Profiting from a mistake by GM Evgeniy Najer in a rook endgame, GM Alireza Firouzja regained the sole lead in the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss with four rounds to go. GM Lei Tingjie continues to lead the women's section and now has IM...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the November 2 Titled Tuesday outright with 9.5/11, followed by a three-way tie for second place at 9 points out of 11. When the dust settled, that put GM Daniel Naroditsky in second place, GM Sergei Zhigalko in third, and G...
There's a five-way tie for first place at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss going into the rest day. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and GM Krishnan Sasikiran won their games and joined the leaders GM Evgeniy Najer, GM Alexei Shirov, and GM Alireza Firouzj...
Note: GM Richard Rapport has replaced GM Alireza Firouzja in the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. All picks in the Bracket Contest for Firouzja will now be counted as Rapport picks. We know that this is not an ideal situation and we thank...
AlphaZero's learning process is, to some extent, similar to that of humans. A new paper from DeepMind, which includes a contribution from the 14th world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, provides strong evidence for the existence of human-understan...
After winning the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss, GM Alireza Firouzja's quick rise to the top continues. The French-Iranian started with 4.5/5 at the European Team Championship in Slovenia and is now the new world number-three in the live rankings.
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GM Dmitry Andreikin took home an outright and undefeated Titled Tuesday victory on November 16, scoring 10/11. GM Anton Demchenko finished in sole second, a half-point behind, with 9.5/11. In a three-way tie with a 9/11 score, GM Jeffery Xiong and...
With the first two rounds of playoffs complete, each division has been narrowed down to the final four remaining teams. These teams will fight this weekend in the semifinals and finals for their share of the $25,000 prize pool. You won't want to m...
GM Wesley So beat GM Jeffery Xiong with a score of 18-14 in the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. In the quarterfinals, he will face the winner of the match between GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and GM Fabiano Caruana, which starts on Monday, ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura beat GM Peter Svidler with a score of 22-10 in the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event and will face GM Anish Giri in the quarterfinals. The next match, between GM Wesley So and GM Jeffery Xiong, starts on Monday, November ...