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 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 ...
GM Liem Le has won the 2024 Biel Chess Festival with a round to spare after defeating GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu with the black pieces. The U.S.-based Vietnamese number-one has now won the title for three consecutive years. It was a bad day fo...
GM Saleh Salem has won the Challengers Triathlon of the 2024 Biel Chess Festival with two days to spare after surviving a sacrificial attack to beat GM Vaishali Rameshbabu and take an unassailable lead. In the Masters, GM Liem Le was on the ropes ...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu started the Masters Blitz at the 2024 Biel Chess Festival in an elimination spot, but he went on to win the tournament and climb to third place in the overall standings. Instead, it's GM Vincent Keymer who joins GM Sam...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu finally won a classical game at the 2024 Biel Chess Festival as he defeated GM Sam Shankland to reenter the world top-10. It was almost a perfect day for the family as Vaishali Rameshbabu was on the brink of beating GM...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is out of the world top-10 after losing to GM Vincent Keymer, who said he'd played 1.e4 for the first time "in like nine years" in round four of the 2024 Biel Chess Festival Masters classical section. GM Liem Le took o...
GM Hikaru Nakamura skips the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad that will take place in the Hungarian capital Budapest on September 11-22, but the U.S. team of GMs Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Leinier Dominguez, Levon Aronian, and Ray Robson is still the top...
GM Vaishali Rameshbabu just can't stop winning! The Indian star took the lead in the 2024 Biel Chess Festival Challengers and has entered the Women's Top-10 after defeating GM Ihor Samunenkov with a brilliant, if flawed, attack. GM Jonas Bjerre gr...
GMs Vaishali Rameshbabu and Abhimanyu Mishra both won again in round two of the 2024 Biel Chess Festival despite being the lowest-rated players in their groups. Mishra leads the Masters after a long, grinding win against GM Sam Shankland, while Va...
Lowest-seed GM Vaishali Rameshbabu stunned top-seed GM Jonas Bjerre to win with Black in the first round of classical games in the 2024 Biel Chess Festival Challengers, but her brother GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu suffered the opposite fate. The t...
Top-seed GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu got off to a winning start on his debut in the 2024 Biel Chess Festival as he won the opening Masters Chess960, edging out GM Haik Martirosyan, whom he beat in their head-to-head clash. Martirosyan then went o...
GM Fabiano Caruana has climbed to world number-two on the rapid live rating list after beating GMs Gukesh Dommaraju, Anish Giri, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to end the rapid section of the 2024 SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia on a towering 15...
