GM Anna Muzychuk and IM Alice Lee both won their respective games against GM Alexandra Kosteniuk and IM Anna Zatonskih respectively at the Cairns Cup 2024 on Friday. For Muzychuk, this means she is now one point shy of leader GM Tan Zhongyi h...
20-year-old IM Kazybek Nogerbek was only the ninth seed but edged out 13 grandmasters to win the 2024 FIDE World Junior Chess Championship. The Girl's section was dominated by 18-year-old top-seed IM Divya Deshmukh from India, who won with an unde...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the 2024 Chess.com Chess960 Championship, defeating GM Denis Lazavik 3.5-1.5 in the Final and winning $2,000 in the process. Four days of qualifiers culminated on Friday with an eight-player knockout.
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Four decisive results shook up the standings at the Cairns Cup 2024 and with two rounds to go, five players are still in the hunt for the $50,000 first prize. GM Tan Zhongyi leads the event on 5/7 after defeating GM Elisabeth Paehtz while chaos…
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda tops the eight-player line-up for the Finals of the 2024 Chess.com Chess960 Championship after finishing the first qualifier on a perfect 9/9 score. He'll be joined for the knockout event by GMs Vladimir Fedoseev, Raunak Sadh...
He's one of the world's top strikers and his nation's greatest-ever goalscorer. But between matches Harry Kane also finds time to dive into the 10-minute pool for a quick game on Chess.com.
The 30-year-old, who plays for England in UEFA's Euro 2...
GM Hans Niemann said on X that he has secured the necessary funds to play in the $1 million buy-in tournament alongside GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Fabiano Caruana, and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Organizer Wadim Rosenstein confirmed to Chess.com that fund...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk has continued her run of decisive results at the Cairns Cup 2024 with a win over GM Mariya Muzychuk and now moves to 3.5/6, half a point behind the sole leader GM Tan Zhongyi.
Draws on the remaining boards occurred with mi...
GM Arjun Erigaisi once again proved unstoppable as he dominated the Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2024 which took place in Jermuk, Armenia from June 10-18. New research shows only two players can match his meteoric rise to the world's elite, but the Ind...
A streamer, a grandmaster, and a club player walk into a tournament. This isn’t the set-up of a terrible joke, but rather the backdrop of the 8th Annual Carolinas Classic 2024 that happened at the Charlotte Chess Center. Participants include...