On Sunday, Russian GM Alexey Sarana won the group for 2300+ players of the first European Online Chess Championship. The tournament was played over different rating categories between May 16 and 31 on Chess.com. Sarana won a 16-player knockout o...
Beginning June 2, Titled Tuesday will be part of the Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix as a direct path to qualify for the 2020 Speed Chess Championship. The SCC GP is presented by Gambit, where you can in classic games like Reversi, B...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is GM Daniil Dubov's opponent in the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge final and not GM Magnus Carlsen. Their third match in the semifinals went all the way to armageddon, in which the world champion blunde...
GM Wesley So won the Clutch Chess Champions Showdown on Friday as he beat GM Fabiano Caruana in the final, with a game to spare. The final score was 9-9, with So winning on first tiebreak: most clutch victories. So went into ...
GM Daniil Dubov became the first player to reach the final of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge as the Russian GM beat GM Ding Liren once again on Friday. GM Hikaru Nakamura managed to level the score against&nb...
The chess for West Bengal charity will take place on Chess.com from June 4-7, 2020. This charity is organized to support the people affected by the Cyclone Amphan that devastated India's largest state on the east coast, West Bengal. This event wil...
GM Wesley So took the lead against GM Fabiano Caruana on Thursday in the Clutch Chess Champions Showdown final. At the halfway point of the final, So leads the match with a score of 4.5-3.5. The second half of the match will be...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Daniil Dubov won their first matches in the semifinals of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge. Carlsen crushed GM Hikaru Nakamura 3-0, putting the American in a must-win situation on Friday. That's also the cas...
On Wednesday, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and IM Danny Rensch teamed up for the fourth installment of the "Adopt-a-Danny" series—a special event to help raise awareness for adoption, contributing all donated proceeds to the Dave Thomas F...
GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Wesley So won their respective matches in the Clutch Chess Champions Showdown on Wednesday. Caruana defeated GM Leinier Dominguez Perez with a 15-3 score, while So beat GM Hikaru Nakamura by a sco...
GMs Daniil Dubov and Ding Liren will face each other on Thursday in the semifinals of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge. Dubov beat GM Sergey Karjakin 3-0, Ding eventually drew GM Yu Yangyi as Black in the armageddon game to advance. ...
The Clutch Chess Champions Showdown began on Tuesday with the top four American grandmasters participating in this knockout event with a twist: the last two games of each day are worth more points. GM Fabiano Caruana leads his match against G...
The beloved series Adopt-A-Danny returns with its fourth father-to-be, GM Ian Nepomniachtchithis Wednesday, May 27 at 11 a.m. Pacific time / 20:00 Central Europe on Chess.com/tv. The show's third guest, world number-ten GM Anish Giri, adopt...
Chess fans can enjoy another clash between GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen on Thursday in the semifinals of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge as the world champion cruised to a second match victory vs. GM...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is the first player to reach the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge's semifinals after beating GM Levon Aronian again on Monday. GM Ding Liren leveled the score against Yu Yangyi and so these players will de...
Starting on June 5, the inaugural 2020 Chess.com PogChamps will kick off, featuring 16 of Twitch's most followed streamers. Over two weeks, top streamers like Boxbox, Voyboy, and yassuo will compete for their share of $50,000 in prizes. With so mu...
The British chess scene joined forces in a 24-hour chess marathon held over the weekend that raised an estimated £10,000 (over $12,000) for the British Red Cross. Held on Chess.com, the arena tournament was won by FM Harry Grieve ahead ...
On the second day of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge's knockout stage, GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Daniil Dubov won their first matches against GM Wesley So and GM Sergey Karjakin respectively. Both battles were over in just three games....
IM John Bartholomew won the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship on Saturday, thanks to an 11.5-8.5 victory in the final against IM Alina Kashlinskaya, who had won both the five-minute and bullet segments but lost all games in the three-...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Yu Yangyi won their first matches in a series of best-of-three as they defeated GMs Levon Aronian and GM Ding Liren respectively. Both matches, at the start of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge's knockout ...
The final of the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship takes place on Saturday, May 23 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time (19:00 CEST) between IM John Bartholomew and IM Alina Kashlinskaya. Here's a preview, with profiles of the players and their route to the...
GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Alexander Grischuk, Alireza Firouzja, and Wei Yi were eliminated from the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge after failing to finish in the top eight. The round-robin phase was won by GM Hikaru Nakamura...
Straight after playing in the Lindores Abbey tournament, GM Hikaru Nakamura won his second Titled Tuesday in a row as he edged out GMs Vladimir Fedoseev and Vladislav Kovalev on tiebreak. For the first time, the Ukrainian legen...
Wednesday was one of those rare days when World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen lost two games. The Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge might see a knockout phase without the 16-year-old star GM Alireza Firouzja, who is not among the top eight wit...
Team Chess Gurukul won the inaugural edition of the Sukooon Resort Indian Chess.com League by beating team Superkids in a thrilling Superfinal that lasted over four hours in a PRO Chess League elimination style match. Two-time Indian champion GM...