In round five of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals GM Magnus Carlsen recovered from yesterday's loss and remains the sole leader, while GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, and Teimour Radjabov keep chasing him. Today was very entertaini...
GM Vladislav Artemiev defeated GM Magnus Carlsen convincingly in round four of the Champions Chess Tour. The world champion still leads, thanks to the bonus points he earned earlier in the tour. GM Wesley So is four points behind with five ro...
Welcome to the third round of the Champions Chess Tour Finals, a 10-player super grandmaster tournament that took place on September 27. As those of you who have been following the previous rounds know, so far only GMs Magnus Carlsen and M...
A critical blunder that ended a game in one move, a symmetrical fianchetto Grunfeld played twice in one match, and two players repeating their same moves from a previous game were some of the highlights in the second round of the Meltwater Champio...
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals began on Saturday. The format is a round-robin event with 10 super-GM participants, namely Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Teimour Radjabov, Vladislav Artemiev, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxim...
Friday, September 24, turned out to be one of the most anticipated and thrilling days of the year for chess fans—and the 2021 PRO Chess League Arena Royale finals did not disappoint! As those who were following the previous days of the eve...
Thursday, the 23rd of September, treated chess fans all around the world to the 2021 Pro Chess League's Arena Royale's semifinals. Many of you have been following previous stages of the event, but it wouldn't hurt to remind you that the four teams...
On Tuesday, chess fans around the world followed the quarterfinals of the Pro Chess League's Arena Royale. Before we take a look at how the event unfolded, you need to be aware of a change: as you might have read, there were supposed to be three...
Saturday, September 18, brought to chess fans all around the world the next leg of one of the most anticipated online tournaments of the year: the Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. This event consists of four tournaments that take place betwe...
Wednesday, September 15, has been circled on the calendars of many chess fans around the world, as it is the 2021 FIDE Online Olympiad's final. Some have been hoping their favorite team would make it all the way to the last stage of the tournament...
By Tuesday, September 14 we only had the four strongest teams left in the 2021 FIDE Online Olympiad: China, Russia, India, and the USA. It was a truly exciting semifinal to expect, and what happened didn't let spectators down in terms of excitemen...
Monday, September 13 saw some exciting quarterfinals action in the 2021 FIDE Online Olympiad. As a reminder, last week we had the top division's matches, from which eight teams qualified. We are now down to the final four teams. The format of...
On Friday, the final three rounds of the top division's tournament have been played, and next week we are moving on to playoffs. The results of this part of the Olympiad were both expected and somewhat surprising: on one hand, the rating favorites...
Today, the FIDE Online Olympiad players have crossed division one's equator. Let's see what happened during the second day of the top division's matches in each of the pools. It was even more eventful than the first one as leaders of many groups...
We all love olympiads. There's the Olympics, and, of course, the Chess Olympiad. In this one, the time has come for competition between the strongest teams out there, as the top division started playing today. The format of the tournament is thr...
