A child prodigy destined for greatness, GM Boris Spassky was an exemplary sportsman and a stoic character. The young Soviet fulfilled his prophecy in 1969 when he defeated none other than GM Tigran Petrosian to become the world champion. Facing ...
GM Bobby Fischer is a legendary and mysterious chess figure—the boy from Brooklyn who single-handedly took down an empire. A chess genius, a champion, and a troubled mind, Fischer was undoubtedly a unique character. Fischer etched his name...
Tuesday, July 11, 1972, 5 p.m. local time. The 1,800 spectators at Laugardalsholl applaud as GM Boris Spassky, the reigning world champion, enters the stage. He sits down, makes his first move (1.d4), and arbiter GM Lothar Schmid starts the clock....
The results and winners for the monthly Legends Arena are below. All cash prize winners will be contacted at the email address on file on their account. The address is listed on the Settings page. December 30 Open Oleksandr_Bortnyk $...
The field of the 2022 Candidates Tournament is set, and every player is ranked at least 15th in the world: GM Ding Liren (2nd), GM Alireza Firouzja (3rd), GM Fabiano Caruana (4th), GM Richard Rapport (5th), GM Ian Nepomnia...
Morphy. Capablanca. Fischer. Most chess fans know these legendary names. Other young players, like GM Abhimanyu Mishra or ChessKid FM Tani Adewumi, are known to chess fans right now and we await to see just how good they will become. And...
GM Alireza Firouzja is the youngest player ever to reach the Mount Everest rating of 2800 in chess history and is one of the youngest world championship candidates to this day. He previously reached number two in the world, then second to onl...
The updated standings and leaderboard information for Arena Kings Season 9 are below. You can read the season 9 announcement and rules for complete details. Live Bracket and Pairings: This is updated 2-3 minutes after the end of the arenas. If...
The first Grand Prix was held in 1807, and it was a horserace. Literally. The first chess Grand Prix was not until two centuries later in 2008. The 2022 FIDE Grand Prix begins shortly and it will determine the last two players for June's Candidate...
Happy birthday to GM Hikaru Nakamura! The mega chess star has been entertaining fans online for two decades and counting and his bullet and blitz skills are legendary. He has set the world record for most bullet victories against unique playe...
When we were preparing for the 2018 FIDE World Championship, Chess.com compiled a list of the most exciting world championship matches ever. But what were the best ones? Now that the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship between GM Magnus Carl...
This guide contains all the information about the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship: details on Carlsen, Nepomniachtchi, schedule, results, and more. GM Magnus Carlsen won four games in the match and drew seven for a final match score of 7.5-3....
It is amazing how all contemporary world champions were born somewhere on the outskirts of the giant empire rather than in its greatest cities and chess centers, such as Moscow or Leningrad. GM Anatoly Karpov was born in Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk obla...
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...
How will you react if GM Ian Nepomniachtchi defeats GM Magnus Carlsen and becomes the next world champion of chess? Will you have seen it coming, or would it be one of the biggest upsets in world chess championship history? How to watch the 2021...
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...
Only 22 players in the history of chess have held the official title of world champion, 18 of which held the "classical" title. With rare exceptions, the classical champion has been decided in a match between the sitting champion and a challenger....
PogChamps 4 is coming up, starting this Sunday, August 29. If there's anything PogChamps has taught us, it's that you don't need to be a grandmaster to play entertaining chess. You can be an entertainer who plays chess, and there are a countless n...
No chess event is more important than the world championship. This November, GM Magnus Carlsen will face off against his challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi for the crown. It is the next of dozens of matchups throughout history we've been able to wit...
The line between an "amateur" chess player and a professional one can be thin. Soviet chess masters used to have other careers, for example, but they wouldn't have gotten very far at all without their chess skills. We'll even talk about one of the...
The main event of the 2021 Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, where the world's best young players are competing for a $35,000 prize fund, is underway. Additionally, the record for youngest grandmaster in history was just set by IM Abhiman...
Today, 12th world chess champion Anatoly Karpov turns 70 years old! The Russian legend earned the title in 1975 as the 11th world chess champion, Bobby Fischer, did not agree to the terms for a new match. In the next decade, Karpov showed the worl...
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...
The International Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE, was established in 1924. At the time, Jose Raul Capablanca was the World Chess Champion, and he continued his reign until 1927. During that time frame, FIDE start...
