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The Russian-born, recently Slovenian GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival 2023 | Masters, which concluded on Thursday. Undefeated, he finished ahead of 40 other grandmasters (and 142 titled players total) with seven points in the ...
GMs Alexey Sarana and Dmitry Andreikin claimed the last spots in the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase by winning their respective brackets in the SCC Qualifier 2 on Thursday. Sarana had the best event of anybody, pla...
GMs Yu Yangyi and Vidit Gujrathi have made it into the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase after claiming two spots in the first Qualifier on Tuesday. Yu finished second in the Swiss on day one and, on the second day, w...
IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, more commonly known as Sara Khadem, gained Spanish citizenship on Wednesday. The 26-year-old international master, who left her native country Iran in January and transferred chess federations in July, is the number-o...
As of July 27, the 28-year-old Russian-born GM Vladimir Fedoseev's federation transfer is complete and he will represent Slovenia in future chess tournaments. With a 2676 published rating, the "Bigfish" (from his username on Chess.com) is the Slov...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Amin Tabatabaei, and Pavel Eljanov emerged victorious in the 2023 Julius Baer Generation Cup Play-in on Tuesday. They will join GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Denis Lazavik, who claimed their spots i...
GM Melikset Khachiyan won the 2023 U.S. Senior Chess Championship, IM-elect Alice Lee won the 2023 Girls' Junior Chess Championship, and GM Abhimanyu Mishra won the 2023 U.S. Junior Chess Championship. Khachiyan and Lee clinched their first n...
GM Gukesh D is expected to be the youngest player to have a published rating of 2750 in history when the next FIDE rating list comes out in 11 days (when he will be 17.17 years old). This news comes just off the heels of his countryman GM Praggnan...
17-year-old GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu continues to climb the highest rungs of professional chess. On Wednesday, he won the V. Geza Hetenyi Memorial | GM, held in Budapest, and will cross the 2700-rating threshold on the next official FIDE list....
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov to secure his seat in the Division I Grand Final of the Champions Chess Tour Aimchess Rapid 2023. He won the first two games and, despite being down two pawns and dead lost in the third, found a ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Nodirbek Abdusattorov advance to the Winners Final in Division I of the Champions Chess Tour Aimchess Rapid 2023 after defeating GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian, respectively, in four regular games and without armagedd...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Levon Aronian move on to the Winners Bracket in Division I of the Champions Chess Tour Aimchess Rapid 2023 after winning their matches on the first day. Carlsen and Caruana beat the...
All 16 participants in the 2023 Bullet Chess Championship are now determined. Along with 10 invited players, the six additional spots have been filled—four of them on Friday. GMs David Paravyan and Denis Lazavik won in Qualifier 2, while G...
GM Jose Martinez and IM Emin Ohanyan won the Qualifier 1 Winners and Losers brackets, respectively, to qualify for the 2023 Bullet Chess Championship main event, which begins on July 17. In the Winners Bracket, Martinez won a one-sided matc...
Fourteen-year-old FM Brewington Hardaway earned his third and last norm required for the international master title on Tuesday after finishing with 6/9 points at the World Open 2023. His approximately 2472.7 rating performance left him at a 2390.4...
GM Ray Robson won the Prague Chess Festival Masters after finishing in shared first with GM Bogan-Daniel Deac on 5.5/9 points. In the blitz tiebreak, the American grandmaster won the first game with Black and then offered a draw in a winning posit...
GM Alexey Sarana won the inaugural Olympic Esports Series 2023 Finals chess event after defeating GM Maksim Chigaev with a perfect 3-0 score in the final match. This is one of the first major victories for Sarana since he changed federations from ...
GM Raunak Sadhwani convincingly defeated GM Denis Lazavik to attain the second spot in the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship Final. The match was a one-sided affair in the first two segments, and despite an early scare in the bullet, Raunak reg...
GM Gukesh D secured his spot in the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship Final by winning his semifinal match against GM Pranav V 16.5-10.5. After an unexpectedly strong start by Pranav, where he started the 5+1 portion with a 3-point lead, Guke...
On the second day of Quarterfinals in the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship, GM Raunak Sadhwani dispatched IM Read Samadov and GM Denis Lazavik eliminated GM Daniel Dardha. The victory of the two favorites was never in question during their mat...
The Quarterfinals of the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship kicked off on Tuesday with wins by GM Gukesh D over IM Emin Ohanyan and GM Pranav V against GM Christopher Yoo. Gukesh and Pranav will throw down in an all-Indian semifinal match o...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won on demand with the white pieces against GM Fabiano Caruana on the last day of Norway Chess 2023, ousting the tournament leader and winning the prestigious title for the first time. This is also the first time in the last fiv...
After seven rounds, the top three spots are taken by three American grandmasters at Norway Chess 2023. GM Fabiano Caruana continues to lead by 2 points despite losing on time in armageddon against GM Gukesh D with a winning position on the board. ...
There were nine games in round six of Norway Chess 2023, and GM Fabiano Caruana was the only player to win a classical one. With the black pieces, he won for the first time in classical chess against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, extending his tournam...
