GM Jeffery Xiong leads the FTX Road to Miami tournament after the first day of play. The 21-year-old American grandmaster, who is making his debut in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, was the only player to win three games, which gave him nine p...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won week 20 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Wesley So in the final in a bullet tiebreaker.
GMs Vladimir Fedoseev and David Paravyan made it to the semifinals. GM Oleksandr Bo...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi secured the victory in the 2022 Candidates Tournament with a round to spare by drawing with GM Richard Rapport on Sunday. Nepomniachtchi has now qualified for the 2023 World Championship against GM Magnus Carlsen.
GM Hikaru...
Chess.com's newest event, BlitzChamps, the most ambitious crossover of 2022, commenced on Saturday, pitting six NFL all-stars against each other over the chess board in a bid for $100,000 for their favorite charity.
Split into two groups of thre...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi increased his lead to two points and only needs a draw on Sunday to clinch the 2022 Candidates Tournament. After drawing his game with GM Hikaru Nakamura in just seven minutes today he saw GM Ding Liren, his closest rival, lo...
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GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won week 20 of the Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, starting the tournament with a 5-0 winning streak.
Par...
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GM Tan Zhongyi defeated IM Polina Shuvalova in their round of 16 match of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Friday. Tan's solid play, board awareness, and speed proved to be too impervious even for Shuvalova's excell...
The 2022 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship, presented by Landover.io, came to a conclusion on Thursday with an exhilarating grand finale between IM Eric Rosen and FM James Canty III, which culminated in a 12-9 victory for Rosen.
Rosen was ab...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is on the brink of winning the 2022 Candidates Tournament after beating GM Alireza Firouzja with the black pieces on Thursday. The French-Iranian grandmaster was over-ambitious and put up poor resistance, having played online...