GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the 2022 Vugar Gashimov Memorial on Thursday with such a commanding lead that he clinched the tournament victory with five rounds to spare. GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov finished second with the top score in the blitz segme...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Fedoseev, Jorden van Foreest, and Arjun Erigaisi share the lead after an action-packed first day of the 2022 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship.
After five rounds the leaders dropped only half a point each having fe...
The Chessable Sunway Sitges Chess Festival 2022 was won by GM Kirill Alekseenko. Alekseenko scored 8.5/10 in the ninth edition of the Spanish tournament, taking home the first place trophy and €5,000. Coming in second was GM Hans Niemann, who...
Chess.com is excited to announce that the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour and the Chess.com Global Championship are coming together in 2023 to form one unified chess series. This huge event kicks off on February 6 and spans the entire year. With si...
Coming off winning his fifth consecutive Speed Chess Championship, GM Hikaru Nakamura's online blitz dominance may be at an all-time high. On December 20, he won both the early and late Titled Tuesday tournaments.
He has now won three in a row a...
Chess.com, the world’s largest chess website, has acquired Play Magnus Group, a leading chess entertainment and education company. The proposed acquisition was initially announced on August 23, 2022 and was unanimously recommended by Pl...
GM Aman "Chessbrah" Hambleton was able to confirm a resounding, albeit controversial, win over IM Lawrence Trent via technical knockout (TKO) during Sunday's landmark Mogul Chessboxing Championship, organized by the 2022 Game Awards Creator of the...
IM Stefan Docx was expelled from the Benidorm Open in Spain, after refusing a metal detector body scan. The chief arbiter of the tournament is preparing a report for the FIDE Fair Play Commission.
Docx, a 48-year-old international master from Be...
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GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 2022 Speed Chess Championship, his fifth, by defeating GM Magnus Carlsen in an incredibly close final on Sunday.
How to watch?You can watch the 2022 Spee...
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship second semifinal match on Friday.
The world champion steamrolled through yet another match in what has become a series of dominant wins over th...