Registration is now open for the Spring 2024 season of the Collegiate Chess League! The world's premier university-level chess event returns next year, retaining its four vs. four team-based format and a $25,000 prize fund. The Collegiat...
The highly-anticipated 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals begin in just three days on December 9. GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Alireza Firouzja, and Denis Lazavik are...
Less than a month after GM Hikaru Nakamura set a new record for Chess.com's highest blitz rating, GM Magnus Carlsen has gone one step further. On Wednesday, Carlsen achieved the all-time-high blitz rating of 3340, four points higher than Nakamura'...
Recent Titled Tuesdays have been a time for the long-established veterans of the chess world to remind everyone they're not done yet. December 5 was no exception, with GM Levon Aronian and GM Magnus Carlsen both winning a tournament outright,...
The third ESpot B-Cup is scheduled to take place on December 9, 2023. This unique event blends online and in-person chess with the exciting addition of a live audience; it’s competitive chess, but not quite as you know it! An additional to...
GM Mateusz Bartel beat IM Shreyas Royal in round five of the 2023 London Chess Classic to move into a four-way tie for second place. The sole leader, half a point clear, remains GM Michael Adams, but the English star seemed to miss a huge cha...
GM Leinier Dominguez made a sudden entry into the Candidates race. Now FIDE has responded to the criticism after their clarification of the rules drew reactions from the chess community. With less than a month left in 2023, the race to the Candi...
GM Hans Niemann sacrificed a knight and two rooks to beat IM Shreyas Royal in round four of the 2023 London Chess Classic before commenting, "the sound of chess speaking overpowers jealousy." The day's other headline news was GM Gukesh Dommaraju b...
Chess.com is excited to announce our new upgrade to the move list feature. The new move list is now cleaner and clearer, making it easier for you to follow variations and annotations or to analyze your own games. It also resembles the move list yo...
It's finally here. The biggest names in chess will be facing each other in one of the year's most prestigious events: the Finals of the 2023 Champions Chess Tour. A full season of chess tournaments has culminated in this showdown, as GMs Magnus Ca...
Big news! IM Danny Rensch's iconic 'Everything You Need To Know' series is now available on Chessable for free. The original videos have been viewed on YouTube over six million times since their release, and have now been re-recorded and optimized...
GM Magnus Carlsen says it's a dream come true to be holding the first ever classical Fischer-Random super-tournament, which will take place at a luxury resort on Germany's Baltic coast in February and feature eight of the world's top players. Fr...
IM Shreyas Royal played like a veteran grandmaster as he defeated world number-40 GM Amin Tabatabaei in round three of the 2023 London Chess Classic. It was a wild day, as all three players who had won a day earlier slipped to defeat, while GMs Gu...
The internet sensation Mittens is back—not only as the soul-crushing chess bot that broke the internet but also as an adorable plushie that you can own! Chess.com is excited to announce we'll be launching our merch store on December 9, now w...
It’s the last month of 2023, and this has been one of the biggest years ever for chess. A record number of players, a record number of games, and a spectacular year for bots fans (hehehe). What better way to celebrate than to bring back th...
GM Hikaru Nakamura's supremacy over Bullet Brawl has continued into December as the world number-three coasted to a 253 score and his fourth-straight $400 victory. Landing in second place on Saturday was GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, who finished on 229, ...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju pulled off a great escape against GM Nikita Vitiugov to retain the lead after round two of the 2023 London Chess Classic, with co-leader GM Michael Adams also drawing after a fierce fight with GM Hans Niemann. That let GM Andre...
Poland's IM Marcin Szymanski won the final round of the 2023 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship by half a point in October ahead of the second-placed "DanilinDP," and IMs Kacper Drozdowski and Mark Timmermans. This year's Championship broug...
GM-elect Vaishali Rameshbabu crossed 2500 FIDE to earn the grandmaster title at the IV El Llobregat Open in Spain on Friday. With her three GM norms previously attained, Vaishali has now fulfilled all of the requirements. The 22-year-old shared wh...
GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Michael Adams picked up wins on the first day of the 2023 London Chess Classic, the 13th edition of an event that was first won by GM Magnus Carlsen back in 2009. GM Hans Niemann made a quiet draw after rushing in from Zag...
IM-elect Brewington Hardaway crossed the 2400 FIDE rating mark to earn the international master title at the U.S. Masters 2023 on Sunday at the Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina. Already having four IM norms, he should receive the title at ...
She spends her days—and nights—helping people focus on work and study, so this may not surprise you. But Lofi Girl now plays chess. The beloved anime character, who has become a global sensation with her unique blend of music and vis...
GM Judit Polgar, indisputably the greatest female player in chess history, believes that women-only events should continue to exist but asserts that women should not limit themselves, encouraging more participants in the open section. In a new i...
GM Fabiano Caruana added the 2023 Sinquefield Cup to his year of victories on Thursday. In his final round vs. GM Richard Rapport, Caruana combined strategic clarity with dynamic execution to break his opponent's defenses. Caruana dominate...
