Chess.com is excited to announce a new treat for the avid online chess fan—a dedicated chess browser created in partnership with leading web innovator Opera. Using this enhancement, chess will be put right inside the browser, meaning you can...
The US Chess Federation's handling of allegations of sexual misconduct continued in the spotlight after Randy Bauer, the President of the federation, made public comments on social media. Former U.S. Women's Chess Champion WGM Jennifer Shahade r...
While chess players are battling it out on the chessboard, GM Igor Kovalenko is fighting for his own and his countrymen's lives in Ukraine. His fight has now seen him receive an award from the Ukrainian president. The 34-year-old grandmaster is ...
Ever since the historic moment the great GM Garry Kasparov lost to Deep Blue in 1997, artificial intelligence has transformed chess. Now Chess.com, the world’s leading chess platform, is launching an elite tournament to celebrate AI’s ...
With student chess players across the world gearing up for the Fall 2023 season of Chess.com's exciting Collegiate Chess League, Chess.com is pleased to announce the competition just got even more special. The premier online chess competition fo...
Social media posts claiming Netflix's The Queen's Gambit is returning for a second season have gone viral in the last months. Sadly, they are false. "The Queens Gambit Season 2 coming soon!" claimed a post from the Facebook group Netflix Daily U...
WGM Jennifer Shahade says she was greeted with "hostility instead of support" and "consistently minimized or ignored" by US Chess when she came forward with allegations of sexual assault. The former U.S. Women's Chess Champion resigned as the Dire...
GM Alireza Firouzja won his third Titled Tuesday in the last two weeks on September 5, taking the late event with a score of 10/11 to follow up his sweep last week. GM Vugar Rasulov took home the early honors, scoring 9.5 points and winning on tie...
GM Nikita Vitiugov, the Russian Champion in 2021 and current world number 25, became the most significant transfer from Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, as his switch to England was officially confirmed by FIDE last week. Vitiugov, who hail...
Chess.com is excited to announce the third edition of Chessable's annual Create Your Own Course contest. Registrations are open from September 1 to November 30 to all Chessable PRO members who want to participate. This is the perfect oppor...
For 37 years, Indian chess has had one unwavering constant: the legendary GM Viswanathan Anand is king. With the release of FIDE's latest official rating list on Friday, that has now changed. There is a new kid on the block. GM Gukesh D, the 17-...
Sound the war drums! A hoard of giants, goblins, P.E.K.K.A., and other magical creatures has invaded Chess.com. Get your army ready and prepare to storm the castle of the new Clash of Clan bots on our Play Computer page. Fight your way ...
What a fortnight it has been for the Indian chess prodigy GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and his family. First, the 18-year-old made chess history by storming to his first World Cup final in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he suffered a heartbreaking loss t...
Raids, counter-raids and lots of loot: that’s what fans of Chess.com, Clash of Clans and Clash Royale can look forward to in September as two giant gaming empires get together for a month of cross-platform battles. Chess.com and Supercell,...
Chess.com is excited to launch the Variants Community Series (VCS), a series of events and competitions for streamers and our dedicated and growing variants community. Every two months, we'll be featuring a different variant for you to discover, l...
Chess has been given a major boost in England after the U.K. government announced a combined package worth almost £1 million ($1.25 million) to fund the English Chess Federation (ECF). The funding will support children playing chess and impr...
Go ahead ChessPunk, make my day! Now that the superb PogChamps 5 tournament is over, Chess.com is delighted to announce another exciting amateur event kicking off next month. ChessPunks Champs is the new PogChamps-style event for all of us norma...
Universally recognized as the single greatest woman to ever play chess, in outlets ranging from the New York Times in 1997 to Chess.com in 2021, GM Judit Polgar is now ready to share the best games of her career as you've never seen them before......
Strategy fans take note—a unique star-studded multi-game crossover event that pits big names in chess against stars of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale is coming to Chess.com. IM Levy Rozman and WFM Alexandra Botez, two of the most followed...
FIDE has come under heavy criticism after publishing a new policy that states that transgender women are banned from taking part in official female-only events until the federation conducts "further analysis" that can last up to two years. The c...
IM Levy Rozman's first chess book is months away from being released, but it has already sold more than 12,000 copies and made it to #1 on Amazon's best-seller lists. The online chess streamer, popularly known as GothamChess, is the world's bigg...
Chess.com and Lichess will halt their relationships with St. Louis Chess Club and no longer provide support for or cover any of their tournaments in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct, The Wall Street Journal revealed on Wednesday. In ...
Chess.com’s flagship Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, the stellar event to find the world’s top player over fast time controls, will kick off next month with GM Hikaru Nakamura gunning for an incredible sixth title in a ...
GM Alan Pichot, Latin America's strongest player for years, has moved from Argentina and become Spain's fifth-highest-ranked player. On his way out, he criticized the Argentinian Chess Federation and its president for the lack of financial support...
WIM Sabrina Chevannes is exposing sexual harassment and misogyny in the chess world and says it caused her to quit playing the game professionally. A group of women players last week published a powerful message in an open letter where they say ...