Challenger Gukesh Dommaraju leads the 2024 FIDE World Championship against World Champion Ding Liren 6-5 with only three games to go. Game 12 is on Monday, December 9, at 4:00 a.m. ET / 10:00 CET / 2:30 p.m. IST / 5:00 p.m. local time in Sin...
Indian 18-year-old GM Gukesh Dommaraju has taken a 6-5 lead with just three games to go after a blunder by Chinese World Champion Ding Liren (32) suddenly ended the thrilling game 11 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship. Gukesh's hyperaggressive op...
A spirited performance by GM Hikaru Nakamura in Saturday's Bullet Brawl saw him return to the throne and collect the $400 first prize after consecutive second-place finishes in November. 72 wins, 28 of which were part of a timely winning streak,...
World Champion Ding Liren hesitated on move one against GM Gukesh Dommaraju in game 10 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, but then he repeated 1.d4 and the London System and got a risk-free position with a small edge. He failed to apply any pres...
NM Janak Awatramani won the 2024 Crazyhouse Championship after defeating GM Lars Oskar Hauge 4.5-2.5 in the Grand Final, earning $2,000 in the last event of the 2024 Community Chess Championships. The tournament series occurred once a month with a...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju slipped in a promising position in game nine to allow World Champion Ding Liren to liquidate to a draw and leave the 2024 FIDE World Championship tied at 4.5-4.5 with just five games to go. The players now have a rest day on Fr...
GM Lars Oskar Hauge won Qualifier 7 and GM Andrew Tang won Qualifier 8 to fill the last two spots available in the 2024 Crazyhouse Championship Knockout Final. They join the other six players who will participate in the double-elimination Knockout...
Have you ever been on a streak? If you win more than 10 games in a row do you sense the statistics police peering into your game history? Has an opponent called your brilliant move a little too brilliant? GM Hikaru Nakamura is proud to announce...
GM Jeffery Xiong won Qualifier 5, and FM Roee Aroesti won Qualifier 6 of the 2024 Crazyhouse Championship, the final event of this year's Chess.com Community Championship series. There are just two more qualifying spots open for the Knockout on Fr...
Both GM Gukesh Dommaraju and World Champion Ding Liren missed wins as game eight of the 2024 FIDE World Championship ended in a 51-move draw. Ding switched to 1.c4, was again surprised in the opening, but had stabilized just when he blundered into...
IM Mark Plotkin and NM Janak Awatramani, both from Canada, respectively won Qualifiers 3 and 4 of the 2024 Crazyhouse Championship, the final event of the Chess.com Community Championship series. Half the seats in the Knockout are taken, and the r...
Both Titled Tuesday events of December 3 went down to the wire, with GM Denis Lazavik emerging ahead of GMs Javokhir Sindarov and Matthias Bluebaum in the early tournament on tiebreaks, and GM Hikaru Nakamura getting the tiebreak over GM Alireza F...
India's GM Gukesh Dommaraju had Chinese World Champion Ding Liren on the ropes in game seven of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, with a heartbreaking move-40 blunder looking likely to cost Ding the game even after he'd found a way to survive. He ...
NM Isaac Chiu and NM Jalen Wang respectively won Qualifiers 1 and 2 of the 2024 Crazyhouse Championship, the final event of the Chess.com Community Championship series. There are six qualifying spots left for the Knockout on Friday. [Updated on ...
GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2024 U.S. Masters with 8/9, winning all of his games except for a loss in round six against GM Nikolas Theodorou, who finished in clear second. Besides receiving $7,500 plus a trophy, Caruana also gains 17.11 FIDE Circui...
"I just like playing chess!" said Indian GM Gukesh Dommaraju after rejecting a draw by repetition in game six of the 2024 FIDE World Championship. It was a decision that could have backfired, as World Champion Ding Liren had chances to push for a ...
13 months of silver and bronze medals have come to an end for GM Jose Martinez, who rose to capture his fourth Bullet Brawl title and the $400 first prize in Saturday's event. Battling against GMs Hikaru Nakamura, GM Daniel Naroditsky, and 188 oth...
World Champion Ding Liren was unable to punish GM Gukesh Dommaraju after the Indian star blundered in game five of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, leaving the scores tied at 2.5-2.5 with nine games to go. Gukesh surprised observers by picking th...
GM Nihal Sarin won the 3rd President Cup, a strong, nine-round Swiss held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He earned the $25,000 first prize after scoring 7.5/9 undefeated with a performance rating of 2809. Final Standings | Top 15 Rk. ...
World Champion Ding Liren was joined by GM Richard Rapport on the way to game four of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, and 1.Nf3 and the offbeat opening that followed felt right out of the Rapport playbook. GM Gukesh Dommaraju reacted quickly and...
Four winners were crowned on Thursday at the FIDE World Seniors Championships in Porto Santo, Portugal. GM Alexander Shabalov (U.S.) won the Open 50+ section, GM Rainer Knaak (Germany) came first in the Open 65+ section, IM Masha Klinova (Israel) ...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju has scored his first classical win over World Champion Ding Liren to level the scores at 1.5-1.5 going into the first rest day of the 2024 FIDE World Championship. Gukesh posed tough problems in the opening of game three, but j...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Christopher Yoo were the Titled Tuesday victors on November 26. Carlsen, who won outright on 10 points, got his first Titled Tuesday win of November in the last week of November—and now has at least one win every month...
World Champion Ding Liren played the first new move in the opening of game two of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, but GM Gukesh Dommaraju defended carefully and ultimately made a 23-move, three-hour draw by repetition to claim his first half-poi...
World Champion Ding Liren's first classical win in 304 days has given him the early lead in the 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore. Pre-event favorite GM Gukesh Dommaraju looked in command as Ding played the French Defense and burned up 27 ...
