Chess News and Event Coverage (2024)

Lee Miraculously Saves Game After 5-Hour Marathon

14-year-old IM Alice Lee is the talk of the town at the Cairns Cup 2024 after tricking GM Nana Dzagnidze into a drawn ending when all seemed lost. GMs Irina Krush, Mariya Muzychuk and IM Anna Zatonskih all missed golden opportunities to win ...

The 2024 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships are scheduled to take place in the last week of December in New York, FIDE announced on Monday. The two championships, traditionally held over five days between Christmas and the New Year, are the ...

Tan Zhongyi Sole Leader After Quick Victory

Former Women's World Champion GM Tan Zhongyi scored a quick 20-move victory over defending champion IM Anna Zatonskih to move into the sole lead with three points after four rounds at the Cairns Cup 2024 in St. Louis. Tan is trailed by GMs Mariya ...

Faustino Oro, Levy Rozman Narrowly Miss Norms In Madrid

IM Levy Rozman and FM Faustino Oro, two of the world's most popular chess players, have met for the first time in a tournament. It took place at the 2024 Madrid Chess Festival, which ran June 10-15 and featured two closed tournaments and one open....

Kosteniuk Topples Dzagnidze, Joins Leaders

GM Alexandra Kosteniuk has joined the leaders on 2/3 at the Cairns Cup 2024 following a fine victory over Georgia's GM Nana Dzagnidze in round three while the tournament's other leaders; GMs Harika Dronavalli, Mariya Muzychuk, and Tan Zhongyi drew...

Hat-Trick Hero Naroditsky Secures 19th Title

In a near-carbon copy of June's earlier editions, GM Daniel Naroditsky scored a dominant 235 points to secure his third straight Bullet Brawl title in the $1,000 event. With 66 wins, four draws, and just 13 losses to his name, Naroditsky finished ...

Harika Forgoes Castling In Victory Over 'Chess Queen' Kosteniuk

Four players—GMs Nana Dzagnidze, Harika Dronavalli, Mariya Muzychuk, and Tan Zhongyi—sit atop the standings on 1.5/2 at the Cairns Cup 2024 after Dzagnidze and Harika won their respective games against IM Anna Zatonskih and GM Alexandr...

Jeanne Sinquefield Offers Historic $100,000 Awards To New Female Grandmasters In U.S.

In a groundbreaking initiative to support women's chess, Saint Louis Chess Club has announced $100,000 awards to U.S. female players achieving the grandmaster title by July 4, 2029. Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield, co-founder of the Saint Louis ...

Yakubboev Wins UzChess Cup On Tiebreaks Ahead Of Abdusattorov

Bottom-seed GM Nodirbek Yakubboev edged out top-seed GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov on tiebreaks to claim the $25,000 first prize at the UzChess Cup Masters, part of a bigger chess festival in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The two Uzbek GMs scored 5.5/9, half a...

Wins For Former World Champions Tan, Kosteniuk, Mariya Muzychuk

Former women's world chess champions GMs Tan Zhongyi, Mariya Muzychuk, and Alexandra Kosteniuk opened with victories in the first round of the Cairns Cup 2024 which began at the Saint Louis Chess Club on Thursday. Muzychuk's game featured a twin e...

Nogerbek Becomes World Junior Champion In Close Race, Divya Dominates Girls

20-year-old IM Kazybek Nogerbek was only the ninth seed but edged out 13 grandmasters to win the 2024 FIDE World Junior Chess Championship. The Girl's section was dominated by 18-year-old top-seed IM Divya Deshmukh from India, who won with an unde...

Firouzja Beats Nakamura Twice To Win Bullet Chess Championship

GM Alireza Firouzja has pulled off a stunning triumph to claim his second Bullet Chess Championship after winning four matches on the final day. He won grueling encounters with GMs Sam Sevian and Daniel Naroditsky and was on the verge of pulling o...

