Magnus Carlsen beat Parham Maghsoodloo in Round 10 of the Tata Steel Masters to pick up a 3rd win in four games and move within a point of 18-year-old leader Nodirbek Abdusattorov with three rounds to go. Gukesh made it two wins in a row after a wild c…
Anish Giri has now beaten both world no. 1 Magnus Carlsen and world no. 2 Ding Liren in the 2023 Tata Steel Masters after winning a rollercoaster game against the Chinese star in Round 9. That almost gave him a share of the lead, but Nodirbek Abdusatto…
Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So play the Airthings Masters from February 6 till 10, as the all-new $2 million Champions Chess Tour begins. The remaining six places in the top group are open to any grandmaster, with the players battling it out on Chess.com…
Magnus Carlsen is suddenly right back in contention for the Tata Steel Masters title after defeating his great rival Fabiano Caruana in a game that was all but decided by move 22. Nodirbek Abdusattorov kept his 1-point lead with a draw, as the other wi…
18-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov’s reign of terror continued in the Tata Steel Masters as he counterattacked against Arjun Erigaisi to pick up a 4th win in just seven rounds. Magnus Carlsen won a sharp battle against Richard Rapport to get back on tra…
Fabiano Caruana joined Anish Giri in 2nd place in the Tata Steel Masters after getting revenge for losing to 16-year-old Gukesh at the Chennai Olympiad. Wesley So picked up his first win of 2023 after Vincent Keymer again crumbled in the endgame, while…
18-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov took the sole lead in the Tata Steel Masters after outplaying Magnus Carlsen in Round 5, with the World Champion losing two classical games in a row for the first time since 2015. There were also wins for Levon Aronian…
The 2023 World Chess Championship match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren will take place in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, from April 7 till May 1. After Magnus Carlsen’s abdication, the match to decide the next, 17th World Chess Champion,…
Anish Giri called it a “historic moment” as he beat Magnus Carlsen in Wijk aan Zee 12 years to the day after he last won a classical game against Magnus. The day would get even more dramatic as 17-year-old Praggnanandhaa played a stunning endgame to de…
Fabiano Caruana was hit by a Jorden van Foreest novelty in Round 3 of the Tata Steel Masters, but he survived the opening unscathed and later picked up a free pawn to score the day’s only win and join a 5-man leading group. That includes Magnus Carlsen…
Anish Giri went for a stunning sacrificial attack to beat Gukesh while Magnus Carlsen ground out victory over Vincent Keymer to join Ding Liren and Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the lead after Round 2 of the Tata Steel Masters in Wijk aan Zee. In the Challe…
World no. 2 Ding Liren was at his terrifying best as he beat Gukesh in Round 1 of the Tata Steel Masters. 18-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov scored the only other win, against Richard Rapport, while Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri and Vincent Keymer missed c…
8-time Wijk aan Zee Champion Magnus Carlsen will play 4-time Champion Levon Aronian as the Tata Steel Masters begins on Saturday, January 14th. We’ve also got Caruana-Giri, Gukesh-Ding and Praggnanandhaa-Erigaisi in Round 1 as the year 2023 in chess re…
In Maxime Vachier-Lagrave’s round-up of recent events a curiosity is noted at the end — he realised midway through his 1st game on the final day of the World Blitz that he’d forgotten to remove his watch. If spotted by an arbiter that would have meant …
Shohreh Bayat, who was forced to leave Iran in early 2020 after a scandal over wearing the hijab, has revealed she was personally asked by FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich to stop wearing a T-shirt with the message “Women Life Freedom” at the Fischer R…
2023 sees a new classical World Chess Champion crowned for the first time in a decade, as Ian Nepomniachtchi takes on Ding Liren for the title vacated by Magnus Carlsen. There’s a new $2 million Chess.com Championship, combining the best of the Meltwat…
