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.
Singapore's GM Tin Jingyao, seeded 120 in the 2023 FIDE World Cup, knocked out ninth seed GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in a dramatic day of round-two action. A dark horse to win the event, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, fell to 112th seed GM Vahap Sanal, w...
World top-five GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, and Ian Nepomniachtchi all won, while Hikaru Nakamura was frustrated with a draw, as round two of the 2023 FIDE World Cup began. It was a good day for Indian chess, with GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshb...
Top seeds GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and Ju Wenjun commence battle in the 2023 FIDE World Cup in Wednesday's round two, but first, there were 33 places to be decided in tiebreaks. It took six hours, with 18-year-old local star GM Aydin S...
Peruvian IM Gianmarco Leiva survived a 136-move thriller to knock GM Anton Demchenko out of the 2023 FIDE World Cup, but that was a rare success for an underdog. The favorites hit back, including GM Velimir Ivic, who smoothly outplayed 14-year-old...
Fourteen-year-old IM Ediz Gurel found a brilliant sacrifice to take down GM Velimir Ivic as the 2023 FIDE World Cup kicked off in Baku. Top seeds such as GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, and Ju Wenjun start their campaigns in ...
GM Ju Wenjun has won a wild final game of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship to claim her fourth title with a 6.5-5.5 victory over GM Lei Tingjie. The 17th women's world champion, who has held the title since 2018, also picks up the €30...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun attacked with the black pieces in Game 11 of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship, but a creative king march saved the day for GM Lei Tingjie, leaving the scores tied at 5.5-5.5 going into the final classical g...
Challenger GM Lei Tingjie briefly threatened to take over in game 10 of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship, but defending champion GM Ju Wenjun "took back" a questionable move and soon even had a nominal advantage before the game fizzled out...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun played the Sicilian Defense for the first time in the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship and went on to make a comfortable draw with the black pieces, despite GM Lei Tingjie playing on until move 59. The ...
GM Ju Wenjun is back! The Women's World Champion outplayed challenger GM Lei Tingjie in a complex middlegame and then ground out an endgame win to level the scores at 4-4 going into the final four games of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship ...
Defending Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun counterattacked and emerged two pawns up with a winning position as the second half of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship began. As time ran out, however, she took a safe option that allowed GM Lei ...
GM Lei Tingjie made an effortless draw with the black pieces against GM Ju Wenjun in game six of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship to lead 3.5-2.5 at the midway point. The players now move from Shanghai to another Chinese mega-city, Lei's b...
Challenger GM Lei Tingjie overpowered the defending champion Ju Wenjun in game five of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship to take a 3-2 lead with just one game to go before the match switches from Shanghai to her home city of Chongqing. ...
The longest game of the match so far saw GM Ju Wenjun shrug off an opening surprise to torture GM Lei Tingjie for five hours in game four of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship. Lei didn't crack, however, so the scores are still tied, at 2-2,...
Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun was surprised in the opening but pounced on the chance to grab a central pawn, leaving challenger GM Lei Tingjie on the ropes in game three of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship in Shanghai. Lei held firm,...
Challenger GM Lei Tingjie once again seized the initiative in game two of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship in Shanghai, but a lack of time, and precise defense from reigning champion GM Ju Wenjun, saw the game end in a 40-move draw. The sc...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun had to fight hard to hold a draw in game one of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship Match after challenger GM Lei Tingjie opened with an aggressive pawn sacrifice in her first-ever match at the very highest le...
Chinese GM Wei Yi remains the MVP of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 after scoring a third win in four games. It took his team Traveni Continental Kings up to second place, but five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand's Ganges Gr...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen beat fellow former World Champion Viswanathan Anand on day two of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 in Dubai, but it was Anand's Ganges Grandmasters who won the match and boast the only perfect score. ...
Former World Champions Vishy Anand and Hou Yifan both scored big wins as their team, the Ganges Grandmasters, cruised to victory on day one of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 in Dubai. GM Alexander Grischuk was the day's o...
