The 2022 Speed Chess Championship main event begins in less than a week! Sixteen of the world’s top players will find out who’s the quickest on their feet as they vie for the world’s most prestigious online speed chess title.&nbs...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Vladimir Fedoseev were the winners of Titled Tuesday on November 15, both doing so outright without needing tiebreaks. Caruana reached the coveted 10.5/11 score in the early tournament, only drawing in round five. Fedoseev ...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda are in a tie for first place at the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals as the only two players to win both of their matches 3-0. GM Anish Giri won his second blitz tiebreak in a row, this ti...
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals took off on Monday in San Francisco with a win for the world champion. GM Magnus Carlsen toppled GM Wesley So, the recent winner of the Chess.com Global Chess Championship, in the opening round.
How to w...
GM Alexander Grischuk won the second qualifier of the 2022 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship on Sunday following a convincing triumph over compatriot GM Vladislav Artemiev in the final.
Having claimed he hadn't looked at chess for two or three ...
The 2022 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship commenced on Thursday with a cutthroat qualifier where GM David Paravyan emerged victorious after defeating GM Tuan Minh Le in a dazzling armageddon tiebreaker.
Amidst a field of 142 titled players, Mi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura was crowned as the FIDE Fischer Random World Chess Champion on Sunday after winning a thrilling armageddon tiebreaker final against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi.
Having split the points in their four-game mini-match, Nakamura saved h...
GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Alireza Firouzja were the victors in Titled Tuesday on November 8, both with scores of 9.5/11, Andreikin on tiebreaks and Firouzja outright. It was Andreikin's 10th Titled Tuesday victory of the year and Firouzja's second,...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura were confirmed on Saturday as the grand finalists for the 2022 Fischer Random World Championships after winning their respective semifinals by convincing margins.
Nakamura only needed three games ...
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GM Wesley So clinched the inaugural Chess.com Global Championship, defeating GM Nihal Sarin in the final with two games to spare. So takes home the $200,000 grand prize―the largest prize of his ca...