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GM Magnus Carlsen won his third title at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals on Saturday. He defeated GM Wesley So 2.5-1.5 and shared that the tour "came full circle" in the final game where he cracked So's super-solid opening line. Carlsen won...
GM Magnus Carlsen is one set away from winning his third title and $200,000 at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. On day one of the Title Match, he defeated GM Wesley So with the black pieces in game three, squeezing water from stone in the roo...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Nodirbek Abdusattorov took the lead on Wednesday in the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. Against GM Fabiano Caruana, Carlsen won game one from a lost position—after losing his queen. And after losing the next ...
Half the field of eight players was eliminated on day four of the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. GMs Alireza Firouzja and Denis Lazavik exited in the round-robin, while GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Hikaru Nakamura bid goodbye in the Survival ...
Just two players are left on a perfect score after four rounds across two days, GMs Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So. They have won all four matches they have played at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals so far. Carlsen defeated two of his greates...
GMs Wesley So, Magnus Carlsen, and Fabiano Caruana won two matches to stay on a perfect score in the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. This is the first of the eight-day Finals held in Toronto, Canada. It was a smooth day for So, who notab...
Less than a month after GM Hikaru Nakamura set a new record for Chess.com's highest blitz rating, GM Magnus Carlsen has gone one step further. On Wednesday, Carlsen achieved the all-time-high blitz rating of 3340, four points higher than Nakamura'...
IM-elect Brewington Hardaway crossed the 2400 FIDE rating mark to earn the international master title at the U.S. Masters 2023 on Sunday at the Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina. Already having four IM norms, he should receive the title at ...
GM Hans Niemann won the historic Tournament of Peace 2023 in Zagreb on Thursday by a massive three-point margin ahead of the field. With a 2946 performance rating, the 20-year-old American player scored 8/9, winning seven and drawing two games aga...
After the weekend, you're back in school. You open the door. You're hit with thunder-like applause from all your classmates and teachers in the hallways; everyone's proud of you. For most teenagers, this fantasy happens only in dreams. But this ...
GM Hou Yifan is the first player to win two WSCC titles. After defeating GM Harika Dronavalli in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Final 15-11, the Chinese grandmaster is a two-time champion. "Ever since her first victory, sh...
GM Harika Dronavalli will face GM Hou Yifan in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Final. On Tuesday, she defeated GM Kateryna Lagno in the Semifinals by a score of 12-10. It was a fairly even match in the first two segments, t...
GM Hou Yifan defeated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 12.5-9.5 to secure her spot in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Final. The hotly contested 22-game match saw just three draws. Kosteniuk led by one point at the end of each ...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk advances to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after defeating IM Vaishali Rameshbabu 13-8. She will play GM Hou Yifan in the Semifinals on Thursday. The "Chess Queen," who's also participatin...
GM Kateryna Lagno moves on to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after defeating WGM Priyanka Nutakki 17.5-4.5. She will play GM Harika Dronavalli in the Semifinals on Friday. Priyanka got off to a fantastic start b...
GMs Hou Yifan and Harika Dronavalli move on to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after convincingly defeating IM Polina Shuvalova and GM Valentina Gunina, respectively. Hou, the favorite, was actually at a tw...
IM Polina Shuvalova and WGM Priyanka Nutakki earned their seats in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 after emerging on top of a two-day qualifier, which was a 14-round Swiss followed by a double-elimination knockout. The main...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Vidit Gujrathi, and Andrey Esipenko lead the FIDE Grand Swiss 2023 with 7.5 points going into the last round. They beat, respectively, GMs Fabiano Caruana, Bogdan-Daniel Deac, and Parham Maghsoodloo. As a historic feat, there ...
Four players share the lead after round eight of the FIDE Grand Swiss 2023. In the Women's, the same three players continue to share the lead. All winning with the white pieces, GMs Andrey Esipenko, Fabiano Caruana, and Bogdan-Daniel Deac ...
GM Vidit Gujrathi shot into the sole lead of the FIDE Grand Swiss 2023 in round seven with 5.5 points, while three players are tied with that same score in the Women's. After losing with a blunder in round one, Vidit has now won five o...
After six rounds in the FIDE Grand Swiss 2023, eight players are tied for the lead with 4.5/6, while GM Anna Muzychuk takes the sole lead with 5/6 in the Women's. In the Open, GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Andrey Esipenko fought a sharp battle on the ...
One player, IM Bibisara Assaubayeva, leads the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss 2023 after five rounds. The 19-year-old rising star defeated former World Champion Tan Zhongyi to reach 4.5/5, the highest score in either section. Top-seed GM Aleksand...
GM Andrey Esipenko broke into sole first with 3.5/4 at the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss after winning with Black against World Junior Champion Marc'Andria Maurizzi. Pursuing him are 17 players, half a point behind. After a slow start, GM Hikaru Nakamur...
We are three rounds into the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss and nobody's left on a perfect score in the Open. In the Women's, two players won to continue their perfect run. GMs Tan Zhongyi and Anna Muzychuk are the two players left with a perfect score a...
