The Chennai Grand Masters 2024 got off to an exciting start with six decisive games combined from both sections in the first round, with many see-saw encounters and generally enterprising play, instead of typical cautious starts in the beginning. ...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina took a one-point lead with three rounds of the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix to go after grinding out a win against the struggling GM Elisabeth Paehtz. GM Kateryna Lagno scored a first win, against second-placed I...
We're excited to announce the next installment of Kids vs. Stars, this time with a twist! On November 15, get ready to see none other than GM Anish Giri taking on four of the brightest young stars in chess—all at the same time! Starting at...
World Champion GM Ding Liren revealed that he considers himself the clear underdog in his title match against his challenger, GM Gukesh Dommaraju, admitting that he is worried that he will lose "very badly." With less than three weeks to the 202...
Forget Peppa Pig and Baby Shark. Three-year-old Anish Sarkar has different idols: chess stars IM Levy Rozman and GM Magnus Carlsen. The prodigy has become the world's youngest-rated player by earning his first FIDE rating, which is 1555. A...
In the process of winning his fourth U.S. Championship title, GM Fabiano Caruana has re-entered the 2800 club and overtaken GM Hikaru Nakamura as the world number-two. Caruana looks to have again found his flow, winning the national title with a 1...
People are not much better than a coin flip at guessing if their opponent is cheating in a chess game. That's what grandmaster and economics researcher David Smerdon concluded after running two experiments to test people's ability to spot cheaters...
Saint Louis B and Arizona State were victorious in week six of Division II of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall Season. Trailing by a point as they entered the final round, the SLU B team struck back with three critical victories. Perfec...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina outplayed top-seed GM Tan Zhongyi with a kingside attack to win a third game in a row and take the sole lead in the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix going into the rest day. Round five saw just one draw, as IM Bibisa...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has captured another Bullet Brawl after scoring 71.5/77—which includes a 23-game winning streak—and finishing ahead of the second and third-placed GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk and Tuan Minh Le. With a winning margin of 55 p...
GMs Koneru Humpy and Aleksandra Goryachkina both won their second games in a row (vs. IMs Nurgyul Salimova and Stavroula Tsolakidou respectively) to catch GM Tan Zhongyi in the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix lead in round four. IM Batkhuyag...
IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess) won the Battle of Generations against GM Pia Cramling with four games to spare. Rozman came into the final day with a four-point lead, and he clinched the match with two consecutive wins after the halftime break. The f...
GM Arjun Erigaisi tops the leaderboard to win the 2024 FIDE Circuit and become the first player to qualify for the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, but things are complicated. The 2023 Circuit winner GM Fabiano Caruana and top-10 stars Nodirbek Ab...
After evening the score against GM Pia Cramling with a win the previous day, IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess) has taken a 14-10 lead in the Battle of Generations. He won three consecutive games on Friday, with rook sacrifices in two of them, but Craml...
GM Tan Zhongyi demolished GM Kateryna Lagno in a rare line of the London System to take the sole lead on 2.5 points after three rounds of the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix. IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul had won in 17 moves in round two, but was ...
9-year-old British prodigy CM Ethan Pang reached another milestone this week when he achieved an official FIDE rating of 2303, breaking Argentinian star IM Faustino Oro's record as the youngest to pass the 2300 mark and earn the FM title. Pang g...
IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess) bounced back from his loss against GM Pia Cramling in the first classical game to even the score 6-6 in the Battle of Generations. With the black pieces, he generated a powerful attack, but Cramling defended tenaciousl...
Mongolian IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul scored the only win of round two of the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix after unleashing the crushing 17...Ba3!! on GM Elisabeth Paehtz, who was left with little choice but to resign after a one-hour game. G...
The biggest chess game in history has concluded. In just 24 moves, GM Viswanathan Anand convincingly defeated nearly 70,000 opponents in the game known simply as Vishy vs. the World. HE'S DONE IT! @vishy64theking 👑🇮🇳Vishy has made chess histor...
A week after winning his fourth U.S. title, GM Fabiano Caruana also won the 2024 Chess 9LX tournament in St. Louis. With 7.5/9 he remained half a point ahead of GM Hikaru Nakamura. Caruana won $30,000 and another $7,500 for finishing in sole first...
The year draws to a close, but we're in for a thrilling last couple of months with a number of chess tournaments to look forward to, headlined by the 2024 World Chess Championship. All eyes are on GM Ding Liren and GM Gukesh Dommaraju, who will ...
Women's World Championship Challenger GM Tan Zhongyi showed she could checkmate with a knight and bishop as she ground down GM Elisabeth Paehtz in 107 moves to start the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix with a win. The only two players who al...
GM Pia Cramling continues to lead in the Battle of Generations against IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess) after a draw in the third classical game. She had some initiative in the opening with the black pieces, but Rozman's bishop pair proved to be more ...
It was a good Titled Tuesday for the greats on October 29, with GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Alireza Firouzja claiming victory, each scoring 10 points and avoiding tiebreaks in their win. The two stars also won Titled Tuesday back on July 30 (in the...
