Chess.com’s flagship Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, the stellar event to find the world’s top player over fast time controls, will kick off next month with GM Hikaru Nakamura gunning for an incredible sixth title in a ...
GM Vidit Gujrathi outplayed number-four seed GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in round-five tiebreaks to reach the quarterfinals of the 2023 FIDE World Cup, so that half of the remaining field now hails from the rising chess powerhouse of India.
IM Nurgyul...
GM Alan Pichot, Latin America's strongest player for years, has moved from Argentina and become Spain's fifth-highest-ranked player. On his way out, he criticized the Argentinian Chess Federation and its president for the lack of financial support...
Three Indian players—GMs Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Dommaraju Gukesh, and Arjun Erigaisi—will play in the quarterfinals of the 2023 FIDE World Cup after scoring 1.5/2 in their respective round-five matches on Sunday.
The trio will be...
It was a bad day for the world's strongest chess couple as GMs Alexander Grischuk and Kateryna Lagno were both knocked out of the 2023 FIDE World Cup in round-two tiebreaks. Grischuk lost to 17-year-old Iranian GM Bardiya Daneshvar, while Women's ...
GM Daniel Naroditsky won Saturday's Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize for the second week in a row ahead of a stacked field of titled players after scoring 63 wins, nine draws, and 13 losses (226 points). His closest rivals were unsurprisingly...
On the first day of round five of the 2023 FIDE World Cup, GMs Gukesh D and Arjun Erigaisi led the way for India's young stars after both scored wins with Black over GMs Wang Hao and Nils Grandelius, respectively. GMs Magnus Carlsen, Leinier Domin...
World number-two GM Hikaru Nakamura is out of the 2023 FIDE World Cup after losing to GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu in round four tiebreaks. The event is also over for Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun after she missed a trick against GM Elisabet...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen won on demand to keep his 2023 FIDE World Cup hopes alive despite gifting GM Vincent Keymer a huge chance to seal their match. GM Wesley So is out after failing to mount a comeback against GM Alexey Sarana, while GM...
GM Aleksandar Matanovic, the oldest living chess grandmaster, one of the great players during the golden age of Serbian chess, and co-founder of Chess Informant, died on Wednesday at the age of 93.
Matanovic was born on May 23, 1930 in Belgrade,...