On the second day of Quarterfinals in the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship, GM Raunak Sadhwani dispatched IM Read Samadov and GM Denis Lazavik eliminated GM Daniel Dardha. The victory of the two favorites was never in question during their mat...
The June 13 edition of Titled Tuesday was won by GMs Gata Kamsky in the early event and Jan-Krzysztof Duda late. The 49-year-old Kamsky, who challenged for the FIDE World Championship in 1996, won outright with 9.5 points ahead of a nine-way tie f...
The Quarterfinals of the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship kicked off on Tuesday with wins by GM Gukesh D over IM Emin Ohanyan and GM Pranav V against GM Christopher Yoo. Gukesh and Pranav will throw down in an all-Indian semifinal match o...
The last round of the Cairns Cup 2023 featured an epic matchup between IM Anna Zatonskih and her longtime U.S. Women's Championship rival GM Irina Krush. Further cementing her tournament victory, Zatonskih held off Krush's pressure in th...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Wesley So, and Eduardo Iturrizaga each secured qualifying spots for the 2023 Champions Chess Tour's fourth leg, the Aimchess Rapid, on Monday after progressing through a challenging Swiss event before winning the...
Five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen will be gunning for an elusive first World Cup crown next month as a host of big stars miss FIDE's flagship $2.5 million event, it was confirmed on Monday.
GM Ding Liren, the Norwegian's successor as world...
IM Anna Zatonskih clinched the Cairns Cup 2023 with a day to spare on Sunday. She defeated GM Zhansaya Abdumalik in penultimate round to reach an undefeated plus four―1.5 points ahead of the field. With this victory, Zatonskih has also secure...
In a day of intense fighting games, contenders for the throne appeared on the horizon to challenge the leader IM Anna Zatonskih by lessening her lead to half a point after the seventh round of the Cairns Cup 2023. As Zatonskih stayed on 4.5 points...
IM Anna Zatonskih stretched her lead to a full point at the Cairns Cup 2023, defeating IM Gunay Mammadzada in round six. The American underdog has performed so well that she has chances to earn a GM norm, depending on her last two games. Curiously...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won on demand with the white pieces against GM Fabiano Caruana on the last day of Norway Chess 2023, ousting the tournament leader and winning the prestigious title for the first time. This is also the first time in the last fiv...