The 2022 Rapid Chess Championship Finals start tomorrow! The field of superstars qualifying from the regular season is finally set, with GM Hikaru Nakamura leading the pack. They are now ready to join the four invited heavyweights, GMs Ding Liren,...
Historic recurrence is a well-known phenomenon that has been discussed for centuries. There are two well-known quotes on this subject that most of us have known since childhood: "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce." by Karl Ma...
Waiting moves are among the hardest to spot in chess because, by definition, they don't seem to have any immediate purpose. They don't overtly change the position in any way and, further, they pass the move to the opponent. That's actually the poi...
The inaugural 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase is underway. Right here is where you can track the series' updated standings and leaderboard information. The top 12 finishers through August 14, as well as four invitees, will part...
Some of the strongest grandmasters in the world are about to play in the inaugural Chess.com Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. This is Chess.com's biggest and most important event for professional chess players yet. With a $600,000 p...
The 2022 Chess.com Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase is a world-class online rapid event series for all grandmasters, the top 10 women, and the top 10 Juniors in the world alongside 10 wildcards. From February 12 until August 21, thes...
Titled Tuesday is Chess.com's weekly 11-round Swiss tournament for titled players, occurring every Tuesday. The events start at 17:00 CEST. You can learn more about the current Titled Tuesday season on our dedicated Events page. GM Hikaru Nakamur...
The 2021 World Rapid & Blitz Championship and Women's Rapid & Blitz Championship are elite events organized by FIDE to determine the best players in fast time controls in the world. The championship gathered national champions and grandmas...
Some questions are too complex and beyond our understanding as human beings for us to answer. Why are we here? Where have we come from? Where are we going? Another great question that no one can truly answer is: "Who will win the 2021 World ...
In just three days from now, one of the biggest events of 2020 starts: the $100,000 Speed Chess Championship Main Event with GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Magnus Carlsen as the top seeds. What can we expect? How to watch? The game...
The Speed Chess Championship Invitational is a 16-player knockout tournament from which the winner will qualify for the 2020 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. It will be held Sunday, October 25, 2020 and has a $8,000 prize fund. How to...
The 2020 Speed Chess Championship has been expanded with a brand new, multi-event qualification system and a significantly increased total prize fund of $250,000 (a $150,000 increase over the 2019 event). The main 16-player SCC Ma...
The PRO Chess League finals start on Friday, so it's high time to take a closer look at the four teams that will be fighting for the title. Today, in our final preview: the Saint Louis Arch Bishops. The PRO Chess League finals will take pla...
The 2020 Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championships sponsored by ChessKid was a 16-player knockout tournament among the top junior players in the world. In this second edition, there was a total prize fund of $25,000 on the line. Bracket ...
The Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix (SCC GP) was a weekly blitz tournament for titled players, played on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. Pacific time / 19:00 Central Europe. It was a direct path to qualify for the 2020 Speed Chess Championship. The...
The traditional Leon Chess Festival will be played online this year on Chess.com, July 10-18. Up to four different events will take place: a Masters tournament with four very strong grandmasters, an open blitz tournament where ...
Who will be the next world champion? As we witnessed GM Alireza Firouzja beat GM Magnus Carlsen in a very close match a few weeks ago, we’re starting to consider who will eventually beat Carlsen for the world champion title. While Firouzja...
Making forecasts is not one of my best skills. Actually it is quite the opposite: Usually my predictions of the future are quite bad. Yet one of my forecasts was a no-brainer, since I couldn't possibly have gone wrong with it. Almost four ...
The game of chess just keeps getting younger and younger! Grandmaster titles are now being achieved at 12, 13, and 14 years of age. Young talents are able to take advantage of the wealth of information, consistent and regular tournaments, and gove...
This is our archive of older, completed chess tournaments and events. Click here for our calendar of current chess events! September 2021 Date Event Location September 7 Titled TuesdayOur weekly blitz event for titled players, an ...
All titled players are invited to battle with some of the world's best on Tuesday, August 6 at 1 p.m. PDT for a spot in the 2019 Speed Chess Championship. In addition to the prize money normally on offer for Chess.com's Titled Tuesday, t...
Magnus Carlsen is the current world champion, and many say he is the best of all time. He certainly looks to be at the peak of his chess powers right now. Eventually, though, someone has to take the world title from him. But who will be the one ...
Whew. Let's all sit down and breathe for a minute. It's been an exciting, and tumultuous year. 2017. How did it go so fast? For both Chess.com directors of content, Peter Doggers and this writer, it flew by largely from the window seat, as b...
The World Youth Championship that took place in Greece last month was a great showcase of the best young chess players from all around the world. It also demonstrated the typical mistakes many young players make. While today we are going to...
