Uzbekistan held on to its sole lead with 18 points, while India continued to pursue closely behind on 17 points after the 10th and penultimate round of the 46th Chess Olympiad 2026. Uzbekistan and India scored dominating 3.5-0.5 victories over Arm...
GM Awonder Liang blanked his opposition with 3-0 victories in all the matches to convincingly win the 2026 Seirawan Chess Championship, an event he won in 2024 too. It was a brisk evening for the 23-year-old American GM, who was hardly in any trou...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo scored in the top four in three different 3 0 Thursday Tournaments on October 1. His nine points in the first tournament weren't quite enough to win, as he took second on tiebreaks behind IM Quoc Hy Nguyen. Maghsoodloo domina...
GM Matthias Bluebaum won the return tournament of Freestyle Friday on October 2 with nine points, taking the tournament outright ahead of GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk, Pranav Venkatesh, and SL Narayanan on 8.5/11. Pranav clinched an appearance in next ye...