GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Andrew Hong won the first Titled Tuesday events of April 2024. For Hong, it was a milestone, being his first-ever win in Titled Tuesday, and he did it outright with 10 points while Nakamura needed tiebreaks earlier a...
Bullet Brawl records fell on Saturday after Chess.com's highest-rated bullet and blitz chess player, GM Hikaru Nakamura, swept through the field and amassed a score of 320. With 82 wins, one draw, and one loss to his name, only Peru's IM Renato Te...
CDawgVA, the PogChamps 5 champion, streaming star, and voice actor, is returning to Chess.com... in bot form! The first ever winner of a live PogChamps final, Connor has more than 3.1 million YouTube followers and 1.2 million Twitch followers. He ...
As Titled Tuesday gets more crowded, with 700+ players in the early tournament and 500+ in the late tournament both of the last two weeks, ties atop the standings seem to be getting more commonplace. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave emerged from a five-w...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Matthias Bluebaum were the winners of Titled Tuesday on December 26, the last one of the year 2023. For Nakamura, it wrapped up yet another fabulously successful year of Titled Tuesdays. For Bluebaum, it was his first win...
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 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...
IM Jeremy Silman, the highly respected American chess author, trainer, and player, has passed at the age of 69. His contributions to the world of chess have left an indelible mark, inspiring and educating countless enthusiasts and players worldwid...
Titled Tuesday on May 23 went to two generations of blitz stars, the long-established GM Alexander Grischuk and the 20-years-younger GM Nihal Sarin. Grischuk essentially locked up the early tournament with a round to go, while Nihal barely outlast...
GM Aman "Chessbrah" Hambleton was able to confirm a resounding, albeit controversial, win over IM Lawrence Trent via technical knockout (TKO) during Sunday's landmark Mogul Chessboxing Championship, organized by the 2022 Game Awards Creator of the...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his third straight Titled Tuesday on October 4 with the rare score of 10.5/11, then nearly swept the event for the second straight week with a second-place finish in the late event. Instead, it was won by GM Matthias Bluebau...
Now that the coronavirus pandemic has subsided, there’s no reason that we can’t get up close and personal over a chessboard … or with chessboxing. Yes, chessboxing! This sport is making a grand return by none other than Ludwig A...
GM Magnus Carlsen will not defend his world championship title against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi next year. Carlsen announced his decision on a podcast on Tuesday. According to current regulations, FIDE Candidates tournament winner Nepomniachtchi will...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his second straight late Titled Tuesday event after GM Hans Niemann claimed the early tournament on May 31. Niemann was also a Titled Tuesday victor back on February 15. This week, one player also placed top five in both e...
Titled Tuesday belonged to the Americans on May 24, the early edition won by GM Dariusz Swiercz and the late tournament by GM Hikaru Nakamura. It was Swiercz's first-ever win in the event and Nakamura's first since May 3. Nakamura was the only pla...
There were multiway ties at the top in both Titled Tuesday tournaments on April 19, but they produced two familiar winners. GM Hikaru Nakamura had the best tiebreaks of three players on 9.5/11 in the early tournament, while GM Dmitry Andreikin won...
Cuba's top grandmasters GM Lazaro Bruzon and GM Leinier Dominguez as well as GM Garry Kasparov have spoken out in support of Cuban-Spanish GM Arian Gonzalez, who is on a hunger strike after being detained by Cuban authorities for participating in ...
Tournament Arc returns for a second season, this time with a twist! Running July 16 to 18 and 22 to 25 starting at 5 p.m. Pacific Time/02:00 Central Europe, Youtubers from the Anime Community will face stars from the world of Fighting Games in a s...
The last match in the Round of 16 of the 2020 Speed Chess Championship Main Event will be played on Monday between GM Vladislav Artemiev (@Sibelephant) and GM Anish Giri (@AnishGiri). The action starts on Monday, November 16, at 9 a...
Another match in the 2020 Speed Chess Championship Main Event is on the menu for today: GM Hikaru Nakamura (@Hikaru) vs. GM Haik Martirosyan (@Micki-taryan). The action starts on Thursday, November 12, at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe...
Eight anime Youtubers will compete for a $5,000 prize fund in Tournament Arc, a single-elimination bracket tournament that will run August 6-9 on Chess.com with live commentary. After Pogchamps (and in anticipation of the next Pogchamps!) Chess....
Hey, chess fans! It's that time again. Let's take a quick moment to catch up on what kept our product development, support and fair play teams busy last month... Here's what we did in June! Web Removed the big modal (that you had t...
Making an appearance in Lex Fridman's Artificial Intelligence Podcast, DeepMind's David Silver gave lots of insights into the history of AlphaGo and AlphaZero and deep reinforcement learning in general. Today, the finals of the Chess.c...
While the FIDE Candidates tournament was stopped at the halfway point and almost all players are now back home, the situation surrounding GM Teimour Radjabov is still the talk of the town. In this report we've collected comments in other media sou...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) announced today that they will postpone the chess Olympiad, scheduled for August 5-17 in Moscow, Russia, to 2021. The decision was published on the FIDE website. The statement from the FIDE Council annou...
