AlphaZero is the subject of much controversy in the chess world. Some today (a majority of our members!) insist that it is still the strongest chess engine the world has ever seen, that Google DeepMind's chess-playing neural network is still super...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won his chess24 Legends of Chess semifinal match against GM Anish Giri and moves on to the final. Nepomniachtchi commented on his win: "I think it's a great achievement because the field is very strong, and qualifying to the ...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his chess24 Legends of Chess semifinal match against GM Peter Svidler and moves on to the final. In the other match on Saturday, GM Anish Giri defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in their ar...
GM Magnus Carlsen took the lead in his chess24 Legends of Chess semifinal match with GM Peter Svidler. The other Russian player did better: GM Ian Nepomniachtchi beat GM Anish Giri. The second batch of matches wi...
With a win in the final round on Wednesday, GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek secured victory at the Biel Chess Festival Chess Triathlon. The margin was small as the Polish grandmaster finished only half a point ahead of India's GM Pentala Harikrishna. Wojt...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Peter Svidler made it to the knockout phase of the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament. The four players will start their matches on Friday. How to watch?The games of the chess24 Legends of...
NM Ryo Chen from Texas won the first-ever ChessKid Youth Speed Chess Championship on Saturday, July 25. Ryo triumphed against seven other incredibly talented 10-and-under youth players in this eight-player knockout event. His opponent in the fin...
In the round-eight clash of players who had won all their matches, GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the armageddon game. GM Anish Giri lost to GM Vasyl Ivanchuk but still qualified for the chess24 Legends of Chess tournamen...
On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday the games of the FIDE Online Olympiad's Base Division were played. Myanmar, Brunei Darussalam, Pakistan, Oman, Lebanon, Qatar, Bahrain, Liberia, Cyprus, Aruba, Haiti, and Mauritania have qualified for Division 4. ...
GM Viswanathan Anand finally won his first match in the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament. In a repeat of the 2012 world championship match, the Indian grandmaster defeated GM Boris Gelfand. GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ian Nepom...
GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek leads the Biel Chess Festival Chess Triathlon with three standard rounds to go. The first top-level over-the-board chess event that hasn't been canceled due to the coronavirus is a combination of standard, rapi...
GM Magnus Carlsen is back as the sole leader at the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament. He beat GM Ding Liren in four games while GM Ian Nepomniachtchi needed an armageddon to inflict a sixth match loss on GM Viswanathan ...
On Saturday GM Ian Nepomniachtchi caught GM Magnus Carlsen in first place at the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament. While Nepomniachtchi beat GM Peter Svidler 3-1, Carlsen faced stiff opposition from GM Vasyl Ivanchuk and only won...
GM Magnus Carlsen is the only player with a perfect streak at the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament after four rounds. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is in second place, having won one match in the armageddon. Meanwhile, GM Ding Liren ...
Eight anime Youtubers will compete for a $5,000 prize fund in Tournament Arc, a single-elimination bracket tournament that will run August 6-9 on Chess.com with live commentary. After Pogchamps (and in anticipation of the next Pogchamps!) Chess....
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Peter Svidler maintained their winning streaks and continue to lead the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament after three rounds. GM Ding Liren and Viswanathan Anand have started with three losses while GM Vasyl Ivan...
The United States Chess Federation will hold some of its longest-running and most prestigious scholastic tournaments online this year, starting this weekend on Chess.com. Like many "over the board" tournaments, the U.S. Open (historically ...
GM Haik Martirosyan has won the eighth Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The 20-year-old Armenian grandmaster beat Russian GM Vladislav Artemiev 2-0 in the knockout final and is now in fourth place in the overall Grand Prix standings. Th...
After a quartet of the most promising masters competed on Saturday, the 2020 ChessKid Youth Speed Chess Championship finals are set. In the opening match, top-seeded FM Marco Materia frustrated NM Brewington Hardaway with his ultra-solid style a...
The FIDE Online Olympiad, a major online chess event for national teams, will run July 25-August 30 on the Chess.com server. With 163 teams and over 1,500 participants from all over the world, the tournament will be a truly global team event ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Boris Gelfand, and Peter Svidler are leading the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament after having won both of their first two matches. GM Ding Liren seems hopelessly out of shape and started with two losses. How to ...
On July 16, GM Anish Giri played a 30-board simul on Chess.com against the top-ranked players of Nepal, the home country of Giri's father. Giri scored 28/30 while streaming the simul on his channel. The simul was organized by the Nepal Chess Ass...
GM Boris Gelfand scored an upset victory over GM Ding Liren in the first round of the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament that started on Tuesday. The event is part of the Magnus Carlsen Tour and brings together top GMs with older legends of the g...
On Monday GM Anna Ushenina won the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. The Ukrainian grandmaster defeated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 14.5-13.5 in the Super Final, purposely held on International Chess Day. The final ...
Chess.com is announcing the second edition of Pogchamps, the critically-acclaimed Twitch streamer chess tournament featuring some of the most well-known content creators in the world. The second edition of Pogchamps will kick off August 21, starri...