Magnus Carlsen beats Alireza Firouzja to win fifth Speed Chess Championship

The world’s number one chess player, Magnus Carlsen, won his fifth Speed Chess Championship (SCC) Finals. Carlsen, 35, banked $25,000 plus an additional split based on winning percentage by beating ...

Inside the mind of Hikaru Nakamura, the chess world No 2 whose streaming career comes first

The top U.S. chess player discusses his YouTube channel, how he would change the game and why he doesn't want his son to ...

Chess: Magnus Carlsen triumphs in London speed event but Nakamura fails

The Norwegian, 35, showcased his skills in the chess.com speed championship, but the US star and streamer was twice beaten ...
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Chess.com ramps up security to prevent cheating accusations as Carlsen and Niemann face off

Chess victor Magnus Carlsen, ranked the world’s best player, competes against rival Hans Niemann at the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship semi-finals in Paris that begin on Friday. It is their first ...
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Streamer GothamChess finds his own book banned from the Speed Chess Championship

A strange rule ahead of the Speed Chess Championship Finals has put GothamChess (Levy Rozman) in the spotlight. The popular chess streamers' book, How to Win at Chess, is not allowed inside the event ...

Look to chess rankings to see how geopolitical power is shifting

A couple of years ago, a kind man taught me to play chess, a redo of the very early attempt by my father to teach me when I ...
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Chess world mourns grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, dead at 29

In Daniel Naroditsky, the game has lost one of its most enthusiastic and erudite commentators and analysts, one of the world's premier speed chess players, and possibly its most amusing young ...