With today’s victory in the sixth round of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix's third leg, GM Hikaru Nakamura scored a hat trick and won Group A, securing a spot in the semifinals. More importantly, the American GM joined GM Richard Rap...
Shortly after winning the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix and qualifying for the FIDE Candidates Tournament, GM Hikaru Nakamura won the ninth week of Arena Kings (making it two weeks in a row). He won in the final with a score of 3-1 against G...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi earned Titled Tuesday victories on April 5. GM Vladimir Fedoseev had to settle for second place in both events, and by a thin tiebreak margin in the late tournament. GM Alexey Sarana and IM Volodar Mu...
In what has become an annual 24-hour charity chess marathon organized by the English Chess Federation, the British Red Cross Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) raised over £18,000 ($23,636) last weekend for its Ukraine c...
With draws in both of the two classical games, American GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So were set to decide who would win the third and final leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in a rapid-play tiebreaker. After an intense dr...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo was the winner of the eighth week of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship tournament presented by Coinbase, emerging victorious from an action-packed final against GM Jeffery Xiong.
Maghsoodloo was also able to top the Sw...
The fourth round of leg three of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix saw no fewer than five decisive games. GM Grigoriy Oparin's win in Group A means that he takes the lead. In the same group, GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Levon Aronian ...
American GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So also drew their second game in the final of the third and final leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix. The players quickly repeated moves in a line in the Berlin Ruy Lopez which they have played ...
With clear victories in Friday's tiebreakers, American GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So were set to meet in the final of the third leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix series.
The first game of the final, with So play...
Yesterday a couple of things became clear: GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix series and the results in the semifinals meant that we would have the pleasure of not just one tiebreaker but two. Although not without his s...