GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda were the winners of Titled Tuesday on March 14, both of them scoring 9.5 points. Nakamura edged out GM Daniil Dubov on tiebreaks early while Duda won outright late. GM Arjun Erigaisi scored two top-five...
On Friday, top GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura as well as WGM Jennifer Shahade took part in a panel discussion at the MIT Sloan School of Management's annual Sports Analytics Conference in Boston. The three talked about the further growth ...
On Friday, Team MGD1 gained their second victory in a row, defeating the California Unicorns in week three of the Pro Chess League. Although the match started out very close, GM Adhiban Baskaran's 4-0 performance combined with solid support from t...
Boom! GM Hikaru Nakamura and Misfits Gaming Group are thrilled to announce a massive and thrilling chess tournament series: Hikaru's Chess Decathlon. This epic ten-tournament contest kicks off with a format for which Hikaru is the reigning World C...
GM Alexey Sarana won the European Individual Chess Championship on Monday in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. The 23-year-old Russian grandmaster, who played under the FIDE flag, edged out GMs Kirill Shevchenko (Ukraine) and Daniel Dardha (Belgium) on tieb...
GM Magnus Carlsen will return to Norway Chess, his homecoming tournament, after he abdicates his world champion title, it was announced on Monday.
Once again, the world number-one tops the lineup for the elite event—now in its 11th year&md...
Fighting their way through 147 high-level competitors, GMs Le Liem, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Fedoseev, and Vladislav Artemiev finished at the top of the Play In and qualified for Division I of Chessable Masters 2023. They will join GMs Magnus Carls...
Jamaica's government has announced an ambitious plan to pour J$40 million (approximately $260,000 at the time of writing) into chess in a drive to create a new grandmaster by 2033, local media reported.
Ministers on the Caribbean island wa...
Do you only watch an award show if someone gets slapped in the face? Well, you're in luck (again)!
Back for its second year, The Streamer Awards are happening on Saturday, March 11, starting at 3 p.m. PT, and it's being presented by and…
Ellen Carlsen, Magnus Carlsen's older sister, says Jennifer Shahade's allegations against Alejandro Ramirez led to her report an incident where she says she was harassed by a chess player as a minor.
WGM's Jennifer Shahade's shocking tweet alleg...