This week's PRO Chess League dodges, ducks, dips, dives and dodges as it moves to Monday and Tuesday to accommodate many player conflicts with Tata Steel and Gibraltar. The Eastern and Central Divisions play on Monday beginning at 7 a.m. PT while ...
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is down to two leaders as both Vishy Anand and Magnus Carlsen won excellent games in round eight. Vladimir Kramnik's suffering continued as he lost to Jan-Krzysztof Duda whereas Vladimir Fedoseev d...
No less than five players are sharing the lead at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament after seven rounds. On Saturday Anish Giri, Ding Liren, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Magnus Carlsen were joined by Vishy Anand, who beat Vladimir ...
In a most entertaining sixth round it was again "double Dutch" at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament with wins for both Anish Giri and Jorden van Foreest. Giri joined Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi in the lead and so did Magnus...
After two weeks, only one player, GM Ivan Saric, has a perfect 8/8 score in the PRO Chess League. His dominant performance (as well as GM Eric Hansen's) have made the Montreal Chessbrahs look like one of the teams to beat early in the PRO Chess Le...
Ding Liren defeated Sam Shankland and joined Ian Nepomniachtchi in the lead in round five of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, which visited the city of Alkmaar for one day. Magnus Carlsen was among the winners and thus made an end to his...
Anish Giri and Vidit Santosh Gujrathi were the only winners in the fourth round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee. With his fourth straight draw, Magnus Carlsen has now drawn 21 straight classical games, one more than Giri's ...
At the age of 12 years, 7 months, and 17 days, Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju became the second youngest grandmaster in chess history. He scored his third grandmaster norm at the 17th Delhi International Chess Grandmaster Open today in New D...
Ian Nepomniachtchi took sole lead in round three of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. The Russian grandmaster reached 2.5/3 after beating a so far struggling Vladimir Kramnik. There were two more winners: Ding Lir...
The new scoring system of the Professional Online Rapid (PRO) Chess League means teams aren't just trying to eke out victories. They're trying to demolish their opponents and run up big scores. So, get ready for some teams to use some big names ...
After losing their games in the first round, Dutch GMs Anish Giri and Jorden van Foreest bounced back with wins in the second round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. A disappointing first day was followed by a ...
Viswanathan Anand and Ian Nepomniachtchi won their games in the first round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. The top encounter between Ding Liren and Magnus Carlsen ended in a draw. The participants of th...
Chess.com and Twitch will partner once more for season three of the new Arena Kings chess tournament series starting on Monday, Jan. 14. To accommodate the schedules of players in the PRO Chess League, we've gone back to two events per week...
The 2019 season of the PRO Chess League started strong with thrilling, competitive matchups and zero drawn matches. Only two teams, the Saint Louis Arch Bishops and the Montreal Chessbrahs, scored more than 10 points. Additionally, this year's new...
With the beginning of the new year, chess fans and players are getting ready for the first super tournament of 2019. It's the Tata Steel Chess tournament, which will be opened on Friday afternoon and has its first round on Saturday. Magnus Carlsen...
The four engines that have dominated the Computer Chess Championship since its inception will battle once again in the finals of CCC 3: Rapid Redux. CCC 3: Rapid Redux finals are now live: Watch and chat on Chess.com/CCC—features...
How can losers be winners? The 2019 Bay Area International in Burlingame, California made several fortunes foggy, but at the end of the nine rounds, the field clarified and several players had reasons to celebrate. First there was GM Le Qua...
The year 2019 started strongly with the biggest Titled Tuesday ever held on Chess.com. A field of 388 played, and the winner was GM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan of India, who finished ahead of e.g. GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So. Since it's ...
Tomorrow the PRO Chess League's third season takes off with half of the first-week matches on Tuesday, January 8. The other matches will follow on Thursday, January 10. The league has $50,000 in prizes and is stronger than ever, with five of ...
The question at hand is not a trick, but it is tough. About a decade before Bobby Fischer made the cover, the inaugural chess player on the cover of Sports Illustrated was 1960s U.S. chess star Lisa Lane. Lisa Lane, the groundbreaker. | Photo: A...
It a case of "7Up" for its collegiate chess program, Webster University has won the largest open collegiate team event in the Western Hemisphere for the seventh time in as many years. The Gorloks are 2018 Pan-Am Intercollegiate Team Chess Champion...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's GM Wesley So! The place is Johannesburg, and the occasion is the South African Junior Chess Championship (SAJCC). In the wake of social trends such as Fabiano Caruana's bucket challenge and Magnus Carlsen's ...
We are excited to share with you the new Chess.com Lessons feature. We took a step back and looked at what would be the most effective way to help new and improving players get better at chess. We had videos, but they lacked an interactive ...
Scoring a point more than last year in Riyadh, Magnus Carlsen retained his $60,000 world blitz title with 17/21, half a point more than Jan-Krzysztof Duda ($50,000). Like in the rapid, bronze went to Hikaru Nakamura ($40,000). Kateryna...
With nine rounds to go on Sunday Magnus Carlsen and Vladislav Artemiev share the lead at the World Blitz Championship in St. Petersburg. Kateryna Lagno and Sarasadat Khademalsharieh are tied for first in the women's s...