GM Aleksandra Goryachkina outplayed top-seed GM Tan Zhongyi with a kingside attack to win a third game in a row and take the sole lead in the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix going into the rest day. Round five saw just one draw, as IM Bibisa...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has captured another Bullet Brawl after scoring 71.5/77—which includes a 23-game winning streak—and finishing ahead of the second and third-placed GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk and Tuan Minh Le. With a winning margin of 55 p...
GMs Koneru Humpy and Aleksandra Goryachkina both won their second games in a row (vs. IMs Nurgyul Salimova and Stavroula Tsolakidou respectively) to catch GM Tan Zhongyi in the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix lead in round four. IM Batkhuyag...
IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess) won the Battle of Generations against GM Pia Cramling with four games to spare. Rozman came into the final day with a four-point lead, and he clinched the match with two consecutive wins after the halftime break. The f...
GM Arjun Erigaisi tops the leaderboard to win the 2024 FIDE Circuit and become the first player to qualify for the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, but things are complicated. The 2023 Circuit winner GM Fabiano Caruana and top-10 stars Nodirbek Ab...
After evening the score against GM Pia Cramling with a win the previous day, IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess) has taken a 14-10 lead in the Battle of Generations. He won three consecutive games on Friday, with rook sacrifices in two of them, but Craml...
GM Tan Zhongyi demolished GM Kateryna Lagno in a rare line of the London System to take the sole lead on 2.5 points after three rounds of the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix. IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul had won in 17 moves in round two, but was ...
IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess) bounced back from his loss against GM Pia Cramling in the first classical game to even the score 6-6 in the Battle of Generations. With the black pieces, he generated a powerful attack, but Cramling defended tenaciousl...
Mongolian IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul scored the only win of round two of the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix after unleashing the crushing 17...Ba3!! on GM Elisabeth Paehtz, who was left with little choice but to resign after a one-hour game. G...
The biggest chess game in history has concluded. In just 24 moves, GM Viswanathan Anand convincingly defeated nearly 70,000 opponents in the game known simply as Vishy vs. the World. HE'S DONE IT! @vishy64theking 👑🇮🇳Vishy has made chess histor...
A week after winning his fourth U.S. title, GM Fabiano Caruana also won the 2024 Chess 9LX tournament in St. Louis. With 7.5/9 he remained half a point ahead of GM Hikaru Nakamura. Caruana won $30,000 and another $7,500 for finishing in sole first...
Women's World Championship Challenger GM Tan Zhongyi showed she could checkmate with a knight and bishop as she ground down GM Elisabeth Paehtz in 107 moves to start the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix with a win. The only two players who al...
GM Pia Cramling continues to lead in the Battle of Generations against IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess) after a draw in the third classical game. She had some initiative in the opening with the black pieces, but Rozman's bishop pair proved to be more ...
It was a good Titled Tuesday for the greats on October 29, with GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Alireza Firouzja claiming victory, each scoring 10 points and avoiding tiebreaks in their win. The two stars also won Titled Tuesday back on July 30 (in the...
GM Fabiano Caruana pulled a Houdini vs. last year's winner GM Sam Sevian to maintain a half-point lead going into the final day of the 2024 Chess 9LX tournament in St. Louis. His closest rival is GM Hikaru Nakamura, who erred twice against GM Garr...
GM Pia Cramling and IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess) drew by repetition in the second classical game of the Battle of Generations, in a game that lasted 14 moves. It turns out both players expected the other to deviate, to avoid the draw, but were stu...
Just days after winning the U.S. Championship for the fourth time, GM Fabiano Caruana also started his 2024 Chess 9LX tournament very well. The St. Louis resident won his three games on the first day, including against GM Hikaru Nakamura, and lead...
SRM added another victory to their winning streak in week five of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall Season, reaching a perfect 5-0. Saint Louis defeated Yale and is tied for second with UT Rio Grande Valley. GM Pranesh M and IM L R Sri...
GM Pia Cramling has started the Battle of Generations, her one-on-one match against IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess), with a win in the first classical game. Rozman gained the advantage with the white pieces, but spent about half his remaining time on...
Third seed Novy Bor Chess Club—featuring GMs Vincent Keymer, David Navara, Thai Dai Van Nguyen, David Anton Guijarro, Nils Grandelius, Vidit Gujrathi, Mateusz Bartel, and Pentala Harikrishna—won the European Chess Club Cup on Saturday ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura came out on top in October's final Bullet Brawl after a tight race with GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Oleksandr Bortnyk on Saturday. Nakamura faced stiff resistance en route to his score of 251 and was fortunate to notch a 17-game s...
GM Fabiano Caruana successfully defended his title at the 2024 U.S. Chess Championship, notching a win over GM Sam Shankland in the final round to claim the $62,000 first prize and winner's trophy. Caruana's 7/10 performance gave him a 1.5-point b...
GMs Nikolas Theodorou and Jeffery Xiong took home the Titled Tuesday tournaments of October 22, both scoring 9.5 points. It was Theodoru's first win in Titled Tuesday and Xiong's 14th since October 2020, and Xiong's third of 2024. Tiebreaks w...
GM Fabiano Caruana has maintained his half-point buffer heading into the final round of the 2024 U.S. Chess Championships after three out of five games in round 10 games were drawn. GM Ray Robson, who toppled GM Abhimanyu Mishra, moved into second...
