Colin McGourty led news at Chess24 from its launch until it merged with Chess.com a decade later. An amateur player, he got into chess writing when he set up the website Chess in Translation after previously studying Slavic languages and literature in St. Andrews, Odesa, Oxford, and Krakow.
GM Magnus Carlsen's first visit to the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad won't be forgotten in a hurry after he turned up late, on a bike, thinking he'd lost by default, but was smuggled in just in time to go on to win by checkmate. GM Fabiano Caruana move...
GM Fabiano Caruana is back above 2800 after beginning the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad with a sparkling win over Singaporean GM Jingyao Tin. There were also winning debuts for GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Richard Rapport, while World Champion Ding Liren w...
GM Levon Aronian blundered a piece against 607-point-lower-rated FM Andre Mendez, but still went on to win as top-seed United States claimed a 3.5-0.5 victory over Panama—GM Wesley So's solid draw cost him a place in the top 10. None of the ...
The 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad has been opened in Budapest, with the games starting Wednesday. As almost 2,000 chess players, from world number-one Magnus Carlsen to over 200 unrated participants, converge on the Hungarian capital, can India, top se...
IM Mai Narva almost pulled off the sensation of knocking GM Alexandra Kosteniuk out of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship, but there was heartbreak as she blundered a piece just as she was about to clinch victory in the armagedd...
GM Vaishali Rameshbabu beat IM Eline Roebers 7.5-6.5 in a 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship Round-of-16 match that went right down to the wire, but that turned out to be nothing compared to the day's late action. 14-year-old IM Ali...
Women's world number one Hou Yifan is through to the Quarterfinals of the 2024 Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship after defeating qualifier IM Anastasia Bodnaruk 7.5-5.5. The final scoreline looks close after Bodnaruk won the last four g...
IM Alina Kashlinskaya beat GM Mariya Muzychuk in the final round to clinch sole first place in the 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix. Her win earned her €18,000 (~$20,000), 130 Grand Prix points, and a second GM norm. IM Bibisara Assaubaye...
IM Alina Kashlinskaya goes into the final round of the 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix level with IM Bibisara Assaubayeva in the lead after a long but convincing win over IM Lela Javakhishvili. Three players are just half a point behind after...
20-year-old IM Bibisara Assaubayeva found a brilliant endgame sequence to defeat GM Alexandra Kosteniuk and take the sole lead with just two rounds of the 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix to go. The remaining four games were drawn, though GM M...
GMs Nana Dzagnidze and Mariya Muzychuk have joined the leaders of the 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix after scoring dramatic first wins to beat GMs Alexandra Kosteniuk and Vaishali Rameshbabu in round five. There was also a first win for IM S...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk has joined IMs Bibisara Assaubayeva and Stavroula Tsolakidou in the lead of the 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix after pouncing on a mistake by the luckless IM Sara Khadem in round four. GM Anna Muzychuk could have joine...
GM Vaishali Rameshbabu smoothly outplayed IM Sara Khadem in round three of the 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix to recover from a tough start and move up into the seven-player pack on 50 percent. All the other games were drawn, so that IMs Bib...
GMs Vaishali Rameshbabu and Nana Dzagnidze both played the same line of the French Defense, and though their games diverged on move seven they both missed huge winning chances in round two of the 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix. All five game...
A one-move blunder cost Indian GM Vaishali Rameshbabu a loss against Greek IM Stavroula Tsolakidou as the 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix got underway. The day's other winner was Kazakh IM Bibisara Assaubayeva who sprang a surprise on move on...
The 2024 FIDE World Championship between Chinese defending champion GM Ding Liren and his Indian challenger GM Gukesh Dommaraju will take place in Resorts World Sentosa, a resort complex that includes Universal Studios Singapore, on an island off ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura will lead the new American Gambits team when the Global Chess League returns for a second season, to be held this October in London. The other Icon players leading their teams are GMs Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Ian Nepom...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju was gifted a car on Saturday at a spectacular celebration held by his school, Velammal Vidyalaya, on their Mel Ayanambakkam campus in Chennai. The world championship challenger turned 18 this year, which means he'll be able to ...
GM Magnus Carlsen-led WR Chess Team beat GM Arjun Erigaisi's Team MGD1 in the Final to win the 2024 World Blitz Team Championship. WR Chess won all seven matches in the group stages and cruised into the Quarterfinals. There they defeated GMHans.co...
GM Daniil Dubov's only win of the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships saw his team Al-Ain ACMG UAE take gold in a nail-biting finish. World Champion Ding Liren's Decade China Team took silver, with Pang Bo scoring 11/11 on board six, w...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen bounced back to beat GMs Daniil Dubov and Ding Liren on day two of the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships, but his team WR Chess trails Al-Ain ACMG UAE by three points. GM Parham Maghsoodloo was the sta...
GM Richard Rapport scored a stunning victory over World Rapid Champion Magnus Carlsen as WR Chess, the defending champions and heavy favorites to win the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships, sank to a 5-1 loss to third-seeded Chessy. C...
Two-time U.S. Women's Champion WGM Jennifer Yu narrowly avoided a last-round disaster against Julia Schulman to win the 2024 Botez Chess Camp with a dominant 6/7, half a point ahead of WFM Alexandra Botez. Co-organizer Alexandra won her last four ...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu bounced back from his loss the day before to score a convincing win over GM Abhimanyu Mishra and end the 2024 Biel Chess Festival in third place. GM Liem Le had wrapped up victory a day earlier, while Haik Martirosyan ...
