This is the flash report summarizing the main results. The full report will be added to this page soon.
GM Alireza Firouzja won the 2022 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz with a final score of 26 points. He not only won the event with four…
As of Monday, GM Magnus Carlsen is the new number-one blitz player on Chess.com. The world champion played a 57(!)-game match with GM Vladimir Fedoseev and stopped at a rating of 3204, four points more than GM Hikaru Nakamura currently has.
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The first day of blitz games at the 2022 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz saw quick chess superstars GM Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, and Levon Aronian pick up the most points in a day of decisive results, tactical brawls, and a loss by an illeg...
IM V Pranav won the Qualifier 2 Swiss stage of the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship on Monday, making him the only non-GM to advance to the knockout in either qualifier.
GMs Alexey Sarana, Vladislav Kovalev, Vincent Keymer, David Nav...
In the latest episode of his popular podcast, the American computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Lex Fridman had a fascinating, two-and-a-half-hour conversation with GM Magnus Carlsen. The two discussed a wide variety of topics...
The halfway point of the 2022 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz came to a close on Sunday with GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alireza Firouzja perched atop the leaderboard. An undefeated run with two wins was requisite for Vachier-Lagrave to join his ...
The 2022 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz continued on Saturday with rounds four-six of the rapid segment taking place, and GM Alireza Firouzja is holding onto the top spot by a single point. An early scare against GM Fabiano Caruana almost saw his l...
Top-flight chess returned to one of America's premier chess venues on Friday with the commencement of the 2022 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, the penultimate event of the Grand Chess Tour, with the day's proceedings going the way of French GM Alir...
Mark your calendars for August 27-28 at 2 p.m. PT/23:00 CEST: PogChamps star Ludwig will be hosting the "dumbest" chess tournament yet. Yes, you read that right—Ludwig's Dumb Chess Tournament is coming this weekend! It is a collaboratio...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev defeated GM Eric Hansen in the Qualifier 1 final of the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship on Wednesday. These two imaginative and tenacious players fought to an armageddon playoff in this captivating chess variant.
The ...