GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won October's fourth and final Bullet Brawl after he scored 74 wins, one draw, and four losses on his way to a commanding 283 score. The $400 winner was challenged by GMs David Paravyan and Jose Martinez, who earned $250 and $...
We are three rounds into the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss and nobody's left on a perfect score in the Open. In the Women's, two players won to continue their perfect run. GMs Tan Zhongyi and Anna Muzychuk are the two players left with a perfect score a...
After round two of the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss, seven players are on a perfect score in the Open and five in the Women's. In the Open, top seed GM Fabiano Caruana beat GM Hans Niemann and broke 2800 in the live ratings for the first time sin...
32 players lead the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss and 15 in the 2023 FIDE Women's Grand Swiss after round one. In the Open, top seed GM Fabiano Caruana leads the pack after winning a spectacular game against GM Ivan Saric. Other notable wins (of ma...
The green pawn took over TwitchCon! With the rise of chess on Twitch in the past three years, we’ve seen more and more streamers eager to try the game, whether online or over the board. Since PogChamps launched three years ago and skyrockete...
GM Daniil Dubov defeated GM Magnus Carlsen, whom he has assisted in multiple world championships, in the final round of the early Titled Tuesday on October 24 and thus overtook and won the event outright with 10 points. Webster University head coa...
British chess sensation WCM Bodhana Sivanandan made history today, scoring 10/10 to become England's first world youth champion in 25 years and complete a historic triple crown. The eight-year-old prodigy is dominating the Girls Under 8 category...
Arlen Abdrashev won the 2000+ knockout of the ChessPunks Champs 2023, defeating NM Alexander Balkum in a final playoff. Tushar Anand went undefeated in every round to win the 1700-1999 division. Ivan Zhuk swept all of his matches to win the 1300...
Two spots for the 2024 Candidates Tournament are up for grabs in the strongest open tournament of the year, the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss, which takes place in Douglas, Isle of Man, from October 25 to November 5, with a prize fund of $460,000. Who wil...
Yale University brought their season back to life on Saturday in the SIG-sponsored 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) after toppling the heavily favored University of Missouri (Mizzou) by a single point. Scores of 3/4 by GM Nico Checa and NM Lin...
Andrey Filatov, president of the Russian Chess Federation, announced on Friday that they intend to sign 10-year contracts with promising young players to prevent them from leaving the country. With no signs of the war in Ukraine ending, Russian ...
GM Daniel Naroditsky continued his domination of October's Bullet Brawls after finishing three points ahead of 10-time winner GM Hikaru Nakamura in a race to the finish on Saturday. In a tournament graced by the presence of top players such as GMs...
Turkish Women's Champion and WGM Kubra Ozturk Orenli says her federation terminated her monthly salary and dropped her from the national team once they found out that she was pregnant. Ozturk Orenli gave birth to her second child this summer, bu...
It's hard to imagine a better week for GM Jose Martinez, who, after sweeping Titled Tuesday just two days prior, went on to win Chess.com's first Variants Community Series (VCS) Final. His march to victory, and a $1,000 first-place prize, includ...
19th-seed GM Nodirbek Yakubboev is the shock winner of the Qatar Masters 2023 after the 21-year-old defeated his Uzbekistani namesake GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov 2-0 in a blitz playoff. Abdusattorov had earlier benefited from a horror blunder by GM A...
Indian GM Arjun Erigaisi takes a half-point lead into the final round of the Qatar Masters 2023 after his win over GM David Paravyan ended any lingering title hopes for star GMs such as Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, and Gukesh Dommaraju. GM Hikaru N...
IM Polina Shuvalova won the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship after defeating IM Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) 10.5-9.5 in the Final. She was the highest-rated player in this year's tournament, by FIDE classical rating, and also the first...
Chess.com is excited to announce the release of GM Fabiano Caruana's Ruy Lopez: Dark Archangel course, now available on Chessable. Consistently ranking as the world number two and widely known for his unparalleled opening preparation, Caruana is i...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen's hopes of making the Qatar Masters 2023 a repeat of his 2015 victory have all but gone after a sacrifice against GM Karthikeyan Murali boomeranged into another loss, this time with the white pieces. GM Arjun Erigai...
We're excited to announce that members can now use the Torch chess engine on our Analysis page. Torch is a new engine developed by the Chess.com team that has quickly risen to the top of the chess engine rankings. Developed in less than eight mont...
After winning Titled Tuesday five times in 2022, GM Jose Martinez entered the October 17, 2023 edition with more than a dozen top-five finishes in 2023 but no victories on the year. He changed that by sweeping this week's event. Martinez, who rout...
The U.S. Women's Championship concluded with a shocking last day of all decisive games that left IM Carissa Yip at the top of the standings, earning her second title. Defending champion WGM Jennifer Yu influenced the fate of the championship by ...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen exploited a blunder by IM Samant Aditya S to win a third game in four rounds and catch GM Hikaru Nakamura, who was held to a draw by GM David Paravyan. With three rounds to go the favorites are half a point behind a...
Both matches in the 2023 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship Semifinals went to overtime. IM Polina Shuvalova defeated IM Lawrence Trent 14-11 and will face IM Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) in the Final. Between the ebb and flow of ...
