Fabiano Caruana drew a sharp game against Richard Rapport to finish in clear first place in the Superbet Chess Classic, taking the $100,000 top prize and the maximum 13 Grand Chess Tour points. His pursuers could all only draw, though that was a good result for Anish Giri after he stumbled into a lost position against Ian Nepomniachtchi. Ding Liren regained the world no. 3 spot after ending with a fine win over Bogdan-Daniel Deac.
FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has issued an apology after the start of the New Delhi FIDE Women’s Grand Prix was postponed when Zhansaya Abdumalik withdrew in protest at the conditions for the players. Earlier Ukrainian sisters A...
Hikaru Nakamura was close to winning then briefly lost against Wesley So after what he described as a “very, very, very, very strange game”. The first classical game in the Women’s American Cup final was just as combative, but Alice...
Wesley So and Alice Lee both won their elimination matches to bounce back from defeat in the Champions bracket and get a chance to win the American Cup. Wesley So faces a rematch against Hikaru Nakamura after beating Levon Aronian 2...
Hikaru Nakamura defeated Wesley So 2:0 in blitz to pick up the $10,000 bonus for winning the Champions bracket of the American Cup. Wesley still has a chance to force a replay against Hikaru for the $50,000 top prize, but first he’l...
Levon Aronian twice won on demand before clinching victory in Armageddon to knock defending champion Fabiano Caruana out of the 2023 American Cup. “I told Fabiano that we’re creating content!” said Levon, and that was the standout a...
Hikaru Nakamura is still the only player to win a classical game in the open section of the American Cup after he powered to a 1.5:0.5 victory over Leinier Dominguez. Hikaru will face Wesley So, who overcame Fabiano Caruana in rapid...
Hikaru Nakamura's 1st classical games in eight months went well as he defeated Sam Sevian 1.5:0.5 in the American Cup. The other matches went to rapid tiebreaks, with wins for Leinier Dominguez (over Levon Aronian), Wesley So (Sam S...
13th World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov was asked about the upcoming Ian Nepomniachtchi vs. Ding Liren World Championship match when he made an appearance during the broadcast on the first day of the American Cup. He called the 14-...
Anish Giri scored 3.5/4 as a replacement for an unwell Magnus Carlsen, but the Canada Chessbrahs again struggled on the bottom boards as Alexander Grischuk’s Blitz eliminated them 9:7. The Saint Louis Arch Bishops knocked out the Cr...
Liem Le, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Fedoseev and Vladislav Artemiev will join Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana in Division I of next month’s Chessable Masters. Among the players who narrowly missed out and...
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