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GM Magnus Carlsen won the first game, of two, in his Freestyle Chess Match against Fabiano Caruana. It was a full-fledged war on the 64 squares after Caruana sacrificed a pawn on move 11, but Carlsen found his groove: The game just flowed—...
GM Magnus Carlsen and IM Tania Sachdev proved to be the dream team in "Head & Hand" as the duo defeated GMs Fabiano Caruana and Maurice Ashley 2-0. Day one was a promotional event for the Freestyle Chess Match: Carlsen vs. Caruana in Singapore...
Four-time Serbian National Champion GM Aleksandar Indjic convincingly won the 2024 European Chess Championship with 9/11 and a performance of 2820. The champion, undefeated, led the tournament from round six all the way to the end, at one point sc...
GM Anish Giri defeated IM Alice Lee, IM Ryo Chen, GM Shreyas Royal, and GM Andy Woodward 2.5-1.5 in the third edition of Kids vs. Stars 2024, a simul where he played all four of them at the same time. Never before has the Star won a match in this ...
Two and a half decades after GM Maurice Ashley became the first African American grandmaster, GM-elect Brewington Hardaway has climbed to the top of the mountain. Born in the Bronx, New York, 15-year-old Hardaway has completed the requirements to ...
GM Awonder Liang defeated GM Jeffery Xiong 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final to win the Seirawan Chess Championship 2024 and $600. It was an exciting clash between the two friends who together won the Bughouse Chess Championship earlier this year. GM Yas...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
GM Pia Cramling and IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess) drew by repetition in the second classical game of the Battle of Generations, in a game that lasted 14 moves. It turns out both players expected the other to deviate, to avoid the draw, but were stu...
GM Pia Cramling has started the Battle of Generations, her one-on-one match against IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess), with a win in the first classical game. Rozman gained the advantage with the white pieces, but spent about half his remaining time on...
Third seed Novy Bor Chess Club—featuring GMs Vincent Keymer, David Navara, Thai Dai Van Nguyen, David Anton Guijarro, Nils Grandelius, Vidit Gujrathi, Mateusz Bartel, and Pentala Harikrishna—won the European Chess Club Cup on Saturday ...
GM Pepe Cuenca and IM David Martinez, also known as the Ratata Spanish Squad, defeated IM Eric Rosen and WGM Nemo Zhou (Oh Yes My Queen) 1.5-0.5 in the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2 Final. They earn $3,500 and bragging rights, while the runner-up team ...
Contrary to IM Levy Rozman's prediction the day before, IM Eric Rosen and WGM Nemo Zhou (Oh Yes My Queen) swept IM Sagar Shah and IM Tania Sachdev (Check De India) 2-0 in the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2 Semifinals. Game one was the critical...
IM Sagar Shah and IM Tania Sachdev (Check De India) defeated IM Levy Rozman and James Canty III (Team Swole) in the last quarterfinal match of the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2. After soundly unraveling the King's Indian Defense in game one, they lost ...
GM Pepe Cuenca and IM David Martinez ("Ratata Spanish Squad") won 1.5-0.5 against GM Pia Cramling and WFM Anna Cramling ("Team Cramling") and advance to the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2 Final. The Cramlings lost the first game after a dubious ...
GM Pepe Cuenca and IM David Martinez ("Ratata Spanish Squad") defeated IM Kostya Kavutskiy and IM David Pruess ("ChessDojo") 2-0 in the third quarterfinal match of the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2. They slew the King's Indian Defense with a slow squee...
Team "Oh Yes My Queen," IM Eric Rosen and WGM Nemo Zhou, won their 2024 Team Chess Battle 2 quarterfinal match 2-0 against Team 'Dandinavian,' IM Danny Rensch and IM John Bartholomew. Although Chess.com's Chief Chess Officer blamed the outcome on ...
The mother-daughter duo of GM Pia Cramling and WFM Anna Cramling reigned supreme in the first quarterfinal match of the 2024 Team Chess Battle 2. They controlled the match against Team ChessKid—IM Alice Lee and FM Mike Klein—for the mo...
GM Magnus Carlsen just won the 2024 Julius Baer Generation Cup, meaning he's won two out of the four Champions Chess Tour events this year. We also saw GM Wesley So win Division II and GM Fabiano Caruana Division III. Let's go over what we've lear...
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...
