It's playoff time for the PRO Chess League, and the teams from the Atlantic and Pacific Division aim to get one step closer to the live esports final in San Francisco. Play starts Tuesday beginning at 1:20 p.m. PDT (4:20 p.m. EDT, 8:20 p.m. G...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chess.com brings Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League championship to Twitch. San Francisco, March 18, 2019—Chess.com, the world's largest chess site, and Twitch, the leading service and community for...
Top seed GM Wang Hao of China stamped his authority on the HD Bank International Masters 2019 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to win yet another GM open in Asia. The HD Bank International is already into its ninth edition since its incept...
A wild Grob Attack decided the Team Chess Battle match between U.S. and France on March 15. Hikaru Nakamura’s TeamBattlesUSA had the better of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave’s TeamBattlesFrance on a three rapid games online battle across the...
With the regular season complete, sixteen teams are one step closer to reaching the PRO Chess League Finals in San Francisco on May 4-5. With eleven different countries represented across the four divisions, the bracket is now set for Round of 16 ...
With the final week of the 2019 PRO Chess League regular season complete, the playoff picture is set as 16 teams saw their season come to an end. Notable omissions include the Montreal Chessbrahs and the San Jose Hackers, as both teams did not per...
The Russian grandmaster Nikita Vitiugov won the first edition of the Prague International Chess Festival masters with 5.5/9. Spanish GM David Anton won the challengers and promoted to the highest group next year. In the ...
One of the most popular competitive formats on Chess.com is back with two more Team Chess Battles. Each battle pairs up two chess masters per team, who will talk out and decide every move on their turn for a live broadcast audience. You can watc...
England today defeated Sweden at the World Team Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan to claim the silver medals ahead of China and behind Russia, who had already secured gold on Wednesday. China, already sure of gold as well, also w...
Russia won the World Team Championship with a round to spare after beating Sweden and seeing its main rival England lose to China. In the women's section, China has already secured gold as well with eight straight victories. Open section: ...
The first-ever ChessKid Games won't see out how fast you can run or swim, but it will test the skills of some of the best ChessKid users in several different disciplines! Alumni of the famous "CONIC" event will pair up alongside current ChessKids ...
Russia holds a slim lead going into the final two rounds of the World Team Championship in Astana, but England is just a match-point behind. China is close to securing gold in the women's section, with a three-point lead over Russia...
March's Titled Tuesday event featured 396 titled players (just shy of February's 400-plus record) competing for cash and glory. The top seed was Hikaru Nakamura, the record-holder for most Titled Tuesday wins. Despite losing to a player who d...
The 10th regular week of the PRO Chess League is also the third and final week of Battles Royale. The Atlantic and Pacific Divisions play on Tuesday beginning at 1:30 p.m. PDT (4:30 p.m. EDT, 8:30 p.m. GMT) and the Eastern and Centr...
Jan-Krzysztof Duda leads the Prague International Chess Festival masters with 3.5/5, ahead of Nikita Vitiugov and Radoslaw Wojtaszek. The Czech capital is hosting the event for the first time. It's not so strange that a new and rather big c...
Team France will have to expect the unexpected in next week’s Team Chess Battle against the USA. Ahead of the anticipated battle on March 15, IM Daniel Rensch gave thousands of viewers a taste of his unorthodox chess in a warm-up team match ...
Russia beat Kazakhstan 3-1 to maintain its lead at the World Team Championship despite a loss for Sergey Karjakin vs Rinat Jumabayev on board one. China grabbed sole lead in the women's section after beating Russia. Open sect...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chess.com expands $100,000 Speed Chess Championship series with women's, junior events. Palo Alto, Calif., March 8, 2019—Chess.com will expand its 2019 Speed Chess Championship online tournament series to include w...
The reigning, defending Chess.com Computer Chess champion Stockfish will once again put its title on the line in a clash with the upstart machine-learning engine Lc0. The finals of CCC 6: The Winter Classic are scheduled to begin on Saturda...
Russia still leads the World Team Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan even though it was held to 2-2 by England today. China and Russia are still going strong in the women's section. Women's section: Let's look at the women'...
Not much time is left for teams to make late-season statements in the PRO Chess League. With only the Battle Royale remaining, some teams seem destined for postseason action, while many are still looking for clarity. Top teams like Saint Louis,...
A crushing win for Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Yu Yangyi brought Russia victory against its big rival China in round three of the World Team Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan. The same two countries kept their perfect scores in the&...
A fine combination by Aleksandr Lenderman was part of the USA's upset victory against China in round two of the World Team Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan. In the women's section, China won an important match vs Georgia...
In an update to a story that Chess.com broke last year, a nationally-recognized chess team from Texas may now face multiple disciplinary actions after the US Chess Federation's ethics committee found that more than two dozen games were lost on pur...
India and China started with 3.5-0.5 wins at the World Team Championship, which took off today in Astana, Kazakhstan. Ukraine was held to 2-2 by the USA in the women's section. The World Team Championship is organized by the Kazakhstan Ches...