GM Fabiano Caruana increased his lead to a point, even while he let GM Sam Shankland off the hook in the eighth round of the 2023 U.S. Championship. In the U.S. Women's Championship, IM Carissa Yip and WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova continued ...
Moves were delayed 15 minutes and watches outlawed as world number-one Magnus Carlsen's tweets had an instant impact on round three of the 2023 Qatar Masters. Drama was limited on the board, as GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri were frustrat...
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) became the first team to topple the University of Missouri (Mizzou) in the SIG-sponsored 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) fall season on Saturday after a tight tussle that ended 9-7 in favor of the Texan t...
IMs Polina Shuvalova and Lawrence Trent filled the last two spots of the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinals after, respectively, winning Groups C and D. The other two semifinalists are IMs Greg Shahade and Levy Rozman (aka Gotha...
Each on a three-game winning streak, IM Carissa Yip and WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova have furthered their lead in the U.S. Women's Championship after seven rounds. They are now 1.5 points ahead of the field.
Both leaders won the...
IMs Greg Shahade and Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) advance to the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinals after winning Groups A and B, respectively, on Thursday.
Shahade's victory was a close call, and it only came after he ...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen confessed he was "completely crushed" by 23-year-old Kazakh GM Alisher Suleymenov in round two of the 2023 Qatar Masters, but afterward blamed a failure to concentrate on his opponent wearing a watch in contraventio...
It is the dark shadow that stalks chess—the failure of senior figures in the game to tackle its shameful gender gap and a recent stream of shocking sexual misconduct allegations. Chess, it is said, has to do better.
Now, a new group has fo...
At the halfway point, IM Carissa Yip and WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova are starting to run away with the U.S. Women's Championship. With a second win in a row and four victories total for each, they are a full point ahead of the field.
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World number-one Magnus Carlsen won a 23-move miniature as he set out to defend his title in the 2023 Qatar Masters, a tournament last held in 2015. GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri were among the star names to win in round one, but GMs…