There was no need for tiebreaks in any of the three 3 0 Thursday tournaments on July 2 as the three champions, GMs Denis Lazavik, Volodar Murzin, and IM Yoseph Taher, won outright. In the curtain-raiser, Lazavik beat GMs Magnus Carlsen and Jan-Kr…
Round eight of Norway Chess 2026 will go down as one of the most shocking, with two decisive classical games. GM Wesley So leads after making the only draw against GM Vincent Keymer and then winning in armageddon, but we saw world number-one GM&nb…
GM Denis Lazavik, who won Titled Tuesday this week with a dominant 10/11 スコア, repeated the performance in the first 3 0 Thursday tournament on June 4, scoring another 10 points to take clear first place. The second and third tournaments of the d…
Chess.com returned to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston last weekend, hosting a packed program that explored chess, AI, and the intersection of mental and physical performance. The annual gathering of leading sports executives,…