The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) became the first team to topple the University of Missouri (Mizzou) in the SIQ-sponsored 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) fall season on Saturday after a tight tussle that ended 9-7 in favor of the Texan t...
GM Abhimanyu Mishra shot into the sole lead on 2.5 points by defeating GM Ray Robson in the third round of the 2023 U.S. Championship, while also breaking into the 2600 Elo rating club, with the added distinction of being the youngest player to br...
GM Daniel Naroditsky won October's first Bullet Brawl by a convincing margin of 44 points on Saturday, one week after claiming his fifth title. The U.S. GM's score of 252 was more than enough to secure the $400 first prize ahead of the second-plac...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov advance in the Division I Winners Bracket of the 2023 AI Cup after winning their quarterfinal matches on day one.
With echoes from the finish of their SCC ...
GMs Hans Niemann and Abhimanyu Mishra have taken over the lead at the U.S. Championships in round two. Niemann came within inches of blundering and running out of time but fought back to defeat the previous leader, GM Sam Sevian. Contrastingly, Mi...
IM Nazi Paikidze and GM Sam Sevian are the sole leaders after the opening day of the U.S. Championships in St. Louis.
Paikidze scored the only victory in the women's division, defeating FM Ashritha Eswaran in tactical slugfest that featured thre...
Parents and mentors often believe that girls have a lower potential in chess than boys, a bias that is more pronounced among those who think chess success requires brilliance. These findings, the first large-scale evidence of bias against youth fe...
You can't keep GM Hikaru Namakura down for long. He won the early Titled Tuesday on October 3, his first since a perfect score on August 22 and his 57th overall since October 2020. Nakamura then nearly won the late event as well, but it…
The influential St. Louis Chess Club admits they've "remained silent for too long" and says that they "should have done more to address the allegations" of sexual misconduct against GM Alejandro Ramirez.
229 days after two-time U.S. Women'...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his third SCC title after defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura 13.5-12.5 in the Final of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase.
The match had many phases. Carlsen got off to a strong start, taking a two-...