In the first of a planned series of reports on Titled Tuesday, Chess.com's Fair Play team said it's unlikely that large-scale cheating is happening in the popular prize events. Chess.com's anti-cheat detection system has faced scrutiny from some...
CM Matfey Rogov prevailed in the Atomic Chess Championship of the Variants Community Series (VCS) on Thursday. In a sibling rivalry-fueled Final, he overcame his older brother, Timofey Rogov. Along the way, Matfey also defeated the top see...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen enhanced his claim to be the greatest of all time Friday as he won the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge by defeating world number-two Fabiano Caruana in the final match. We take a look at what else we learned...
The Saint Louis Chess Club has announced its lineup for this year’s American Cup boasting "16 of the strongest chess players in America." Eight GMs are on the roster for the $250,000 Open section headed by U.S. number-one GM Fabiano Caruan...
GMs Pentala Harikrishna and Pavel Eljanov started with wins over GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Parham Maghsoodloo respectively in two high-pressure, error-prone games to share the lead with a point apiece after the first round of the Chennai Grand Master...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So are the last players standing at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. They will meet for the Title Match to battle for the $200,000 first prize. Carlsen knocked out his 2018 world championship nemesis GM Fa...
The race to the Candidates intensifies as India's chess capital will host Chennai Grand Masters from December 15 to 21, marking the strongest classical tournament in the nation's history. For three of the players it will be all about making it to ...
Blitz chess will be included in the upcoming inaugural Olympic Esports Series 2023 with Chess.com playing host to a unique qualifying event. The world’s leading online chess platform has been selected by FIDE, recognized by the Internation...
Azerbaijan and China are the early leaders at the FIDE World Team Chess Championship which started on Sunday in Jerusalem, Israel. The tournament is played under the rapid time control of 45+10 and has a pool stage followed by a knockout stage. ...
An online "round-table" discussion organized by the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) on Thursday saw three FIDE presidential candidates, the incumbent president Arkady Dvorkovich, GM Andrii Baryshpolets, and GM Bachar Kouatly, debating ove...
IM Lawrence Trent overcame the match favorite and fifth seed, IM Alina Kashlinskaya, in the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship on Friday. The players traded victories for much of the match until the finish of the bullet segment wh...
GM Jeffery Xiong defeated GM Arjun Erigaisi 15.5-13 .5 in the closest match so far in the Junior Speed Chess Championship sponsored by ChessKid. The next quarterfinal will be on Thursday between GM Nihal Sarin and GM Anton Smirnov. An excit...
ClearSale, in partnership with Chess.com, organizes the ClearSale Blitz Chess Masters, held from July 24-26, 2020, bringing for the first time an event with 10 GMs and 2 IMs from Brazil! The event starts with a group stage and ends with an 8-playe...
IM Alina Kashlinksaya will be facing IM John Bartholomew in the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship final. Bartholomew defeated IM Greg Shahade 15.5-6.5 in a much-anticipated match that saw great banter before and after the games. The...
Edited April 2, 2020: Happy April Fool's everyone. Stay safe! The chess world was universally saddened by the postponement after seven rounds of the FIDE Candidates Tournament due to the escalating COVID-19 pandemic and the rapidly impending clo...
Palo Alto, Calif., March 8, 2020—Chess.com is set to partner with HashtagChess as the official partner for African chess coverage. In an effort to showcase some of the top talent on the continent, Chess.com is partnering with HashtagChess to...
UPDATE: Due to coronavirus concerns, the PRO Chess League finals will be held online instead. Palo Alto, Calif., February 12, 2020—Chess.com is teaming up with Chessparty 2020 to present the live PRO Chess League Finals in Oslo, Norwa...
The new virus in China has been affecting GM Ding Liren and GM Wang Hao's preparation for the Candidates Tournament. Speaking to Chess.com, both stated they had to cancel plans for a training camp. Editor's note: on February 10 it became clear...
The Gibraltar Chess Festival's masters tournament is seven rounds underway, and some young participants are doing very well. The 17-year-old Andrey Esipenko of Russia is in shared first place after seven rounds, and the14-year-old Pr...
Fabiano Caruana goes into the final two rounds of the Tata Steel Chess tournament a full point ahead of the pack. The American player scored an easy win against Vladislav Kovalev and saw his main rival Magnus Carlsen draw ...
Chess.com's Team Battle series continues on Tuesday, November 19 at 1 p.m. PST on Twitch.tv/Chess. This month's theme, Femme "Batale," will feature a women's continental clash between Europe and North America. WFM Maria Eme...
With three rounds to go, four teams still have a perfect score at the European Club Cup, now underway in Montenegro. In the women's section, two teams are tied for first place. The competition for club teams is a seven-round Swiss, without a res...
The deadlock in the World Fischer Random Chess Championship was broken today in both semifinals. The top seed and favorite Magnus Carlsen earned a second win with Black over Fabiano Caruana to take the lead in the match. Wesley So b...
The $433,000 FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss tournament is less than three days away. With Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So and Viswanathan Anand as the top seeds, the event is the strongest Swiss tournament in history. The tournament will ...
Chess.com's first-ever Hand and Brain Team Battle will feature a sibling rivalry on October 2 at 6 PM PDT on Twitch.tv/AlexandraBotez, Twitch.tv/Chessbrah, Twitch.tv/GMNaroditsky and Twitch.tv/AndreaBotez. Making their Team Battle debut, si...
