GM Aleksandra Goryachkina defeated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk on Friday in what was the third game of their quarterfinal match in Pool B of the 2022-23 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament. Kosteniuk now needs to win on demand to force a tiebreak on Sat...
Chess.com has formally requested the Eastern Missouri District Court to dismiss GM Hans Niemann's defamation lawsuit. The motion to dismiss, filed on December 2, 2022, asserts that the lawsuit "could have been brought only as a public relations st...
GM Nihal Sarin won the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid with a round to spare, while GM Anna Ushenina tied for first and won the tiebreak match to win the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid. In the Open section, while Nihal scored 6...
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GM Levon Aronian defeated GM Dmitry Andreikin in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship in an electrifying duel on Wednesday. The match between these two exceptional grandmasters was loaded with imaginative play and rivalrous chess to culminate in...
GM Nihal Sarin and GM Nana Dzagnidze are in the sole leads of their respective groups with an identical 4.5 points from six games in the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid and 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid. Overnight leader GM Sh...
GMs Daniil Dubov and Magnus Carlsen won the November 29 editions of Titled Tuesday. Dubov scored 10.5/11 in the early tournament, winning by 1.5 points, while Carlsen scored 9.5 and outlasted GM Vladimir Fedoseev on tiebreaks. Also making an imp...
Chess.com is happy to announce that we've released 50 lessons on the most popular chess openings. Developed by our team of master players, these lessons will teach you everything you need to know to take your opening play to the next level. Many...
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan and GM Nana Dzagnidze of Georgia won all three rounds to jump into the sole lead of the 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid and 2022 Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid, respectively, by a full-point marg...
Pool B, the second stage of the 2022-23 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament held in Khiva, Uzbekistan, started with two draws. GM Aleksandra Goryachkina was close to a decisive advantage in her game with GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, while GM Tan Zhongyi...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave convincingly won his round of 16 match against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi by the greatest margin yet in Chess.com's 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Monday after an exceptional run in the bullet portion. Vachier-Lagrave...
The Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Tata Steel Chess India Women's Rapid were inaugurated at a short evening ceremony in Kolkata, India. At its fourth edition, the iconic event with separate rapid and blitz sections and a total prize fund of $41,...
GM John Nunn won the gold medal in the 65+ section of the World Senior Chess Championships held in Assisi, Italy. Playing in the same group, GM Nona Gaprindashvili won the women's senior title for the eighth time. GM Zurab Sturua won the 50+ secti...
The 2022 Speed Chess Championship continued on Sunday with a round of 16 clash between world championship challenger GM Ding Liren and SCC qualifier GM Alexander Grischuk. The match, which ultimately ended in a 14-12 victory for the Chinese supers...
In the final of the World Team Chess Championship in Jerusalem, the surprise winner was the Chinese team, after winning both matches against Uzbekistan, the champions from the Chennai Chess Olympiad. In the battle for the bronze medals, Spain an...
China and Uzbekistan reached the final of the World Team Chess Championship in Jerusalem. The two countries defeated Spain and India, respectively, in the second match on Thursday, after both first matches had ended in a 2-2 tie. The final and the...
The World Team Chess Championship in Jerusalem saw Uzbekistan and China continue to perform exceptionally, knocking out Ukraine and Poland. Spain defeated the powerhouse Azerbaijan team. India pulled ahead of France in a riveting blitz playoff. ...
GM Fabiano Caruana was the first player to progress to the quarterfinals of the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday after defeating GM Arjun Erigaisi in a nail-biting curtain-raiser for the main event. Erigaisi built a strong lead early; ...
Chess.com is happy to announce that registrations are now open for the Spring 2023 season of the Collegiate Chess League! This season returns with the 4 vs. 4 team format most CCL players and fans are familiar with and a whopping $30,000...
China finished in first place in Pool A of the World Team Championship with an undefeated nine points. There was a three-way tie for second between France, Spain, and Ukraine, all of which qualify for the knockout stage. Uzbekistan topped ...
GM Magnus Carlsen once again tops the field for the upcoming 2023 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The 85th edition of the annual super-tournament in Wijk aan Zee will have five players from the world's top-10 and also five of the world's biggest tale...
The German chess software company ChessBase and the team behind the open-source chess engine Stockfish have reached a settlement and ended their legal dispute over the latter's claim regarding a repeated license violation by Chessbase with their p...
With one round to go in the pool stage, the Netherlands and the United States are in danger of missing out in the next rounds of the World Team Chess Championship. The two teams are currently not among the top four in their respective pools. China...
Azerbaijan and China are the early leaders at the FIDE World Team Chess Championship which started on Sunday in Jerusalem, Israel. The tournament is played under the rapid time control of 45+10 and has a pool stage followed by a knockout stage. ...
GM Magnus Carlsen finished the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals in style as he also won his seventh and final match, against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. The world champion scored a stunning 20/21, seven points more than runner-up GM Wesley So. H...