IM Jeremy Silman, the highly respected American chess author, trainer, and player, has passed at the age of 69. His contributions to the world of chess have left an indelible mark, inspiring and educating countless enthusiasts and players worldwid...
The University of Missouri (Mizzou) and Saint Louis University (SLU) started on the right foot in the first week of the $25,000, SIG-sponsored 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) by recording compelling victories over the University of Virginia (UV...
GM Nihal Sarin soared to dizzying heights and amassed a total score of 294 in September's fourth Bullet Brawl. Thanks to 78 wins, six draws, and just three losses during the two-hour arena, Nihal finished ahead of 10-time victor GM Hikaru Nakamura...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Peter Svidler are the new leaders at Levitov Chess Week after nine rounds. The two Russian grandmasters are tied with six points, half a point more than GMs Viswanathan Anand and GM Levon Aronian. The tournament wil...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his third SCC title after defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura 13.5-12.5 in the Final of the 2023 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase. The match had many phases. Carlsen got off to a strong start, taking a two-...
GM Levon Aronian leads the Levitov Chess Week after the first day of play, scoring three wins and two draws. The tournament runs until September 26 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. How to watch?You can watch the 2023 Levitov Chess Week on YouTub...
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...