Eliminating another Russian top grandmaster, Jan-Krzystof Duda became the first player to advance to the semifinals of the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. The Polish player defeated Alexander Grischuk in a truly epic match on Tuesday. ...
The first stage of the first Computer Chess Championship event is in the books, and after 562 official games Stockfish tops the leaderboard with an excellent score of 39/46, the first of eight engines to advance to stage two. The two other ...
The last six weeks were full of top-level events like the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, the Sinquefield Cup, the World Junior Championship, and many Speed Chess Championship matches. The "In Other News" tidbits have been piling up, but today, t...
Stunning the chess world with a 9.5/10 score before losing in the last round, Iranian GM Parham Maghsoodloo won the World Junior Championship in Gebze, Turkey. Aleksandra Maltsevskaya of Russia won gold in the girls section. The&n...
Although he finished with two wins, Garry Kasparov ended up losing his match with Veselin Topalov at the Champions Showdown in St. Louis. With a 6/8 score on the final day, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was much too strong for Sa...
During the first two days of the Champions Showdown in St. Louis, Sam Shankland did quite well, but on Thursday Maxime Vachier-Lagrave defeated him three times. Garry Kasparov improved his score slightly vs Veselin Topalov...
With the October 3 FIDE presidential elections approaching, the battle between the three candidates is fierce. Today the team of Georgios Makropoulos announced that letters about his main rival Arkady Dvorkovich have been sent to both the FID...
The Champions Showdown Chess960 matches are underway in St. Louis, with the fan focus being on the clash between the legendary Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov. It is Topalov, the Bulgarian grandmaster, who leads the match after the second ...
Chess.com and Twitch will partner again for season two of the revamped Arena Kings chess tournament series starting next week, Monday, Sept. 17. The series adds an event to give streamers and fans a third date each week, and will culminate with...
A Peruvian chess player was removed from the national Olympic team after she accused the team captain of sexual harassment, according to a report by the Spanish newspaper El País. It's a disturbing story that was published in the lar...
The machine-learning engine Lc0 (nicknamed "Leela") is in undefeated clear fourth place behind the world's top three traditional chess engines—Houdini, Komodo, and Stockfish—halfway through the Computer Chess Championship double-r...
Pundits have often labeled the Pacific Division the toughest division in the PRO Chess League. In the first-ever PRO Chess League All Stars, they cemented that status with a thrilling multiple-overtime victory over the Atlantic Division. Four Al...
The first round of the 2018 Speed Chess Championship was completed with Anish Giri's 17-15 win against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov on Friday. The latter almost came back from a seven-point deficit, and played lots of fun openings. ...
Jan-Krzysztof Duda played Russian roulette against Sergey Karjakin in the "bullet" portion of the Speed Chess Championship and lived to tell the tale. Duda not only survived the bullet segment, but won +4 =1 -2 to complete the upset. After...
Yesterday's match between Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Komodo offered a unique insight to the thought process of a super grandmaster. While playing the computer, MVL was providing live commentary. "I'm here, I'm ready. It's gonna be exciting!" &md...
GM Dmitry Andreikin and WGM Natalija Pogonina are the winners of the 2018 Russian Championship's Superfinals, which finished today in Satka. Both players won a rapid playoff held after the final round, vs GM Dmitry Jakovenko and WGM Olga Girya res...
A hard-fought September Titled Tuesday tournament saw a four-way tie between GMs Sergey Grigoriants, Wesley So, GM Daniil Yuffa and IM Arash Tahbaz. These players scored 8.5/10 to finish atop the standings. This month's ...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Hikaru Nakamura are the biggest names in the first ever All Stars event of the PRO Chess League. The 2018 season's final event is set for September 8. You'll surely remember the hard-fought victory of the Armenia ...
During the Sinquefield Cup it was a close call, but Magnus Carlsen starts the month of September with a 12-point lead over Fabiano Caruana in the new FIDE rating list. The world champion also tops the lists for rapid and blitz. Winning as Black ...
After six rounds, the Russian Superfinal open championship is a six-way tie. In the women's championship, two leaders on a plus-two score are followed by five more on plus-one. The outcome of both competitions remains unpredictable. The t...
The Chess.com Computer Chess Championship (CCCC) is back with a new, always-on format and more chess engines as Chess.com makes a major investment in the future of computer chess. Update: CCCC 1: Rapid Rumble is now live! Watch and cha...
It was the first-ever Speed Chess Championship match that was tied after the two blitz segments. Vidit Santosh Gujrathi then completely dominated in the bullet against Zaven Andriasyan, eventually winning the match 16-9. The match was par...
Fabiano Caruana languished. Then he led. Then he was chased. Then he was caught. Then he was tied. Then he was tied, again. Then he negotiated. Then he won. And that was just August. He still has an Olympiad title defense next month, then a worl...
GM Harika Dronavalli's wedding with Karteek Chandra on August 19 was special, and two Chess.com reporters were among the lucky ones attending. GM Humpy Koneru hasn't played much classical chess since her wedding in 2014, and even dropp...
London calling, again. This time, it's a double chess "clash" for Fabiano Caruana. Earlier this year he won the Candidates' Tournament to qualify for November's world championship. Now, he will be back in London in December for the Grand Chess T...