The third-round encounter between GMs Arjun Erigaisi and GM Alexey Sarana at the Chennai Grand Masters 2024 had two distinct phases: the first 23 moves, flawlessly played by both sides, and the rest marred by tactical errors. But what mattered was...
GMs Leon Mendonca and Pranav Venkatesh lead the Challengers with second straight wins, while there is a three-way tie in the Masters section between GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Amin Tabatabaei, all on 1.5, at the end of the sec...
The Chennai Grand Masters 2024 got off to an exciting start with six decisive games combined from both sections in the first round, with many see-saw encounters and generally enterprising play, instead of typical cautious starts in the beginning. ...
IM Carissa Yip continued her dream run with a win over WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan to race to 8/8 in the Women's championship while GM Fabiano Caruana maintained his half-a-point lead with 5/7 after a draw against GM Wesley So in the eighth round of t...
Undeterred by his win in the previous round not being counted for the tournament score, top-seed and defending champion GM Fabiano Caruana jumped into the sole lead in the 2024 U.S. Championship with 4/5. He defeated GM Grigoriy Oparin in an impre...
GM Magnus Carlsen staved off a spirited challenge from GM Alireza Firouzja to prevail with a score of 2.5-1.5 in the Winners Bracket Finals of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024. He will now face the Losers Bracket winner in the tournament's Gran...
GM Magnus Carlsen's dramatic match against GM Levon Aronian and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's brilliant attacking masterpiece against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi were the highlights of day four of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024. GM Alireza Firouzja...
IM Polina Shuvalova and GM Kateryna Lagno scored crucial wins in the 1+1 bullet segments to stage a comeback and win their respective matches to advance to the Quarterfinals of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship. Shuvalova rec...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun of China scored a dominating 13-3 win over IM Anna Sargsyan of Armenia in the first of the round of 16 matches of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship. Though Sargsyan had her chances in the match,...
IM Anastasia Bodnaruk emerged as the winner of the fourth and final Play-In tournament for the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship in what turned out to be the most exciting and memorable of all the qualifiers. Bodnaruk defeated Azer...
IM Eline Roebers of the Netherlands revealed after qualifying for the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship that she competed for the whole of the Swiss part in a train, using her phone. She reached home "just in time" as the Knockout ...
IM Mai Narva of Estonia convincingly triumphed in the second qualifier of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship by winning the Knockout stage of the second Play-In after defeating WFM Hong Nhung Nguyen of Vietnam in the finals with...
Seventeen-year-old WIM Alua Nurman of Kazakhstan triumphed in the first qualifier to the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship by winning the Knockout stage of the first Play-In after defeating IM Anastasia Bodnaruk in the finals with ...
GM Magnus Carlsen crushed GM Tuan Minh Le with a dominating 20.5-3.5 score in a one-sided contest in the first match of the second day of the 2024 Speed Chess Championship. But the day belonged to the former world championship contender GM Ian Nep...
GM Arjun Erigaisi prevailed over GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda with a combined score of 12-10, striking in the crucial final four games of the 1+1 bullet segment in the first match of the first day of the 2024 Speed Chess Championship. In the other match,...
Former Women's World Champion GM Tan Zhongyi scored a quick 20-move victory over defending champion IM Anna Zatonskih to move into the sole lead with three points after four rounds at the Cairns Cup 2024 in St. Louis. Tan is trailed by GMs Mariya ...
Former women's world chess champions GMs Tan Zhongyi, Mariya Muzychuk, and Alexandra Kosteniuk opened with victories in the first round of the Cairns Cup 2024 which began at the Saint Louis Chess Club on Thursday. Muzychuk's game featured a twin e...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored six consecutive wins in rounds 14-19 setting the tone of the second and final day at the 2023 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship. It helped him capture the lead and win his seventh title after draws in the final two round...
GMs Vladislav Artemiev, Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Nihal Sarin, Arjun Erigaisi, and Alexander Riazantsev scored nine points apiece to share the lead at the end of day one of the 2023 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship. The sixt...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju defended a slightly inferior endgame successfully against GM Pentala Harikrishna and won the title on tiebreak from GM Arjun Erigaisi after the seventh and final round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Arjun fired on all cylin...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju continued to lead with four points at the end of the sixth and penultimate round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023 after his uneventful draw against GM Pavel Eljanov. GM Arjun Erigaisi continued his best effort to win the tourn...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju scored his second consecutive victory by outwitting GM Sanan Sjugirov, with the black pieces and aggressive play, to jump into the sole lead with three and a half points from five rounds in the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Overn...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju scored his first victory of the tournament over GM Alexandr Predke to join GM Pentala Harikrishna in the lead with two and a half points from four rounds of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Harikrishna looked to be in a spot of ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi showed his defensive skills in a slightly difficult middlegame position to outwit GM Alexandr Predke later in a long endgame, scoring his maiden win of the event in the third round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Erstwhile joi...
GM Sanan Sjugirov defended against ambitious play by GM Pavel Eljanov in the middlegame to score a patient victory and jumped into a joint lead with one and a half points after the second round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. He has joined GM P...
