[Editor's note: Lula is one of the most popular Chess.com streamers with tens of thousands of fans. She started playing in December 2020 and earned her WCM title in 2024. This article is about her personal experience at the 2024 Reykjavik Open&nbs...
The inaugural 2024 ChessKid National Festival, which took place over four days on President's Day weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, was advertised as "The Ultimate In-Person Chess Celebration." 431 kids participated in 11 possible tournament...
GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Cristian Chirila cut the proverbial opening ribbon of the inaugural 2024 Team Chess Battle by beating GM Anish Giri and IM Danny Rensch with a 2-0 score. After losing game one while trash-talking his own team...
The inaugural ChessKid National Festival is only a week away, and some of the chess world's most famous names are getting ready to descend on Charlotte, North Carolina to join the festivities. Tickets for the ChessKid National Festival are still...
Chess.com will be present at TwitchCon Las Vegas between October 20-22, with a range of exciting activities and events planned for members of the chess community. The upcoming edition of TwitchCon will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Cent...
Update: The ChessKid National Festival has expanded its scope and now features events for kids up to K-8! Other new additions include Hula Chess, Fencing Chess, a live band, and a guest appearance by WFM Alexandra Botez and Andrea Botez! Chess...
On the last day, WR Chess completed their phenomenal run at the World Rapid Team Championship, clinching first with a round to spare. It was truly a team victory as every member contributed, with several players turning in dazzling performances....
The Collegiate Chess League is excited to announce the 2023 summer season following last year's inaugural summer season. We will be bringing back both the bullet and bughouse college championships! These championship matches will last four weeks s...
On Friday, top GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura as well as WGM Jennifer Shahade took part in a panel discussion at the MIT Sloan School of Management's annual Sports Analytics Conference in Boston. The three talked about the further growth ...
GM Levon Aronian won the inaugural WR Chess Masters 2023 after winning all three games against his co-leaders in the rapid tiebreaks. GMs Gukesh D and Ian Nepomniachtchi finish in tied second-third. In the classical games, Aronian-Gukesh headed ...
More than halfway through the WR Chess Masters 2023, GM Levon Aronian leads by a full point after beating GM Anish Giri in round five. GM Vincent Keymer scored his first win of the event against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov after the latter's aggres...
The Collegiate Chess League is excited to announce the 2022 summer season featuring the bullet and bughouse college championships! This summer season will span the four weeks of August and starts with the bullet championship on August 6 with the f...
We are happy to announce the 2021-2022 Bughouse World Championship! The beloved variant championship starts on November 8 and will extend through January 2022. The strongest bughouse players in the world will come together to fight for their piece...
While online chess has seen significant growth on Twitch this summer, casual players have been exploring alternative means to make the game even more mainstream. Conor Petersen, a game developer and amateur chess enthusiast, made a name for himsel...
Hey, chess fans! We hope you are enjoying a great start to 2020. Before we get too deep into our new year's resolutions, let's check out what the Chess.com team did in December 2019. Puzzles Improvements to Puzzle Battle. We also imp...
Levon Aronian: “You don’t play chess to have fun. You play chess to crush your opponent.” A high-spirited Aronian attended the South African Junior Chess Championship (SAJCC) Jan. 3-8 in the city of Ekurhuleni. More than 2,700 ...
Chess.com conducted an interview with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave after a tough and eventually disappointing year for him. The French number-one player speaks about failing to qualify for the candidates, what was wrong with the qualification process an...
Hey, chess fans! Just like that, October is upon us, and it's time to look back on the month that was. September was huge! Let's dive right in... Puzzles Puzzle Rush gets competitive in real time, with the arrival of Puzzle Bat...
July is upon us, chess fans—and you know what that means: Once again, it's time to catch up with what's been going on with Chess.com product development and community support over the last month. June kept us busy! Here's how... Live Che...
Two of the best Bughouse players in the world will be teaming up with two legends of chess as Canadian Twitch streamer Grace Ferguson (@Helmsknight) heads to battle alongside Super-GM Hikaru Nakamura against 4x US Champion Yasser Se...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's GM Wesley So! The place is Johannesburg, and the occasion is the South African Junior Chess Championship (SAJCC). In the wake of social trends such as Fabiano Caruana's bucket challenge and Magnus Carlsen's ...
First there was a two-man playoff. Then a three-man playoff. Then, no playoff at all. After a wild day at the 2018 Sinquefield Cup when the gamesmanship didn't even end on the final move, Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen, and Fabiano Caruana a...
This year, we'll again see Garry Kasparov at the chessboard. The 13th world champion is among the players in the Champions Showdown in St. Louis next month, where the format will be matches of Chess960—which Kasparov never tried before. On...
Magnus Carlsen wanted to know what constituted a draw; he just didn't want one himself. After more than 6.5 hours of pressing, he finally edged Sergey Karjakin in the dwindling seconds of the game. Long before that, prior to the start of the sec...
GM Fabiano Caruana had a good first 10 minutes of the opening match of the 2018 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship season, then had a completely forgettable final 170 minutes. He didn't even get his second win until around the second half of the m...
