Speed-addicted Chess.com members have a lot of reasons to celebrate as the 2022 Bullet Chess Championship approaches. Top players will battle for their piece of the $100,000 prize fund, with the qualifiers starting on February 21.
This year's pr...
The Collegiate Chess League's fourth season is set to begin on February 12, 2022, and runs until the finals on May 21.
Last season was our largest ever with over 1,000 players representing 160 teams from 80 schools from around the world. This se...
The last round of the group stage of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first leg produced high-voltage drama in Berlin with GM Hikaru Nakamura joining GM Levon Aronian for the semifinal lineup after winning Group A and Group C respectively. In a day of ner...
GM Levon Aronian won a tense tactical game with black pieces against GM Vincent Keymer to reach 4/5 and qualify with a round to spare from Group C to the semifinals of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first leg in Berlin. Though GM Hikaru Nakamura…
A week after finishing in third place, IM Le Tuan Minh earned a victory in the second week of Arena Kings Season 9 on Wednesday. He defeated GM Vugar Rasulov in a close 3-2 final (+2 -1 =2).
Semifinalists GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Jose…
GM Kirill Shevchenko, who also won Titled Tuesday on June 15, 2021, won the early tournament on February 8 and finished third in the late tournament. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the late tournament.
Both players won outright, Shevchenko with 10/11...
GM Yuri Averbakh, the oldest living grandmaster in the world, turns 100 today. After recovering from Covid last summer, he seems to be back in shape again and says he still analyzes endgames to keep his mind sharp.
Born February 8, 1922, in Kalu...
GM Levon Aronian consolidated his position while GM Wesley So defeated GM Leinier Dominguez in a crucial game, as both opened a full point lead on 3/4 in Group C and Group D respectively at the end of the fourth round of the 2022 FIDE…
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Letters with pages from porn magazines and used condoms have been sent to at least 15 female chess players for over a decade. This troubling news was revealed today by t...
GM Sergey Karjakin, GM Praggnanandhaa R., and GM Jorden van Foreest finished their 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament with wins in the final round on Sunday. GM Magnus Carlsen had already won the tournament with a round to spare and got a forfe...