IM Polina Shuvalova was the sole winner of round three at the Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022-2023, defeating IM Gunay Mammadzada with a combination of strategic understanding and tenacity. Shuvalova is now tied for third, trailing the leader...
GMs Kateryna Lagno and Tan Zhongyi have taken the lead, each winning a second game in a row at the Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022-2023 in round two. Lagno defeated IM Gunay Mammadzada, gaining an edge by undermining her opponent's cente...
GM Pranav V won the Winners Bracket and IM Read Samadov won the Losers Bracket of Qualifier 1 to both qualify for the Junior Speed Chess Championship 2023 Main Event.
Pranav V won convincingly, winning nearly all his games in his semifinal...
GMs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Oleksandr Bortnyk found the keys to victory in Titled Tuesday on May 16. Mamedyarov won on tiebreaks over GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Nitzan Steinberg, while Bortnyk won outright by half a point over GM Matthias Bluebaum....
Every single game of the first round of the Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022-2023 ended decisively. With imaginative and fearless play, GM Tan Zhongyi defeated her fellow women's world champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk. WGM Dinara Wagner's deter...
On the morning of Thursday, May 11, the chess world woke up to the unbearably sad news of the untimely death of 32-year-old WIM Sue Maroroa Jones, who represented New Zealand and England on the international stage.
In a heartbreaking announcemen...
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GM Caruana Fabiano won clear first at the Superbet Classic Romania 2023. Entering the last round a half point ahead of the field, he drew comfortably vs. GM Richard Rapport. The four compet...
The penultimate round of the Superbet Classic Romania 2023 ended on Sunday with one win and four draws, leaving GM Fabiano Caruana as the sole leader on 5/8 after GM Alireza Firouzja was defeated by GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda.
Threefold repetiti...
Eight players won the Olympic Esports Series 2023 Preliminaries after accumulating three match wins on Thursday and Friday: GMs Shant Sargsyan, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Oleksandr Bortnyk, Alexey Sarana, Bassem Amin, Maksim Chigaev, Ngoc Truong Son Ngu...
Chess.com’s premier online event showcasing the world’s top young talent, the Junior Speed Chess Championship, is back for 2023—and now with a record $50,000 prize fund.
The fourth edition of this fast and furious tournam...