GM Raunak Sadhwani convincingly defeated GM Denis Lazavik to attain the second spot in the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship Final. The match was a one-sided affair in the first two segments, and despite an early scare in the bullet, Raunak reg...
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FM Alice Lee earned the international master title at age 13 and reset the record as the youngest American-born female to do so.
Lee gained her third IM norm at the 2023 Canadian Transnational Chess Championship, facing eight grandmasters and on...
GM Gukesh D secured his spot in the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship Final by winning his semifinal match against GM Pranav V 16.5-10.5.
After an unexpectedly strong start by Pranav, where he started the 5+1 portion with a 3-point lead, Guke...
On the second day of Quarterfinals in the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship, GM Raunak Sadhwani dispatched IM Read Samadov and GM Denis Lazavik eliminated GM Daniel Dardha. The victory of the two favorites was never in question during their mat...
Chess.com's all-star hunt for the best chess player in the NFL is back for a second edition featuring eight of your favorite footballers. BlitzChamps II kicks off on June 23 with $100,000 at stake for charity and the all-important bragging rights ...
The June 13 edition of Titled Tuesday was won by GMs Gata Kamsky in the early event and Jan-Krzysztof Duda late. The 49-year-old Kamsky, who challenged for the FIDE World Championship in 1996, won outright with 9.5 points ahead of a nine-way tie f...
The Quarterfinals of the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship kicked off on Tuesday with wins by GM Gukesh D over IM Emin Ohanyan and GM Pranav V against GM Christopher Yoo. Gukesh and Pranav will throw down in an all-Indian semifinal match o...
The last round of the Cairns Cup 2023 featured an epic matchup between IM Anna Zatonskih and her longtime U.S. Women's Championship rival GM Irina Krush. Further cementing her tournament victory, Zatonskih held off Krush's pressure in th...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Wesley So, and Eduardo Iturrizaga each secured qualifying spots for the 2023 Champions Chess Tour's fourth leg, the Aimchess Rapid, on Monday after progressing through a challenging Swiss event before winning the...