It's Hikaru Nakamura alone who is enjoying the lead at the 2019 U.S. championship during the rest day. The 31-year-old grandmaster beat Timur Gareyev and is the only player on 4/6. Jennifer Yu kept her half-point lead in round six. ...
The PRO Chess League's playoffs have reached the quarterfinals, with just eight teams left in the competition. The question now: Who will make it to San Francisco? Play starts Tuesday at 4 p.m. PDT (7 p.m. EDT, 11 p.m. GMT). The teams ...
On Sunday, the number of leaders went from four to five at the 2019 U.S. championship. Sam Sevian defeated Varuzhan Akobian to join the group on plus one. Jennifer Yu dropped her first half-point but still leads the women's tournament. ...
After four rounds the 2019 U.S. championship has four leaders, all on plus one: Jeffery Xiong, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura and Leinier Dominguez. Jennifer Yu leads the women's tournament after winning all four games. U.S. Championship: ...
The first week of the 2019 PRO Chess League Playoffs saw eight teams progress to the quarterfinals, where they will each vie for a coveted spot in the live PRO Chess League Final in San Francisco this May. Their progression means that the P...
Maxim Rodshtein (Israel), Ferenc Berkes (Hungary), Kirill Alekseenko (Russia) and Kacper Piorun (Poland) are the only players on 4.5/5 at the European Individual Chess Championship in Skopje, North Macedonia. Saturday is the one and only rest...
As winners in the second round, Sam Sevian and Wesley So joined Jeffery Xiong in the lead at the 2019 U.S. championship. Carissa Yip and Jennifer Yu are tied for first place in the women's tournament. U.S. Championship: "First of all it w...
Top grandmasters Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Anish Giri of the Netherlands today joined forces in a video posted on Carlsen's Twitter account as part of a United Nations campaign against racism. For once, they broke the rule in chess th...
Jeffery Xiong is the early leader at the 2019 U.S. championship thanks to a win with the black pieces vs Timur Gareyev. All six games in the women's championship were decisive. Moved up a bit in the calendar, the 2019 U.S. championships (open an...
The Chess.com Computer Chess champion Stockfish defended its sixth straight title last weekend as it bested the machine-learning engine Lc0 in a heads-up match that went the distance to the maximum number of games. Stockfish took the C...
Although he is living in a homeless shelter and only learned to play chess a year ago, Tanitoluwa Adewumi, an eight-year-old Nigerian refugee, won the New York State Championship earlier this month. The story has been covered by major news ...
While chess fans worldwide may have had their eyes glued to PRO Chess League action, the World Team Championship or Prague, here are some stories you may have missed this past month: Chess Therapy for Panic Disorders Catching Up with the Quee...
It's playoff time for the PRO Chess League, and the teams from the Atlantic and Pacific Division aim to get one step closer to the live esports final in San Francisco. Play starts Tuesday at 1:20 p.m. PDT (4:20 p.m. EDT, 8:20 p.m. GMT). The...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chess.com brings Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League championship to Twitch. San Francisco, March 18, 2019—Chess.com, the world's largest chess site, and Twitch, the leading service and community for...
Top seed GM Wang Hao of China stamped his authority on the HD Bank International Masters 2019 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to win yet another GM open in Asia. The HD Bank International is already into its ninth edition since its incept...
A wild Grob Attack decided the Team Chess Battle match between U.S. and France on March 15. Hikaru Nakamura’s TeamBattlesUSA had the better of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave’s TeamBattlesFrance on a three rapid games online battle across the...
With the regular season complete, sixteen teams are one step closer to reaching the PRO Chess League Finals in San Francisco on May 4-5. With eleven different countries represented across the four divisions, the bracket is now set for Round of 16 ...
With the final week of the 2019 PRO Chess League regular season complete, the playoff picture is set as 16 teams saw their season come to an end. Notable omissions include the Montreal Chessbrahs and the San Jose Hackers, as both teams did not per...
The Russian grandmaster Nikita Vitiugov won the first edition of the Prague International Chess Festival masters with 5.5/9. Spanish GM David Anton won the challengers and promoted to the highest group next year. In the ...
One of the most popular competitive formats on Chess.com is back with two more Team Chess Battles. Each battle pairs up two chess masters per team, who will talk out and decide every move on their turn for a live broadcast audience. You can watc...
England today defeated Sweden at the World Team Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan to claim the silver medals ahead of China and behind Russia, who had already secured gold on Wednesday. China, already sure of gold as well, also w...
Russia won the World Team Championship with a round to spare after beating Sweden and seeing its main rival England lose to China. In the women's section, China has already secured gold as well with eight straight victories. Open section: ...
The first-ever ChessKid Games won't see out how fast you can run or swim, but it will test the skills of some of the best ChessKid users in several different disciplines! Alumni of the famous "CONIC" event will pair up alongside current ChessKids ...
Russia holds a slim lead going into the final two rounds of the World Team Championship in Astana, but England is just a match-point behind. China is close to securing gold in the women's section, with a three-point lead over Russia...
March's Titled Tuesday event featured 396 titled players (just shy of February's 400-plus record) competing for cash and glory. The top seed was Hikaru Nakamura, the record-holder for most Titled Tuesday wins. Despite losing to a player who d...