Sergey Karjakin, Pentala Harikrishna and the five other players who started their round three of the FIDE World Cup with a loss, were all eliminated after failing to win the next day. Kirill Alekseenko, Jan-Krzyztof Duda, Sh...
The Week In Chess is a household name in the chess world and still the place to find the latest chess games, altogether and nicely sorted, for download. The first issue was published 25 years ago today. Mark Crowther, the publisher of the site, ...
Sergey Karjakin and Pentala Harikrishna are in danger of getting eliminated from the FIDE World Cup after starting the third round with a loss against Nikita Vitiugov and Kirill Alekseenko respectively. The return games are played o...
Anish Giri played the longest tiebreak and eventually defeated Evgeniy Najer in the armageddon game at the FIDE World Cup. The third round starts on Monday. You can follow the games here as part of our live portal Chess.com/events. The...
Hikaru Nakamura was eliminated from the FIDE World Cup after failing to win his return game with Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. The Chinese GM Xu Xiangyu surprised again by knocking out Ernesto Inarkiev while Alireza Firouzja played a...
Hikaru Nakamura started his second round at the FIDE World Cup with a loss and needs to beat Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu on Saturday to stay in the tournament. Spectacular attacks and special endgames were played in this round. Yo...
Michael Adams, Bu Xiangzhi and Sam Shankland are some of the players that were eliminated from the FIDE World Cup in the tiebreaks of the first round. Round two starts on Friday. You can follow the games here as part of ...
Hey, chess friends! Have you ever wondered what could possibly be more fun than comparing Puzzle Rush scores on the leaderboard? Well, today we have an exciting answer, because Puzzle Rush just got competitive in real time: Welcome to ...
David Navara, Arkadij Naiditsch, Ruslan Ponomariov and Radek Wojtaszek are the biggest names that have to leave the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk after just two days of play. Thursday will see tiebreaks in 23 of the 64...
Chess.com and Twitch will partner once again for season five of the new Arena Kings chess tournament series starting on Monday, September 16. As in season four, Monday and Friday will remain the regular Arena Kings days. A mo...
The first day of the 2019 FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk saw four upsets as Radek Wojtaszek, Jorge Cori, Arkadij Naiditsch and Ruslan Ponomariov lost to lower-rated opponents. Two-time winner Levon Aronian was the strongest ...
Hey, chess friends! Today, we are thrilled to release a new site-wide chat feature. This instant messaging utility makes your conversations portable. You can chat freely and not miss a thing, even as you move around on the website. To beg...
The 2019 FIDE World Cup will be officially opened today in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The first round, with 128 players from all over the world, is scheduled for Tuesday. In this tournament preview we're answering seven key questions. What is it...
Update! More than 3,000 kids have competed so far, so we're about 15 percent of the way there! If your child is already an active member of ChessKid, we've already placed them in the correct club and they merely need to go to Fast Chess and look...
Four points down in the match and three going into the bullet portion, Jan-Krzysztof Duda prevailed in the end. On Friday he eliminated world number-four Anish Giri from the Speed Chess Championship in the fourth match of the round ...
Everyone expected the Russian star Ian Nepomniachtchi to crush Elina Danielian in the 2019 Speed Chess Championship, and he more than lived up to those predictions with a dominating win, 27-2. Nepomniachtchi played his usual style of p...
Scoring 6-2 on the final day of blitz, Hikaru Nakamura ended up winning his Champions Showdown Chess9LX match with Levon Aronian convincingly: 14.5-11.5. Garry Kasparov won three more blitz games but lost with a score of 7-19 t...
Hey, chess lovers! Just like that, another month is behind us, and what a month it was. If the list below looks a bit scant, it's because so much love and effort was (and is) being directed at some amazing projects that are just now preparing ...
Fabiano Caruana secured victory in his Champions Showdown Chess9LX match with Garry Kasparov with a day to spare. Scoring three wins and a draw on Wednesday, Caruana cannot be overtaken anymore in the remaining eight blitz games. Thank...
In the second match of the 2019 Speed Chess Championship French star Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat the Chinese GM Wei Yi in an enthralling clash. Wei was off to a flyer and even took a big lead before Vachier-Lagrave got things...
Garry Kasparov won one blitz game but couldn't prevent Fabiano Caruana from extending his match lead on the second day of the Champions Showdown Chess9LX in St. Louis. Levon Aronian, Wesley So and Peter Svidler continue to lead their matche...
Monday night's match between Ding Liren and Sam Shankland kicked off the Speed Chess Championship, the premier Chess.com tournament of the year. Fresh off his playoff victory against Magnus Carlsen in the Sinquefield Cu...
Back at the chessboard in St. Louis for a Chess960 match with Fabiano Caruana, 13th world champion Garry Kasparov got promising positions on the first day but scored just one draw. The Champions Showdown Chess9LX runs for three more days. F...
The 2019 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship, with a prize fund of $50,000, continues Friday with the fourth match in the round of 16 between Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland) and Anish Giri (Netherlands). The waiting is over. This year's Spe...
The favorites again advanced to the last stages of the knockout competition to determine the event's quarter-finalists with the top four seeds contesting a very even and tense bracket semifinal. Whether it was the makeup of the field or the starti...