The second leg of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix started on Wednesday with the round of 16. Women's world number-one Hou Yifan won in her debut, while the finalists of the first leg, GMs Anna Ushenina and Valen...
GM Magnus Carlsen took the lead in his Chessable Masters' semifinal with GM Ding Liren, winning just before an armageddon was needed. In the second game, he gifted his opponent a win after Ding had lost an equal endgame due to disconnection.&...
Comedians on Board—Part Two will be hosted on Chess.com by Samay Raina, one of India's leading stand-up comedians. This event will feature more than 20 of India's top comedians and will run for a week. This event will be broadcasted on Raina...
The International Chess Federation has announced the FIDE Online Olympiad, a new major team competition to be held online from July 22 till August 30th, 2020. The main 2020 Chess Olympiad, scheduled for August 5-17, has been moved t...
GM Ding Liren defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura on Monday in their third match of the Chessable Masters quarterfinals. The Chinese grandmaster will next face GM Magnus Carlsen in the semifinals that start on Tuesday. How to watch?The ga...
GM Anna Ushenina beat GM Valentina Gunina 7-4 in Sunday's final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix's first leg. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk defeated Vaishali Rameshbabu 7-4 in a match for third place hel...
GM Anish Giri celebrated his 26th birthday with a second victory against GM Alexander Grischuk and qualification to the Chessable Masters semifinals. In a thriller of a match, GM Hikaru Nakamura managed to level the score vs. GM Ding Lir...
The FIDE World Chess Championship Match, which was scheduled to start on Dec. 20, 2020 in Dubai, has been postponed to 2021. The second half of the Candidates Tournament is still planned to take place before the end of this year, said FIDE Directo...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi qualified for the Chessable Masters semifinals convincingly. Once again, the two needed just three games to win their matches against GMs Fabiano Caruana and Vladislav Artemiev res...
GM Anish Giri took the lead in his best-of-three with GM Alexander Grischuk at the Chessable Masters in a match where all seven games ended in draws; he drew as Black in the armageddon. GM Ding Liren won his first match with GM Hikaru Nakamur...
In a fantastic display of tactics and speed from both players, USA's Tani Adewumi bested UK's CM Shreyas Royal in Thursday's opening contest of the UK vs. USA Rising Stars Chess Match. The match was tied 1-1 after the rapid portion but Adewumi w...
Both GM Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi needed only three games to win their first quarterfinal matches of the Chessable Masters. They beat GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Vladislav Artemiev respectively, who must win their mat...
GMs Anna Ushenina beat GM Valentina Gunina 7-4 in the final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix's first leg. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk had defeated Vaishali Rameshbabu 7-4 in a match for third place hel...
Russian GM Dmitry Andreikin won the fourth Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix after beating UAE's GM Salem Saleh in the knockout final. GM Vladimir Fedoseev continues to lead the overall Grand Prix leaderboard. The next Speed Chess Ch...
Some of the best young players from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean will be on display this week for the "UK vs. USA Rising Stars Chess Match." The event is a culmination of several months of diligent stay-at-home chess practice by eager users of...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and GM Teimour Radjabov have been eliminated from the Chessable Masters. The two players didn't finish among the top four of the B group. GMs Anish Giri, Ding Liren, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Fabiano Caruana made it to...
GM Hikaru Nakamura avoided early elimination by beating GM Daniil Dubov in the final round of the Chessable Masters A group's Swiss phase on Monday. GMs Magnus Carlsen, Vladislav Artemiev, and Alexander Grischuk also quali...
FIDE's record-breaking Checkmate Coronavirus project saw 520,000 entries and 120,000 unique participants from at least 140 countries in 2,762 different tournaments on various chess platforms. The string of tournaments lasted 720 hours between May ...
GMs Anish Giri and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave lead the B group of the Chessable Masters after day one. The two players scored 3/5 on a day with many draws. GM Ding Liren drew all of his games. How to watch?The games of the Chessable Masters can be f...
GM Vladislav Artemiev leads the A group of the Chessable Masters after day one. The Russian grandmaster scored 3.5/5, half a point more than GM Daniil Dubov, who beat GM Magnus Carlsen in round four. How to watch?The games of the Chess...
The Chess.com PogChamps Championship and Consolation Finals on Friday, June 19th saw Voyboy, Hutch, Ludwig, and MoisCr1tikal battling their way through two thrilling and close finals matches that each went to tiebreaks. In the championship bracket...
The Chess.com PogChamps semifinals started Thursday, with Hutch, MoisCr1tikal, and VoyBoy advancing to the finals. In the championship bracket, Hutch defeated NymN in a close match that went to a tiebreak game while Voyboy beat Boxbox. Hutch and V...
WGM Tatev Abrahamyan and GM Valentina Gunina qualified for the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix as the top-two finishers of the sixth qualifier tournament held on Monday. Abrahamyan and Gunina had finishe...
Do female chess players play better or worse when they play against men, or is there no difference? A recent study suggests that women perform slightly worse as a result of what has been labeled "stereotype threat." Co-authored by Australian GM ...
Hey, chess fans! Remember May? Well, before it recedes any further into the mists of time, let's shine a light on all the cool stuff that happened around the site last month... Web We made several changes to ensure Dark Mode look...