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The ninth and final round of the Superbet Chess Classic delivered the results that allowed the viewers a spectacle of a three-way playoff. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat GM Alireza Firouzja to catch up to the American duo of GMs Levon Aronian and Wesley So, both of whom drew their games. The resulting...

The eighth round of the Superbet Chess Classic, which was played on the notorious Friday the 13th, delivered just as much blood as the history annals would have us believe that was spilled on the days with that date. At the end of it there was only one winner when GM Leinier Dominguez benefitted from...

GMs Alireza Firouzja and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov both won their first games in round seven of the 2022 Superbet Chess Classic Romania. The third winner was GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who was gifted a full point as his opponent blundered. In a round where both leaders had to accept bloodless draws, the...

After lots of tension and complicated battles, just one game ended decisively when GM Ian Nepomniachtchi beat GM Alireza Firouzja. That the remaining games would all end in draws was far from obvious during the round. Round three will begin on Saturday, May 7, at 5 a.m. PT / 14:00 Central Europe. How...

An action packed day saw five matches decided in the playoffs and one match (Caruana-Xiong) made it all the way to Armageddon, finishing in a dramatic time scramble. After all was said and done, Aronian, Dominguez, Sevian, and Caruana from the Open Field along with Krush, Tokhirjonova, Lee, and Abrahamyan from the Women’s Field advanced to the next stage of the Champions Bracket. | Photos: Austin and Crystal Fuller, Saint Louis Chess Club, Lennart Ootes

In the one game that had a decisive result in round 3 of the Berlin Grand Prix, 17-year-old Vincent Keymer defeated Daniil Dubov to catch Leinier Dominguez in the lead of pool B. In pool A, Grigoriy Oparin managed to get a clearly superior position against Hikaru Nakamura, but failed to finish the US grandmaster off in a tactical middlegame. | Photos: World Chess

In an exciting first round, the third leg of the Grand Prix series saw four players getting off to winning starts at Berlin’s Unter den Linden. Levon Aronian and Leinier Dominguez got crucial wins against direct contenders Hikaru Nakamura and Daniil Dubov, while Nikita Vitiugov got the better of Amin Tabatabaei, the lowest-rated player in pool D. The most surprising result of the day was Alexandr Predke’s win over Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. | Photos: World Chess

GM Levon Aronian and GM Hikaru Nakamura outplayed GM Leinier Dominguez and GM Richard Rapport respectively in the first game of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first leg semifinals in Berlin, both achieved with the white pieces in contrasting styles. They thus take the crucial lead in the two-game semifinal...

After two tough rounds in which they were heavily defeated, the men’s team fought back with a vengeance in round three of the #GibChess Battle of the Sexes Tournament and won by the impressive margin of 7-3 in this men versus women classical chess event, played at Gibraltar’s Garrison Library on Wednesday 26 January. The match score is thus now 16-14 in favour of the women but with the men close behind with a long way to go. | Report and photos by John Saunders

Round one of the #GibChess Battle of the Sexes Tournament, held at the Gibraltar Garrison Library on Monday 24 January, got off to a pulsating start as the team of women’s players, dubbed "Team Pia" after their captain, GM Pia Cramling, scored a big win over "Team Sabino", as the men’s team is now known, with four of the ten women’s players scoring wins against their male adversaries, with only one male player able to win in reply. The first player to win a game was Olg...