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 Magnus Carlsen’s seventh Norway Chess win was one of his most memorable yet, partly for the dramatic finale but mainly for the rivalry with World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. Carlsen won their round-one clash, but in round six Gukesh beat h...
GM Magnus Carlsen has won his seventh Norway Chess title after escaping and then almost winning a lost position against GM Arjun Erigaisi. With seconds to spare, he took a draw, which seemed to guarantee the title as GM Fabiano Caruana was beating...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen leads World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju by half a point going into the final round of Norway Chess 2025 after both stars won their classical games in round nine. Carlsen sacrificed a pawn against GM Fabiano Caruana bu...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored a smooth win over GM Arjun Erigaisi in round four of Norway Chess 2025 to take the sole lead after GM Fabiano Caruana missed a classical win over GM Gukesh Dommaraju. The relieved world champion stormed to an armageddon wi...
GM Fabiano Caruana beat GM Arjun Erigaisi in round three of Norway Chess 2025 to take the sole lead, while World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju, on his 19th birthday, hit back after two losses to defeat GM Hikaru Nakamura. GM Magnus Carlsen had another...
GM Arjun Erigaisi has joined GM Hikaru Nakamura in the Norway Chess 2025 lead after handing a second loss in a row to World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. GM Fabiano Caruana bounced back with a fine win over GM Wei Yi, while GM Magnus Carlsen fir...
GM Magnus Carlsen won a spectacular king hunt to beat World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in Norway Chess 2025 in their first classical game since Gukesh won the title. The day's other classical winner was GM Hikaru Nakamura, who ground down GM Fabian...
GM Anish Giri has won the 2025 Sharjah Masters after defeating GM Aditya Mittal in 91 moves in the final round to finish on 7/9. GMs Aleksandar Indjic and Nodirbek Abdusattorov finished half a point behind, while the other big winner of the event ...
GM Anish Giri leads the 2025 Sharjah Masters with four points from five rounds, together with GMs Aleksandar Indjic and Dai Changren. The group just half a point behind includes 2700 stars GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Parham Maghsoodloo, but also...
GM Anna Muzychuk has won the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix on tiebreaks over GM Zhu Jiner, but said afterward, "it has never been so sad to win an event." Anna made a draw against GM Vaishali Rameshbabu which would have given her ...
Draws for the leading trio of GMs Anna Muzychuk, Zhu Jiner, and Tan Zhongyi in the penultimate round of the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix left the standings unchanged, but mean Zhu has booked a FIDE Candidates spot, while Tan miss...
GM Zhu Jiner's fifth win in a row, this time against GM Nana Dzagnidze, has given her a share of the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix lead and left co-leader GM Anna Muzychuk missing out on a FIDE Women's Candidates spot to GM Aleksandra ...
GM Anna Muzychuk retains the sole lead in the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix after making the only draw in round six, against GM Nana Dzagnidze, but wins for GM Zhu Jiner (her fourth in a row!) and GM Vaishali Rameshbabu saw them m...
If the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix ended on Saturday, GM Zhu Jiner's joint second place would give her overall victory in the Grand Prix series. In round five she scored a third win in a row, this time over GM Vaishali Rameshbabu, al...
GM Anna Muzychuk's third win in a row has given her the sole lead on 3.5/4 in the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix. She's also on course to win the whole series, but GM Zhu Jiner's second win in a row puts her half a point behind the thir...
GM Anna Muzychuk is on course to qualify for the next Women's Candidates Tournament after winning a second game in a row to join GM Vaishali Rameshbabu in the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix lead on 2.5/3. GM Tan Zhongyi had started the ...
GMs Vaishali Rameshbabu and Tan Zhongyi lead the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix on a perfect 2/2 after beating IMs Lela Javakhishvili and Olga Badelka in round two. The most significant clash of the round, meanwhile, saw GM Anna Muzychu...
GM Tan Zhongyi bounced back from her world championship disappointment to start the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE Women's Grand Prix with a 96-move win that hurt GM Zhu Jiner's chances of winning the series. There were also wins for GM Vaishali Rameshbab...
Canada's youngest ever IM Aaron Mendes has won the 2025 Under 13 ChessKid Youth Championship after defeating FM-elect Megan Paragua 5-3 in the final. Paragua got a late chance to play in the knockout after FM-elect Supratit Banerjee was forced to ...
56-year-old Ukrainian GM Vasyl Ivanchuk played a staggering 27 games in 19 days in April as he picked up 40 rating points to return to the Top 100 on the May 2025 FIDE rating list. GM Wesley So moved up to 11th, while the biggest climber near the ...
GM Alireza Firouzja lost on time just when he seemed to have escaped against GM Aravindh Chithambaram and was set to be the sole leader of the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland going into the 18 rounds of blitz. Instead he was caught by Aravi...
GM Alireza Firouzja pounced on a blunder by GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to win the battle of the players who started day two in second place and catch GM Vladimir Fedoseev in the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland lead. GM Aravindh Chithambar...
Wildcard GM Vladimir Fedoseev is the sole leader of the 2025 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the first event on the 2025 Grand Chess Tour, after scoring 5/6 on day one. It could have been 6/6, but GM Alireza Firouzja escaped in the first r...
Indian GM Humpy Koneru has won the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix after beating IM Nurgyul Salimova in 84 moves in the final round to finish on an unbeaten 7/9. GM Zhu Jiner also won, against IM Polina Shuvalova, but missed out on first place o...
GM Zhu Jiner bounced back right away to outplay IM Divya Deshmukh and regain the lead in the 2025 Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix going into the final round. Zhu would have been the sole leader if IM Alina Kashlinskaya had converted a completely winn...
