The situation at the top of the leaderboard is beginning to sharpen at the 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger.
The current world champion, GM Magnus Carlsen, announced his intentions to play for the tournament title by winning the second classical g...
IM Lawrence Trent overcame the match favorite and fifth seed, IM Alina Kashlinskaya, in the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship on Friday. The players traded victories for much of the match until the finish of the bullet segment wh...
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Has GM Viswanathan Anand been retigered? As the events unfold this week at 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger, the 52-year-old is certainly beginning to make it look like it.
The former world champion continued to demonstrate that he is still ...
Dull or exciting? That was the question in round two of Norway Chess on Wednesday.
When GM Veselin Topalov exceeded the time limit against GM Vishwanathan Anand, the Indian became the sole victor in the classical games of the second round. GM We...
After Monday's fun and exciting blitz tournament, the real play started in this year's edition of Norway Chess on Tuesday.
With victories with the white pieces, GMs Vishwanathan Anand and Wesley So won their respective games against GMs Maxime V...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his second straight late Titled Tuesday event after GM Hans Niemann claimed the early tournament on May 31. Niemann was also a Titled Tuesday victor back on February 15.
This week, one player also placed top five in both e...
GM Richard Rapport no longer plans to play for Hungary but will represent Romania instead. His wife Jovana will join him, making the switch from Serbia to Romania. This news was announced by the Romanian Chess Federation. Meanwhile, the Hungarian ...
Rather than having a traditional drawing of start numbers, Norway Chess has made a tradition of starting out with a blitz tournament to decide the start numbers for each player in the main event.
American GM Wesley So took a decisive lead by bea...
It is probably a record: scoring two norms in a time span of fewer than 24 hours. GM-elect Frederik Svane, the brother of GM Rasmus Svane, managed to do so last weekend in Hamburg, Germany.
17-year-old Svane, the youngest of the two brothers (Ra...