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GM Kateryna Lagno moves on to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after defeating WGM Priyanka Nutakki 17.5-4.5. She will play GM Harika Dronavalli in the Semifinals on Friday. Priyanka got off to a fantastic start b...
GMs Hou Yifan and Harika Dronavalli move on to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after convincingly defeating IM Polina Shuvalova and GM Valentina Gunina, respectively. Hou, the favorite, was actually at a tw...
IM Polina Shuvalova and WGM Priyanka Nutakki earned their seats in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 after emerging on top of a two-day qualifier, which was a 14-round Swiss followed by a double-elimination knockout. The main...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Vidit Gujrathi, and Andrey Esipenko lead the FIDE Grand Swiss 2023 with 7.5 points going into the last round. They beat, respectively, GMs Fabiano Caruana, Bogdan-Daniel Deac, and Parham Maghsoodloo. As a historic feat, there ...
Four players share the lead after round eight of the FIDE Grand Swiss 2023. In the Women's, the same three players continue to share the lead. All winning with the white pieces, GMs Andrey Esipenko, Fabiano Caruana, and Bogdan-Daniel Deac ...
GM Vidit Gujrathi shot into the sole lead of the FIDE Grand Swiss 2023 in round seven with 5.5 points, while three players are tied with that same score in the Women's. After losing with a blunder in round one, Vidit has now won five o...
After six rounds in the FIDE Grand Swiss 2023, eight players are tied for the lead with 4.5/6, while GM Anna Muzychuk takes the sole lead with 5/6 in the Women's. In the Open, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Andrey Esipenko fought a sharp battle on the ...
One player, IM Bibisara Assaubayeva, leads the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss 2023 after five rounds. The 19-year-old rising star defeated former World Champion Tan Zhongyi to reach 4.5/5, the highest score in either section. Top-seed GM Aleksand...
GM Andrey Esipenko broke into sole first with 3.5/4 at the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss after winning with Black against World Junior Champion Marc'Andria Maurizzi. Pursuing him are 17 players, half a point behind. After a slow start, GM Hikaru Nakamur...
We are three rounds into the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss and nobody's left on a perfect score in the Open. In the Women's, two players won to continue their perfect run. GMs Tan Zhongyi and Anna Muzychuk are the two players left with a perfect score a...
After round two of the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss, seven players are on a perfect score in the Open and five in the Women's. In the Open, top seed GM Fabiano Caruana beat GM Hans Niemann and broke 2800 in the live ratings for the first time sin...
32 players lead the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss and 15 in the 2023 FIDE Women's Grand Swiss after round one. In the Open, top seed GM Fabiano Caruana leads the pack after winning a spectacular game against GM Ivan Saric. Other notable wins (of ma...
It's hard to imagine a better week for GM Jose Martinez, who, after sweeping Titled Tuesday just two days prior, went on to win Chess.com's first Variants Community Series (VCS) Final. His march to victory, and a $1,000 first-place prize, includ...
IM Polina Shuvalova won the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship after defeating IM Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) 10.5-9.5 in the Final. She was the highest-rated player in this year's tournament, by FIDE classical rating, and also the first...
Both matches in the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinals went to overtime. IM Polina Shuvalova defeated IM Lawrence Trent 14-11 and will face IM Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) in the Final. Between the ebb and flow of ...
IM Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) traveled to the underworld and back in the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinal on Monday. He ultimately won his tumultuous match vs. IM Greg Shahade 13-11. After incurring a three-poin...
IMs Polina Shuvalova and Lawrence Trent filled the last two spots of the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinals after, respectively, winning Groups C and D. The other two semifinalists are IMs Greg Shahade and Levy Rozman (aka Gotha...
IMs Greg Shahade and Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) advance to the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinals after winning Groups A and B, respectively, on Thursday. Shahade's victory was a close call, and it only came after he ...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his third SCC title after defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura 13.5-12.5 in the Final of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase. The match had many phases. Carlsen got off to a strong start, taking a two-...
GM Hikaru Nakamura will face the self-proclaimed "final boss of chess," GM Magnus Carlsen, in the Final of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. On Wednesday, Nakamura defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 16.5-11.5. ...
GM Magnus Carlsen is the first finalist in the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. He defeated GM Wesley So by a score of 22-7. The reigning world blitz chess champion won all three segments, with the most domina...
GM Hikaru Nakamura moves on to the Semifinals, while GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is through to the Quarterfinals of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase. Nakamura defeated GM Fabiano Caruana by a 10-point margin, 18.5-8.5,...
In the longest SCC match so far this year, taking over four hours and totaling 32 games, GM Wesley So emerged victorious. He defeated GM Alireza Firouzja and is the first player to reach the Semifinals of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championshi...
GM Fabiano Caruana will face five-time SCC Champion Hikaru Nakamura in the Quarterfinals of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase. Caruana defeated GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov with a score of 13.5-10.5 in the Round of 16.&...
