GM Sam Shankland was the sole winner in round nine of the 2022 U.S. Championships on Friday after he defeated a struggling GM Christopher Yoo. Besides this game, the remainder of the encounters were drawn with remarkably high accuracy, with an ave...
The 2022 U.S. Championships continued on Thursday and featured wins for second-placed GM Ray Robson as well as GM Jeffery Xiong. Robson completed a hat-trick with a victory over GM Elshan Moradiabadi with the black pieces and is now trailing the l...
Instructive attacking chess, dazzling tactics, and a 10-move disaster game all came to the fore during the seventh round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships on Tuesday. GM Fabiano Caruana won his fourth game and remains ahead of his newest challe...
GM Konstantin Landa has passed away at the age of 50, after a long struggle with cancer. The news was confirmed by the Russian Chess Federation.
Landa was born May 22, 1972 in Omsk, a city in southwestern Siberia. He got his first chess lessons…
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In a day marked by underdog dominance, GMs Teimour Radjabov and Nihal Sarin defeated the two 2023 World Championship challengers Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren in the 2022 Chess.com Global Championship round of 16, presented by Brave. clinching...
GM Hikaru Nakamura just keeps on winning Titled Tuesday, taking home the early tournament on October 11, his fourth straight week with at least one tournament victory. GM Magnus Carlsen finished in third place despite missing the first round, but ...
A day of decisive results with the black pieces ruled the sixth round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championship on Tuesday. GM Fabiano Caruana was able to extend his lead to a full point after beating GM Elshan Moradiabadi while GMs Ray Robson and Dariu...
Novy Bor won the 2022 European Club Cup on Sunday after beating Asnieres Le Grand Echiquier in the final round. The Czech team won the tournament nine years after their first European gold in 2013. Third-seeded ASVOe Pamhagen became the surpr...
The fifth round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships saw a new contender, GM Awonder Liang, rise to challenge GM Fabiano Caruana after a scintillating win over one of the pre-tournament favorites, GM Levon Aronian.
In the Women's event, four dec...