GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 4-1 to win the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals and his fifth consecutive Champions Chess Tour title. Again earning the $200,000 first prize, Carlsen has won every edition of the Champions Chess Tou...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi advance to the title match of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals. Carlsen defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 3.5-1.5, even after missing a checkmate-in-two threat he could have played in the final game. Nep...
We’re excited to announce another official partner for the Champions Chess Tour Finals, currently underway in Olso, Norway! Rubik’s Cube, the company behind the most iconic puzzle in the world, is once more teaming up with Chess.com to...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja made it to the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals Semifinals by finishing as numbers one and two in the round-robin, while GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave advanced through the Survival Stage....
A week after both Titled Tuesday tournaments were decided by tiebreaks, this week both tournaments were full-point triumphs for the victors. Those winners were GM Volodymyr Onyshchuk in the first event of the day and GM Jeffery Xiong in the s...
The best athletes in the world can react to a situation in less than a second. GM Axel Smith has proven that in chess, it's not much different. We're happy to announce that you can now work on your chess instincts with the Woodpecker Method…
For the first time, the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships are taking place in the United States. The premier speed chess tournaments will be held on Wall Street in New York City with a brand new format including a knockout in the Blitz. B...
GM Daniel Naroditsky on Monday won the Tournament of the Accused, an event organized by runner-up GM Hikaru Nakamura and sponsored by streaming platform Kick.com. Several of the participants had been "accused": they were players whose recent resul...
World Champion Ding Liren played a flawless game from start to finish to beat GM Gukesh Dommaraju and level the scores in the 2024 FIDE World Championship at 6-6 with just two games to go. When Gukesh played fast in a seemingly quiet opening, ever...
GM Magnus Carlsen leads the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals Round-Robin with 5/6, despite dropping one loss to Alireza Firouzja on Wednesday. Three players follow just one point behind: GMs Firouzja, Denis Lazavik, and Ian Nepomniachtchi.
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