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Aleksandra Goryachkina (Russia), Humpy Koneru and Harika Dronavalli (both India) are tied for first place halfway through the Monaco Women's Grand Prix. Koneru won the previous GP in Skolkovo, Russia. The second leg in the four-tournament series...
Ding Liren won the 2019 Grand Chess Tour in London after beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 16-12 in the final. Magnus Carlsen claimed third place with a 17-11 win against Levon Aronian. Ding won the first prize of $150,000 while...
Ding Liren won a splendid game with the white pieces against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to take a six-point lead in the Grand Chess Tour final. Magnus Carlsen escaped from a lost position vs. Levon Aronian and increased his un...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave escaped from a lost position vs. Ding Liren in the first game of the Grand Chess Tour final that had four queens on the board. Magnus Carlsen won his first game against Levon Aronian in the fight for...
Wesley So is the first player to qualify for the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship final. The American grandmaster defeated Russia's Vladislav Artemiev 17.5-11.5 in their semifinal on Thursday. Before the match So was m...
Igors Rausis, the 58-year-old Latvian-Czech player who was caught with his phone during a game at the Strasbourg Open earlier this year, was stripped of his GM title and received a six-year ban from the FIDE ethics commission. The news was ...
Hikaru Nakamura defeated Jan-Krzysztof Duda 15.5-11.5 in Wednesday's Speed Chess Championship quarterfinal. It was the last match of the four quarterfinals, and the Speed Chess bracket now enters the final four. Duda started...
Vladislav Artemiev and Wesley So will play the first semifinal of the 2019 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship on Thursday. Their match will start at 7 a.m. Pacific (10 a.m. Eastern, 16:00 CET). Yesterday, Hikaru Nakamura defe...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave defeated Magnus Carlsen to reach the final of the Grand Chess Tour playoff. The Frenchman beat the world champion in a tiebreak of their semifinal and will now face Ding Liren in the final. Ding won against Levon A...
On Tuesday, the Grand Chess Tour playoff saw two more draws in the standard games. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Magnus Carlsen quickly played until bare kings were left on the board. Ding Liren and Levon Aronian repeated moves after a bit les...
A full recap article of today's match will be released soon. For now, here is a preview of the quarterfinal encounter: Hikaru Nakamura and Jan-Krzysztof Duda will play the fourth and last quarterfinal of the 2019 Chess.com Speed Chess Champ...
The Grand Chess Tour's playoff took off on Monday in London with two draws. Whereas Levon Aronian and Ding Liren started quietly, Magnus Carlsen and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave played a tactically complicated Sicilian that "confused" the world champion...
To celebrate the start of the holiday shopping season, Chess.com is giving all members 24 hours of free access to Puzzle Battle, an exciting new game pitting two players against each other to solve as many chess puzzles as possible. The 24 hours...
The Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz has come to a close, with Magnus Carlsen the clear winner scoring 27 points, a full four points ahead of the second-place finisher Hikaru Nakamura. The event also marked an end ...
Magnus Carlsen extended his lead to five points at the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz with nine rounds of blitz remaining. With the world champion nearly assured the first place prize, the audience kept a close eye on Vi...
Magnus Carlsen increased his lead even more at the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz. As if striving for perfect symmetry, he also scored 2.5/3 on the final day of rapid to set a performance rating of 3032. He is now four points ahead of Hi...
Scoring 2.5/3 again, Magnus Carlsen increased his lead at the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz to three points. Wesley So, who also scored 2.5/3 on day two, joined Hikaru Nakamura in second place. The Tata Steel Chess India Rap...
The Grand Chess Tour's final leg before the London playoffs started today in Kolkata, India. After three rounds of rapid, Magnus Carlsen is leading the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz. We've had the Cote d’Ivoire Rapid & Blitz...
On November 16, the Iranian government suspended internet access to its country. Iranian users are some of Chess.com's most active and enthusiastic players; this year, Team Iran won division two in the Live Chess World League ahead of motivate...
As part of the expanded, improved and updated Puzzle Rush, Chess.com will launch a new Puzzle Battle World Championship to determine the best chess-puzzle solver on the planet. The tournament will feature a field of 16, headed by 14 invited play...
It's been one year since Chess.com released Puzzle Rush, the game where players solve as many chess problems as they can in a short time. Puzzle Rush quickly became one of the most popular features on the site, and everyone from chess beginners to...
Wesley So defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on Tuesday in the third quarterfinal of the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. The American grandmaster will now face Vladislav Artemiev of Russia in the semifinals. Already in India for the T...
On Wednesday, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Danny Rensch teamed up for a special event to help raise awareness for adoption, contributing all donated proceeds to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. After a few close calls d...
Ian Nepomniachtchi defeated Ding Liren in the second Speed Chess Championship quarterfinal match, played Monday here on Chess.com. The Russian player won both the five- and three-minute segments with a big margin. The next match is Tuesday, Nove...