Champions Showdown

Tuesdays at 18:00 CEST (5 pm UK time, Noon EDT) Lawrence Trent goes on air on Playchess.com. In his show, Lawrence will be dealing with the latest trends, ...

Women's no. 2 Ju Wenjun now leads 2.5:0.5 in the Women's World Championship match in Shanghai after winning Games 2 and 3. In the second game Tan Z...

Tan Zhongyi sprung the first surprise of the Women's World Championship match in Shanghai by playing the Queen's Gambit Accepted on move 2 for th...

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Top class U.S. Championship chess returned to Saint Louis Chess & Scholastic Center for the tenth time from April 18th to 30th. Sam Shankland won the Open ...

Sam Shankland is the shock 2018 US Champion after winning his final three games to complete a stunning +6 performance that saw him gain 30 rating...

Both Sam Shankland and Fabiano Caruana won crucial tenth round games. Caruana came out swinging with the black pieces, going for a Sicilian, while ...

On the surface, the round was a quiet one, with eleven draws out of the twelve games in both events, but things were not so simple. More than a few games ...

It wasn't the stuff of legend, but a 20-minute draw against Ding Liren was all Magnus Carlsen needed to wrap up his third Shamkir Chess title on ...

Sam Shankland and Fabiano Caruana both drew and remain tied after a tumultuous round in St. Louis. Ray Robson and Alex Lenderman scored full points with ...

On the surface, the round was a quiet one, with eleven draws out of the twelve games in both events, but things were not so simple. More than a few games ...

It was a rather astonishing day, with the headline involving Fabiano Caruana once more. This time it was because he ended up losing to the caboose of the ...

Round three of the US Championship saw the leaderboards begin to take shape, with a hint of what is to come. Wesley So had a scare as he escaped a ...

We should build on the CWG results through media outreach, maybe a domestic league, and by warding off the challenge from esports.

We should build on the CWG results through media outreach, maybe a domestic league, and by warding off the challenge from esports.

Wesley So and Varuzhan Akobian are setting the pace in St. Louis with two more victories in round two of the U.S. Championship. Fabiano Caruana and Ray ...

Kicking off the US Championships at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, defending US Champion Wesley So and Varuzhan Akobian started ...