It was a day of victories on Monday at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup. GM Wesley So defeated GM Levon Aronian to take over clear first while GMs Fabiano Caruana and Leinier Dominguez scored their first wins.
The Sinquefield Cup continues with round se...
Artem Sachuk, Vice President of the Ukrainian Chess Federation, is reported to have been killed in Ukraine on Sunday. Sachuk would have turned 39 years old today and leaves behind a wife and two children.
The circumstances of his death are yet t...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz by half a point after securing a draw with second-placed GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round. Caruana's 6/9 score on Saturday allowed him to overtake Vachier-Lagrave, whose 3.5...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave rose to the top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after scoring 7/9 on the first day of blitz chess, with a 2971 rating performance. A loss against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was the only blight on h...
ChessKid Stars, IM-elect Alice Lee and FM Tani Adewumi, defeated the Harvard Chess Club, represented by co-presidents WGM Jennifer Yu and FM Chris Shen, in the first-ever Harvard vs. ChessKid match.
Starting off with a three-game winning streak,...
Mohamed Salah, one of the world's greatest soccer players, revealed that he is addicted to chess and wants to mee GM Magnus Carlsen. The former world champion responded with a waving-hand emoji.
The Egyptian goal-scoring machine is considered on...
GM Levon Aronian joined GM Wesley So in the lead at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup after dispatching GM Alireza Firouzja in a rook endgame on Saturday. The game very nearly came to an end early as Firouzja came within one second of being flagged but…
GM Hikaru Nakamura scored 73 wins and conceded only three draws and three losses in one of his most dominant Bullet Brawl performances yet, finishing with a 42-point buffer over the second-placed GM Daniel Naroditsky to claim the $400 first prize....
GM Wesley So scored the first victory at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup on Friday. When GM Richard Rapport sacrificed for dynamic ideas in the King's Indian Defense, So navigated his way to safety while increasing his material edge.
GMs Maxime Vachier...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and top players in the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals (CCT Finals) next month have been immortalized in a new collection of stunning fan posters made by Displate, Chess.com can reveal.
The unique magnet-moun...