World Champion Ding Liren rebounded with victory in the 2024 FIDE World Championship against Challenger Gukesh Dommaraju immediately after losing the previous game, evening the score at 6-6. After a rest day on Tuesday, December 10, Game 13 ...
GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Alexander Donchenko won the inaugural 2024 Saint Louis Masters with 6.5/9, each earning $17,500 without any tiebreakers. For Caruana, the reigning U.S. Champion, it was a bittersweet ending. He led the nine-round tourname...
Both GM Gukesh Dommaraju and World Champion Ding Liren missed wins as game eight of the 2024 FIDE World Championship ended in a 51-move draw. Ding switched to 1.c4, was again surprised in the opening, but had stabilized just when he blundered into...
Challenger Gukesh Dommaraju leads the 2024 FIDE World Championship against World Champion Ding Liren 6-5 with only three games to go. Game 12 is on Monday, December 9, at 4:00 a.m. ET / 10:00 CET / 2:30 p.m. IST / 5:00 p.m. local time in…
A spirited performance by GM Hikaru Nakamura in Saturday's Bullet Brawl saw him return to the throne and collect the $400 first prize after consecutive second-placed finishes in November.
72 wins, 28 of which were part of a timely winning streak...
A new conference during the 2024 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships in New York is set to bridge the world of chess and finance. The event is bound to be a treat for anyone able to afford the $1,000 ticket—or the $5,000 VIP tickets…
The 2024 FIDE World Championship between defending World Champion Ding Liren and Challenger Gukesh Dommaraju is level at 5-5 and continues with Game 11 on Sunday, December 8, at 4:00 a.m. ET / 10:00 CET / 2:30 p.m. IST / 5:00 p.m. local time...
NM Janak Awatramani won the 2024 Crazyhouse Championship after defeating GM Lars Oskar Hauge 4.5-2.5 in the Grand Final, earning $2,000 in the last event of the 2024 Community Chess Championships. The tournament series occurred once a month with a...
The 2024 FIDE World Championship between defending World Champion Ding Liren and Challenger Gukesh Dommaraju continues on Saturday, December 7, at 4:00 a.m. ET / 10:00 CET / 2:30 p.m. IST / 5:00 p.m. local time in Singapore. Friday, December...
GM Arjun Erigaisi became the 15th player in history to break the 2800 Elo barrier in standard chess ratings and only the second Indian player to do so after GM Viswanathan Anand. With 2801, Arjun is the world number-four on the December 2024 FIDE ...