Just as collegiate basketball players compete in March Madness, college chess players are about to begin their own playoff bracket in the Collegiate Chess League (CCL). The eight Division One teams have just completed the seven-week round-robin se…
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2026 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament after grinding out a trademark classical win over GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus and then beating GM Arjun Erigaisi 2-1 in blitz tiebreaks. Arjun began the day as sole leader but needed luck…
GM Jorden van Foreest is the first player to beat GM Magnus Carlsen in classical chess since GM Gukesh Dommaraju’s famous win in Norway Chess 2025. Carlsen looked set to escape a tough game intact but finally fell in a nail-biting endgame, while G…
Since GM Jose Martinez won the inaugural 3 0 Thursday tournament in November, GM Fabiano Caruana has been the only player to win more than one of the three weekly events on the same day. Martinez joined him in impressive fashion on Thursday, March…