth Championships 2024 for players under 13. The four players finished in the top two of their respective grou...
Perhaps it sounded too wild to be true. The $1 million buy-in tournament with GMs Hans Niemann, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Fabiano Caruana, and Ian Nepomniachtchi, scheduled for November 21, 2024, in Dusseldorf, Germany, has been cancelled by organize...