The Leon Chess Festival began on Friday with the first semifinal of the Masters tournament. GM Jaime Santos reached Sunday's final after beating GM Alexei Shirov 3.5-2.5. The Leon Chess Festival is being held for the 33rd time this yea...
Four-time women's world champion Hou Yifan has added another prestigious title to her resume. On July 10, she became the youngest ever professor at Shenzhen University. The news was reported by Chinese media and confirmed by Hou to Chess.com....
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the sixth Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix after beating Iran's GM Amin Tabatabaei in the knockout final. Nakamura is now third in the overall Grand Prix, which is still led by GM Vladislav Kovalev. The next S...
GM Hou Yifan reached the final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix's third leg. The Chinese player beat IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (Iran) 8-2 and will play GM Kateryna Lagno, who defeated her compatriot GM Alexandra...
Palo Alto, Calif., July 7, 2020—Chess.com and Twitch are teaming up once again to bring chess to the esports mainstream with a Europe vs. North America team event called Twitch Rivals: Chess Showdown to be held on Friday, July 10 at 1 p.m. P...
The 2020 ChessKid Youth Speed Chess Championship will feature eight of the world's best 10-and-under players over three weekends in July 2020. This marquee event for Chess.com's scholastic site builds on the success of other events in the Speed Ch...
GM Valentina Gunina beat GM Anna Ushenina 7-5 in Sunday's final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix's second leg. It was a repeat of the first leg's final, won by Ushenina. GM Kateryna Lagno defeated...
Without losing a single match, GM Magnus Carlsen clinched the $45,000 first prize at the Chessable Masters on Saturday. The world champion admitted that his opponent showed better chess on the last day, but GM Anish Giri, who won $27,000, aga...
GM Magnus Carlsen took the lead in what was a close first match with GM Anish Giri on Friday in the Chessable Masters final. The world champion won the second blitz game after being 2-2 in the rapid. How to watch?The games of the Chess...
GM Anish Giri beat GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in their third semifinal match to set up a clash with GM Magnus Carlsen in the Chessable Masters final that starts on Friday. "I gained a lot of confidence in these last two rounds," Giri said. ...
Russian GM Grigoriy Oparin won the fifth Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix after beating Azerbaijan's GM Eltaj Safarli in the knockout final. GM Vladislav Kovalev of Belarus is the new leader of the overall Grand Prix leaderb...
GM Magnus Carlsen beat GM Ding Liren 2-0 to reach the Chessable Masters final. In the other semifinal, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi leveled the score vs. GM Anish Giri and secured a third match on Thursday. How to watch?The games of the Chess...
GM Valentina Gunina won the second leg of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The Russian grandmaster beat GM Anna Ushenina 7-5 in the final on Sunday, which was a repeat of the final of the first leg, won by Ushen...
GM Magnus Carlsen took the lead in his Chessable Masters' semifinal with GM Ding Liren, winning just before an armageddon was needed. In the second game, he gifted his opponent a win after Ding had lost an equal endgame due to disconnection.&...
Comedians on Board—Part Two will be hosted on Chess.com by Samay Raina, one of India's leading stand-up comedians. This event will feature more than 20 of India's top comedians and will run for a week. This event will be broadcasted on Raina...
The International Chess Federation has announced the FIDE Online Olympiad, a new major team competition to be held online from July 22 till August 30th, 2020. The main 2020 Chess Olympiad, scheduled for August 5-17, has been moved t...
GM Ding Liren defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura on Monday in their third match of the Chessable Masters quarterfinals. The Chinese grandmaster will next face GM Magnus Carlsen in the semifinals that start on Tuesday. How to watch?The ga...
GM Anna Ushenina beat GM Valentina Gunina 7-4 in Sunday's final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix's first leg. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk defeated Vaishali Rameshbabu 7-4 in a match for third place hel...
GM Anish Giri celebrated his 26th birthday with a second victory against GM Alexander Grischuk and qualification to the Chessable Masters semifinals. In a thriller of a match, GM Hikaru Nakamura managed to level the score vs. GM Ding Lir...
The FIDE World Chess Championship Match, which was scheduled to start on Dec. 20, 2020 in Dubai, has been postponed to 2021. The second half of the Candidates Tournament is still planned to take place before the end of this year, said FIDE Directo...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi qualified for the Chessable Masters semifinals convincingly. Once again, the two needed just three games to win their matches against GMs Fabiano Caruana and Vladislav Artemiev res...
GM Anish Giri took the lead in his best-of-three with GM Alexander Grischuk at the Chessable Masters in a match where all seven games ended in draws; he drew as Black in the armageddon. GM Ding Liren won his first match with GM Hikaru Nakamur...
In a fantastic display of tactics and speed from both players, USA's Tani Adewumi bested UK's CM Shreyas Royal in Thursday's opening contest of the UK vs. USA Rising Stars Chess Match. The match was tied 1-1 after the rapid portion but Adewumi w...
Both GM Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi needed only three games to win their first quarterfinal matches of the Chessable Masters. They beat GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Vladislav Artemiev respectively, who must win their mat...
GMs Anna Ushenina beat GM Valentina Gunina 7-4 in the final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix's first leg. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk had defeated Vaishali Rameshbabu 7-4 in a match for third place hel...