GM Levon Aronian leads the final of the FTX Road to Miami tournament after the first of two days. GM Wei Yi had winning positions in both the second and third games, but had to settle for draws and then lost the fourth game.
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GM Sam Sevian won week 21 of the Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, starting the tournament with a 3-0 winning streak.
Participating i...
In the weeks before the FIDE presidential elections on August 7, official candidate GM Andrii Baryshpolets and his intended Deputy President GM Peter Heine Nielsen are fighting an uphill battle. Campaigning with limited resources, the duo advocate...
GM Levon Aronian and GM Wei Yi qualified for the two-day final of the FTX Road to Miami tournament. Wei needed just three games to knock out GM Richard Rapport, while Aronian defeated GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda 3-1.
The final will consist of two matc...
The semifinals of the FTX Road to Miami tournament will see the matches GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs. GM Levon Aronian and GM Wei Yi vs. GM Richard Rapport. In three of Thursday's quarterfinal matches, the younger player took the lead but then was eli...
As the winner of the preliminaries, GM Sam Sevian enters the knockout stage of the FTX Road to Miami tournament as the top seed. The American grandmaster will face GM Wei Yi in the quarterfinals.
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who lost to Sevian...
After a near-miss in the early tournament, GM Hikaru Nakamura claimed another Titled Tuesday victory in the late tournament on July 12. It was his first win since a double sweep on June 7, after playing this event irregularly of late due to the 20...
While GM Sam Sevian continues to lead the FTX Road to Miami tournament preliminaries after the third day, top GMs such as Anish Giri, GM Levon Aronian, and GM Leinier Dominguez are not certain of the knockout phase just yet. There are three rounds...
The FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship resumed on Tuesday with a clash between two of the tournament's powerhouses, with GM Valentina Gunina overcoming GM Tan Zhongyi with a resounding score of 19.5-9.5.
After a shaky 0-2 start...
FM Tanitoluwa Adewumi, age 11, has earned his second IM norm, of the three required to earn the coveted international master title, at the NY Summer Invitational IM C closed round-robin tournament which concluded on July 11, 2022. He won the tourn...