The brother/sister duo of GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and GM-elect Vaishali Rameshbabu stole the show as the only victors in round three of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament. Praggnanandhaa defeated one of the leaders, GM Vidit Gujrathi, by u...
GM Peter Svidler glided to victory over GM Jorden van Foreest, GM Magnus Carlsen displayed his incredible endgame skills, and GMs Daniele Vocaturo and Ivan Schitco pulled off wins against their higher-rated opponents in the third round of the 2023...
GM Daniel Naroditsky outclassed the field in the first weekly Bullet Brawl and convincingly won the event ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen on Saturday. Naroditsky scored 242 points during the two-hour arena, playing out 67 wins, six...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, known as ChessQueen on Chess.com, captured the sole lead in round two of the Munich FIDE Women's Grand Prix. She defeated longtime rival GM Elisabeth Paehtz to reach 2-0. GM Anna Muzychuk earned her first victory by ...
GM Wei Yi took an early lead at the 2022 Meltwater Champion's Chess Tour's Chessable Masters on Thursday, scoring a draw and three wins. GM Abhimanyu Mishra, the youngest grandmaster in the world, won twice—like world champion Magnus Carlsen...
GM Levon Aronian, the Armenian star-player who recently moved to and now represents the United States, finished day one of the World Blitz Chess Championship with 10/12 and in clear first. Behind him are Egyptian GM Bassem Amin, the five-time Afri...
The Czech-American grandmaster, former number-10 in the world, coach, organizer, trainer, commentator, author, columnist, and member of the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek died at the age of 77 after a brief but severe illnes...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won his second Russian Championship title, exactly 10 years after his first. A quick draw in the final round proved enough after co-leader GM Sergey Karjakin was beaten by GM Daniil Dubov in brilliant style. GM Aleksandr...
GM Humpy Koneru and GM Alexandra Kosteniuk will play in Sunday's final of the fourth leg of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The two grandmasters beat GM Hou Yifan and IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So are leading their Clutch Chess semifinal matches 6-2 against GM Levon Aronian and GM Fabiano Caruana, respectively. The matches were identical with Carlsen and So winning the fi...
Today, half a century ago, one of the greatest chess events of the 20th century started in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Virtually all of the top players in the world participated in this match between the Soviet Union and the Rest of the World. The eve...
Wesley So defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on Tuesday in the third quarterfinal of the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. The American grandmaster will now face Vladislav Artemiev of Russia in the semifinals. Already in India for the T...
Hikaru Nakamura was eliminated from the FIDE World Cup after failing to win his return game with Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. The Chinese GM Xu Xiangyu surprised again by knocking out Ernesto Inarkiev while Alireza Firouzja played a...
The Hungarian-American grandmaster Pal Benko has died at the age of 91. A two-time candidate for the world title, he was also an author and composer of endgame studies and chess problems. The Benko Gambit is named after him. The news of Ben...
The PRO Chess League Finals are this weekend, with action beginning Saturday, May 4 and a champion crowned on Sunday, May 5. Once again, the Folsom Street Foundry in San Francisco will host the live event. Tickets are almost sold ...
Two teams booked their tickets to the live PRO Chess League final four in San Francisco on Tuesday, as Saint Louis and Chengdu emerged victorious from their respective quarterfinals match-ups. The two PRO Chess League powerhouses will have ...
Magnus Carlsen is the first player to reach the final of the 2017 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. On Tuesday the world champion beat Alexander Grischuk with a five-point margin despite losing the bullet segment. This week's match was the com...
[Note: Updated with extensive thoughts from Lombardy's only son Raymond and a personal reflection from Bruce Pandolfini.] GM William Lombardy, an American former world junior champion also made famous for being GM Bobby Fischer's second, died Fr...
Garry Kasparov, a man who knows what it means to dominate, called it a "phenomenal performance" when Magnus Carlsen clinched the Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour in Leuven, Belgium with two rounds to spare. Carlsen's blitz per...
Tomorrow the fight for gold will be between USA and Ukraine; both won today and maintained their lead at the Olympiad. Russia is two points behind and only theoretically still in contention. China needs a 2-2 tie to win the wom...
Chess.com asked Maret Thorpe, Chicago-area resident, to remember International Arbiter and International Organizer Sevan Muradian. Photo: Andi Rosen Sevan Muradian, a prolific chess organizer who worked tirelessly to promote FIDE-rated...
A most spectacular seventh round at the London Chess Classic saw three decisive games. With two rounds to go Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is the sole leader. The French GM defeated Viswanathan Anand on the Indian's birthday, finishing h...
More than 50 GMs from more than 50 federations have a simple goal in mind this weekend in Las Vegas: win big money. While that's the understood goal of most who fly to America's gambling capital, Las Vegas, chess players don't fight the house at...
GM Fabiano Caruana started with 0.5/2 but then won five games in a row to win the Sparkassen Chess Meeting for the third time. In the last round he defeated GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu with a beautiful combination. GM Wesley So play...
All three games in the third round of the London Chess Classic ended in draws, and so GMs Anish Giri and Vladimir Kramnik continue to share the lead. Round four will be played on Saturday starting two hours earlier, at 2 p.m. GMT....
