GM Teimour Radjabov won the Airthings Masters on Sunday. The Azerbaijani grandmaster beat GM Levon Aronian in one more game and drew twice to clinch the $60,000 first prize. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave came third after beating GM Daniil Dubov in their second match. Aronian vs. Radjabov 1-2 The…
GMs Levon Aronian and Teimour Radjabov won their matches on the first day of the Airthings Masters’ semifinals. Both won two games and drew two, against GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Daniil Dubov, respectively. Dubov vs. Radjabov 1-3 After two draws, Radjabov won his second white game from…
GM Wesley So won the Skilling Open final on Monday by beating GM Magnus Carlsen 1.5-0.5 in the blitz tiebreak. So earned $30,000 in what was the first leg of the online Champions Chess Tour that runs until September 2021.How to watch?All games of…
On Saturday GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 2020 Speed Chess Championship final presented by OnJuno. The American grandmaster decided matters in the bullet segment as he defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 18.5-12.5 to win his third Speed Chess title in a row. Early in the competition, Nakamura stated…
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won his second Russian Championship title, exactly 10 years after his first. A quick draw in the final round proved enough after co-leader GM Sergey Karjakin was beaten by GM Daniil Dubov in brilliant style. GM Aleksandra Goryachkina won the women’s tournament, her third, after…
GM Hikaru Nakamura can easily be called the Big Winner of 2020. Three days after clinching the Speed Chess Championship, he also won another Titled Tuesday, his third in eight weeks. This week’s December Titled Tuesday tournament had a total of 681 participants….
The FIDE Online Olympiad, a major online chess event for national teams, will run July 25-August 30 on the Chess.com server. With 163 teams and over 1,500 participants from all over the world, the tournament will be a truly global team…
Russian GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the third Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix after beating Ukrainian GM Alexander Zubov in a thrilling final. Fedoseev is now also the new leader in the overall Grand Prix leaderboard. The next Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix will…
GM Magnus Carlsen won the Clutch Chess International. In the second half of the final, played on Sunday, the Norwegian grandmaster was on the verge of defeat after losing the first clutch game to GM Fabiano Caruana but then delivered in the second. Carlsen was…
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Fabiano Caruana both won one regular games and then both won one clutch game to tie their Clutch Chess International halfway. Caruana came back twice after a loss. The second half of the match is played on Sunday. How…