GM-elect Divya Deshmukh dominated her first match in the Women's Speed Chess Championship and got off to a great start against GM Hou Yifan in her quarterfinal match on Wednesday. However, Hou fought back and the two played the closest WSCC match ...
GM Fabiano Caruana nearly set a new record in the Grand Chess Tour with a score of 16/18, but nerves got the better of him and he collapsed from a winning position against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. Despite that loss, he continues to lead th...
GM Ju Wenjun's undefeated match record in the Women's Speed Chess Championship faced its hardest challenge yet as she needed tiebreaks to overcome GM Bibisara Assaubayeva by a score of 10.5-8.5. In the second match of the day, GM Kateryna Lagno do...
GM Vincent Keymer defeated GM Awonder Liang in round seven of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 to break into the world top 10 for the first time. GM Arjun Erigaisi trails by 1.5 points after a quiet draw against GM Anish Giri and is jo...
Not for the first time, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen were your Titled Tuesday winners on August 12. Nakamura defeated GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in the final round of the first tournament, winning it on tiebreaks over Bortnyk and two others. I...
GM Fabiano Caruana wrested the lead from GM Levon Aronian in the last round of day two in the 2025 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz. He won their direct encounter to finish the day with 10 points. Tied in second-third are Aronian and GM Wesley…
GM Awonder Liang beat GM Pranav Venkatesh in round six of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 to enter the 2700 club and catch GM Arjun Erigaisi in second place. Arjun lived dangerously against leader GM Vincent Keymer but ultimately drew, mea...
GM-elect Divya Deshmukh and GM Bibisara Assaubayeva have advanced to the Quarterfinals of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship. Divya, fresh off her FIDE Women's World Cup victory, picked up right where she left off, winning 10-3 against GM L...
GM Levon Aronian leads the 2025 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz with a perfect 6/6 score after the first three rounds of rapid chess. GM Fabiano Caruana had a strong start as well with 5/6—two wins and a draw. World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju b...
GM Jorden van Foreest bounced back after two losses in a row to beat GM Ray Robson in the only decisive game of round five of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025. As the tournament crossed the halfway mark, GM Vincent Keymer maintained his one...