GM Magnus Carlsen crushed GM Tuan Minh Le with a dominating 20.5-3.5 score in a one-sided contest in the first match of the second day of the 2024 Speed Chess Championship. But the day belonged to the former world championship contender GM Ian Nep...
Three U.S. National Championships finished on Thursday in St. Louis and none of them needed playoffs. GM Vladimir Akopian had secured victory at the U.S. Senior Championship with a round to spare, after which GM Christopher Yoo won the U.S. Junior...
GM Arjun Erigaisi prevailed over GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda with a combined score of 12-10, striking in the crucial final four games of the 1+1 bullet segment in the first match of the first day of the 2024 Speed Chess Championship. In the other match,...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu bounced back from his loss the day before to score a convincing win over GM Abhimanyu Mishra and end the 2024 Biel Chess Festival in third place. GM Liem Le had wrapped up victory a day earlier, while Haik Martirosyan ...
$12 million in funding has been secured to organize a series of "Freestyle" chess tournaments similar to the first event held in February of this year in Weissenhaus, Germany. Initiators GM Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner joined forces with...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave just won Division I of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 on Wednesday, while GM Alexander Grischuk won Division II and GM Arjun Erigaisi Division III. We'll go over the five biggest takeaways from the third leg, of four, of the...
GM Liem Le has won the 2024 Biel Chess Festival with a round to spare after defeating GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu with the black pieces. The U.S.-based Vietnamese number-one has now won the title for three consecutive years. It was a bad day fo...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won Division I of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 after defeating GM Alireza Firouzja in the Grand Final. After four draws, he won on demand in the armageddon game to claim $30,000, 100 tour points, and a return to the season...
Two Titled Tuesday regulars, GMs Denis Lazavik and Oleksandr Bortnyk, won the event on July 23. For Lazavik, it was his third of the year, and his first ever with a score of 10.5 points. Bortnyk, who once scored a perfect 9/9 back when the tournam...
GM Saleh Salem has won the Challengers Triathlon of the 2024 Biel Chess Festival with two days to spare after surviving a sacrificial attack to beat GM Vaishali Rameshbabu and take an unassailable lead. In the Masters, GM Liem Le was on the ropes ...
Divisions II and III of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 came to a close on Tuesday. GM Alexander Grischuk rose from the ashes of the Losers Bracket and defeated GM Vidit Gujrathi in two matches to win Division II, while GM Arjun Erigaisi beat GM ...
GM Alireza Firouzja has succeeded in setting up another all-French clash with GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 Division I Grand Final. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi defeated GM Magnus Carlsen 2-1 in the Losers Semifinals, but the F...
Superstar sisters WFM Alexandra and Andrea Botez are hosting, for the first time ever, a FIDE-rated event for female creators and players. The event, called Chess Camp, will take place at a mansion in Malibu, California, from July 24 to July 31 an...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu started the Masters Blitz at the 2024 Biel Chess Festival in an elimination spot, but he went on to win the tournament and climb to third place in the overall standings. Instead, it's GM Vincent Keymer who joins GM Sam...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the Division I Winners Bracket and qualified for the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 Grand Final thanks to beating his compatriot GM Alireza Firouzja 2.5-0.5 on Sunday. Vachier-Lagrave may face Firouzja again, since the winne...
Twitch streamer and IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher became the ninth player to win Bullet Brawl, scoring 72.5/86 and securing the $400 first prize ahead of GM Daniel Naroditsky on International Chess Day. Peru's IM Renato Terry picked up the $150 third ...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu finally won a classical game at the 2024 Biel Chess Festival as he defeated GM Sam Shankland to reenter the world top-10. It was almost a perfect day for the family as Vaishali Rameshbabu was on the brink of beating GM...
The French numbers one and two will face off in the Division I Winners Final of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave once again proved to be GM Magnus Carlsen's kryptonite, while GM Alireza Firouzja overcame GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is out of the world top-10 after losing to GM Vincent Keymer, who said he'd played 1.e4 for the first time "in like nine years" in round four of the 2024 Biel Chess Festival Masters classical section. GM Liem Le took o...
GM Alireza Firouzja may have suffered a "once-in-a-lifetime" nine-move loss against GM Fabiano Caruana, but he still won his Division I Winners Quarterfinal match in the CrunchLabs Masters 2024. He'll play GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the Winners Semi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura skips the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad that will take place in the Hungarian capital Budapest on September 11-22, but the U.S. team of GMs Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Leinier Dominguez, Levon Aronian, and Ray Robson is still the top...
GM Vaishali Rameshbabu just can't stop winning! The Indian star took the lead in the 2024 Biel Chess Festival Challengers and has entered the Women's Top-10 after defeating GM Ihor Samunenkov with a brilliant, if flawed, attack. GM Jonas Bjerre gr...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and Dmitry Andreikin won their matches on day two of the CrunchLabs Masters 2024 to make it into Division I. They join the players who qualified through the last Champions Che...
GMs Vaishali Rameshbabu and Abhimanyu Mishra both won again in round two of the 2024 Biel Chess Festival despite being the lowest-rated players in their groups. Mishra leads the Masters after a long, grinding win against GM Sam Shankland, while Va...
