GM Simon Williams (a.k.a. GingerGM) added yet another candidate for Game of the Year in his round-two game at the Reykjavik Open 2023 on Wednesday.
The English grandmaster has long been known for his daring, sacrificial, and "YOLO" style o...
GM Lei Tingjie retaliated vs. GM Tan Zhongyi, winning game two of the final of the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022-2023 on Thursday. Rising from the ashes of her own time trouble blunder in game one, Lei didn't hesitate when Tan made a mis...
GM Hikaru Nakamura was the sole winner in the open section on the first day of The 2023 American Cup in St. Louis. He defeated GM Sam Sevian in a game that featured weak pawn structures and instructive endgame technique.
Hard-fought draws materi...
The three-time and reigning Ukrainian champion, GM Andrei Volokitin, defeated the English number-one and seven-time British champion, GM Michael Adams, in the UK vs. Ukraine Match 2023, with a score of 4.5-3.5. The match concluded on Thursday.
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GM Tan Zhongyi defeated GM Lei Tingjie in game one of the final of the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022-2023 on Wednesday. Tan played enterprisingly from start to finish, sacrificing two pawns to create complex problems for Lei, who overloo...
GMs Daniil Dubov and David Paravyan each won a Titled Tuesday tournament on March 28, both winning outright. They became the first players to score 10 points since February 14. Each second-place finish also belonged to the only two players to scor...
GM Jose Martinez was crowned as the winner and won $1,000 in the March edition of Chess.com's newest titled arena, Bullet Brawl, after winning 59 of his 74 games during the two-hour event. Ukraine's GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and Armenian IM Emin Ohanya...
The FIDE Candidates and Women's Candidates 2024 will be held concurrently in Toronto, Canada, the International Chess Federation announced on Monday. Taking place on April 3-25, it will be the first time that the two tournaments will occur with th...
It took four rapid games before the victor was decided on the 10th and final day of The American Cup in St. Louis.
In the fourth game of their third match of the event, GM Wesley So blundered to lose a miniature to GM Hikaru…
It took two full games and two messy tiebreakers before the victors of the action of day nine in The American Cup were decided.
In the Women's event, GM Irina Krush needed only a draw, but lost the regulation game before ultimately deciding the ...