GM Hikaru Nakamura came out on top in October's final Bullet Brawl after a tight race with GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Oleksandr Bortnyk on Saturday. Nakamura faced stiff resistance en route to his score of 251 and was fortunate to notch a 17-game s...
GM Fabiano Caruana successfully defended his title at the 2024 U.S. Chess Championship, notching a win over GM Sam Shankland in the final round to claim the $62,000 first prize and winner's trophy. Caruana's 7/10 performance gave him a 1.5-point b...
GM Fabiano Caruana has maintained his half-point buffer heading into the final round of the 2024 U.S. Chess Championships after three out of five games in round 10 games were drawn. GM Ray Robson, who toppled GM Abhimanyu Mishra, moved into second...
GM Fabiano Caruana has taken another step towards defending his title at the 2024 U.S. Chess Championships after securing a draw with second-placed GM Awonder Liang and moving to 5.5/8. GM Leinier Dominguez's win over GM Sam Sevian was the only de...
GM Hikaru Nakamura posted a 303 score to win his 30th Bullet Brawl title on Saturday and secure the $400 first prize. With 80 wins, three draws, and three losses to his name, his winning margin of 96 points over second-placed GM Oleksandr Bor...
In the seventh round of the 2024 U.S. Chess Championships, GM Awonder Liang moved to 4/6 and reduced GM Fabiano Caruana's lead to half a point after toppling GM Grigoriy Oparin with the black pieces. GM Ray Robson is on a rollercoaster ride he can...
The Saint Louis Chess Club has expelled GM Christopher Yoo from the 2024 U.S. Championship, saying in a statement after round five that the 17-year-old was guilty of "gross violations" of the event's "Code of Conduct" and the "US Chess Safe Play P...
Five leaders were whittled down to one in the fourth round of the 2024 U.S. Championship as GM Fabiano Caruana defeated GM Abhimanyu Mishra and moved to 3/4. GM Ray Robson scored the only other decisive result of the round, thwarting a dubious paw...
The 2024 U.S. Championship field has been blown wide open after GMs Fabiano Caruana, Hans Niemann, and Awonder Liang won their respective games against GMs Ray Robson, Leinier Dominguez, and Levon Aronian and have joined leading GMs Wesley So and ...
GMs Wesley So and Sam Sevian notched wins with White in round two of the 2024 U.S. Championship and have taken an early half-point lead over the pack. So won a pawn against GM Christopher Yoo and never let it go, while Sevian played creatively to ...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk has cracked the Bullet Brawl code. He outpaced GM Daniel Naroditsky to claim his second straight title and the $400 first prize on Saturday. Amassing 69 wins, seven draws, and six losses in a performance that mirrored his...
Draws on all boards in round one of the 2024 U.S. Championship have already dashed the chances of a player repeating GM Bobby Fischer's perfect score in the 1964 championship, but there are clear signs that the U.S. Championship title and $55,000 ...
The University of Missouri delivered a 14-2 drubbing to Athens in the second week of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall Season and debuted the competition's new strongest player, GM Aryan Tari. Scores of 4/4 for GMs Mikhail Antipov and Lu...
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk has turned a good week into a great one after winning his eighth Bullet Brawl by a 39-point margin and claiming the $400 first prize following a Titled Tuesday masterclass earlier in the week. GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Ch...
IM Levy Rozman, (aka GothamChess) sent waves across the Twittersphere recently when he toppled GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in Titled Tuesday. However, to a crowd of chess enthusiasts at the University of Florida (UF), his recent presence on their campus...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is one win away from his 30th Bullet Brawl title after stringing together a 42-game winning streak during Saturday's event and claiming the $400 first prize. Nakamura's 75/78 performance earned him a score of 284, 16 points clea...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his second straight Bullet Brawl and the $400 first prize after scoring 251 points and outpacing his longtime rival, GM Daniel Naroditsky, on Saturday. Naroditsky was the only master in the 128-player field able to challenge...
GM Alireza Firouzja was crowned as the winner of the 2024 Sinquefield Cup and the Grand Chess Tour on Wednesday after securing a draw with GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and finishing on 6/9. Following his round-one defeat to the winner, GM Fab...
GM Hikaru Nakamura successfully returned to the Bullet Brawl arena after a two-week hiatus, winning his 27th title and the $400 first prize with a commanding score of 69.5/77. GMs Andrew Tang and Jose Martinez rounded out the podium which was...
GMs Awonder Liang and Jeffery Xiong have been crowned as the 2024 Chess.com Bughouse Champions after the pair won each of their knockout matches and collected the $2,000 first prize on Friday. Following a Quarterfinal drubbing of GMs Arjun Erigi...
GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Nihal Sarin finally booked their spot in the 2024 Chess.com Bughouse Championship knockouts on their fourth attempt after scoring 68/78 on Thursday. The Indian superstars, alongside FM Richard Zheng and NM Vincent Baker, sec...
GM Andrew Tang became the latest GM to book his spot in the 2024 Chess.com Bughouse Championship knockouts after he and his partner "BughouseKnight" won the sixth qualifier on Wednesday. Scoring an unassailable 255 points, the pair will look to to...
The 2024 Chess.com Bughouse Championship continued on Tuesday with the third and fourth qualifiers and IM Mark Plotkin, NM Jalen Wang, GM Guillermo Vasquez, and Grace "Helmsknight" Ferguson qualified for the Knockout ahead of 240 other teams. Fo...
The Community Championship Series returned on Monday with the 2024 Chess.com Bughouse Championship and two teams: GM Lars Oskar Hauge and NM Isaac Chiu along with GMs Jeffery Xiong and Awonder Liang, rose above 400 participating teams to book thei...
Bullet Brawl saw the crowning of a new champion on Saturday after 15-year-old Turkish prodigy GM Ediz Gurel scored 265 points and finished ahead of American GMs Andrew Tang (261) and Daniel Naroditsky (211). The winner of the $100 top women's pr...
