GM Ediz Gurel captured first place and $400 in 2024's final Bullet Brawl, one week after falling short of his second title. Following their tussle at the top in the previous event, GM Oleksander Bortnyk fell three points shy of wresting the title ...
GM Volodar Murzin won the 2024 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship with an undefeated 10/13 score. Despite a slow start on day one, GM Koneru Humpy won the 2024 FIDE Women's World Rapid Chess Championship with 8.5/11, her second world title in rap...
GM Magnus Carlsen hasn't been paired for round nine of the 2024 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship after refusing to change out of his jeans to comply with FIDE's dress code. He told Take Take Take that he's leaving for somewhere with better weat...
GMs Volodar Murzin, Shant Sargsyan, Leinier Dominguez, and Daniel Naroditsky lead the 2024 FIDE Rapid Chess Championship after five rounds. GM Denis Lazavik, on 3.5/5, defeated tournament favorite GM Magnus Carlsen, on 2.5/5, in our Game of the Da...
GM Magnus Carlsen just won the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals in Oslo, Norway. It's Carlsen's fifth Champions Chess Tour title, and he's the only player to win the event since it began in 2020. He's added another trophy to the collection, as wel...
2024 has been an eventful year for chess. We saw quite some movement in the FIDE's top 10 list, with a new generation of young talents cementing themselves among the chess elite. We all cheered on as legendary players put on some thrilling perform...
GM Savva Vetokhin scored an impressive victory in the 2024 Sunway Sitges Chess Festival after cruising through the tournament undefeated and winning 2-0 in the blitz playoff against 22-year-old GM Ido Gorshtein. The teenager's first victory i...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk became the third player to win 10 Bullet Brawl titles and the $400 first prize on Saturday after denying Turkish prodigy GM Ediz Gurel, courtesy of a dramatic flagging against GM Christopher Yoo in his final game.
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GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 4-1 to win the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals and his fifth consecutive Champions Chess Tour title. Again earning the $200,000 first prize, Carlsen has won every edition of the Champions Chess Tou...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi advance to the title match of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals. Carlsen defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 3.5-1.5, even after missing a checkmate-in-two threat he could have played in the final game. Nep...