You probably know that the biggest online rapid event for elite players, the Rapid Chess Championship, is happening right now, don't you? But have you ever wondered how you'd stack up against some of the grandmasters playing in the event? Well, no...
GM Ding Liren took a first step to winning the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters. The Chinese grandmaster beat GM Praggnanandhaa R in their first mini-match on Wednesday and needs only a tie on Thursday to win the $25,000 fir...
The 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship resumed on Wednesday with a gripping round of 16 match between IM Polina Shuvalova and IM David Pruess, in which Shuvalova won with a convincing 16.5-6.5 score. The match was a tactical slugfest that...
WGM Vantika Agrawal won the first qualifier of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship. She defeated WGM Annamaria Marjanovic in a thrilling final bullet tiebreaker. IM Gulnar Mammadova won the Swiss tournament on the previo...
Titled Tuesday belonged to the Americans on May 24, the early edition won by GM Dariusz Swiercz and the late tournament by GM Hikaru Nakamura. It was Swiercz's first-ever win in the event and Nakamura's first since May 3. Nakamura was the only pla...
The two-day final of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters will be played between GMs Ding Liren and Praggnanandhaa R. Both scored upset victories in the semifinals. Ding ousted World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen, and Prag...
IM Eric Rosen defeated IM Tania Sachdev in their round of 16 match in the 2022 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship. Suffering only two losses in the entire match, the American streamer flourished in the 3+1 and 1+1 segments especially, with an 1...
Last Friday, Russia's Ministry of Justice added GM Garry Kasparov to the list of individuals acting as "foreign agents" for receiving donations or funding from outside Russia and carrying out political activities. For Kasparov, who is living abroa...
Chess.com's very own IM Danny Rensch was the winner by the slightest of margins in the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship on Monday, needing tiebreaks and an armageddon game to claim a 14.5-13.5 victory over IM Justus Williams in their roun...
The semifinals of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters will see the matches GM Magnus Carlsen vs. GM Ding Liren and GM Anish Giri vs. Praggnanandhaa R. played on Tuesday. The winners will qualify for the final that...
The Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the second event of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour, concluded today with the crowning of GM Jan Krzysztof Duda, who won his final game in a nail-biting finish where any one of four contenders could have taken the ...
Scoring 29 out of a possible 45 points, GM Anish Giri finished first while remaining undefeated in the preliminaries of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters. Also qualifying for the knockout phase were GMs Magnus Carlsen, Di...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won week 15 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. He gained a victory from a losing position against GM Dmitry Andreikin, winner of the Swiss in the knockout final. GMs David Paravyan and Jose Martin...
Scoring 3.5/4 on Saturday, GM Anish Giri is the new leader at the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters. Second-ranked GM Magnus Carlsen tried the remarkable 1.h4 and drew his game with GM Wei Yi, who is now in third positio...
GM Fabiano Caruana was the standout performer on the fourth day of the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the second event of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour, that took place on Sunday. The American superstar, scoring 8/9 to commence the blitz section, ...
The Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the second event of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour, continued on Saturday. GM Viswanathan Anand was confirmed as the tournament leader after scoring six wins, two draws, and one loss and winning the rapid section....
GM Wei Yi continues to lead the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters. The Chinese GM is three points ahead of the pack. World Champion Magnus Carlsen again lost to GM Praggnanandhaa R. as he blundered a knight in a drawn endgame...
Last weekend, the semifinals concluded with two of the most thrilling matches we have ever seen in Collegiate Chess League history. Both matches came down to the very last game of the match with thousands of dollars on the line and a spot in the f...
The second day of the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the second event of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour, continued today with outstanding results by GM Viswanathan Anand and GM Richard Rapport. The pair surged ahead of the field after they scored 2...
The 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship continued on Thursday with the round of 16 matchup between IMs Alina Kashlinskaya and Carissa Yip. Kashlinskaya was a class above and showed her experience in time pressure, winning by a score of 16-7....
GM Wei Yi took an early lead at the 2022 Meltwater Champion's Chess Tour's Chessable Masters on Thursday, scoring a draw and three wins. GM Abhimanyu Mishra, the youngest grandmaster in the world, won twice—like world champion Magnus Carlsen...
The first day of the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the second event of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour, was dominated by a vintage performance from GM Viswanathan Anand, who leads the fray with a perfect score. With each win being worth two points&...
May 17 was a good day in Titled Tuesday for two familiar faces: GM Jose Martinez, winning the early event by a full point, and GM Alexander Grischuk, taking the late tournament with a round to spare. Martinez also finished fifth in the late...
The second semifinal of the 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship took place on Tuesday and featured powerhouses GMs Hans Niemann and Arjun Erigaisi, with Erigaisi claiming a 14.5-11.5 victory in just over four hours of electrifying gameplay. Nie...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship continued on Monday with a high-energy quarterfinal in which GM Arjun Erigaisi defeated an in-form GM-elect Mahammad Muradli 17-11. Erigaisi managed to build a one-point lead in the 5+1 segment but went t...