[ad_1] On the third attempt, GM Magnus Carlsen finally managed to beat GM Wesley So in a Champions Chess Tour final. In a thriller of a second match, the world champion ended up winning the all-decisive armageddon game. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi came in third after beating GM Teimour Radjabov in the consolation final, winning two […]
Read More[ad_1] Do you want to represent your chess community and compete against other incredible chess communities from around the world while winning premium prizes? The Chess.com Clubs League and Chess.com Nations League are the competitions you seek. These leagues provide OTB clubs and national federations the opportunity to compete against their peers in exciting rapid […]
Read More[ad_1] Chess.com is proud to announce Winner Stays, an exciting new event hosted by the ChessBrahs, GMs Eric Hansen and Aman Hambleton. This unique and original format will feature three matches between superstar content creators in different rating categories, where the loser goes home and the winner gets to play again next month. The first […]
Read More[ad_1] On Tuesday, June 1, GM Hikaru Nakamura broke the world record of most victories against unique opponents in one hour in the 1|0 bullet time control. He accomplished this feat on Chess.com in the Bullet Chess Speedrun presented by Stella Artois. Nakamura defeated 52 opponents in the 60-minute timeframe. The previous record stood at […]
Read More[ad_1] GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, the 16-year-old rising star from Uzbekistan, won Titled Tuesday on June 1 with a score of 10/11 after defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura in the final round. Nakamura finished in second place on tiebreaks with a score of 9.5/11, ahead of third-place GM Alexander Moskalenko and fourth-place GM Steven Zierk. 636 titled […]
Read More[ad_1] GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, the 16-year-old rising star from Uzbekistan, won Titled Tuesday on June 1 with a score of 10/11 after defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura in the final round. Nakamura finished in second place on tiebreaks with a score of 9.5/11, ahead of third-place GM Alexander Moskalenko and fourth-place GM Steven Zierk. 636 titled […]
Read More[ad_1] IM Zhansaya Abdumalik played the tournament of her life in Gibraltar. The Kazakh chess player won the Women’s Grand Prix with a round to spare, earned 15,000 euros, and became a full-fledged grandmaster in the process. The other “winners” of the event were GMs Kateryna Lagno and Humpy Koneru. Lagno tied for fourth place, […]
Read More[ad_1] When Ferdinand Maumo (10) walked inside the chess club in the slum of Makoko, his peers started making fun of him. Born with cerebral palsy, Ferdinand is a quiet boy whose condition and poor background deprived him of an education, friends and the care he needed to treat his illness. But to coach Babatunde […]
Read More[ad_1] Chess.com is excited to announce the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. Starting on June 7, the most talented chess prodigies on the planet will clash to claim their piece of the highest prize fund for this event to date: a total of $35,000! Although still young, the previous winners have established […]
Read More[ad_1] After the Grand Chess Tour was canceled altogether in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, it returns in 2021. The first tournament is the Superbet Chess Classic starting on Saturday. This standard (classical) tournament is the first top event with a long time control since the FIDE Candidates. In Bucharest, the players will have 90 […]
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