GM Fabiano Caruana was the first player to progress to the quarterfinals of the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday after defeating GM Arjun Erigaisi in a nail-biting curtain-raiser for the main event.
Erigaisi built a strong lead early; ...
Chess.com is happy to announce that registrations are now open for the Spring 2023 season of the Collegiate Chess League! This season returns with the 4 vs. 4 team format most CCL players and fans are familiar with and a whopping $30,000...
The German chess software company ChessBase and the team behind the open-source chess engine Stockfish have reached a settlement and ended their legal dispute over the latter's claim regarding a repeated license violation by Chessbase with their p...
China finished in first place in pool A of the World Team Championship with an undefeated nine points. There was a three-way tie for second between France, Spain, and Ukraine, all of which qualify for the knockout stage.
Uzbekistan topped ...
GM Magnus Carlsen once again tops the field for the upcoming 2023 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The 85th edition of the annual super-tournament in Wijk aan Zee will have five players from the world's top 10 and also five of the world's biggest tale...
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals began on Monday in San Francisco with a win for the world champion. GM Magnus Carlsen toppled GM Wesley So, the recent winner of the Chess.com Global Chess Championship, in the opening round.
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With one round to go in the pool stage, the Netherlands and the United States are in danger of missing out in the next rounds of the World Team Chess Championship. The two teams are currently not among the top four in their respective pools.…
Azerbaijan and China are the early leaders at the FIDE World Team Chess Championship which started on Sunday in Jerusalem, Israel. The tournament is played under the rapid time control of 45+10 and has a pool stage followed by a knockout stage.
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GM Magnus Carlsen finished the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals in style as he also won his seventh and final match, against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. The world champion scored a stunning 20/21, seven points more than runner-up GM Wesley So.
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GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Alireza Firouzja were the victors in Titled Tuesday on November 8, both with scores of 9.5/11, Andreikin on tiebreaks and Firouzja outright. It was Andreikin's 10th Titled Tuesday victory of the year and Firouzja's second,...