Bullet Brawl saw the crowning of a new champion on Saturday after 15-year-old Turkish prodigy GM Ediz Gurel scored 265 points and finished ahead of American GMs Andrew Tang (261) and Daniel Naroditsky (211). The winner of the $100 top women's pr...
GM Vaishali Rameshbabu smoothly outplayed IM Sara Khadem in round three of the 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix to recover from a tough start and move up into the seven-player pack on 50 percent. All the other games were drawn, so that IMs Bib...
IM Anastasia Bodnaruk emerged as the winner of the fourth and final Play-In tournament for the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship in what turned out to be the most exciting and memorable of all the qualifiers. Bodnaruk defeated Azer...
GM Alireza Firouzja captured first with two rounds to spare at the 2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz on Friday. Leading the event during the entire last day, his victory was never in doubt, echoing his convincing performance at the same tournamen...
IM Levy Rozman, also known as "GothamChess," has taken another step towards the GM title after playing in the Spilimbergo Open and scoring 6/9. While Rozman's 2370 rating performance saw him break even in terms of points, a win over GM Alberto Dav...
GMs Vaishali Rameshbabu and Nana Dzagnidze both played the same line of the French Defense, and though their games diverged on move seven they both missed huge winning chances in round two of the 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix. All five game...
GM Alireza Firouzja leads the 2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz by a point and a half after the first nine rounds of blitz. Behind him is the top-scorer of the blitz portion, GM Wesley So, who scored 7/8, and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, both on 16 poi...
IM Eline Roebers of the Netherlands revealed after qualifying for the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship that she competed for the whole of the Swiss part in a train, using her phone. She reached home "just in time" as the Knockout ...
A one-move blunder cost Indian GM Vaishali Rameshbabu a loss against Greek IM Stavroula Tsolakidou as the 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix got underway. The day's other winner was Kazakh IM Bibisara Assaubayeva who sprang a surprise on move on...
The 2024 FIDE World Championship between Chinese defending champion GM Ding Liren and his Indian challenger GM Gukesh Dommaraju will take place in Resorts World Sentosa, a resort complex that includes Universal Studios Singapore, on an island off ...
The three leaders from the day before remained in the same position after the final day of rapid chess in the 2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the last round to re-join the lead, while GM Alireza Firouzja drew and ...
IM Mai Narva of Estonia convincingly triumphed in the second qualifier of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship by winning the Knockout stage of the second Play-In after defeating WFM Hong Nhung Nguyen of Vietnam in the finals with...
GM Hikaru Nakamura will lead the new American Gambits team when the Global Chess League returns for a second season, to be held this October in London. The other Icon players leading their teams are GMs Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Ian Nepom...
GMs Jose Martinez and Jeffery Xiong were the victors in the August 13 editions of Titled Tuesday, Martinez finally breaking into the TT winners column in 2024 after coming close several times. "Ready for London," an apparent reference to his ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave led the 2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after day one, but GMs Alireza Firouzja and Ian Nepomniachtchi caught up to him to join a three-way tie after six rounds. Of the other seven players, GM Fabiano Caruana was the o...
FIDE's Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has banned Latvian IM Andrejs Strebkovs for five years after finding him guilty of sexually harassing several top female players, some of them children, by sending them obscene letters for over a d...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju was gifted a car on Saturday at a spectacular celebration held by his school, Velammal Vidyalaya, on their Mel Ayanambakkam campus in Chennai. The world championship challenger turned 18 this year, which means he'll be able to ...
Sehba Shah overcame a severe physical handicap to become Pakistan Women's Champion. The 59-year-old will now lead the national team competing in the biggest chess event on the calendar. The 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad, which takes place in Hungary'...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is the sole leader of the 2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after the first day of rapid games. After escaping vs. GM Hikaru Nakamura and turning the tide vs. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, the French grandmaster defeated...
Seventeen-year-old WIM Alua Nurman of Kazakhstan triumphed in the first qualifier to the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship by winning the Knockout stage of the first Play-In after defeating IM Anastasia Bodnaruk in the finals with ...
Are you ready for piece placement pandemonium? Chess.com is excited to announce the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships, the 2024 Chess.com Bughouse Championship! Starting on August 19, anyone can battle for a piece of this month's...
We're excited to announce that registrations for the Fall 2024 season of the Collegiate Chess League are now open! The event features once more the beloved four vs. four team format, a hefty $25,000 prize fund, and presenting partner Susquehanna, ...
Famed commentator and GM Daniel Naroditsky added a 22nd Bullet Brawl title to his resume on Saturday after outscoring Turkish prodigies GM Ediz Gurel and IM Yaqiz Erdogmus, whose combined age of 28 is the same as the winner's. A 23-game unbea...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is the last player to make it to the Speed Chess Championship 2024 Finals. On Friday, he defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the Quarterfinals with a 14.5-9.5 score. Nepomniachtchi got off to a three-point lead in the first segmen...
