We have three co-leaders at the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament with two rounds to go: GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, GM Hikaru Nakamura, and GM Gukesh Dommaraju. Nakamura scored the hat trick against GM Alireza Firouzja, and Gukesh defeated GM Nija...
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...
Round 11 of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament featured three decisive games out of a possible four. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the longest game of the round with Black against GM Vidit Gujrathi, again taking the sole lead. A half-point behin...
If you had doubts about how big an event Titled Tuesday has become, you can look at just how many players from the ongoing Candidates Tournament played the April 16 edition anyway (during a rest day in the Candidates). One of them, GM Hikaru Nakam...
GM Maurice Ashley draws on his extensive chess experience to impart life lessons in his latest literary offering. His new book has already hit number one on Amazon. On April 2, Ashley released his new book Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off t...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana won their games in round 10 of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament to inch closer to the tournament lead. Co-leaders GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Gukesh Dommaraju made a draw in their game and are now chased...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Gukesh Dommaraju continue to lead the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament after round nine. GM Vidit Gujrathi is the only player to win on Sunday, and he defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura for the second time. GM Alireza Firouzja...
Round eight of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament saw two winners and a significant change in the standings. GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Fabiano Caruana in the all-American matchup, while GM Gukesh Dommaraju also beat his countryman GM Vidit G...
At the halfway mark of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is back in the sole lead. In round seven, he survived over 20 moves of preparation from GM Hikaru Nakamura to make the draw. GM Gukesh Dommaraju came close to winn...
Former Women's World Champion Tan Zhongyi capped off a tremendous attack against GM Anna Muzychuk to gain her third victory in the 2024 FIDE Women's Candidates and maintain the lead. All four games were decisive in round six, leaving GM Aleksandra...
After close to six hours of play and in the longest round of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament so far, GM Gukesh Dommaraju defeated GM Nijat Abasov to catch GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the lead. Nepomniachtchi, on the other hand, survived a lost po...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi has taken a half-point lead at the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament. On the white side of the Berlin Defense, he dispatched GM Vidit Gujrathi. Draws on the remaining three boards leave GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Fabiano Caruana ...
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...
With a novelty followed by three sacrifices, GM Vidit Gujrathi broke GM Hikaru Nakamura's 47-game undefeated streak, as enterprising play at the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament led to an all-decisive day two. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi prevailed in the...
The players displayed an abundance of fighting spirit on the opening day of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament. GM Hikaru Nakamura sacrificed two rooks vs. GM Fabiano Caruana. GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu co-created a duel...
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...
12-year-old Turkish chess sensation IM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus is the new youngest grandmaster in the world and the fourth youngest to achieve the title in history. He earned his third grandmaster norm in Germany on Monday and his title is pending app...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored a brilliant win, then pulled off a great escape, to beat GM Richard Rapport 1.5-0.5 and win the GRENKE Chess Classic for a third time. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat GM Vincent Keymer in blitz tiebreaks to take third place...
GM Richard Rapport bounced back from 0/2 on Friday to beat World Champion Ding Liren and GM Vincent Keymer, closing the gap at the top to half a point. GM Magnus Carlsen remains the sole leader after defeating GM Daniel Fridman, with Rapport and C...
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 ...
World number one Magnus Carlsen called it "kind of insane to get two Benoni games in one day" as he defeated GM Vincent Keymer with the black pieces and then GM Richard Rapport with White to upend the standings and take a one-point lead. Rapport, ...
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...
After GM Denis Lazavik upset GM Alireza Firouzja in the 10th round of the early Titled Tuesday event of March 26 and went on to win, Firouzja scored a dominant 10.5/11 in the late contest to capture the second tournament. It was Lazavik's first wi...
10-year-old prodigy FM Faustino Oro is once again in the spotlight. Now a clip of the Argentinian beating world number-one Magnus Carlsen in Chess.com's Bullet Brawl has captured the attention of millions of viewers within a few days. Few player...
In a fresh podcast interview released Monday, GM Magnus Carlsen talked about his two favorites for the Candidates Tournament that begins in Toronto on April 4, his future in classical events, his new motivation, the Chess960 tour, and much more. ...
