The final leg of the 2019 Grand Prix series started today in Jerusalem. The tournament that will decide two qualifiers for the 2020 Candidates' Tournament featured all draws on day one. The Jerusalem Grand Prix is a 16-player knockout with Shakh...
Today is the 50th birthday of five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand of India. It is also the day that his latest book comes out. "I hope they take away a slightly more accurate picture, a close-up of what a chess player's life and thoughts ar...
Hey, chess fans! The end of the year is upon us, and it's time again to take a look at what kept us busy last month at Chess.com. Here are the highlights of November 2019. Puzzles Puzzle Battle Direct Challenges are released. See the full...
Is it possible for a chess beginner to gain enough knowledge and skill to improve 600 rating points in 90 days? For most people, it is not enough to simply play the game of chess and leave it at that. While it is a game, it is also a pursuit of ...
Happy holidays! Today we are thrilled to release a new member Home page. And because there are so many different ways to spend time on the site, the focus is entirely on customization. The best home page is the one you build you...
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...