World Champion Magnus Carlsen takes on world blitz no. 1 Hikaru Nakamura today in a 4-game rapid match as the $250,000 Magnus Carlsen Invitational begins. With over the board chess […]
FIDE Standard Ratings, April 2020 (Top 12) # Fed Name Rating Games B-Year 1 NOR Carlsen, Magnus 2863 1 1990 2 USA Caruana, Fabiano 2835 7 1992 3 CHN Ding, […]
France’s Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Russian Ian Nepomniatchi led after seven of the planned 14 rounds, as global body Fide plans a later resumption with points already scored still counting. The […]
Ian Nepomniachtchi won Jerusalem Grand Prix after defeating Wei Yi 1,5-0,5 in the final match. This victory put him on the second place in the overall Grand Prix standings behind […]
The FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow was won by Ian Nepomniachtchi, who defeated his compatriot Alexander Grischuk on Wednesday in the second of two rapid tiebreak games.
The Russian men’s team have won the World Team Championship for the first time since 2013.
Magnus Carlsen won his seventh Tata Steel Chess title after holding a draw against Anish Giri despite all of the latter’s attempts to keep the game going.
It was three times a charm for Ian Nepomniachtchi, who won his first Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund at the third attempt. He secured victory quickly today with a crushing, […]
The ninth edition of the London Chess Classic was won by the American GM Fabiano Caruana. After his win against GM Michael Adams in the final round, Caruana successfully caught […]
Three Russian grandmasters participated in the local version of “Late Night Show”