GM Veselin Topalov won both blitz games to take a five-point lead over GM Garry Kasparov at the end of the second day of the 2026 Clutch Chess: The Legends Chess960 match. Topalov leads the match with a score of 8.5-3.5.
Kasparov failed to conver...
GM Magnus Carlsen's Alpine APL Pipers will play GM Ian Nepomniachtchi's Ganges Grandmasters in this year's title match at the 2026 Tech Mahindra Global Chess League. In a rare outcome for a chess tournament, both leaders lost on the final day but ...
Thirteenth World Champion GM Garry Kasparov found it tough to keep the clock and his nerves in control, as GM Veselin Topalov exploited his opportunities to gain a 2.5-1.5 lead at the end of the first day of the 2026 Clutch Chess: The Legends, the...
GM Magnus Carlsen's Alpine APL Pipers and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi's Ganges Grandmasters lead the 2026 Tech Mahindra Global Chess League after day seven, with just one more match left in the round-robin stage. The Alpine APL Pipers won by a thin, two...
It was a day of tiebreaks in 3 0 Thursday on September 10. In the first tournament, GM Denis Lazavik surpassed three other players on tiebreaks to take the title for the second straight week. In the second event, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda surpassed tw...
You can now handle 1.e4 like a super-grandmaster. GM Wesley So has just released Elite 1.e4 e5 - Part 1, his new course built around his personal answer to White's most common opening move, 1.e4. With positional, dependable lines, So will teach yo...
FIDE presidential candidates Jan Henric Buettner and Timur Turlov clashed over how the world chess body should be funded—and whether it should continue relying on wealthy benefactors. The third candidate, Wadim Rosenstein, disconnected short...
The FYERS American Gambits, led by GM Javokhir Sindarov, dominated a critical match against the Ganges Grandmasters, led by GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, to join a three-way tie with the Grandmasters and GM Magnus Carlsen's Alpine APL Pipers on day six o...
Applications are now open for the inaugural $50,000 Naroditsky Fellowship, which will support elite American junior players with training, travel, and tournament preparation in 2027. The deadline to apply is December 1.
The Fellowship is one of t...
GM Javokhir Sindarov's second win in a row, this time over GM Alireza Firouzja, took FYERS American Gambits into the 2026 Tech Mahindra Global Chess League lead while Triveni Continental Kings slumped to the bottom after a second loss of the day. ...