Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun attacked with the black pieces in Game 11 of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship, but a creative king march saved the day for GM Lei Tingjie, leaving the scores tied at 5.5-5.5 going into the final classical g...
In an open letter published on the FIDE website a number of top grandmasters urge Ukraine's government to allow GM Vasyl Ivanchuk to leave the country and play the upcoming FIDE World Cup.
The event begins in Baku, Azerbaijan on July 29 and...
GM Hikaru Nakamura sits atop the Winners Bracket after defeating GM Alireza Firouzja in an electrifying final at the Bullet Chess Championship 2023 on Thursday. He awaits the player who will fight their way out of the Losers Bracket to meet him in...
GM Gukesh D is expected to be the youngest player to have a published rating of 2750 in history when the next FIDE rating list comes out in 11 days (when he will be 17.17 years old). This news comes just off the heels of…
With the fourth leg of the $2 million Champions Chess Tour ending in a thrilling climax and International Chess Day celebrations now underway, Chess.com can reveal the title of its penultimate regular season event: the 2023 Julius Baer Generation ...
With swift and tricky play, GM Alireza Firouzja defeated GM Magnus Carlsen in the semifinals of the Bullet Chess Championship 2023 on Wednesday. GM Hikaru Nakamura bested GM Daniel Naroditsky in match loaded with dazzling tactics. Firouzja and Nak...
17-year-old GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu continues to climb the highest rungs of professional chess. On Wednesday, he won the V. Geza Hetenyi Memorial | GM, held in Budapest, and will cross the 2700-rating threshold on the next official FIDE list....
Russian chess continues to lose its top players. Former Candidates player GM Kirill Alekseenko has now completed the transfer to Austria and becomes the country's highest-rated player.
The 26-year-old from St. Petersburg who was ranked amo...
Challenger GM Lei Tingjie briefly threatened to take over in game 10 of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship, but Defending Champion GM Ju Wenjun "took back" a questionable move and soon even had a nominal advantage before the game fizzled out...
GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Hikaru Nakamura won their matches by the highest margins in the quarterfinals of the Bullet Chess Championship 2023 on Tuesday. They each defeated formidable grandmasters, Andrew Tang and Jose Martinez respectively, by an...