GM Magnus Carlsen has retained his Esports World Cup title after a dominant victory over GM Denis Lazavik. Carlsen won both sets 3-1, with two wins in each, and ended his Paris run without losing a single game. Carlsen takes $250,000, Lazavik $190...
GM Wesley So leads the 2026 Sinquefield Cup after round five on Friday, after making a quick draw with GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave had a winning position against GM Jorden van Foreest and could have caught the leader, b...
For the second week in a row, GM Pranesh M posted the best result of any player in 3 0 Thursday. He scored 9.5 points to win the second tournament of the day. GMs Alexey Sarana and Jeffery Xiong each scored nine points to win…
GM Magnus Carlsen scored a 2.5-0.5 victory over GM Nihal Sarin and then won a 4-1 thriller against GM Alireza Firouzja to reach the Final of the 2026 Esports World Cup. Carlsen will face off against 19-year-old GM Denis Lazavik, who pounced o...
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GM Wesley So continues to lead after round four of the 2026 Sinquefield Cup on Thursday. There was one decisive game, where GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu gave Jorden van Foreest his third loss. Praggnanandhaa is now half a point behind the leader, ...
19-year-old GM Denis Lazavik pulled off the day's biggest upset to defeat GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and book a 2026 Esports World Cup quarterfinal against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov. He's joined by GM Nihal Sarin, who faces GM Magnus Carlsen in a repeat...
GM Wesley So broke out to the sole lead of the 2026 Sinquefield Cup with a win, with the black pieces, over GM Fabiano Caruana. There were two more decisive games: GM Vincent Keymer bounced back from yesterday's loss with a win against GM Praggnan...
Defending Champion GM Magnus Carlsen said he was "in no shape to play chess," but he still beat GMs Andrey Esipenko and Hans Niemann 1.5-0.5 to reach Friday's Playoffs of the $1.5 million 2026 Esports World Cup. He's joined by GMs Hikaru Naka...
The Kenyan chess community is mourning the loss of Hawi Kaloki, one of the country's leading chess players and a former national number one. He passed away at the age of 19, just weeks before he was due to make his Olympiad debut.
The sad…