Eight players have qualified for the Seirawan Chess Championship 2024 Knockout, the penultimate event of the Community Chess Championships. They are, in chronological order of when they qualified: Arian Rahimpour, IM Kacper Drozdowski, GM Mitrabha...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina has won the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix, 130 Grand Prix points, and €18,000 after making a draw with IM Nurgyul Salimova in the final round for a 7/9 score. GM Tan Zhongyi finished just half a point behind ...
IM Nurgyul Salimova's win over IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul was the only decisive game of round eight of the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix. GM Aleksandra Goryachkina's five-game winning streak was ended by GM Koneru Humpy, but when GM Tan Zhong...
The third-round encounter between GMs Arjun Erigaisi and GM Alexey Sarana at the Chennai Grand Masters 2024 had two distinct phases: the first 23 moves, flawlessly played by both sides, and the rest marred by tactical errors. But what mattered was...
GMs Anish Giri and Vidit Gujrathi consider GM Gukesh Dommaraju a big favorite to defeat the reigning World Champion GM Ding Liren. The two friends shared their candid predictions for the 2024 FIDE World Championship, set to begin in Singapore on...
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina brushed aside IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul to score a fifth win in a row in the 2024 Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix, but her lead remained at one point as IM Nurgyul Salimova's attack backfired against GM Tan Zhongyi. The ot...
In response to the tragic flood that has devastated the region in Valencia, Spain, Chess.com's Spanish team organized a fundraiser to bring food, clothing, and other essential resources to those who need it. Many prominent players and personalitie...
GMs Leon Mendonca and Pranav Venkatesh lead the Challengers with second straight wins, while there is a three-way tie in the Masters section between GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Amin Tabatabaei, all on 1.5, at the end of the sec...
GMs Dmitry Andreikin and GM Hikaru Nakamura are your Titled Tuesday victors from November 5, the second straight week where both winners scored 10 points and neither winner needed the tiebreaks. In the early tournament won by Andreikin, however, t...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
