NM Anthony Levin caught the chess bug at the "late" age of 18 and never turned back. He earned his national master title in 2021, actually the night before his first day of work at Chess.com.
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Team "Oh Yes My Queen," IM Eric Rosen and WGM Nemo Zhou, won their 2024 Team Chess Battle 2 quarterfinal match 2-0 against Team 'Dandinavian,' IM Danny Rensch and IM John Bartholomew. Although Chess.com's Chief Chess Officer blamed the outcome on ...
The mother-daughter duo of GM Pia Cramling and WFM Anna Cramling reigned supreme in the first quarterfinal match of the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2. They controlled the match against Team ChessKid—IM Alice Lee and FM Mike Klein—for the mo...
GM Magnus Carlsen just won the 2024 Julius Baer Generation Cup, meaning he's won two out of the four Champions Chess Tour events this year. We also saw GM Wesley So win Division II and GM Fabiano Caruana Division III. Let's go over what we've lear...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Division I of the 2024 Julius Baer Generation Cup after defeating GM Alireza Firouzja 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final. After three hard-fought draws, the world number-one found a brilliant way to break through (40.e6!!) in the fou...
GM Alireza Firouzja has advanced to play GM Magnus Carlsen in the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024 Division I Grand Final. GM Levon Aronian showed tremendous form when he defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 1.5-0.5 but was met with an immovable Firo...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, Levon Aronian, and Alexander Grischuk advance to the Division I Winners Semifinals of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024, after respectively defeating GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladimir Fedoseev, Maxime Vachier...
The three divisions of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024 are set to begin. After a Play-in and two Division Placement matches, we will see the following players in Division I: GMs Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Arjun Erigaisi, Levon Aronian...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Play-in of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024 with a final-round victory with the black pieces against GM Wesley So. Although Fedoseev lost in round four against GM Vasif Durarbayli, he won seven of the eight other ga...
Uzbekistan is the first team in the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad to keep from losing a match against India, holding an equal 2-2 match score with four draws. India still leads by two points. GM Leinier Dominguez led the U.S. to a 2.5-1.5 victory again...
After defeating Iran 3.5-0.5, India continues to lead the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad with a perfect 16/16 score. Of 32 games played, India hasn't lost a single one. GM Benjamin Gledura won a close match for Hungary 2.5-1.5 against Armenia after defe...
China, who replaced GM Ding Liren with GM Wei Yi on board one, came agonizingly close to ending India's winning streak in the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad, but with a long endgame grind GM Gukesh Dommaraju brought India its seventh win for a perfect 1...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his fourth title at the Speed Chess Championship 2024, defeating GM Alireza Firouzja in front of a live audience in Paris. It was a dominant performance with a final score of 23.5-7.5; he lost just five games in four hours, d...
GM Hikaru Nakamura finished third in the Speed Chess Championship 2024 after defeating GM Hans Niemann in the consolation match 21-9. He won all three segments, making his greatest gains in the 3+1 and 1+1 segments. Nakamura earns $13,500 for winn...
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Four-time Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun won the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship after defeating IM Polina Shuvalova in the Final. The match score was 12.5-9.5, and Ju won every one of the three segments by a point. The Chine...
IM Polina Shuvalova and four-time World Champion Ju Wenjun are the two finalists of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship. Shuvalova defeated GM Vaishali Rameshbabu 11.5-9.5 in a close match, while Ju nearly doubled GM Kateryna Lag...
Reigning World Champion Ju Wenjun and three-time Women's World Blitz Champion Kateryna Lagno will face each other in the Semifinals of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship. Ju defeated IM Alice Lee 9.5-5.5, while Lagno eliminated ...
GM Hans Niemann has surged to number 16 in the world on the live rating list after a series of matches he's organized entitled "Hans Niemann Against The World." He's won all of the matches so far, starting with an exhibition blitz match against GM...
There are two leaders, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Alireza Firouzja, at the 2024 Sinquefield Cup after three rounds. Five decisive results were possible on this tempestuous day, but we saw two. Nepomniachtchi's risky opening paid off against GM...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
GM Magnus Carlsen qualified for the Speed Chess Championship 2024 Semifinals, live in Paris on September 6, after defeating GM Arjun Erigaisi with a 12-9 score. He will play GM Hans Niemann in the next match, the first time they will meet for a ga...
