We have three co-leaders at the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament with two rounds to go: GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, GM Hikaru Nakamura, and GM Gukesh Dommaraju. Nakamura scored the hat trick against GM Alireza Firouzja, and Gukesh defeated GM Nija...
CM Matfey Rogov prevailed in the Atomic Chess Championship of the Variants Community Series (VCS) on Thursday. In a sibling rivalry-fueled Final, he overcame his older brother, Timofey Rogov. Along the way, Matfey also defeated the top see...
Round 11 of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament featured three decisive games out of a possible four. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the longest game of the round with Black against GM Vidit Gujrathi, again taking the sole lead. A half-point behin...
If you had doubts about how big an event Titled Tuesday has become, you can look at just how many players from the ongoing Candidates Tournament played the April 16 edition anyway (during a rest day in the Candidates). One of them, GM Hikaru Nakam...
GM Maurice Ashley draws on his extensive chess experience to impart life lessons in his latest literary offering. His new book has already hit number one on Amazon. On April 2, Ashley released his new book Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off t...
Three-time Polish Women's Champion IM Joanna Dworakowska, among the nation's strongest women for more than two decades, has passed away at the age of 45. Dworakowska is one of Poland's strongest women players ever, with a peak rating of 2445, a ...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana won their games in round 10 of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament to inch closer to the tournament lead. Co-leaders GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Gukesh Dommaraju made a draw in their game and are now chased...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Gukesh Dommaraju continue to lead the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament after round nine. GM Vidit Gujrathi is the only player to win on Sunday, and he defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura for the second time. GM Alireza Firouzja...
Round eight of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament saw two winners and a significant change in the standings. GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Fabiano Caruana in the all-American matchup, while GM Gukesh Dommaraju also beat his countryman GM Vidit G...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won the latest iteration of Bullet Brawl after posting a 28-game winning streak and overtaking GM Jose Martinez in the dying minutes of the two-hour arena. Finishing on 247 points with 68 wins, five draws, and 11 losses, Bortn...
GM Fabiano Caruana trails leader GM Ian Nepomniachtchi by half a point at the midway stage of the 2024 Candidates Tournament, just as he did in 2022. Back then he crashed and burned as he fought for first place, only for it turn out that second pl...
At the halfway mark of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is back in the sole lead. In round seven, he survived over 20 moves of preparation from GM Hikaru Nakamura to make the draw. GM Gukesh Dommaraju came close to winn...
Former Women's World Champion Tan Zhongyi capped off a tremendous attack against GM Anna Muzychuk to gain her third victory in the 2024 FIDE Women's Candidates and maintain the lead. All four games were decisive in round six, leaving GM Aleksandra...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda and GM David Paravyan won each Titled Tuesday tournament of April 9 outright on a score of 10/11, while they both also made the top 10 in the other event of the day. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk won the early women's prize despite ...
After close to six hours of play and in the longest round of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament so far, GM Gukesh Dommaraju defeated GM Nijat Abasov to catch GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the lead. Nepomniachtchi, on the other hand, survived a lost po...
GM Arjun Erigaisi won the 2024 Menorca Open on Sunday. The Indian top-GM edged out GMs Kirill Alekseenko and Maksim Chigaev on tiebreaks after all finished on 7.5/9. Arjun reached a career-peak live rating of 2761 and briefly occupied the fifth pl...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi has taken a half-point lead at the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament. On the white side of the Berlin Defense, he dispatched GM Vidit Gujrathi. Draws on the remaining three boards leave GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Fabiano Caruana ...
The brother/sister duo of GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and GM-elect Vaishali Rameshbabu stole the show as the only victors in round three of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament. Praggnanandhaa defeated one of the leaders, GM Vidit Gujrathi, by u...
GM Daniel Naroditsky netted $400 and his second Bullet Brawl victory in a row on Saturday after scoring 260 points ahead of 122 other titled players. Scoring 72 wins in 83 games, Naroditsky put a healthy buffer between himself and second and third...
With a novelty followed by three sacrifices, GM Vidit Gujrathi broke GM Hikaru Nakamura's 47-game undefeated streak, as enterprising play at the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament led to an all-decisive day two. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi prevailed in the...
The players displayed an abundance of fighting spirit on the opening day of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament. GM Hikaru Nakamura sacrificed two rooks vs. GM Fabiano Caruana. GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu co-created a duel...
The much-anticipated Candidates Tournament is just around the corner, with the eight contenders fighting for the right to challenge reigning World Champion Ding Liren for the title. But who will triumph in the end? Here's GM Magnus Carlsen's verdi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Andrew Hong won the first Titled Tuesday events of April 2024. For Hong, it was a milestone, being his first-ever win in Titled Tuesday, and he did it outright with 10 points while Nakamura needed tiebreaks earlier a...
Twelve-year-old Turkish chess sensation IM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus is the new youngest grandmaster in the world and the fourth youngest to achieve the title in history. He earned his third grandmaster norm in Germany on Monday and his title is pending...
