Super Grandmaster Chess

Postponed since March 2020, the event that determines the next challenger to World Champion Magnus Carlsen will resume Monday in Yekaterinburg,… Read More »
Hans
GM Hans Niemann won a Super Grandmaster Match, with a prize fund of $50,000, against GM Vidit Gujrathi on June 22, 2024. The Universal Chess Tour (… Read More »
Carlsen
We often are told of ways the chess of today's great players differs from their predecessors. With superior defensive technique, opening knowledge,… Read More »
Gukesh
For the better part of Sunday's last-round games in Toronto, at least one of the 2024 FIDE Candidates events appeared headed to a playoff match.… Read More »
Gukesh, Round 13, 2024 Candidates
The penultimate round of the 2024 FIDE Candidates’ Tournament and Women’s Candidate Tournament took two divergent paths on Saturday in Toronto.… Read More »
Salimova Tan
“Only” half of the eight games played during Thursday’s 12th round of the 2024 FIDE Candidates and Women’s Candidates tournaments ended in decisive… Read More »
Naka
OPEN It was a great day for American chess fans as both GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Fabiano Caruana won their games.  Nakamura obtained a… Read More »
mad firou
Today we saw only two decisive games total, with one in each section. Still, the results we got still impacted the leaderboards substantially! Round… Read More »
Naka
OPEN The second half of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament started with a bang! In the American derby, GM Hikaru Nakamura won an… Read More »
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