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…
GM Hikaru Nakamura scored 73 wins and conceded only three draws and three losses in one of his most dominant Bullet Brawl performances yet, finishing with a 42-point buffer over the second-placed GM Daniel Naroditsky to claim the $400 first prize....
GM Wesley So scored the first victory at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup on Friday. When GM Richard Rapport sacrificed for dynamic ideas in the King's Indian Defense, So navigated his way to safety while increasing his material edge.
GMs Maxime Vachier...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and top players in the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals (CCT Finals) next month have been immortalized in a new collection of stunning fan posters made by Displate, Chess.com can reveal.
The unique magnet-moun...
No decisive results were produced for the third round in a row at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup on a day that was headlined by the withdrawal of GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda and an intriguing duel between the imaginative GMs Richard Rapport and Alireza Firouz...
World champion GM Ding Liren will make his return to the global chess stage in Wijk aan Zee, while the former champion and 8-time Tata Steel Chess winner GM Magnus Carlsen is missing for the first time since 2014.
The Wijk aan Zee organizers in…
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Fabiano Caruana came the closest to scoring the first victories of the Sinquefield Cup 2023 on Wednesday. In his usual confident, fast-paced playing style, Nepomniachtchi pressed with an extra pawn for over five hours vs...
GM Hou Yifan is the first player to win two WSCC titles. After defeating GM Harika Dronavalli in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Final 15-11, the Chinese grandmaster is a two-time champion.
"Ever since her first victory, sh...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the early Titled Tuesday tournament on November 21 with a 10.5/11 score and then led the late event with one round to go, but GM Liem Le would end up catching him and winning on tiebreaks. It was Le's third Titled…