GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the 11th Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The French top grandmaster beat Russian GM Maksim Chigaev 2-0 in the knockout final. GM Haik Martirosyan of Armenia continues to lead the overall Grand Prix stan...
GM Hikaru Nakamura needed only three matches to beat GM Daniil Dubov and reach the final of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals benefiting Kiva. GM Magnus Carlsen took the lead vs. GM Ding Liren, who needs to win on Wednesday ...
In arguably the biggest development in computer chess since AlphaZero was introduced, Stockfish (the strongest traditional chess engine) is absorbing the fledgling Stockfish+NNUE project. Stockfish+NNUE (NNUE stands for Efficiently Updatable Neu...
Eight of the world's most popular anitubers (anime youtubers) took their drama off the page and screen and to the chessboard in the first-ever Tournament Arc. The event was won by Gigguk. Tournament Arc delivered in every way possible—with...
As our readers are no doubt aware, Beirut, Lebanon was devastated on Tuesday, August, 4th by a massive chemical explosion aboard a container ship at port. The explosion, apparently the result of negligence, has rocked the country to it's core, kil...
GM Hikaru Nakamura convincingly defeated GM Daniil Dubov and increased his overall match lead to 2-0 in the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals benefiting Kiva. In the other match, GM Magnus Carlsen evened the score vs. GM Ding Li...
GM Ding Liren defeated GM Magnus Carlsen on the first day of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals benefiting Kiva. GM Hikaru Nakamura had a comeback victory against GM Daniil Dubov, after losing the first game. How to watch?The games o...
On Tuesday, August 4th, a day of two Speed Chess Grand Prix events, Grandmasters David Anton and Parham Maghsoodloo emerged victorious. The first event featured 875 participants. Grandmasters Vladimir Onischuk and Haik Martirosyan tied for first...
Hey, chess fans! August is upon us, and it's time to take stock of the month that was! Here's a look at July 2020 and what our product-development, support and fairplay teams were working on!... Web We added a new Fast option for mo...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the match and the tournament as GM Ian Nepomniachtchi had an unfortunate second day in the chess24 Legends of Chess finals. Carlsen-Nepomniachtchi 2.5-0.5 Carlsen opted for the London System, an open...
Only two federations, Hong Kong and Angola, achieved perfect scores in division four of the Online Chess Olympiad. Along with 13 other triumphant federations, they secured advancement to division three that takes place August 7-9 on Chess.com. T...
GM Magnus Carlsen took the lead against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the chess24 Legends of Chess on day one of the finals match. Nepomniachtchi will look to even the score on day two, which begins on Tuesday, August 4. How to wa...
AlphaZero is the subject of much controversy in the chess world. Some today (a majority of our members!) insist that it is still the strongest chess engine the world has ever seen, that Google DeepMind's chess-playing neural network is still super...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won his chess24 Legends of Chess semifinal match against GM Anish Giri and moves on to the final. Nepomniachtchi commented on his win: "I think it's a great achievement because the field is very strong, and qualifying to the ...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his chess24 Legends of Chess semifinal match against GM Peter Svidler and moves on to the final. In the other match on Saturday, GM Anish Giri defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in their ar...
GM Magnus Carlsen took the lead in his chess24 Legends of Chess semifinal match with GM Peter Svidler. The other Russian player did better: GM Ian Nepomniachtchi beat GM Anish Giri. The second batch of matches wi...
With a win in the final round on Wednesday, GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek secured victory at the Biel Chess Festival Chess Triathlon. The margin was small as the Polish grandmaster finished only half a point ahead of India's GM Pentala Harikrishna. Wojt...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Peter Svidler made it to the knockout phase of the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament. The four players will start their matches on Friday. How to watch?The games of the chess24 Legends of...
NM Ryo Chen from Texas won the first-ever ChessKid Youth Speed Chess Championship on Saturday, July 25. Ryo triumphed against seven other incredibly talented 10-and-under youth players in this eight-player knockout event. His opponent in the fin...
In the round-eight clash of players who had won all their matches, GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the armageddon game. GM Anish Giri lost to GM Vasyl Ivanchuk but still qualified for the chess24 Legends of Chess tournamen...
On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday the games of the FIDE Online Olympiad's Base Division were played. Myanmar, Brunei Darussalam, Pakistan, Oman, Lebanon, Qatar, Bahrain, Liberia, Cyprus, Aruba, Haiti, and Mauritania have qualified for Division 4. ...
GM Viswanathan Anand finally won his first match in the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament. In a repeat of the 2012 world championship match, the Indian grandmaster defeated GM Boris Gelfand. GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Ian Nepom...
GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek leads the Biel Chess Festival Chess Triathlon with three standard rounds to go. The first top-level over-the-board chess event that hasn't been canceled due to the coronavirus is a combination of standard, rapi...
GM Magnus Carlsen is back as the sole leader at the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament. He beat GM Ding Liren in four games while GM Ian Nepomniachtchi needed an armageddon to inflict a sixth match loss on GM Viswanathan ...
On Saturday GM Ian Nepomniachtchi caught GM Magnus Carlsen in first place at the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament. While Nepomniachtchi beat GM Peter Svidler 3-1, Carlsen faced stiff opposition from GM Vasyl Ivanchuk and only won...