GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave overcame GM Wesley So in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday. Early in the match, Vachier-Lagrave gained as high as a four-point lead, but So fought back to even the score in the bullet segment. With just ...
IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (Sara Khadem), who defied the Iranian dress code for women by refusing to wear a headscarf at the 2022 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships, will not be returning home after her last tournament of the year. With he...
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GM Magnus Carlsen clinched the 2022 FIDE World Blitz Championship title on Friday with a score of 16/21, one point ahead of silver medalist GM Hikaru Nakamura and bronze medalist on ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura ascertained a commanding lead after scoring 10/12 on the first day of the 2022 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship on Thursday. Nakamura defeated eight grandmasters en route to his imperious score, conceding only four draws agai...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Jose Martinez won the last Titled Tuesday tournaments of 2022 on December 27. Both did so with undefeated performances of eight wins and three draws, although Firouzja needed tiebreaks over GM Aleksandr Lenderman.
Marti...
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GM Magnus Carlsen claimed his fourth world rapid chess crown on Wednesday and finished with a commanding score of 10/13 in the 2022 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship.
A round-...
GM Magnus Carlsen assumed the pole position heading into the third and final day of the 2022 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship having scored key wins over GMs Jorden van Foreest and Giga Quparadze on Tuesday.
The classical world champion's 7.5...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the 2022 Vugar Gashimov Memorial on Thursday with such a commanding lead that he clinched the tournament victory with five rounds to spare. GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov finished second with the top score in the blitz segme...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Fedoseev, Jorden van Foreest, and Arjun Erigaisi share the lead after an action-packed first day of the 2022 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship.
After five rounds the leaders dropped only half a point each having fe...