Nakamura Storms Into Bullet Chess Grand Final

GM Hikaru Nakamura is through to the Grand Final of the 2024 Bullet Chess Championship after beating GM Daniel Naroditsky 16.5-11.5. Naroditsky still has one life remaining and will play the winner of the match between GMs Alireza Firouzja and&nbs...

Nakamura Posts Big Score After Near Miss

GMs Alexey Sarana and Hikaru Nakamura are your Titled Tuesday victors for June 11, 2024. Sarana won by the thinnest of margins in the early tournament, needing the second tiebreak before his 10 points were finally determined to have earned first p...

See The Future: Watch The ChessKid Youth Championships, Starting June 29

A major new blitz tournament showcasing the record-breaking next generation of young chess talents in two age categories will launch this month. The ChessKid Youth Championship kicks off on June 29 with a $15,000 prize fund and promises to be a ...

Niemann Secures Funds For $1 Million Buy-In Tournament

GM Hans Niemann said on X that he has secured the necessary funds to play in the $1 million buy-in tournament alongside GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Fabiano Caruana, and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Organizer Wadim Rosenstein confirmed to Chess.com that fund...

Nakamura Unstoppable vs. Nihal, Naroditsky Overcomes Sevian's Comeback

GMs Hikaru Nakamuraand Daniel Naroditsky have knocked everyone else out of the Winners Bracket of the Bullet Chess Championship 2024 (BCC). Nakamura led by a vast margin throughout his match vs. GM Nihal Sarin. Naroditsky fought off ...

Chess.com Announcing Chess960 Community Championship With $7,500 In Prizes

Scramble the back rank of your sets because the 2024 Chess.com Community Championships is launching the Chess960 Championships in just a few weeks! The enticing prize fund of $7,500 includes $2,000 for first place, $1,400 for second, $800 for t...

Arjun Erigaisi Needs No Invitation, Rises To World Number-4

"We don't need no... invitation," to loosely borrow the lyrics from Pink Floyd, could be the hook to GM Arjun Erigaisi's theme song in the year 2024. Despite playing in almost no closed super-tournaments, which are invitation-only, he has been dom...

Sevian Stuns Firouzja; Nakamura, Nihal, Naroditsky Advance

GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Sam Sevian, Nihal Sarin, and Daniel Naroditsky advanced to the Winners Semifinals of the Bullet Chess Championship 2024 (BCC) on Monday. In his debut to the BCC, Sevian defeated the 2021 champion, GM Alireza Firouzja, ...

Martinez Beats Kramnik In Clash Of Claims

GM Jose Martinez has won what IM Levy Rozman described as "one of the craziest chess events in history," the Clash of Claims in Madrid. He beat former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik 14.5-11.5, with two games to spare, losing 6.5-7.5 over the boar...

Sport’s Craziest Crossover: Disc Golf Gets On Board For 2024 Bullet Chess Championship

One of the most unlikely and fun crossovers in sport is back: disc golf and chess are getting together to put on another blockbuster event for fans. The 2024 Chess.com Invitational was the Disc Golf Pro Tour’s season-opening event back in ...

7 Things We Learned — Norway Chess 2024

GM Magnus Carlsen briefly stared into the abyss of losing his world number-one spot, but he turned things around to win his sixth Norway Chess title. GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the 2800 club, while Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun cruised to v...

Naroditsky Eclipses Field Featuring Carlsen, Praggnanandhaa, Giri

GM Daniel Naroditsky has added another Bullet Brawl trophy to his ever-growing cabinet after winning his second straight event ahead of GMs Andrew Tang, Oleksandr Bortnyk, and 171 other titled players. Playing 76 games in two hours, Naroditsky acc...

15-Year-Old Chessable Author Huy Wins Vietnam Chess Championship

FM Banh Gia Huy has booked his spot at the 2024 FIDE Chess Olympiad for team Vietnam after winning the country's national championship in March. Huy has since crossed the 2400 FIDE rating threshold, leaving him one norm shy of the coveted IM title...