GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Magnus Carlsen won the first Titled Tuesdays of October on the first of the month. Bortnyk scored 10/11 early to win outright, while Carlsen scored 9.5/11 late and won on tiebreaks over GM Grigoriy Oparin, whom he also ...
GM Magnus Carlsen won Division I of the 2024 Julius Baer Generation Cup after defeating GM Alireza Firouzja 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final. After three hard-fought draws, the world number-one found a brilliant way to break through (40.e6!!) in the fou...
We're a few days away from the second season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2024, taking place October 3-11 in London. GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand, Hou Yifan, and Vaishali Rameshbabu are among the players in wh...
GM Alireza Firouzja has advanced to play GM Magnus Carlsen in the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024 Division I Grand Final. GM Levon Aronian showed tremendous form when he defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 1.5-0.5 but was met with an immovable Firo...
GM Magnus Carlsen staved off a spirited challenge from GM Alireza Firouzja to prevail with a score of 2.5-1.5 in the Winners Bracket Finals of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024. He will now face the Losers Bracket winner in the tournament's Gran...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the 10th edition of the Gashimov Memorial on Saturday in Susha, Azerbaijan. The Russian grandmaster, who played in the tournament for the first time, finished ahead of GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. ...
The underdogs roared as the 2024 Collegiate Chess League Fall (CCL) began on Saturday. The bottom boards led Saint Louis to victory over Athens. In an even bigger twist, Virginia defeated the top-seeded Missouri team. Boards three and four, GM D...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is one win away from his 30th Bullet Brawl title after stringing together a 42-game winning streak during Saturday's event and claiming the $400 first prize. Nakamura's 75/78 performance earned him a score of 284, 16 points clea...
GM Magnus Carlsen's dramatic match against GM Levon Aronian and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's brilliant attacking masterpiece against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi were the highlights of day four of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024. GM Alireza Firouzja...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, Levon Aronian, and Alexander Grischuk advance to the Division I Winners Semifinals of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024, after respectively defeating GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladimir Fedoseev, Maxime Vachier...
The three divisions of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024 are set to begin. After a Play-in and two Division Placement matches, we will see the following players in Division I: GMs Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Arjun Erigaisi, Levon Aronian...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Play-in of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024 with a final-round victory with the black pieces against GM Wesley So. Although Fedoseev lost in round four against GM Vasif Durarbayli, he won seven of the eight other ga...
After GM Hans Niemann edged out GM Vladimir Kramnik on tiebreaks in the early Titled Tuesday of September 24, GM Magnus Carlsen won outright in the late event, his only blemish being a ninth-round loss to GM Hikaru Nakamura, who finished second. ...
India is the future of chess and the future is now. That's one summary of the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad, which saw GM Gukesh Dommaraju, GM Arjun Erigaisi, IM Divya Deshmukh, and IM Vantika Agrawal claim team and individual gold as India dominated t...
We're excited to announce the 2024 US Masters, the strongest open tournament in the United States, taking place in Charlotte, North Carolina, and hosted by the Charlotte Chess Center, Chess.com's official partner. The event starts on November 27 a...
GMs Gukesh Dommaraju, Arjun Erigaisi, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu all won as the Indian men wrapped up victory in the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad with a statement 3.5-0.5 win over Slovenia. They finished a full four points ahead of five teams, with...
GM Andrew Tang won his fourth Bullet Brawl by a 20-point margin over GM Hikaru Nakamura. Tang began and ended on undefeated streaks to score 256 and take home the $400 first prize. Nakamura won $250 for second place. IM Renato Terry ea...
India is on the brink of winning gold after beating the United States 2.5-1.5 in round 10 of the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad. Just as in Chennai, GM Gukesh Dommaraju defeated GM Fabiano Caruana while GM Arjun Erigaisi took down GM Leinier Doming...
IM Nhat Minh To won every match in the Chess.com Duck Chess Championship 2024, defeating IM Eric Rosen in the Grand Final to clinch the title. After losing to the eventual winner in the Semifinals, Rosen fought his way through th...
Uzbekistan is the first team in the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad to keep from losing a match against India, holding an equal 2-2 match score with four draws. India still leads by two points. GM Leinier Dominguez led the U.S. to a 2.5-1.5 victory again...
IMs Eric Rosen and Nhat Minh To were the highest-ranked players to qualify for the Finals of the Chess.com Duck Chess Championship 2024. Six more Duck Chess mavens will join them in the knockout, including Kapik1337, the reigning number-one in the...
After defeating Iran 3.5-0.5, India continues to lead the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad with a perfect 16/16 score. Of 32 games played, India hasn't lost a single one. GM Benjamin Gledura won a close match for Hungary 2.5-1.5 against Armenia after defe...
Judit Polgar’s Global Chess Festival 2024 celebrated its 10th anniversary on September 17-18. Following its motto of "Chess Connects Us," each year the festival aims to create an atmosphere that is welcoming and captivating for chess enthusi...
China, who replaced GM Ding Liren with GM Wei Yi on board one, came agonizingly close to ending India's winning streak in the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad, but with a long endgame grind GM Gukesh Dommaraju brought India its seventh win for a perfect 1...
