Enjoy your weekend and rest up, for next Monday it will once again be time for Chess.com's premier blitz event: the Main Event of the Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. The tournament begins with the November 8 matchup between GMs Ani...
Just as with everything else—hopefully—we learn more and more about chess as the years go by. Opening theory gets consistently deeper, tablebases have solved endgames with up to seven pieces on the board, and computers teach us more th...
The updated standings and leaderboard information for Arena Kings Season 8 are below. You can read the season 8 announcement and rules for complete details. Live Bracket and Pairings: This is updated 2-3 minutes after the end of the arenas. If...
The "PRO" in the PRO Chess League stands for Professional Rapid Online. It's certainly all of these things. And now with the Arena Royale event running from September 16-24, it's time to review the greatest rapid games in history. How to watch t...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the Main Event of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship on December 19—winning his fourth consecutive title. Nakamura defeated GM Wesley So in the final by a dominating score of 23-8. The event ran from November 8-Dec...
Pro Chess League: Arena Royale is a tournament featuring teams from the PRO Chess League competing for a $100,000 prize fund. The Arena Royale will run from September 16 through September 24 as a prelude to the return of the PRO Chess League ...
There's a famous story in basketball featuring Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird. Before the first-ever Three-Point Shootout in 1986, he went into the locker room, asked who was finishing in second place and walked out. He won the contest. There'...
The 2021 Grand Chess Tour is a series of over-the-board chess events comprised of two classical and three rapid & blitz tournaments featuring top chess players. The entire tour has a total prize fund of $1,275,000, with $325,000 per classical ...
Chess Played Quick is Chess.com's series of monthly events where top chess streamers do live speed runs using one of Chess.com's features. This month's event, Chess Played Quick: Bot Battles, will feature streamers terminating the bots from our ...
Written by Alexey Zakharov In the last hundred or so years, Russia became almost synonymous with chess. The country in its many incarnations—Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and now “just” Russia—produced more grandmasters a...
The 2020-21 FIDE Candidates Tournament holds the dubious distinction of being the longest tournament in chess history. It spanned 14 months, yet just 14 rounds were played. While we are all well aware of the reasons for that and we applaud the pla...
After the 2020 hiatus, the Grand Chess Tour returns in 2021 with a regular schedule of events. There will be two classical time control events and three rapid/blitz combos. The venues are familiar, only Bucharest switched with Zagreb and hosted th...
The saying, "No good deed goes unpunished" is as old as time. In the early 14th century, Dante Alighieri used a very similar phrase in "The Divine Comedy." I don't know about you, but I totally hate it! In our early childhood, we learn from variou...
The updated standings and leaderboard information for Arena Kings Season 7 are below. You can read the season 7 announcement and rules for complete details. Live Bracket and Pairings: This is updated 2-3 minutes after the end of the arenas. If...
Since IBM's Deep Blue defeated World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in their 1997 match, chess engines have only increased dramatically in strength and understanding. Today, the best chess engines are an almost incomprehensible 1,000 Elo points str...
Generations of American players have contributed significantly to the game of chess. As they have inspired schools of thought, developed creative approaches for all phases of the game, and achieved brilliant wins while enduring difficult losses, t...
The FIDE Candidates Tournament resumes this Monday, April 19, 2021, in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The winner will earn the right to challenge GM Magnus Carlsen for the world championship in November in Dubai. This article provides you with all th...
The FIDE Candidates Tournament will finally resume exactly a week from now, on April 19, 2021. What have the eight participants been up to in the past 13 months? And how have they performed? The story is known: on March 25, 2020, the FIDE Candid...
The 2020-21 FIDE Candidates Tournament will take its place in the annals of chess history as an unprecedented event. Never before has a tournament stopped due to force majeure been resumed a full year later. Yes, the first World Championship match...
Tactics continue to decide the fate of the participants of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6. Those who failed to spot tactical shots were sent home by their opponents. Rainn Wilson vs. MoistCr1tikal Ludwig vs. Logic Neeko vs. Rubius Pokimane ...
The seventh day of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6 brought us four different matches. Pokimane, xQc, and Logic impressed with their improvement, surprising the audience once more. Pokimane vs. Rubius Daniel Negreanu vs. xQc Rainn Wilson vs. L...
The fourth day of PogChamps 3 was nothing short of amazing. The unfortunate power outage in Texas caused the much anticipated xQc-Pokimane match to be postponed, but the other two matches more than made up for it. Watching the Rubius-Negreanu ga...
There was an era, a time now frozen in memory, when it seemed like every single time I opened a chess magazine, there was GM Leonid Stein winning a tournament, or he was the subject of a column in a chess newspaper. From the late 1960s to the...
Chess.com is excited to announce the winners of the 2020 Chess.com Awards. These awards are an opportunity for the Chess.com community to recognize and celebrate some of the great games, players, creators, moves, and more from 2020. The awards a...
