Chess.com's newest event, BlitzChamps, the most ambitious crossover of 2022, commenced on Saturday, pitting six NFL all-stars against each other over the chess board in a bid for $100,000 for their favorite charity. Split into two groups of thre...
On Wednesday GM Richard Rapport won the 11th Danzhou Tournament. The Hungarian grandmaster was the only player to remain undefeated and finished half a point ahead of GM Ding Liren. Rapport won 80,000 RMB ($12,249 or 10,103 euros) with...
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...
Palo Alto, Calif., February 26, 2020—Adding to the tremendous success of the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship and Junior Speed Chess Championship, ChessKid.com is announcing the first-ever ChessKid Youth Speed Chess Championship for Summer...
The FIDE ethics commission has suspended GM Evgeniy Solozhenkin for making unsubstantiated allegations of cheating, published in different articles on the internet. A group of grandmasters has written an open letter in support of Solozhenkin....
[Update: Rounds 2-5 of the 2018 ChessKid Online Championship, this Saturday and Sunday (9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Pacific both days), will be on both Chess.com/TV and the brand-new channel Twitch.TV/ChessKid. Commentary will be provided by longtime ChessK...
Ian Nepomniachtchi fended off a fierce comeback from Levon Aronian with skilled trickery in the bullet portion of the match and will advance to face Sergey Karjakin in the quarterfinals. In the early match, Aronian was clearly the more dominant pl...
Tuesday's Speed Chess Championship Qualifier 2 (with two more on April 18 and 25!) featured one of the most remarkable finales in Chess.com's history as Hikaru Nakamura entered the last round a half-point ahead of the field but ineligible to quali...
16 of the U.S.A.'s top young chess talents will be participating in two new invitational competitions June 8-10: the Chesskid.com U.S. under-12 Invitational and the Chesskid.com U.S. under-8 Invitational. The matches will be covered via internet s...
Magnus Carlsen has taken over the lead from Viswanathan Anand on the second day of the World Blitz Championship in Moscow. The Norwegian scored 11/14 today (no draws!) while Anand 'only' managed 8/14, but he's is still 2nd in the standings. Day 2 ...
This week FIDE expressed her concerns about the effects of the new K-Factor which will be in order as from July 1st, and decided to publish two parallel rating lists for a year and then review the results of the different K-factors in effect. GM B...
