GM Pentala Harikrishna was the highest-rated player to leave the FIDE World Cup on Friday after failing to level the score vs. GM Amin Tabatabaei. GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek played another tense draw and will go to tiebreaks .

The Stockfish team has filed a lawsuit against Chessbase, claiming that the German chess software company is selling their software without having the license to do so. The lawsuit, filed in a German court, was announced last Tuesday in a blog on ..

The top seed of the Women's FIDE World Cup GM Aleksandra Goryachkina is in a must-win situation vs. GM Antoaneta Stefanova after blundering in the first game of round four. GM Nana Dzadnidze also started with a loss against IM Polina Shuvalov.