GM Hikaru Nakamura won week 14 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Dmitry Andreikin in a hard-fought knockout final. GM Jeffery Xiong won the Swiss tournament and finished in the semifinals along wi...
The ninth and final round of the Superbet Chess Classic delivered the results that allowed the viewers a spectacle of a three-way playoff. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat GM Alireza Firouzja to catch up to the American duo of GMs Levon Aroni...
The first two rounds of the Collegiate Chess League Season 4 playoffs have concluded leaving only four teams remaining in each division, and these teams are now fighting for a spot in the finals. The teams that have made it this far are guaranteed...
The eighth round of the Superbet Chess Classic, which was played on the notorious Friday the 13th, delivered just as much blood as the history annals would have us believe that was spilled on the days with that date. At the end of it there was onl...
FM James Canty III and IM Kostya Kavutskiy duked it out over the board on Friday in the third round of 16 match of the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship. Pre-match favorite Canty was able to stave off a valiant comeback effort from Kavutskiy in...
FIDE’s former Secretary General CM Enyonam Sewa Fumey from Togo has joined the presidential race for the 2022 elections of the international chess federation. The elections will take place in Chennai, India, on August 7 during this year...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov both won their first games in round seven of the 2022 Superbet Chess Classic Romania. The third winner was GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who was gifted a full point as his opponent blundered. In a...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship by SIG returned on Thursday with double the action as GM Hans Niemann toppled GM Kiril Shevchenko in their quarterfinal matchup, while GM Nihal Sarin ended GM Awonder Liang's run with a nearly impeccable ef...
Round six saw a shake-up of the standings after two crucial games ended decisively, with GM Levon Aronian swiftly beating GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in just 25 moves, and GM Leinier Dominguez winning a hair-raising and heart-breaking battle against...
IMs Greg Shahade and Lawrence Trent threw down on Wednesday in the second round of 16 match of the I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship. This longtime rivalry was settled for the first time ever in favor of the underdog, Trent, who won with a sco...
Chess.com is excited to announce a regulation change to our most elite event. The 2022 Rapid Chess Championship is now open to all grandmasters, starting this weekend on May 14! With this change, more of your favorite players will have the chanc...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship by SIG continued today with a hard-fought round of 16 match between popular Twitch streamer GM Hans Niemann and GM Velimir Ivic. Niemann won in style with a 16.5-12.5 match score. The two could barely be ...
Titled Tuesday presented by SEOcrawl took a surprising turn on May 10 as none other than GM Magnus Carlsen played in the early event, his first games on Chess.com since February 2021. Carlsen delivered, effectively clinching the tournament with a ...
Just coming off his victory at the Capablanca Memorial, GM Hans Niemann also emerged victoriously at the Tepe Sigeman & Co Tournament in Malmo, Sweden. The 18-year-old American grandmaster finished on 5/7, a point clear of the pack. How to w...
Another brutal round in Bucharest has concluded with a similar pattern as the first three rounds: one victory and four draws. This time, it was GM Fabiano Caruana who beat the luckless winner of last year's event GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. There we...
The first round of 16 match in this year's I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship featured an exciting battle between two well-known names in the chess streaming community: IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess), the number one chess streamer on YouTube...
The 13th week of the Rapid Chess Championship, brought to you by Coinbase, saw GM Hikaru Nakamura outwit a strong field and take home the top spot in the knockout while GM Samuel Sevian won the Swiss event by a convincing one-point margin. ...
If you were getting used to just one decisive game per round, then Sunday's round rocks your world with three decisive games, lots of blunders, and electrifying action. Winners were GM Wesley So who prevailed over co-loader GM Ian Nepomniachtchi...
For the third round in a row, the players delivered one win and four draws. This round saw the hometown hero, GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac, win against GM Richard Rapport after the latter first let go of a decisive advantage and then a perpetual check. ...
GM Yuri Averbakh, the world’s oldest grandmaster, a trainer, international arbiter, chess composer, endgame theoretician, writer, historian, honorary member of FIDE, and the last living participant of the famous Zurich 1953 Candidates Tourna...
NM Griffin McConnell earned the national master title on March 19, 2022, at the age of 17, after undergoing four brain surgeries. Despite having seizures since childhood and undergoing several operations—after various medications failed to h...
The Russian Chess Federation's appeal against GM Sergey Karjakin's six-month ban was dismissed by the FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission (EDC). This opens the door for GM Ding Liren to replace Karjakin in the FIDE Candidates Tournament. The...
After lots of tension and complicated battles, just one game ended decisively when GM Ian Nepomniachtchi beat GM Alireza Firouzja. That the remaining games would all end in draws was far from obvious during the round. Round three will begin on S...
The first round of this year's edition of the Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest, Romania saw only one win. GM Wesley So defeated GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in a nice positional game, while the other four games ended in draws after varying amounts ...
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, now more than two months ago, several Russian grandmasters have decided to leave their country or not return to it. Chess.com spoke to four well-known players about their views of the war and the personal cho...