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.
World Champion Ding Liren will play his first classical game against former champion Magnus Carlsen as the new-look 2024 Norway Chess starts on Monday in Stavanger. Defending champion GM Hikaru Nakamura and 2023 runner-up GM Fabiano Caruana also c...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen posted an incredible 10-game winning streak to overhaul GM Wei Yi and win the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland despite starting the day 2.5 points behind. Carlsen caught Wei by beating him in the fourth round ...
"I just sucked, honestly" said GM Magnus Carlsen about his play after losing his first game in the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, to GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. He blundered a queen and lost the next game as well, but his 6/9 blitz scor...
GM Wei Yi posted a five-game winning streak as he scored 13 of a possible 18 points to top the table after the rapid section of the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland. World number-one Magnus Carlsen is just a point behind before the weekend's...
GM Magnus Carlsen came within a whisker of beating GM Gukesh Dommaraju and taking the sole lead in the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, but in the end, he had to settle for joint first place with GM Wei Yi, who won all three games on day tw...
GM Kirill Shevchenko is the absolute underdog in the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, but he scored a perfect 6/6 on day one of the 2024 Grand Chess Tour after pouncing on blunders by GMs Gukesh Dommaraju, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, and Vin...
GM Levon Aronian recently wrote, “the FIDE Circuit is kind of a joke,” with GM Anish Giri replying to describe it as “completely broken.” 2023 FIDE Circuit Winner GM Fabiano Caruana, described the system, which will determi...
GM Arjun Erigaisi beat GM Marc'Andria Maurizzi in round three of the 2024 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament to join the leaders after GM Anton Korobov was unable to grind down co-leader GM Vincent Keymer. Top seed GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov once again f...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju arrived back in Chennai at 3 a.m. on Thursday morning and was instantly mobbed by camera crews, well-wishers, and 80 schoolchildren who had turned up to welcome back one of their own. The winner of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tour...
Seventeen-year-old GM Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest-ever world chess championship challenger after finishing half a point ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Fabiano Caruana. He’ll now play GM Ding Liren for the ...
GM Fabiano Caruana trails leader GM Ian Nepomniachtchi by half a point at the midway stage of the 2024 Candidates Tournament, just as he did in 2022. Back then he crashed and burned as he fought for first place, only for it turn out that second pl...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored a brilliant win, then pulled off a great escape, to beat GM Richard Rapport 1.5-0.5 and win the GRENKE Chess Classic for a third time. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat GM Vincent Keymer in blitz tiebreaks to take third place...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen beat GM Vincent Keymer to wrap up victory in the 2024 GRENKE Chess Classic round-robin. He now faces GM Richard Rapport in Monday's title match, while GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave takes on Keymer for third place. ...
GM Richard Rapport bounced back from 0/2 on Friday to beat World Champion Ding Liren and GM Vincent Keymer, closing the gap at the top to half a point. GM Magnus Carlsen remains the sole leader after defeating GM Daniel Fridman, with Rapport and C...
World number one Magnus Carlsen called it "kind of insane to get two Benoni games in one day" as he defeated GM Vincent Keymer with the black pieces and then GM Richard Rapport with White to upend the standings and take a one-point lead. Rapport, ...
GM Richard Rapport leads the 2024 GRENKE Chess Classic by a full point after beating GM Daniel Fridman to score 1.5/2 for the second day in a row. Elsewhere time pressure saw wins evaporate for world number-one Magnus Carlsen (against GM Maxi...
GM Richard Rapport pounced on a blunder by world number-one Magnus Carlsen, then made a draw against World Champion Ding Liren, to end day one of the 2024 GRENKE Chess Classic in the sole lead on 1.5/2. Carlsen hit back to beat GM Daniel Fridman w...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju dug deep to rescue a 91-move draw against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu in round seven of the Prague Masters. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov shrugged off defeat from the day before to beat GM Vincent Keymer and retain the sole lead, t...
Nineteen-year-old GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov overtook GMs Alireza Firouzja and Ian Nepomniachtchi to enter the world top-five after a smooth win over GM Mateusz Bartel in round five of the Prague Masters. There were huge turnarounds elsewhere, with ...
The line-up for the 2024 Grand Chess Tour has been announced, with teenage GMs Gukesh Dommaraju (17), Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu (18), and Nodirbek Abdusattorov (19) the three newcomers, replacing GMs Richard Rapport, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and World ...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen enhanced his claim to be the greatest of all time Friday as he won the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge by defeating world number-two Fabiano Caruana in the final match. We take a look at what else we learned...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Fabiano Caruana in the final classical game to win the inaugural 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge and the $60,000 top prize. GM Levon Aronian took third place with a powerful win over GM Nodirbek ...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen missed a chance for more as he made a draw with Black against GM Fabiano Caruana in game one of the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge Final. GM Levon Aronian found a miracle escape against GM Nodirbek Abd...
They may be playing Chess960 instead of regular chess, but it's world number-one Magnus Carlsen and number-two Fabiano Caruana who will contest the Final of the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge after Carlsen eased past GM Nodirbek Abdusatto...
