Top-flight chess returned to one of America's premier chess venues on Friday with the commencement of the 2022 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, the penultimate event of the Grand Chess Tour, with the day's proceedings going the way of French GM Alir...
Mark your calendars for August 27-28 at 2 p.m. PT/23:00 CEST: PogChamps star Ludwig will be hosting the "dumbest" chess tournament yet. Yes, you read that right—Ludwig's Dumb Chess Tournament is coming this weekend! It is a collaboratio...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev defeated GM Eric Hansen in the Qualifier 1 final of the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship on Wednesday. These two imaginative and tenacious players fought to an armageddon playoff in this captivating chess variant.
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IM Tuan Minh Le won the early Titled Tuesday on August 23 with 9.5/11 and the best tiebreaks ahead of GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Aleskandr Lenderman. In the late event, GM Daniil Dubov finished first in the late event ahead of GM Jeffery Xiong on…
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GMs Eric Hansen and Vladimir Fedoseev advanced to the Qualifier 1 final of the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship on Tuesday. Though they achieved the same result, the two players had vastly different journeys. Hansen literally danced to ...
GM Sam Sevian won the Qualifier 1 Swiss stage of the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship on Monday, refusing a draw in the last round to go for more. GMs Aleksandr Shimanov and Vladimir Fedoseev finished in second and third with seven points ea...
GM Hou Yifan defeated GM Valentina Gunina in the semifinals of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Monday. Gunina kicked off the match with a shocking six-game winning streak, but Hou made an equally astounding comeback in ...
GM Wesley So won week 25 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in a hard-fought final that culminated in an armageddon playoff.
GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Oleksandr Bortnyk made ...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the FTX Crypto Cup on Sunday despite losing his final match in a tiebreak to GM Praggnanandhaa R., who thereby secured second place in the tournament. GM Alireza Firouzja finished in third place.
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