GM Gukesh Dommaraju scored his first victory of the tournament over GM Alexandr Predke to join GM Pentala Harikrishna in the lead with two and a half points from four rounds of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Harikrishna looked to be in a spot of ...
GM Leinier Dominguez has pulled out of the Chessable Sunway Sitges Chess Festival 2023 at the halfway mark, explaining, “I’ve come to a point where I’m simply risking too much if I continue.” The U.S. star travelled to Spai...
The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has approved a controversial motion to scrap presidential term limits leaving Arkady Dvorkovich, a former deputy prime minister of Russia, free to run for a third term in 2026. Delegates from 108 national federa...
British chess prodigy WCM Bodhana Sivanandan continues her remarkable chess journey with a sensational result in the European Blitz Championship where she won the prize for the best woman player. In late October, the eight-year-old prodigy made ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi showed his defensive skills in a slightly difficult middlegame position to outwit GM Alexandr Predke later in a long endgame, scoring his maiden win of the event in the third round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Erstwhile joi...
FIDE could be on the verge of scrapping its presidential term limit and allowing Russian incumbent Arkady Dvorkovich to run for four more years in office. The world chess federation's current rules—brought in as an election promise by Dvor...
Bullet Brawl's undisputed king, GM Hikaru Nakamura, secured his 15th title and $1,000 in the latest edition of the tournament, finishing on 260 points with 71 wins, two draws, and eight losses. A 27-game streak, which included wins over chess pers...
Legendary fighting game champion SonicFox is best known for delivering brutal beatdowns in Mortal Kombat, but they're also a force to be reckoned with over the chess board—and now they've got an official Chess.com bot to prove it! This for...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his third title at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals on Saturday. He defeated GM Wesley So 2.5-1.5 and shared that the tour "came full circle" in the final game where he cracked So's super-solid opening line. Carlsen won...
GM Sanan Sjugirov defended against ambitious play by GM Pavel Eljanov in the middlegame to score a patient victory and jumped into a joint lead with one and a half points after the second round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. He has joined GM P...
GM Magnus Carlsen is one set away from winning his third title and $200,000 at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. On day one of the Title Match, he defeated GM Wesley So with the black pieces in game three, squeezing water from stone in the roo...
GMs Pentala Harikrishna and Pavel Eljanov started with wins over GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Parham Maghsoodloo respectively in two high-pressure, error-prone games to share the lead with a point apiece after the first round of the Chennai Grand Master...
It’s the one-on-one showdown between “the internet’s chess teacher” and one of the rising stars of the game known in his homeland as the “Lionel Messi of chess”. Can Brooklyn-born IM Levy Rozman, aka GothamChe...
With the holiday season nearly upon us, this year, Chess.com is calling on all chess fans to be part of a very special campaign that will help bring education and the joy of chess to up to 5,000 children. Chess For A Cause is Chess.com's new ini...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So are the last players standing at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. They will meet for the Title Match to battle for the $200,000 first prize. Carlsen knocked out his 2018 world championship nemesis GM Fa...
GM Jose Martinez has shown he can do it all by successfully defending his title in the second Variants Community Series (VCS) final. This time showing his prowess at 3 Check Chess, Martinez overcame FM Vasilios Kasioumis by a margin of 3-1 to...
Chess.com, the world’s largest online platform for chess, today announced it has signed with leading entertainment agency WME. A subsidiary of global sports and entertainment company Endeavor, WME will work with Chess.com to build on the g...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Nodirbek Abdusattorov took the lead on Wednesday in the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. Against GM Fabiano Caruana, Carlsen won game one from a lost position—after losing his queen. And after losing the next ...
The Titled Tuesday of December 12 was somewhat overshadowed by the Champions Chess Tour (CCT) Finals, but GM Denis Lazavik brought the two events together by winning the late Titled Tuesday following his elimination from the CCT. The earlier Title...
GM Magnus Carlsen has been declared not guilty of three charges brought against him by FIDE's Ethics & Disciplinary Commission following the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, but he was fined for "withdrawing without a valid reason". The long-awaited ve...
Half the field of eight players was eliminated on day four of the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. GMs Alireza Firouzja and Denis Lazavik exited in the round-robin, while GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Hikaru Nakamura bid goodbye in the Survival ...
Wise men speak because they have something to say, the philosopher Plato famously said, and when it comes to chess, few are wiser than GM Viswanathan Anand. The Indian legend reminded the world of that yet again on Monday, his 54th birthday, whe...
The race to the Candidates intensifies as India's chess capital will host Chennai Grand Masters from December 15 to 21, marking the strongest classical tournament in the nation's history. For three of the players it will be all about making it to ...
One is the greatest chess player of his generation, perhaps of all time, and the other is the greatest football strategist of his generation—perhaps also of all time. This was the moment Norway's chess superstar GM Magnus Carlsen met face-...
