The first day of the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the second event of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour, was dominated by a vintage performance from GM Vishwanathan Anand, who leads the fray with a perfect score. With each win being worth two points...
May 17 was a good day in Titled Tuesday for two familiar faces: GM Jose Martinez, winning the early event by a full point, and GM Alexander Grischuk, taking the late tournament with a round to spare.
Martinez also finished fifth in the late...
The second semifinal of the 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship took place on Tuesday and featured powerhouses GMs Hans Niemann and Arjun Erigaisi, with Erigaisi claiming a 14.5-11.5 victory in just over four hours of electrifying gameplay.
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The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship continued on Monday with a high-energy quarterfinal in which GM Arjun Erigaisi defeated an in-form IM Mahammad Muradli 17-11.
Erigaisi managed to build a one-point lead in the 5+1 segment but went to anot...
GM Ding Liren is officially among the participants of the FIDE Candidates Tournament. The field of eight players was announced today by the International Chess Federation. Ding replaces GM Sergey Karjakin, who was banned for six months due to expr...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won week 14 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Dmitry Andreikin in a hard-fought knockout final.
GM Jeffery Xiong won the Swiss tournament and finished in the semifinals along wi...
The ninth and final round of the Superbet Chess Classic delivered the results that allowed the viewers a spectacle of a three-way playoff.
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat GM Alireza Firouzja to catch up to the American duo of GMs Levon Aroni...
The first two rounds of the Collegiate Chess League Season 4 playoffs have concluded leaving only four teams remaining in each division, and these teams are now fighting for a spot in the finals. The teams that have made it this far are guaranteed...
The eighth round of the Superbet Chess Classic, which was played on the notorious Friday the 13th, delivered just as much blood as the history annals would have us believe that was spilled on the days with that date. At the end of it there…
The first round of this year's edition of the Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest, Romania saw only one win. GM Wesley So defeated GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in a nice positional game, while the other four games ended in draws after varying amounts ...