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 Gukesh Dommaraju will play his first official game as world champion against GM Anish Giri on Saturday as the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters begins. Half of the top-10 are in action, with Gukesh joined by GMs Fabiano Caruana, Arjun Erigaisi, Nod...
"It's of course very, very nice to start off married life as a chess player with a win!” said GM Magnus Carlsen after beating GM Max Warmerdam in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday. His first classical game in almost four months helped St. Pauli ...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev beat GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the Semifinals and then GM Javokhir Sindarov in a thrilling Final to clinch the last spot in next month's $750,000 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam. 19-year-old Sindarov inflicted the o...
GM Hans Niemann knocked out GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and won the first game against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, but he's out of the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Play-In after blundering mate-in-one at the end of a thrilling blitz playof...
GMs Vladimir Fedoseev, Denis Lazavik, Javokhir Sindarov, and Oleksandr Bortnyk will join the likes of GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Wesley So in a 16-player Knockout on Chess.com to decide the final spot in the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand ...
Before leaving Singapore, new World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju fulfilled his promise to bungee jump, but in terms of danger it seemed like nothing compared to the crush that greeted him in the airport when he arrived home a hero in Chennai, India. ...
The era of India's GM Gukesh Dommaraju as chess world champion has begun, after an incredibly hard-fought 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore suddenly ended when the Chinese reigning champion GM Ding Liren blundered in the final classical ga...
18-year-old Indian GM Gukesh Dommaraju is the world champion after the defending title holder GM Ding Liren (32) from China collapsed in game 14 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship. Gukesh won 7.5-6.5, taking $1.35 million, after a game where Ding...
World Champion Ding Liren was on the ropes in game 13, but down to four minutes for 10 moves he spotted the only defense to thwart GM Gukesh Dommaraju and now goes into the final game of the 2024 FIDE World Championship level at 6.5-6.5. Guke...
World Champion Ding Liren played a flawless game from start to finish to beat GM Gukesh Dommaraju and level the scores in the 2024 FIDE World Championship at 6-6 with just two games to go. When Gukesh played fast in a seemingly quiet opening, ever...
Indian 18-year-old GM Gukesh Dommaraju has taken a 6-5 lead with just three games to go after a blunder by Chinese World Champion Ding Liren (32) suddenly ended the thrilling game 11 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship. Gukesh's hyperaggressive op...
World Champion Ding Liren hesitated on move one against GM Gukesh Dommaraju in game 10 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, but then he repeated 1.d4 and the London System and got a risk-free position with a small edge. He failed to apply any pres...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju slipped in a promising position in game nine to allow World Champion Ding Liren to liquidate to a draw and leave the 2024 FIDE World Championship tied at 4.5-4.5 with just five games to go. The players now have a rest day on Fr...
Both GM Gukesh Dommaraju and World Champion Ding Liren missed wins as game eight of the 2024 FIDE World Championship ended in a 51-move draw. Ding switched to 1.c4, was again surprised in the opening, but had stabilized just when he blundered into...
India's GM Gukesh Dommaraju had Chinese World Champion Ding Liren on the ropes in game seven of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, with a heartbreaking move-40 blunder looking likely to cost Ding the game even after he'd found a way to survive. He ...
"I just like playing chess!" said Indian GM Gukesh Dommaraju after rejecting a draw by repetition in game six of the 2024 FIDE World Championship. It was a decision that could have backfired, as World Champion Ding Liren had chances to push for a ...
World Champion Ding Liren was unable to punish GM Gukesh Dommaraju after the Indian star blundered in game five of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, leaving the scores tied at 2.5-2.5 with nine games to go. Gukesh surprised observers by picking th...
World Champion Ding Liren was joined by GM Richard Rapport on the way to game four of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, and 1.Nf3 and the offbeat opening that followed felt right out of the Rapport playbook. GM Gukesh Dommaraju reacted quickly and...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju has scored his first classical win over World Champion Ding Liren to level the scores at 1.5-1.5 going into the first rest day of the 2024 FIDE World Championship. Gukesh posed tough problems in the opening of game three, but j...
World Champion Ding Liren played the first new move in the opening of game two of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, but GM Gukesh Dommaraju defended carefully and ultimately made a 23-move, three-hour draw by repetition to claim his first half-poi...
World Champion Ding Liren's first classical win in 304 days has given him the early lead in the 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore. Pre-event favorite GM Gukesh Dommaraju looked in command as Ding played the French Defense and burned up 27 ...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju goes into the 2024 FIDE World Championship against GM Ding Liren never having beaten the world champion in classical chess, but in an exclusive interview with FM Mike Klein he talks about following in the footsteps of 11th Worl...
GM Ding Liren said at the 2024 FIDE World Championship opening press conference he'd been preparing for just three weeks. A slip of the tongue? No! In an exclusive interview with FM Mike Klein the reigning world champion confirmed he meant it, tho...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju will have the white pieces against GM Ding Liren for Monday's game one of the 2024 FIDE World Championship after the opening ceremony concluded in the Capitol Theatre in Singapore. At an earlier press conference Ding, who's aga...
"We could see a bloodbath!" said GM Magnus Carlsen on the likelihood of decisive games in the Ding-Gukesh 2024 FIDE World Championship that starts Monday in Singapore, with most grandmasters predicting an early knockout in favor of GM Gukesh Domma...
