GM Hikaru Nakamura will face the self-proclaimed "final boss of chess," GM Magnus Carlsen, in the Final of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. On Wednesday, Nakamura defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 16.5-11.5. ...
GM Alexey Sarana and GM Nihal Sarin were the winners of Titled Tuesday on September 19, both of them scoring 9.5 points in the first 10 rounds. Sarana won the early event convincingly, leading by a full point entering the final round. To outlast G...
GM Magnus Carlsen is the first finalist in the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. He defeated GM Wesley So by a score of 22-7. The reigning world blitz chess champion won all three segments, with the most domina...
Chess.com is excited to announce a new treat for the avid online chess fan—a dedicated chess browser created in partnership with leading web innovator Opera. Using this enhancement, chess will be put right inside the browser, meaning you can...
GMs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, and Anish Giri ascended to the top in the 2023 AI Cup Play-in on Monday, claiming the remaining four spots in the Division I knockout. They will join GMs Magnus Carlsen, Alir...
The US Chess Federation's handling of allegations of sexual misconduct continued in the spotlight after Randy Bauer, the President of the federation, made public comments on social media. Former U.S. Women's Chess Champion WGM Jennifer Shahade r...
While chess players are battling it out on the chessboard, GM Igor Kovalenko is fighting for his own and his countrymen's lives in Ukraine. His fight has now seen him receive an award from the Ukrainian president. The 34-year-old grandmaster is ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura monstered his way to a record 10th Bullet Brawl title on Saturday ahead of 168 titled players including GMs Magnus Carlsen and Oleksandr Bortnyk, who finished second and third. Nakamura's run to a winning score of 250 featured...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave advance to the Semifinals of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. Carlsen overcame his former world championship challenger, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, by an 11-point marg...
Ever since the historic moment the great GM Garry Kasparov lost to Deep Blue in 1997, artificial intelligence has transformed chess. Now Chess.com, the world’s leading chess platform, is launching an elite tournament to celebrate AI’s ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura moves on to the Semifinals, while GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is through to the Quarterfinals of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase. Nakamura defeated GM Fabiano Caruana by a 10-point margin, 18.5-8.5,...
With student chess players across the world gearing up for the Fall 2023 season of Chess.com's exciting Collegiate Chess League, Chess.com is pleased to announce the competition just got even more special. The premier online chess competition fo...
In the longest SCC match so far this year, taking over four hours and totaling 32 games, GM Wesley So emerged victorious. He defeated GM Alireza Firouzja and is the first player to reach the Semifinals of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championshi...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi returned to Titled Tuesday on September 12 and won it for the first time in 17 months, taking the early tournament on tiebreaks with 9.5 points. GM Dmitry Andreikin, who has won more Titled Tuesdays in the last three yea...
ChessKid has announced the inaugural ChessKid National Festival, happening across the Presidents' Day weekend (February 16-19) in 2024. The multiple-day celebration will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Charlotte Convention Center. ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave booked his Quarterfinal spot in the 2023 Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase after dispatching GM Gukesh Dommaraju by a convincing 21.5-8.5 margin in the Round of 16 on Tuesday. The Frenchman will face Gukesh's...
In the end, the top-ranked Georgian team, led by GM Bella Khotenashvili, won gold at the World Women's Team Championship in Bydgoszcz, Poland. For much of the tournament, one of the lowest-ranked and youngest teams, Kazakhstan―with IM Bibi...
GM Fabiano Caruana will face five-time SCC Champion Hikaru Nakamura in the Quarterfinals of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase. Caruana defeated GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov with a score of 13.5-10.5 in the Round of 16.&...
Social media posts claiming Netflix's The Queen's Gambit is returning for a second season have gone viral in the last months. Sadly, they are false. "The Queens Gambit Season 2 coming soon!" claimed a post from the Facebook group Netflix Daily U...
GM Nihal Sarin claimed his first Bullet Brawl title on Saturday and scooped the $400 first prize after accruing 200 points in the two-hour arena, seven points ahead of the two-time winner GM Jose Martinez. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk outlasted GMs Rena...
GM Alexander Grischuk confirmed his reputation as a blitz specialist with steady play on the second and final day of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz, winning the title with a score of 12 points from 18 games. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov an...
Against GM Dmitry Andreikin, GM Alireza Firouzja won the closest Round of 16 match in the season so far in the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase. The final score was just a one-point difference, 13.5-12.5. Although Fi...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu got off to a flying start, winning his first five games, and ultimately ended with 6.5 points from nine games to be the sole leader at the end of the first day of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess India Open Blitz. Following t...
Who knew that the light-hearted Chess Clash event would almost bring the downfall of Chess.com? After CCO Danny Rensch irresponsibly bet the company's ownership on clan Barbarian's win, clan King emerged with a victory, giving Ludwig the right to ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave scored another 2.5 points on the last day of the 2023 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid, winning the event with a round to spare and scoring seven points out of a possible nine. GM Teimour Radjabov was placed second with ...