Defending champion GM Wesley So continued his unbeaten run at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals with his most impressive day yet, scoring match wins over GMs Magnus Carlsen and Nodirbek Abdusattorov.
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave secured his firs...
Chidobe Awuzie, the Cincinnati Bengals cornerback and all round good guy, is working with Chess.com and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati to host a special chess workshop for kids this holiday season.
The 28-year-old professional f...
Just two players are left on a perfect score after four rounds across two days, GMs Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So. They have won all four matches they have played at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals so far.
Carlsen defeated two of his greates...
Eighteen-year-old GM Aydin Suleymanli won the rapid segment of the Vugar Gashimov Memorial 2023 on Sunday. The youngest and lowest rated player in the field rose to the top with a display of fighting spirit, finishing with three decisive clashes i...
GM Michael Adams said it was probably his best ever result to win the London Chess Classic 2023 at the age of 52. He clinched the title with a draw against the future of English chess, 14-year-old IM Shreyas Royal, who described himself as "really...
GM Lenier Dominguez has arrived in Spain where he will play the Chessable Sunway Sitges Chess Festival to battle for a covered spot in the Candidates tournament.
This week the Cuban-born American, currently the world's seventh-ranked player, con...
GM Daniel Naroditsky returned to the winner's circle and scooped up the $400 first prize in December's second Bullet Brawl after accruing 227 points, four more than GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, who finished four points behind on 224.
The contest for th...
IM Shreyas Royal won a seemingly hopeless position against GM Jules Moussard to go into his final-round game against GM Michael Adams needing a draw to make a second GM norm. A draw would also see Adams at least tie for first in the London…
GMs Wesley So, Magnus Carlsen, and Fabiano Caruana won two matches to stay on a perfect score in the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. This is the first of the eight-day Finals held in Toronto, Canada.
It was a smooth day for So, who notab...
GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Nijat Abasov, and Aydin Suleymanli emerged as joint leaders with seven points out of a maximum of 12 after six rounds of the Vugar Gashimov Memorial 2023 being held at Gabala, Azerbaijan, on Saturday. In a typically exciting da...