Isa Kasimi, better known as Igors Rausis, the Latvian International Master and coach who was banned for six years and was stripped of his GM title after being caught cheating, has died at the age of 62. The news was confirmed by his ex-wife Olita ...
It is the prestigious annual event that brings together the global sports industry's big players—and yet again Chess.com was there to discuss the hot topics facing the game. Cheating, format changes, branding, issues of governance, and eve...
What is the future of chess? Which formats will be popular? How much of a punch does chessboxing pack? These are some of the burning questions Chess.com's panel of experts will examine at this year's MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Starti...
The Saint Louis Chess Club has banned GM Hans Niemann for the remainder of 2024, citing alleged inappropriate behavior and damage to private property. The grandmaster has dismissed the accusations as "blatant disinformation." Edited on 2/2/2024:...
GM Wei Yi became the winner of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament on Sunday after winning a thrilling four-player tiebreak that also involved GMs Anish Giri, Gukesh Dommaraju, and Nodirbek Abdusattorov. For the first time, Wei entered the world'...
GM Anish Giri caught GM Alireza Firouzja in first place in round three of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament Masters. The Dutchman defeated GM Alexander Donchenko and saw his compatriot GM Max Warmerdam hold Firouzja to a draw. As in the fi...
Black was more than OK in Saturday's opening round of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament as GMs Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Wei Yi all started with wins with the black pieces. The Challengers group also saw four de...
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...
"The game could and should have gone differently," confessed GM Mateusz Bartel after GM Hans Niemann survived a huge attack only to blunder on the verge of victory. GM Amin Tabatabaei moved into joint second in the London Chess Classic 2023 with a...
GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Michael Adams picked up wins on the first day of the 2023 London Chess Classic, the 13th edition of an event that was first won by GM Magnus Carlsen back in 2009. GM Hans Niemann made a quiet draw after rushing in from Zag...
GM Hans Niemann won the historic Tournament of Peace 2023 in Zagreb on Thursday by a massive three-point margin ahead of the field. With a 2946 performance rating, the 20-year-old American player scored 8/9, winning seven and drawing two games aga...
IM Stefan Docx has been handed a one-year ban from taking part in FIDE-rated tournaments after refusing a metal detector body scan during an incident in Spain. Docx was found not guilty of computer cheating and says he has appealed the suspension....
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...
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...
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...
GM Narayanan Sunilduth Lyna is the first sole leader of the 2023 Qatar Masters after beating world number-eight Gukesh Dommaraju to move to 4.5/5. No fewer than 12 players are half a point back, including GM Hikaru Nakamura, and IM Vaishali R, who...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Gukesh Dommaraju, and Saleh Salem all won in round four of the 2023 Qatar Masters to join a seven-way tie for first place on 3.5/4. GM Magnus Carlsen languishes a point back in 29th place after again being involved in the...
Moves were delayed 15 minutes and watches outlawed as world number-one Magnus Carlsen's tweets had an instant impact on round three of the 2023 Qatar Masters. The drama was limited on the board; GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri were frustra...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen confessed he was "completely crushed" by 23-year-old Kazakh GM Alisher Suleymenov in round two of the 2023 Qatar Masters, but afterward blamed a failure to concentrate on his opponent wearing a watch in contraventio...
Fourteen-year-old IM Ediz Gurel found a brilliant sacrifice to take down GM Velimir Ivic as the 2023 FIDE World Cup kicked off in Baku. Top seeds such as GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, and Ju Wenjun start their campaigns in ...
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed GM Hans Niemann's $100 million lawsuit against GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Chess.com, the Play Magnus Group, and IM Daniel Rensch. This means that, at least for the moment, the legal battle that follow...
GM Robert Hess says he is concerned with what he describes as an "ongoing and worsening problem in hybrid chess events" and asks FIDE to address the problem. The US Grandmaster and Chess.com commentator published a long post on Twitter regarding...
A mysterious participant in the women's section of the Kenya Open Chess Championship in Nairobi, Kenya was exposed as a male impostor and removed from the tournament. The player, whose identity was not made public, admitted to the cheating and sai...
It took two tiebreakers before the winners were determined in the two elimination brackets in The American Cup. GM Wesley So cheated himself from a win in the first game but took care of business in the blitz tiebreaker. In the women's event, FM...
