Champions Showdown

GM Jan Gustafsson (Germany) edged out GM Deep Sengupta (India) on tiebreak to win the Bangkok Chess Club Open. It was the second victory in Thailand for ...

Iranian rising star Alireza Firouzja is threatening to match Wei Yi's feat of crossing 2700 before his 16th birthday, after reaching 2683.6 with 4.5/5 in the first half ...

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Magnus Carlsen completed a brilliant 2990 performance in the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir by beating Alexander Grischuk in the final round to end on 7/9, ...

With Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Peter Svidler in its lineup for the final weekend, the German chess club Baden-Baden clinched its 13th ...

Having already secured victory yesterday, Magnus Carlsen finished the Gashimov Memorial in style. On Tuesday he defeated Alexander Grischuk to finish two ...

The 33rd Reykjavik International started at the Harpa Concert Hall (pictured) in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik on Monday. The two sometime-2700s Gawain ...

In the Reykjavik Open a young Icelandic kid beat GM Andrew Tang with Black. IM Lawrence Trent shows you the game and what it can teach us about playing ...

Magnus Carlsen has won the 2019 Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir with a round to spare after winning a flawless game with Black against Sergey Karjak...

Magnus Carlsen is the sole leader of the 2019 Gashimov Memorial after scoring a brilliant win over Anish Giri in Round 7. In what seemed a quiet ...

With one round to go, Magnus Carlsen has already won the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. In another excellent attacking game, the world ...

Magnus Carlsen is back to being the sole leader at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. The world champion defeated Anish Giri today while the ...

Sergey Karjakin joined Magnus Carlsen in first place at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. The Russian grandmaster used deep preparation and ...

He wasn't considered a favorite but GM Olexandr Bortnyk ended up winning the bullet round robin qualifier on Friday. The 22-year-old Ukrainian grandmaster ...

After losing a winning position the other day, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov avoided another loss today as he escaped from a difficult endgame against David Navara.

Scoring his second win, Vishy Anand is now tied with Sergey Karjakin in second place at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. David Navara scored ...

Wang Hao had been unstoppable in the last couple of tournaments that he played, but at the Sharjah Masters, as the top seed, he had to settle for the second ...