It took four rapid games before the victor was decided on the 10th and final day of The American Cup in St. Louis. In the fourth game of their third match of the event, GM Wesley So blundered to lose a miniature to GM Hikaru Nakamura, who then b...
It took two full games and two messy tiebreakers before the victors of the action of day nine in The American Cup were decided. In the Women's event, GM Irina Krush needed only a draw, but lost the regulation game before ultimately deciding the ...
It took two tiebreakers before the winners were determined in the two elimination brackets in The American Cup. GM Wesley So cheated himself from a win in the first game but took care of business in the blitz tiebreaker. In the women's event, FM...
The first round of the inaugural WR Chess Masters 2023 in Duesseldorf, Germany, started with a bang, when American GMs Wesley So and Levon Aronian both picked up wins in the first game. They were accompanied by Russian GM Andrey Esipenko who took ...
In the final of the World Team Chess Championship in Jerusalem, the surprise winner was the Chinese team, after winning both matches against Uzbekistan, the champions from the Chennai Chess Olympiad. In the battle for the bronze medals, Spain an...
After nine eventful rounds of play and lots of surrounding tumult, the 2022 Sinquefield Cup came to a conclusion on Sunday in Saint Louis. After four draws in the regulation games of round nine, a play-off, consisting of two rapid games, between...
BOOM! If the somewhat flaccid round seven at the 2022 Sinquefield Cup was a disappointment, then round eight delivered in a big way. Tournament leader GM Wesley So was taken down in a dramatic game by GM Alireza Firouzja. As GMs Ian Nepomniachtc...
Round seven at the 2022 Sinquefield Cup seemed like the complete counterpoint to the exciting sixth round. Leader GM Wesley So had a bye but with no winners in Friday's round, nobody caught up to him. So leads with four points from six games. GM...
It was a lively day at round six of the 2022 Sinquefield Cup. The first to put a full point on the scoreboard was GM Alireza Firouzja. Eventually, also GMs Levon Aronian and leader GM Wesley So scored victories. This means that So remains i...
Just one game in round five of the 2022 Sinquefield Cup was close to seeing a winner, and that was in the encounter between the two American GMs Leinier Dominguez and Hans Niemann. Dominguez had an overwhelming position but let Niemann off the hoo...
Major drama in connection with the Monday round at the 2022 Sinquefield Cup: World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen withdrew from the event without explaining publicly the reason, but from the overall reaction, it seemed clear that accusations of f...
Never a dull moment at the 2022 Sinquefield Cup: In the matchup between the two leaders, World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hans Niemann, the young American caused a massive sensation by outplaying and eventually beating the Norwegian. ...
In round two of the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, the games went in two directions: solid, sensible play for some, and complicated battles for others. The sole winner of round one, World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen, played a solid draw, allowing the Amer...
The 2022 Sinquefield Cup came off to a good start with one win and four draws. The win came courtesy of World Champion Magnus Carlsen who in convincing fashion took down the recent winner of the 2022 Candidates Tournament, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. ...
In round seven of the 2022 Candidates Tournament, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won his fourth game of the event but nevertheless only leads by half a point as GM Fabiano Caruana responded by scoring a win of his own. The Russian tournament leader took ...
"If it's entertaining, it must be entertainment!" said a couple of TV show hosts when I lived in England, and the same can be said about this year's edition of Norway Chess. The headline, of course, paraphrases the famous Gary Lineker (English f...
With more plot twists than a whole season's worth of "Game of Thrones," the eighth round of Norway Chess delivered more surprises, shocks, and horrors than anyone could have counted on setting up an exciting last round of the tournament. T...
As the World Champion Magnus Carlsen on Tuesday struggled in yet another armageddon duel, losing his fourth of the kind, the situation at the top of the leaderboard is making us eager to see the players return from their day off to finish the tour...
World Champion Magnus Carlsen on Monday picked up another one of those victories he has become famous for, squeezing blood from stones vs. GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Carlsen now leads the 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger alone after six rounds and go...
With the top four players in the tournament standings playing each other in round five, the situation at the top of the leaderboard is sharpening further at the 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger. The current world champion, GM Magnus Carlsen, said ...
The situation at the top of the leaderboard is beginning to sharpen at the 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger. The current world champion, GM Magnus Carlsen, announced his intentions to play for the tournament title by winning the second classical g...
Has GM Viswanathan Anand been retigered? As the events unfold this week at 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger, the 52-year-old is certainly beginning to make it look like it. The former world champion continued to demonstrate that he is still ...
Dull or exciting? That was the question in round two of Norway Chess on Wednesday. When GM Veselin Topalov exceeded the time limit against GM Viswanathan Anand, the Indian became the sole victor in the classical games of the second round. GM Wes...
After Monday's fun and exciting blitz tournament, the real play started in this year's edition of Norway Chess on Tuesday. With victories with the white pieces, GMs Viswanathan Anand and Wesley So won their respective games against GMs Maxime Va...
Rather than having a traditional drawing of start numbers, Norway Chess has made a tradition of starting out with a blitz tournament to decide the start numbers for each player in the main event. American GM Wesley So took a decisive lead by bea...
