With an open qualification process that began in April, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship continues the final qualification phase as it plays down to the final six players who will qualify for the quarterfinals in early October. T...
Levon Aronian said before the 2019 Sinquefield Cup that he wanted to be the first to win both it and the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz in the same year. He took care of the first part of business last week, but in round four of the classical event...
Puzzle Rushers, rejoice! For today we added two new modes! You can think of them as time controls for Rush! Puzzle Modes 3 min Don't have time for a 5-minute Rush? No problem! Now you can start working on your high score in the new 3-minut...
Getting 5.5% return on your money will satiate most long-term investors, but not many chess fans. After day three of the 2019 Sinquefield Cup, a field that now includes the top 10 players in the world are all choosing a conservative portfolio. Aga...
Saturday's Group D finale was only the start of an action-packed weekend in the PRO Chess League Summer Series. The Montreal Chessbrahs completed their group stage by beating the Minnesota Blizzard in their live club match...
On Sunday, the 16-year-old Iranian chess prodigy GM Alireza Firouzja weathered a seven-hour barrage of tough opponents to reach the quarterfinals of the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. Firouzja defeated IM Nicol...
Round two of the Sinquefield Cup leg of the Grand Chess Tour saw all six games end in a draw. Anish Giri and Ian Nepomniachtchi had the biggest chances but slipped. Viswanathan Anand still leads the event as he is the only player to win in St. Lou...
In several recent tweets, Viswanathan Anand explained that his son has taken quite a liking to the instructional videos on ChessKid.com. Well, Akhil, turns out your dad can teach you about winning tactics, too. "I'll show him the position and se...
The PRO Chess League Summer Series group stage comes to an end on Saturday, and with the Montreal Chessbrahs clinching first place in Group D, the Minnesota Blizzard, Norway Gnomes and the Cannes Blitzstream...
Young chess fans from all over the world now have a chance to become a world-record holder. ChessKid and GM Judit Polgar are teaming up to set the all-time record for the world's largest online chess tournament. To achieve this, we need as ...
Despite losses in his first and last game of the day, Levon Aronian ended on top at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour. The Armenian GM scored half a point more than Yu Yangyi, Ding Liren and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. ...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took over the lead from Levon Aronian at the end of the first day of blitz at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour. Magnus Carlsen scored disappointingly again and is out of contention. MVL and Carl...
An amateur chess player with a national rating of 1512, who had raised suspicion due to strong results at recent tournaments, was caught carrying a phone during a game at the Dutch Open Championship in Dieren, The Netherlands at the end of Ju...
After day three, Levon Aronian finds Maxime Vachier-Lagrave next to him on the leaderboard of the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour. The French GM lost to Magnus Carlsen but won his last two rapid games take over the number-...
On Sunday, Russian top GM Ian Nepomniachtchi outlasted 15 opponents to reach the quarterfinals of the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship, defeating GMs Zhamsaran Tsydypov, Sam Sevian and Pentala Harikrishna and the un...
Scoring two draws and a win on Sunday, Levon Aronian maintained his lead at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour in St. Louis. Magnus Carlsen got just one draw out of three games. Both his fans and colleagues agree ...
On Saturday, Wei Yi defeated Jeffery Xiong in an armageddon tiebreak game to be crowned champion of the 2019 Junior Speed Chess Championship. The match had ended 13.5-13.5, and four more games in overtime also couldn't bring a decision. ...
Levon Aronian started with a perfect 3/3 on the first day of the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour in St. Louis. The Armenian grandmaster leads by a full point. After Cote d'Ivoire, Zagreb and Paris, the 2019 Grand Chess Tour resume...
With an open qualification process that began in April, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship now moves to the final qualification phase as it plays down to the final six players who will qualify for the quarterfinals to be played over-...
Hikaru Nakamura will be guest commentator during the final of the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, sponsored by ChessKid. Top juniors Wei Yi and Jeffery Xiong will play for the championship. The winner of the Junior...
Vladimir Dobrov of Russia and Alireza Firouzja of Iran have qualified for the 2019 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. Dobrov earned his spot as the winner of this month's Titled Tuesday, while Firouzja won yesterday's qualifier tournament for inv...
The opening of Group D in the PRO Chess League Summer Series had it all. The Montreal Chessbrahs pulled off an improbable comeback to beat the Cannes Blitzstreams, and the Minnesota Blizzard shocked the PRO Chess League wh...
Hey chess lovers! It's time again to look back at the month that was. As always, the product-development team kept things humming with new features, bug fixes, improvements and new releases. The operations, fair play, and support teams made th...
Ian Nepomniachtchi edged out Alexander Grischuk on tiebreak to win the Levitov Chess Week in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Both players scored 5/7, but Nepomniachtchi had beaten Grischuk in their mutual game. It was a fighting last day in the Wa...
The reigning Chess.com Computer Chess Champion Stockfish continues to assert itself as the greatest chess engine of all time, recently picking up a win in CCC 9: The Gauntlet. Stockfish won CCC 9 over Leelenstein, a neural-network...