The Chess Federation of Russia (CFR) has been suspended from the International Chess Federation (FIDE) after failing to comply with a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling that required the CFR to cease organizing chess activities in Russian…
GMs Pranesh M and Yu Yangyi qualified for the 2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs through Play-In 2 on Wednesday. Pranesh advanced directly by having better tiebreaks than GM Wesley So, the only other player to finish on 7.5/9. Yu, who finished the …
The $10,000 weekly prize fund isn’t quite here yet in Titled Tuesday, but participation was up significantly on May 12, to 436 players after last week’s 343 participants. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won a dramatic tournament on tiebreaks ahead of GM Jef…
El vencedor del Torneo de Candidatos, uzbeko de 20 années, confía en su intuición y en las computadoras, y no ha estudiado a los grandes campeones de la historia …