GM Levon Aronian recently wrote, “the FIDE Circuit is kind of a joke,” with GM Anish Giri replying to describe it as “completely broken.” Getting top grandmasters to agree on anything is a challenge, but another, 2023 FIDE ...
GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Ju Wenjun both scored their first wins on Tuesday at the 2024 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament. While Abdusattorov outplayed GM Nils Grandelius both on the board and the clock, the women's world champion defeated GM Vinc...
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...
GM Fabiano Caruana trails leader GM Ian Nepomniachtchi by half a point at the midway stage of the 2024 Candidates Tournament, just as he did in 2022. Back then he crashed and burned as he fought for first place, only for it turn out that second pl...
GM Arjun Erigaisi won the 2024 Menorca Open on Sunday. The Indian top-GM edged out GMs Kirill Alekseenko and Maksim Chigaev on tiebreaks after all finished on 7.5/9. Arjun reached a career-peak live rating of 2761 and briefly occupied the fifth pl...
Only a select few in the annals of chess history have broken into the world top-five before their 20th birthday. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov has now joined that prestigious list, and shares his insights with Chess.com on his rise from prodigy to ches...
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...
14-year-old WGM Lu Miaoyi gained 200 rating points, secured the IM title, came close to scoring a GM norm, and skyrocketed to the world number-two spot for girls under 20, all in the past few months. The Chinese teenager is already reaching histor...
The game of chess is witnessing a fascinating trend. New research by Chess.com shows that grandmasters are now achieving their titles at an earlier age than ever. Will the chess world see 10- or 11-year-olds becoming grandmasters in the next few y...
GM Bu Xiangzhi edged out GMs Yu Yangyi and Arjun Erigaisi on tiebreaks to win the fifth edition of the Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters on Thursday. All three finished on 4.5/7, with Bu having the best tiebreaks. It wasn't a good week for GM A...
The Prague Masters has become a dream tournament for GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov. In a field with three candidates, the 19-year-old Uzbek GM secured victory with a round to spare today while moving to world number four in the live ratings, surpa...
Today, FIDE, the chess world-governing body, made a significant move in an attempt to combat rating deflation and improve the accuracy of the ranking system by adjusting the rating for hundreds of thousands of players. Nonetheless, the extensive o...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu hadn't lost for 47 classical games straight, but today that impressive streak came to an end. He lost to GM Parham Maghsoodloo, who is the proud leader of the Prague Masters with a 100 percent score. GM Gukesh Dommar...
For the first time in his career, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov entered the world top 10 on the live rating list today. The Uzbek grandmaster defeated GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen in what was a combative opening round of the Prague Masters. GM Praggnanandh...
British rising star WCM Bodhana Sivanandan has delivered another extraordinary performance that is likely to catapult her to world number-one among chess players under nine years years of age. The schoolgirl now boasts one of the highest ratings e...
On Sunday, eight-year-old Ashwath Kaushik from Singapore smashed the record to become the youngest player ever to defeat a grandmaster in classical chess. Just a month prior Leonid Ivanovic from Serbia dethroned GM Awonder Liang to become the fi...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Fabiano Caruana in the final classical game to win the inaugural 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge and the $60,000 top prize. GM Levon Aronian took third place with a powerful win over GM Nodirbek ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura recently extended his record on Chess.com to become the first player ever to break 3400 in blitz. His new high of 3405 is 28 points higher than number two on the list, GM Magnus Carlsen. The electrifying online blitz rivalry b...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov beat GM Magnus Carlsen in the final round of the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge Rapid to top the standings with an unbeaten 5.5/7. That set up a Quarterfinal against World Champion Ding Liren, who made a last-roun...
The first event of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour, the 2024 Chessable Masters, is in the books, and plenty has happened in the tournament that lasted eight days. Some things aren't new, like the fact that GM Magnus Carlsen won again. But plenty i...
After a wild round on Saturday, there is a five-way tie for first place in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's Masters group. With GM Vidit Gujrathi, GM Anish Giri, GM Gukesh Dommaraju, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and GM Wei Yi all on 7.5/12, chances ...
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Leonid Ivanovic from Serbia has earned his place in the history books by becoming the first player under the age of nine to defeat a grandmaster in classical chess. The chess world has recently been witnessing a surge in children scoring e...
FM Brandon Burrows achieved his first IM norm by winning one game and making nine draws that lasted an average of 10 moves. Now the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has invalidated the Las Vegas tournament and U.S. Chess has confirmed an investigatio...
For the first time in his career, GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu took the number-one spot among Indian players in the live ratings on Tuesday. The 18-year-old prodigy from Chennai beat World Champion Ding Liren at the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournamen...
