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...
GM Fabiano Caruana has taken another step towards defending his title at the 2024 U.S. Chess Championships after securing a draw with second-placed GM Awonder Liang and moving to 5.5/8. GM Leinier Dominguez's win over GM Sam Sevian was the only de...
SRM extended their perfect score to 4/4 in week four of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall Season. Saint Louis defeated Virginia and continues chasing SRM from a point behind. Even with a 4/4 sweep by Athens's board one, IM Dimitris Ale...
Get ready for an exciting event between two generations, as Swedish chess legend GM Pia Cramling goes head-to-head against the Internet's chess teacher IM Levy Rozman in a six-day over-the-board event in Stockholm. The Battle of Generations show...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has handed GM Kirill Shevchenko a temporary 75-day suspension following last weekend's expulsion from the Spanish Team Chess Championship, where two locked phones were found in a bathroom. The...
IM Carissa Yip continued her dream run with a win over WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan to race to 8/8 in the Women's championship while GM Fabiano Caruana maintained his half-a-point lead with 5/7 after a draw against GM Wesley So in the eighth round of t...
GM Hikaru Nakamura posted a 303 score to win his 30th Bullet Brawl title on Saturday and secure the $400 first prize. With 80 wins, three draws, and three losses to his name, his winning margin of 96 points over second-placed GM Oleksandr Bor...
17-year-old GM Christopher Yoo expresses deep remorse following his expulsion from the 2024 U.S Chess Championship where he struck a videographer. Update October 21: In a new statement released by Christopher Yoo, he says: I am really sorry fo...
In the seventh round of the 2024 U.S. Chess Championships, GM Awonder Liang moved to 4/6 and reduced GM Fabiano Caruana's lead to half a point after toppling GM Grigoriy Oparin with the black pieces. GM Ray Robson is on a rollercoaster ride he can...
GM Pepe Cuenca and IM David Martinez, also known as the Ratata Spanish Squad, defeated IM Eric Rosen and WGM Nemo Zhou (Oh Yes My Queen) 1.5-0.5 in the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2 Final. They earn $3,500 and bragging rights, while the runner-up team ...
FM Luis Chan, who has been playing the variant since its inception, is your winner of the 2024 Chess.com Fog Of War Chess Championship. Chan survived a Grand Final Reset forced by FM Yihe Fu: After dropping the first match of the Finals in the dou...
Chess.com is excited to announce that over 60,000 people have participated in the historic Vishy vs. The World vote chess match. This surpasses the number of participants in the legendary 1999 Kasparov vs. The World match. The new record highlight...
Two international masters, including last month's Chess.com Community Champion in Duck Chess, IM Nhat Minh To, and four FIDE masters were among those to qualify for the Finals of the Chess.com Fog Of War Chess Championship 2024, after the series o...
Undeterred by his win in the previous round not being counted for the tournament score, top-seed and defending champion GM Fabiano Caruana jumped into the sole lead in the 2024 U.S. Championship with 4/5. He defeated GM Grigoriy Oparin in an impre...
GM Arjun Erigaisi defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in armageddon to win the 2024 WR Chess Masters Cup, picking up the €20,000 top prize and 27.84 FIDE Circuit points. The one thing he missed out on was crossing 2800 for the first time, after h...
Contrary to IM Levy Rozman's prediction the day before, IM Eric Rosen and WGM Nemo Zhou (Oh Yes My Queen) swept IM Sagar Shah and IM Tania Sachdev (Check De India) 2-0 in the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2 Semifinals. Game one was the critical...
The Saint Louis Chess Club has expelled GM Christopher Yoo from the 2024 U.S. Championship, saying in a statement after round five that the 17-year-old was guilty of "gross violations" of the event's "Code of Conduct" and the "US Chess Safe Play P...
GM Arjun Erigaisi is just one win away from crossing 2800 after winning the first game of his 2024 WR Chess Masters Cup Semifinal and then surviving a scare in the second when GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu missed a win on his last move. Arjun now f...
IM Sagar Shah and IM Tania Sachdev (Check De India) defeated IM Levy Rozman and James Canty III (Team Swole) in the last quarterfinal match of the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2. After soundly unraveling the King's Indian Defense in game one, they lost ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the top of the Titled Tuesday standings on October 15, winning the late event with 9.5 points after finishing third in the early event, which was won by GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda with 10 points. Duda won outright, while ...
GM Alireza Firouzja was gifted a win when GM Raunak Sadhwani overslept their first game, before a draw in the second secured a spot in the 2024 WR Chess Masters Cup Semifinals. Firouzja will play GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who beat GM Nodirbek Abd...
GM Pepe Cuenca and IM David Martinez ("Ratata Spanish Squad") won 1.5-0.5 against GM Pia Cramling and WFM Anna Cramling ("Team Cramling") and advance to the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2 Final. The Cramlings lost the first game after a dubious ...
"I'm really looking forward to the world championship match in Singapore," said GM Gukesh Dommaraju in a virtual press conference held on Tuesday, with journalists from different media able to ask questions in a Zoom call. Below we provide the que...
