[ad_1] Chess.com is excited to announce that the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour and the Chess.com Global Championship are coming together in 2023 to form one unified chess series. This huge event kicks off on February 6 and spans the entire year. With six tournaments culminating in one final championship and a combined prize pool of […]
Read More[ad_1] Coming off winning his fifth consecutive Speed Chess Championship, GM Hikaru Nakamura’s online blitz dominance may be at an all-time high. On December 20, he won both the early and late Titled Tuesday tournaments. He has now won three in a row and 28 on the year (out of 98 held). It was also […]
Read More[ad_1] IM Stefan Docx was expelled from the Benidorm Open in Spain, after refusing a metal detector body scan. The chief arbiter of the tournament is preparing a report for the FIDE Fair Play Commission. Docx, a 48-year-old international master from Belgium and a three-time member of the Belgian Olympic squad, was playing in the […]
Read More[ad_1] Dùng chiến thuật câu giờ, kỳ thủ Mỹ Hikaru Nakamura vô địch Speed Chess Championship 2022 với chiến thắng sát nút Magnus Carlsen 14,5-13,5 trong trận chung kết sáng 19/12. Trận đấu bắt đầu chỉ nửa tiếng sau chung kết World Cup 2022 giữa Argentina và Pháp, với diễn biến khá tương đồng. Đại […]
Read More[ad_1] This is a flash report. The full report is coming soon. GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 2022 Speed Chess Championship, his fifth, by defeating GM Magnus Carlsen in an incredibly close final on Sunday. In our Game of the Day (annotations by GM Rafael Leitao), Carlsen strived to capitalize on his edge on the […]
Read More[ad_1] GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship second semifinal match on Friday. The world champion steamrolled through yet another match in what has become a series of dominant wins over the world’s best chess players. He was dissatisfied with his quality of play in the post-game interview despite […]
Read More[ad_1] On December 15, 2022, FIDE announced the paths of qualification for the next Candidates Tournament, which will be held in 2024 and will determine the challenger in the 2024 World Championship. The paths are: Runner-up at the 2023 World Championship Top 3 finishers at the 2023 World Cup Top 2 finishers […]
Read More[ad_1] After years of uncertainty, 12-year-old FM Tanitoluwa Adewumi and his family have been officially granted political asylum in the United States. The family fled from Nigeria to the U.S. in 2017 after Adewumi’s father became a target of a religious extremist group, Boko Haram, for refusing to print a poster with anti-Western and violent […]
Read More[ad_1] The showdown between two of Chess.com’s pre-eminent blitz and bullet chess players in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship was comfortably won by GM Hikaru Nakamura on Thursday. The defending champion took an early lead over GM Nihal Sarin and never let go, once again opting to play unorthodox openings to spice up the semifinal. […]
Read More[ad_1] GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave overcame GM Wesley So in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday. Early in the match, Vachier-Lagrave gained as high as a four-point lead, but So fought back to even the score in the bullet segment. With just 12 minutes left on the match clock, the French grandmaster entered a new gear, […]
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