GM Arjun Erigaisi has signed a five-year sponsorship deal with Singapore-based quantitative trading firm Quantbox. This marked Erigaisi's first-ever sponsorship deal in his chess career as a professional player of the sport.
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What a year this has been for chess! We have not one, but two world championship challengers as the World Champion Magnus Carlsen stepped away from the competition. A new wave of talent from Uzbekistan, India, and other countries took the wor...
The 2022 Speed Chess Championship continued on Monday with an electric quarterfinal performance from GM Hikaru Nakamura as he overcame GM Levon Aronian with a 15.5-8.5 score.
Nakamura gained a two-point lead early, which he never let go, and was...
GM Arjun Erigaisi shot into the lead with 6.5 points from nine rounds after the first day of the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz, while GM Mariya Muzychuk scored an impressive eight points from nine rounds to lead the 2022 Tata Steel Chess…
The 2022 ChessKid All-Star Finals will take place on December 17, with more than 20 talented young chess players from around the world competing against each other in the culmination of a year-long series of qualification tournaments.
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We're about to see the final games of one of the most exciting World Cups unfold. Whether you're rooting for the soccer giants France and Argentina, waiting to see Croatian veteran Modric take the cup home, or hoping Morocco makes history as the f...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura, the two biggest stars in chess, will be among the participants at the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan. As always, the tournament will be held during the last week of the ye...
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 Twitch's streamer of the year and Po...
GM Tan Zhongyi defeated GM Aleksandra Goryachkina on Saturday in the fourth game of their Women's Candidates semifinal in Khiva, Uzbekistan. In doing so, Tan qualified for an all-Chinese final vs. GM Lei Tingjie, which is scheduled for the first q...
GM Nihal Sarin emerged victorious from his intergenerational clash with world championship challenger GM Ding Liren in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship quarterfinals on Friday with a score of 17-9 after outpacing his opponent as the time control ...