In the final of the World Team Chess Championship in Jerusalem, the surprise winner was the Chinese team, after winning both matches against Uzbekistan, the champions from the Chennai Chess Olympiad.
In the battle for the bronze medals, Spain an...
GM Arjun Erigaisi captured the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz with a round to spare, while IM Vaishali Rameshbabu caught up with the overnight leader, GM Mariya Muzychuk, and outpaced her in the final rounds to win the 2022 Tata Steel Ches...
GM Tan Zhongyi defeated GM Kateryna Lagno in Sunday's tiebreak of their FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament quarterfinal. Tan won the first of four rapid games, after which the remaining three ended in draws. The 31-year-old Chinese GM will now fac...
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…
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina eliminated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk from the 2022-23 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament by securing a draw in the fourth game from a better position. After four draws, the match between GM Tan Zhongyi and GM Kateryna Lagno ...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina defeated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk on Friday in what was the third game of their quarterfinal match in Pool B of the 2022-23 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament. Kosteniuk now needs to win on demand to force a tiebreak on Sat...
Chess.com has formally requested the Eastern Missouri District Court to dismiss GM Hans Niemann's defamation lawsuit. The motion to dismiss, filed on December 2, 2022, asserts that the lawsuit "could have been brought only as a public relations st...
GM Nihal Sarin won the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid with a round to spare, while GM Anna Ushenina tied for first and won the tiebreak match to win the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid.
In the Open section, while Nihal…
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GM Levon Aronian defeated GM Dmitry Andreikin in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship in an electrifying duel on Wednesday. The match between these two exceptional grandmasters was loaded with imaginative play and rivalrous chess to culminate in...