This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament.
GM Hikaru Nakamura won week 18 of the Rapid Chess Championship, presented by Coinbase, edging out four other grandmasters by tiebreaks.
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"If it's entertaining, it must be entertainment!" said a couple of TV show hosts when I lived in England, and the same can be said about this year's edition of Norway Chess.
The headline, of course, paraphrases the famous Gary Lineker (English f...
With more plot twists than a whole season's worth of "Game of Thrones," the eighth round of Norway Chess delivered more surprises, shocks, and horrors than anyone could have counted on setting up an exciting last round of the tournament.
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The FIDE presidential elections, to be held on August 7, 2022, will be fought among no fewer than four candidates. This became clear after the FIDE Electoral Commission approved the four ticket candidacies on June 7 (in PDF here, which was publish...
All good things must come to an end, and Chess.com Chief Chess Officer IM Danny Rensch saw his amazing run into the semifinals of the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship conclude on Wednesday, as IM Eric Rosen became the first finalist of…
All good things must come to an end, and Chess.com Chief Chess Officer IM Danny Rensch saw his amazing run into the semifinals of the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship conclude on Wednesday, as IM Eric Rosen became the first finalist of…
GM Hikaru Nakamura dominated Titled Tuesday on June 7, winning both the early and late tournaments by a full point. He scored nine wins and two draws in both events for a 10/11 score in each.
Nakamura is still the only player to sweep both...
As the World Champion Magnus Carlsen on Tuesday struggled in yet another armageddon duel, losing his fourth of the kind, the situation at the top of the leaderboard is making us eager to see the players return from their day off to finish the tour...
IM Danny Rensch eliminated the reigning Women's World Blitz Champion IM Bibisara Assaubayeva in the quarterfinals of the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship on Tuesday. Chess.com's Chief Chess Officer Rensch was leading after the 5+1 and 3+1...
World Champion Magnus Carlsen picked up another one of those victories he has become famous for, squeezing blood from stones vs. GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Carlsen now leads the 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger alone after six rounds and got his live...