Wesley So has won the first FIDE-sanctioned Fischer Random World Chess Championship, sweeping aside Magnus Carlsen in the final. So needed just two fast-rapid games to dispatch Carlsen and become the first official Fischer Random chess world champ...
Wesley So is on the brink of winning the World Fischer Random Championship after blanking Magnus Carlsen on the second day of slow-rapid games. So leads Carlsen by the commanding score of 10.5-1.5 in the best-of-24-point match. So needs just two...
Wesley So is the surprise leader after an exciting first day of the World Fischer Random Chess Championship final vs. Magnus Carlsen. The American takes a three-point lead thanks to a win in game two of the slow-rapid games. The title match...
The two finalist spots were decided before the blitz segment of the World Fischer Random Chess Championship on Wednesday. After emerging victorious from their semifinal matches, Wesley So and Magnus Carlsen will play ...
The deadlock in the World Fischer Random Chess Championship was broken today in both semifinals. The top seed and favorite Magnus Carlsen earned a second win with Black over Fabiano Caruana to take the lead in the match. Wesley So b...
Both semifinal matches ended in deadlock after day one—tied 3-3 after a pair of slow-rapid duels. In terms of entertainment, Fischer Random at the very highest level delivered. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Wesley So traded punches in two violent b...
After a long process of online qualifications, the action goes live and over-the-board in the first official FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. The four semifinalists have gathered in Norway and will face off at the Henie Onstad Art Cen...
The third and final quarterfinal day of the World Fischer Random Chess Championship provided plenty of sharp exciting play—but also some surprisingly abrupt results. All of the matches were decided in the fast-rapid games, and two of them we...
The four losers from day one of the quarterfinals squared off for a last shot at continuing towards the World Fischer Random title. This unusual route to the semifinals has been adopted to create three semifinalists from this stage of the event&md...
After a long process of qualifiers and knockouts, the first FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship began its crescendo movement with the quarterfinals. Since this is an inaugural event and quite complicated, let's start with the framework. ...
The time has come to book your ticket to watch the live stages of the FIDE World Fischer Random Championship. To buy tickets to the FIDE World Fischer Random Championship, visit the official site here. The venue for the semifinals and final wi...
The favorites again advanced to the last stages of the knockout competition to determine the event's quarter-finalists with the top four seeds contesting a very even and tense bracket semifinal. Whether it was the makeup of the field or the starti...
The discipline might be called Fischer Random, but the scenario that unfolded in the first four quarterfinal Knockout Qualifiers has been anything but. So far in the event, despite a regular helping of upsets and inspired underdog performances, ea...
A powerful and distinctly Russian-flavored bracket provided the kind of excitement that is becoming familiar in the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. For the fourth successive time the top two seeds faced each other in the final knocko...
