Vanessa West is a National Master, a chess teacher, and a writer for Chess.com. In 2017, they won the Chess Journalist of the Year award.
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GMs David Paravyan and Nikolas Theodorou were the winners of the seventh and eighth Play-ins of the Chess.com Global Championship. Paravyan and Theodorou advance to the main event along with GMs Gata Kamsky and Jose Martinez, victors...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament. GM Fabiano Caruana won the week 22 Swiss of the Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. Participating in the event were 53 competitors&mdas...
IM Vaishali R overcame GM Harika Dronavalli in their quarterfinal match in the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Thursday. Vaishali dueled fiercely against her compatriot, the highest-rated active woman player in India. After...
GMs Aram Hakobyan and Mahammad Muradli were the winners of the fifth and sixth Play-ins of the Chess.com Global Championship. Hakobyan and Muradli advance to the main event along with GMs Hrant Melkumyan and Sam Sevian, victors of th...
GM Kateryna Lagno overcame GM Humpy Koneru in their quarterfinal match in the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Tuesday. Koneru led the match with convincing play through the 5+1 segment. Entering the 3+1 portion, Lagno great...
GM Wesley So won week 21 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Sam Sevian in the closely-fought final match that culminated in a bullet playoff. GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Maxim Matlakov made it to the semif...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament. GM Sam Sevian won week 21 of the Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, starting the tournament with a 3-0 winning streak. Participating i...
GM Vidit Gujrathi and GM Alexey Sarana won the first and second Play-ins of the Chess.com Global Championship. Vidit and Sarana advance to the main event along with GMs Rasmus Svane and Oleksandr Bortnyk, victors of the two-game matches be...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won week 20 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Wesley So in the final in a bullet tiebreaker. GMs Vladimir Fedoseev and David Paravyan made it to the semifinals. GM Oleksandr Bo...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won week 20 of the Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, starting the tournament with a 5-0 winning streak. Par...
GM Tan Zhongyi defeated IM Polina Shuvalova in their round of 16 match of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Friday. Tan's solid play, board awareness, and speed proved to be too impervious even for Shuvalova's excell...
GM Harika Dronavalli defeated WGM Deysi Cori in their round of 16 match of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Thursday. The players' complementing tactical styles led to many explosive duels. Especially in the 3+1 blitz se...
GM Humpy Koneru edged out GM Nana Dzagnidze in their round of 16 match of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday. The match was so close that the score was still tied with just five minutes on the match clock. With s...
GM Daniil Dubov won week 19 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Christopher Yoo with clever tactical play in the final. GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Shamsiddin Vokhidov made it to the semifinals. GM Sam...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament. GM Samuel Sevian won week 19 of the Rapid Chess Championship, presented by Coinbase with a convincing performance. Participating in the event were ...
On Wednesday, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) announced a change in the format for the Women's Candidates Tournament. Instead of mirroring the format of the general world championship cycle with a double round robin, the eight qualified ...
GM Valentina Gunina defeated IM Elisabeth Paehtz in their round of 16 match of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Tuesday. Gunina showed several strengths throughout the match: tactical sharpness, excellent time management...
FM James Canty III conquered IM Lawrence Trent in the semifinals of the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship presented by Landover.io on Friday. It was a clash of two giants of competitive spirit over the board and beyond where Canty's tactic...
The second seed, GM Kateryna Lagno, defeated WGM Vantika Agrawal in the third round of 16 match of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Friday. While many of the games were closely fought, Lagno managed to gain a substantial...
In the battle of Women's World Champions, GM Alexandra Kosteniuk prevailed over GM Antoaneta Stefanova in the second round of 16 match of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Monday. While both competitors impressed on the b...
FM James Canty III upset the top seed, IM Polina Shuvalova, in the quarterfinals of the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship presented by Landover.io on Monday. It was a closely-fought match with many double-edged games and the scores hoverin...
IM Vaishali R defeated the reigning Women's World Blitz Champion, IM Bibisara Assaubayeva, in the first round of 16 match of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship on Monday. Vaishali led through the blitz games but had to fight ...
GM Dmitry Andreikin won week 18 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. He defeated GM Jeffery Xiong in the final blitz tiebreaker. GMs Levon Aronian and Olexandr Bortnyk made it to the semifinals. GMs Hikaru ...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament. GM Hikaru Nakamura won week 18 of the Rapid Chess Championship, presented by Coinbase, edging out four other grandmasters by tiebreaks. ...
