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.
18-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov is up to World no. 14 after crashing through with a kingside attack against Andrey Esipenko in Round 2 of the WR Chess Masters. That saw him catch Wesley So and Levon Aronian in the lead, where he’s...
Wesley So landed a famous tactical blow on move 15 against Jan-Krzysztof Duda to open the scoring in the WR Chess Masters in Dusseldorf, with Levon Aronian following with a win over Praggnanandhaa. Andrey Esipenko scored the day's l...
World no. 2 Ian Nepomniachtchi will get a chance to warm-up for the World Championship match as a new classical supertournament, the WR Chess Masters, starts in Dusseldorf, Germany today. He’ll face Tata Steel Masters winner Anish G...
Magnus Carlsen scored 4/4 as the Canada Chessbrahs defeated the Charlotte Cobras 8.5:7.5 in Week 1 of the 2023 Pro Chess League, but only after a thrilling finale where Magnus came back from the dead to beat Awonder Liang. In the da...
Magnus Carlsen stars for the Canada Chessbrahs as the Pro Chess League returns Tuesday, February 14 after a 3-year hiatus. The $150,000 tournament sees 16 teams battle it out over the the next five weeks before the Top 8 teams advan...
Hikaru Nakamura beat Wesley So in Armageddon to set up a Grand Final rematch against Magnus Carlsen on the last day of the 2023 Airthings Masters. Wesley had earlier overcome Arjun Ergaisi to join Carlsen and Nakamura in securing a ...
Magnus Carlsen is the first player through to the Grand Final of the top division of the Airthings Masters after bidding just one second less than his great rival Hikaru Nakamura to get the black pieces in Armageddon. Hikaru can sti...
Magnus Carlsen will face Hikaru Nakamura in the Champions Chess Tour for the 1st time since 2021 after Magnus and Hikaru overcame Arjun Erigaisi and Wesley So in Armageddon deciders. Both players are also qualified for the next Tour...
Arjun Erigaisi stunned Alireza Firouzja 3:0 on the opening day of the Airthings Masters, the first event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour. Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura also beat Alexey Sarana and Gukesh with a game ...
It’s Carlsen-Sarana, Firouzja-Erigaisi, So-Mamedov and Gukesh-Nakamura on Monday in the Airthings Masters, the 1st event on the 2023 Champions Chess Tour. Gukesh starred in the gruelling 8-hour 140-player Play-In to finish 1st by a ...
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