GM Gukesh Dommaraju scored his first victory of the tournament over GM Alexandr Predke to join GM Pentala Harikrishna in the lead with two and a half points from four rounds of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Harikrishna looked to be in a spot of ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi showed his defensive skills in a slightly difficult middlegame position to outwit GM Alexandr Predke later in a long endgame, scoring his maiden win of the event in the third round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Erstwhile joi...
GM Sanan Sjugirov defended against ambitious play by GM Pavel Eljanov in the middlegame to score a patient victory and jumped into a joint lead with one and a half points after the second round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. He has joined GM P...
GMs Pentala Harikrishna and Pavel Eljanov started with wins over GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Parham Maghsoodloo respectively in two high-pressure, error-prone games to share the lead with a point apiece after the first round of the Chennai Grand Master...
GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Nijat Abasov, and Aydin Suleymanli emerged as joint leaders with seven points out of a maximum of 12 after six rounds of the Vugar Gashimov Memorial 2023 being held at Gabala, Azerbaijan, on Saturday. In a typically exciting da...
GM Fabiano Caruana increased his lead to a point, even while he let GM Sam Shankland off the hook in the eighth round of the 2023 U.S. Championship. In the U.S. Women's Championship, IM Carissa Yip and WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova continued ...
Defending champion GM Fabiano Caruana captured the sole lead with three points from four games after an 80-move grinding endgame win over GM Dariusz Swiercz in the 2023 U.S. Championship. Overnight leader GM Abhimanyu Mishra was defeated by G...
GM Abhimanyu Mishra shot into the sole lead on 2.5 points by defeating GM Ray Robson in the third round of the 2023 U.S. Championship, while also breaking into the 2600 Elo rating club, with the added distinction of being the youngest player to br...
GM Alexander Grischuk confirmed his reputation as a blitz specialist with steady play on the second and final day of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz, winning the title with a score of 12 points from 18 games. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov an...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu got off to a flying start, winning his first five games, and ultimately ended with 6.5 points from nine games to be the sole leader at the end of the first day of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz. Following t...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave scored another 2.5 points on the last day of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid, winning the event with a round to spare and scoring seven points out of a possible nine. GM Teimour Radjabov was placed second with ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave played imaginatively to surge into the sole lead with 4.5 out of six points at the end of the second day of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid. GM Teimour Radjabov was in the lead until he was outplayed by GM Vidi...
GMs Teimour Radjabov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Vincent Keymer, and Dommaraju Gukesh lead with two points from three rounds at the end of an intensely fought first day of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid being held in Kolkata, India. ...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun secured the title of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess India Women's Blitz with 12.5 points after 18 rounds, outwitting her pursuers GM Harika Dronavalli, GM Humpy Koneru, and WGM Divya Deshmukh in the final two rounds. ...
GM Harika Dronavalli and GM Ju Wenjun are in the joint lead with 6.5 points from nine games at the end of the first day of the Tata Steel Chess India Women's Blitz. No player could escape defeat on an exciting day of blitz with high-quality games,...
The Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid saw a nerve-wracking final round where title chances alternatively swung in favor of WGM Divya Deshmukh and Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun before the former emerged as the winner by a half-a-point...
WGM Divya Deshmukh bulldozed over the field with three impressive victories in three games on day two to take the sole lead with a score of 5.5/6 in the Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid tournament. Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun had another ...
Youngsters WGM Divya Deshmukh and IM Vantika Agrawal powered through the opposition on their way to joint lead with 2.5 points apiece after three rounds of the Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid tournament in a day of exciting clashes at Kolkata...
The Tata Steel Rapid & Blitz Women's tournament was inaugurated at Kolkata, India, on Wednesday, August 30, 2023, with a short ceremony and drawing of lots. The event pits five of the best Indian women players against five invited global stars...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and GM Arjun Erigaisi were engaged in 1-1 deadlocks in three sets of tiebreak games at the 2023 FIDE World Cup. After two draws in the 25+10 rapid tiebreaks, Praggnanandhaa twice took the lead by winning the first game...
GM Magnus Carlsen staved off a formidable challenge from GM Dommaraju Gukesh and held the draw he needed, while GM Nijat Abasov and GM Fabiano Caruana defeated GM Vidit Gujrathi and GM Leinier Dominguez, respectively, to advance to the semifinals ...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Arjun Erigaisi won in their typical styles against GM Dommaraju Gukesh and GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa in the first game of the quarterfinals of the 2023 FIDE World Cup Open section. While Carlsen outwitted his young oppo...
In a day of intense fighting games, contenders for the throne appeared on the horizon to challenge the leader IM Anna Zatonskih by lessening her lead to half a point after the seventh round of the Cairns Cup 2023. As Zatonskih stayed on 4.5 points...
GM Fabiano Caruana increased his lead to 2.5 points after outwitting GM Wesley So through the armageddon tiebreaker to move on to 16 points with just one round to go at Norway Chess 2023. In the crucial final round on Friday, he will face another ...
