IM Roman Shogdzhiev has become the youngest player in chess history to score a grandmaster norm, breaking a record that had stood since 2008. The 11-year-old Russian remained undefeated against the six grandmasters he faced and scored an impressi…
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 …
GM Nihal Sarin won the Menorca Open Masters, scoring two wins against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju along the way. Nihal’s 6/10 score was enough for clear first place, half a point ahead of GMs Ruslan Ponomariov and Richard Rapport. Gukesh had t…
Con la meta de ubicarse entre los mejores del continente, una delegación de 21 ajedrecistas panameños participa en el XV Campeonato Panamericano de Ajedrez U7 a U17, torneo que se disputa hasta el 18 …