Round two of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss saw the young Russian talent Alexey Sarana test the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway. Pushing a pleasant position out of a prepared Sicilian line, Sarana sec...
Hey, chess fans! Just like that, October is upon us, and it's time to look back on the month that was. September was huge! Let's dive right in... Puzzles Puzzle Rush gets competitive in real time, with the arrival of Puzzle Bat...
Chess.com's @IsaacSteincamp contributed to this report. Was it the most action-packed day in Speed Chess Championship history? With two dynamic battles between established chess legends and young, talented prodigies, Thursday was a day for the S...
Wesley So showed that he was a force to be reckoned with this Speed Chess Championship by eliminating Azeri grandmaster Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. The match went just as Hikaru Nakamura predicted in his post-match interview on Tuesday. Mam...
Chess.com's first-ever Hand and Brain Team Battle will feature a sibling rivalry on October 2 at 6 PM PDT on Twitch.tv/AlexandraBotez, Twitch.tv/Chessbrah, Twitch.tv/GMNaroditsky and Twitch.tv/AndreaBotez. Making their Team Battle debut, si...
Vlad Dobrov put together an admirable performance in his Speed Chess Championship debut, testing the defending champion Hikaru Nakamura throughout the match. While the Russian grandmaster kept the blitz portions interesting, Na...
The 2019 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship, with a prize fund of $50,000, continues Thursday with a doubleheader which will conclude the round of 16. First, Levon Aronian (Armenia) and Alireza Firouzja (Iran) will play at 7 a.m. PD...
Hey, chess friends! Have you ever wondered what could possibly be more fun than comparing Puzzle Rush scores on the leaderboard? Well, today we have an exciting answer, because Puzzle Rush just got competitive in real time: Welcome to ...
Hey, chess friends! Today, we are thrilled to release a new site-wide chat feature. This instant messaging utility makes your conversations portable. You can chat freely and not miss a thing, even as you move around on the website. To beg...
Update! More than 3,000 kids have competed so far, so we're about 15 percent of the way there! If your child is already an active member of ChessKid, we've already placed them in the correct club and they merely need to go to Fast Chess and look...
Hey, chess lovers! Just like that, another month is behind us, and what a month it was. If the list below looks a bit scant, it's because so much love and effort was (and is) being directed at some amazing projects that are just now preparing ...
Monday night's match between Ding Liren and Sam Shankland kicked off the Speed Chess Championship, the premier Chess.com tournament of the year. Fresh off his playoff victory against Magnus Carlsen in the Sinquefield Cu...
The 2019 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship, with a prize fund of $50,000, continues Friday with the fourth match in the round of 16 between Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland) and Anish Giri (Netherlands). The waiting is over. This year's Spe...
The PRO Chess League Summer Series enters championship weekend with eight teams looking to capture the league's first-ever summer title. With both the San Francisco Mechanics and the Minnesota Blizzard winning their respective play-in round m...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ChessKid To Attempt Chess World Record With GM Judit Polgar Palo Alto, Calif., Aug. 28, 2019—The world's largest chess website for children will team with the greatest female chess player ever in an attempt to set ...
A powerful and distinctly Russian-flavored bracket provided the kind of excitement that is becoming familiar in the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. For the fourth successive time the top two seeds faced each other in the final knocko...
Hey, chess fans! Today we're happy to announce that our new and improved member profile page is available to all members! Along with a visual refresh, the page got some technical improvements, and two new features: member status and flair. ...
With an open qualification process that began in April, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship continues the final qualification phase as it plays down to the final six players who will qualify for the quarterfinals in early October...
On Thursday, the Indian super-grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi survived one of the strongest brackets of the knockout qualifier stage to reach the quarterfinals of the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. In a bracket that featured ...
With an open qualification process that began in April, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship continues the final qualification phase as it plays down to the final six players who will qualify for the quarterfinals in early October. T...
Puzzle Rushers, rejoice! For today we added two new modes! You can think of them as time controls for Rush! Puzzle Modes 3 min Don't have time for a 5-minute Rush? No problem! Now you can start working on your high score in the new 3-minut...
Saturday's Group D finale was only the start of an action-packed weekend in the PRO Chess League Summer Series. The Montreal Chessbrahs completed their group stage by beating the Minnesota Blizzard in their live club match...
On Sunday, the 16-year-old Iranian chess prodigy GM Alireza Firouzja weathered a seven-hour barrage of tough opponents to reach the quarterfinals of the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. Firouzja defeated IM Nicol...
The PRO Chess League Summer Series group stage comes to an end on Saturday, and with the Montreal Chessbrahs clinching first place in Group D, the Minnesota Blizzard, Norway Gnomes and the Cannes Blitzstream...
On Sunday, Russian top GM Ian Nepomniachtchi outlasted 15 opponents to reach the quarterfinals of the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship, defeating GMs Zhamsaran Tsydypov, Sam Sevian and Pentala Harikrishna and the un...