GM Sam Sevian became the 12th player to win one of 83 Bullet Brawl's held since January 2023 after scoring 66 wins, three draws, and 11 losses during Saturday's event. In preparation for the 2024 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships, Sevian ...
A spirited performance by GM Hikaru Nakamura in Saturday's Bullet Brawl saw him return to the throne and collect the $400 first prize after consecutive second-place finishes in November. 72 wins, 28 of which were part of a timely winning streak,...
13 months of silver and bronze medals have come to an end for GM Jose Martinez, who rose to capture his fourth Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize in Saturday's event. Battling against GMs Hikaru Nakamura, GM Daniel Naroditsky, and 188 oth...
GM Alireza Firouzja won his first Bullet Brawl title and $400 on Saturday after posting a 42-game winning streak that saw him skyrocket to 254 points and eclipse 33-time winner GM Hikaru Nakamura. 196 titled players stood between Firouzja and vict...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has made Chess.com history by becoming the first player to win Bullet Brawl and both editions of Titled Tuesday in the same week. Nakamura capped off a perfect week and secured a 33rd crown after scoring 252 points on Satur...
GM Daniel Naroditsky, who celebrated his 29th birthday on Saturday, showed that with age comes wisdom as he won his 24th Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Andrew Tang. Naroditsky notched 77.5/83 and scored...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has captured another Bullet Brawl after scoring 71.5/77—which includes a 23-game winning streak—and finishing ahead of the second and third-placed GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk and Tuan Minh Le. With a winning margin of 55 p...
GM Hikaru Nakamura came out on top in October's final Bullet Brawl after a tight race with GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Oleksandr Bortnyk on Saturday. Nakamura faced stiff resistance en route to his score of 251 and was fortunate to notch a 17-game s...
GM Fabiano Caruana successfully defended his title at the 2024 U.S. Chess Championship, notching a win over GM Sam Shankland in the final round to claim the $62,000 first prize and winner's trophy. Caruana's 7/10 performance gave him a 1.5-point b...
GM Fabiano Caruana has maintained his half-point buffer heading into the final round of the 2024 U.S. Chess Championships after three out of five games in round 10 games were drawn. GM Ray Robson, who toppled GM Abhimanyu Mishra, moved into second...
GM Fabiano Caruana has taken another step towards defending his title at the 2024 U.S. Chess Championships after securing a draw with second-placed GM Awonder Liang and moving to 5.5/8. GM Leinier Dominguez's win over GM Sam Sevian was the only de...
GM Hikaru Nakamura posted a 303 score to win his 30th Bullet Brawl title on Saturday and secure the $400 first prize. With 80 wins, three draws, and three losses to his name, his winning margin of 96 points over second-placed GM Oleksandr Bor...
In the seventh round of the 2024 U.S. Chess Championships, GM Awonder Liang moved to 4/6 and reduced GM Fabiano Caruana's lead to half a point after toppling GM Grigoriy Oparin with the black pieces. GM Ray Robson is on a rollercoaster ride he can...
The Saint Louis Chess Club has expelled GM Christopher Yoo from the 2024 U.S. Championship, saying in a statement after round five that the 17-year-old was guilty of "gross violations" of the event's "Code of Conduct" and the "US Chess Safe Play P...
Five leaders were whittled down to one in the fourth round of the 2024 U.S. Championship as GM Fabiano Caruana defeated GM Abhimanyu Mishra and moved to 3/4. GM Ray Robson scored the only other decisive result of the round, thwarting a dubious paw...
The 2024 U.S. Championship field has been blown wide open after GMs Fabiano Caruana, Hans Niemann, and Awonder Liang won their respective games against GMs Ray Robson, Leinier Dominguez, and Levon Aronian and have joined leading GMs Wesley So and ...
GMs Wesley So and Sam Sevian notched wins with White in round two of the 2024 U.S. Championship and have taken an early half-point lead over the pack. So won a pawn against GM Christopher Yoo and never let it go, while Sevian played creatively to ...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk has cracked the Bullet Brawl code. He outpaced GM Daniel Naroditsky to claim his second straight title and the $400 first prize on Saturday. Amassing 69 wins, seven draws, and six losses in a performance that mirrored his...
Draws on all boards in round one of the 2024 U.S. Championship have already dashed the chances of a player repeating GM Bobby Fischer's perfect score in the 1964 championship, but there are clear signs that the U.S. Championship title and $55,000 ...
The University of Missouri delivered a 14-2 drubbing to Athens in the second week of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall Season and debuted the competition's new strongest player, GM Aryan Tari. Scores of 4/4 for GMs Mikhail Antipov and Lu...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk has turned a good week into a great one after winning his eighth Bullet Brawl by a 39-point margin and claiming the $400 first prize following a Titled Tuesday masterclass earlier in the week. GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Ch...
IM Levy Rozman, (aka GothamChess) sent waves across the Twittersphere recently when he toppled GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in Titled Tuesday. However, to a crowd of chess enthusiasts at the University of Florida (UF), his recent presence on their campus...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is one win away from his 30th Bullet Brawl title after stringing together a 42-game winning streak during Saturday's event and claiming the $400 first prize. Nakamura's 75/78 performance earned him a score of 284, 16 points clea...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his second straight Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize after scoring 251 points and outpacing his longtime rival, GM Daniel Naroditsky, on Saturday. Naroditsky was the only master in the 128-player field able to challenge...
GM Alireza Firouzja was crowned as the winner of the 2024 Sinquefield Cup and the Grand Chess Tour on Wednesday after securing a draw with GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and finishing on 6/9. Following his round-one defeat to the winner, GM Fab...
