Tenth-seed Serbia has won the 2023 European Team Chess Championship after finishing a single tiebreak point ahead of Germany, which took silver despite remaining unbeaten and winning their head-to-head clash. Team chess specialists Armenia took br...
After beginning the last leg with a massive lead in tour points, GM Fabiano Caruana has clinched the 2023 Grand Chess Tour with two rounds to spare at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup.
He and Leinier Dominguez scored their second wins in a row on Tuesda...
Mongolia is the nation ranking highest for promoting gender equality in chess but—perhaps surprisingly—the Nordic countries occupy three of the four worst spots, a new study has revealed.
Research commissioned by the World Chess Fede...
It was a day of victories on Monday at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup. GM Wesley So defeated GM Levon Aronian to take over clear first while GMs Fabiano Caruana and Leinier Dominguez scored their first wins.
The Sinquefield Cup continues with round se...
Artem Sachuk, Vice President of the Ukrainian Chess Federation, is reported to have been killed in Ukraine on Sunday. Sachuk would have turned 39 years old today and leaves behind a wife and two children.
The circumstances of his death are yet t...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz by half a point after securing a draw with second-placed GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round. Caruana's 6/9 score on Saturday allowed him to overtake Vachier-Lagrave, whose 3.5...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave rose to the top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after scoring 7/9 on the first day of blitz chess, with a 2971 rating performance. A loss against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was the only blight on h...
ChessKid Stars, IM-elect Alice Lee and FM Tani Adewumi, defeated the Harvard Chess Club, represented by co-presidents WGM Jennifer Yu and FM Chris Shen, in the first-ever Harvard vs. ChessKid match.
Starting off with a three-game winning streak,...
Mohamed Salah, one of the world's greatest soccer players, revealed that he is addicted to chess and wants to mee GM Magnus Carlsen. The former world champion responded with a waving-hand emoji.
The Egyptian goal-scoring machine is considered on...
GM Levon Aronian joined GM Wesley So in the lead at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup after dispatching GM Alireza Firouzja in a rook endgame on Saturday. The game very nearly came to an end early as Firouzja came within one second of being flagged but…