No one has ever scored a perfect 11/11 in 3 0 Donnerstag, but GM Jeffery Xiong became the closest player to that elusive mark in the second tournament on August 27. Xiong won his first 10 games and had a forced mate on the board in the 11th, before …
India’s GM Nihal Sarin was the only unbeaten player as he won the final Play-In of the 2026 Chess.com Open and made what he joked was “a very tough choice” to play GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and not GM Magnus Carlsen in the Playoffs. The playe…
GM Awonder Liang beat GM Hikaru Nakamura 6-4 in the Hikaru vs. Awonder Candidates Training Match held in the Saint Louis Chess Club on March 13-15, 2026. The players made two draws in classical chess, then Liang won 3-1 in rapid, before the final …