For the second consecutive week, the winners of the March 15 Titled Tuesday were GM Daniil Dubov and GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura, GM Dmitry Andreikin, and GM Amin Tabatabaei all finished in the top five in both events, while&n...
The 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad will be held this summer in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. This was announced at a press conference in Chennai on Wednesday, after the FIDE Council had approved the city's bid the night before. Originally, the event ...
The 2022 Bullet Chess Championship presented by DigitalOcean soared to new heights today after a dazzling showdown between pre-tournament favorites GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Daniel Naroditsky, which Nakamura won in stylish fashion.
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GM Hikaru Nakamura seized first place in the fifth week of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, holding his nerve after a series of close matches against a number of the world's best players.
Nakamura finished ...
On the first day of the final in the second leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade, Russian GM Dmitry Andreikin and Hungarian GM Richard Rapport played a solid, correct draw. After his dramatic last-round win of the pool play agains...
With GM Dmitry Andreikin's surprising ousting of GM Anish Giri in yesterday's rapid play tiebreaker, a final against Hungarian GM Richard Rapport was set in place at the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade. Rapport had, of course, previously eli...
With two draws in yesterday's games, GM Richard Rapport qualified to the final by ousting GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, while GM Dmitry Andreikin and GM Anish Giri booked another day of games, in a rapid chess format, to decide who would face Rapport...
The Collegiate Chess League is officially over halfway through its fourth season. With only three rounds remaining, teams are already fighting for playoff spots, and every match from now on is even more important for the teams' standings leading u...
On Thursday, February 24, 2022, 19-year-old GM Kirill Shevchenko and his family woke up from the sounds of numerous explosions not far from them. They took their documents and went to the basement, where they stayed all day and tried to follow the...
The second round of the losers bracket of the 2022 Bullet Chess Championship presented by DigitalOcean ended in four decisive winners: GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk, Arjun Erigaisi, Brandon Jacobson, and Jose Martinez. Notably, t...