This is a flash report. The full report will be added soon. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk was crowned as the winner of the second leg of the 2022/2023 FIDE Grand Prix on Monday with a score of 7.5/11 despite losing her final game to WGM Zhu Jiner. Peace was the theme of the final round in …
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WGM Jennifer Yu was crowned the winner of the 2022 U.S. Women’s Chess Championship on Thursday after a thrilling tiebreaker that had to be decided by an armageddon game. After winning the opening game of the match against GM Irina Krush, Yu very nearly put the match away during the second game. However, the eight-time …
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The 2022 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX commenced at the Saint Louis Chess Club on Wednesday with three rounds of electrifying Chess960 (or Fischer Random) games, pitting the world’s best chess players against each other on unfamiliar playing fields. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi emerged as a frontrunner with a perfect score to start the event, needing only …
Never a dull moment at the 2022 Sinquefield Cup: In the matchup between the two leaders, World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hans Niemann, the young American caused a massive sensation by outplaying and eventually beating the Norwegian. Other wins were picked up by GM Wesley So in the all-American encounter against GM Fabiano Caruana …
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As of Monday, GM Magnus Carlsen is the new number-one blitz player on Chess.com. The world champion played a 57(!)-game match with GM Vladimir Fedoseev and stopped at a rating of 3204, four points more than GM Hikaru Nakamura currently has. After the announcement that Chess.com has offered to buy the Play Magnus group of …
