Colin McGourty led news at Chess24 from its launch until it merged with Chess.com a decade later. An amateur player, he got into chess writing when he set up the website Chess in Translation after previously studying Slavic languages and literature in St. Andrews, Odesa, Oxford, and Krakow.
GM Jaime Santos came from behind to beat GM Arjun Erigaisi 2.5-1.5 in a thrilling second Semifinal of the 2024 Leon Masters. The Spanish grandmaster will now attempt to defend the title he won in 2023 as he takes on the legendary GM Viswanathan An...
15th World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand defeated one of his great rivals GM Veselin Topalov 2.5-1.5 on Friday to reach the Final of the 2024 Leon Masters. He'll face the winner of Saturday's Semifinal between GM Arjun Erigaisi and local hero G...
Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand will be joined by Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun and 14 more top players for the WR Chess Masters Cup, a 16-player knockout in London that runs October 14-18. That's just the start of a month of chess, wit...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda tops the eight-player lineup for the Finals of the 2024 Chess.com Chess960 Championship after finishing the first qualifier on a perfect 9/9 score. He'll be joined for the knockout event by GMs Vladimir Fedoseev, Raunak Sadhw...
GM Alireza Firouzja has pulled off a stunning triumph to claim his second Bullet Chess Championship after winning four matches on the final day. He won grueling encounters with GMs Sam Sevian and Daniel Naroditsky and was on the verge of pulling o...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is through to the Grand Final of the 2024 Bullet Chess Championship after beating GM Daniel Naroditsky 16.5-11.5. Naroditsky still has one life remaining and will play the winner of the match between GMs Alireza Firouzja and&nbs...
GM Jose Martinez has won what IM Levy Rozman described as "one of the craziest chess events in history," the Clash of Claims in Madrid. He beat former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik 14.5-11.5, with two games to spare, losing 6.5-7.5 over the boar...
GM Magnus Carlsen briefly stared into the abyss of losing his world number-one spot, but he turned things around to win his sixth Norway Chess title. GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the 2800 club, while Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun cruised to v...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen has won his sixth Norway Chess title after beating GM Fabiano Caruana in armageddon while GM Hikaru Nakamura was held to an incredibly tense classical draw by GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. The young Indian won ...
World Champion Ding Liren finally has something to celebrate after beating GM Hikaru Nakamura in armageddon. That is good news for world number-one Magnus Carlsen, who extended his Norway Chess 2024 lead to 1.5 points before the final round after ...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen extended his Norway Chess 2024 lead to a full point after beating GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu in armageddon. For most of the day it had looked as though GM Hikaru Nakamura would defeat GM Alireza Firouzja in classi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura closed the gap to Norway Chess 2024 leader GM Magnus Carlsen down to to half a point after winning an armageddon thriller on time. World Champion Ding Liren ended his losing streak to draw against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshba...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen has taken over as the leader of Norway Chess 2024 after World Champion Ding Liren blundered into mate-in-two and sank to a fourth loss in a row. Elsewhere there was armageddon revenge for the first-round result...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is rated over 2800 for the first time in nine years after handing a third defeat in a row to World Champion Ding Liren. Nakamura is also world number-two after GM Fabiano Caruana cracked in the endgame for a second game in a row...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu lead Norway Chess 2024 after armageddon wins in round one, with the much-anticipated clash between Carlsen and GM Ding Liren most notable for the Norwegian eating dinner after the ...
World Champion Ding Liren will play his first classical game against former champion Magnus Carlsen as the new-look 2024 Norway Chess starts on Monday in Stavanger. Defending champion GM Hikaru Nakamura and 2023 runner-up GM Fabiano Caruana also c...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen posted an incredible 10-game winning streak to overhaul GM Wei Yi and win the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland despite starting the day 2.5 points behind. Carlsen caught Wei by beating him in the fourth round ...
"I just sucked, honestly" said GM Magnus Carlsen about his play after losing his first game in the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, to GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. He blundered a queen and lost the next game as well, but his 6/9 blitz scor...
GM Wei Yi posted a five-game winning streak as he scored 13 of a possible 18 points to top the table after the rapid section of the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland. World number-one Magnus Carlsen is just a point behind before the weekend's...
GM Magnus Carlsen came within a whisker of beating GM Gukesh Dommaraju and taking the sole lead in the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, but in the end, he had to settle for joint first place with GM Wei Yi, who won all three games on day tw...
GM Kirill Shevchenko is the absolute underdog in the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, but he scored a perfect 6/6 on day one of the 2024 Grand Chess Tour after pouncing on blunders by GMs Gukesh Dommaraju, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, and Vin...
GM Levon Aronian recently wrote, “the FIDE Circuit is kind of a joke,” with GM Anish Giri replying to describe it as “completely broken.” 2023 FIDE Circuit Winner GM Fabiano Caruana, described the system, which will determi...
GM Arjun Erigaisi beat GM Marc'Andria Maurizzi in round three of the 2024 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament to join the leaders after GM Anton Korobov was unable to grind down co-leader GM Vincent Keymer. Top seed GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov once again f...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju arrived back in Chennai at 3 a.m. on Thursday morning and was instantly mobbed by camera crews, well-wishers, and 80 schoolchildren who had turned up to welcome back one of their own. The winner of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tour...
