GM Kirill Shevchenko advanced today at the 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG with a hard-fought match victory over GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov. Though Shevchenko led throughout, the match reached its climax when he had to ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won week nine of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating longtime rival GM Levon Aronian in the knockout final. GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Swiss tournament and made it to ...
Chess.com is happy to announce the release of v4, the new version of our mobile iOS app. With this release, both our iOS and Android apps now share our newest interface with many improvements to make your mobile chess experience better! Many of ...
With GM Dmitry Andreikin's surprising ousting of GM Anish Giri in yesterday's rapid play tiebreaker, a final against Hungarian GM Richard Rapport was set in place at the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade. Rapport had, of course, previously eli...
Chess.com is happy to foster the growth of the royal game by giving $25,000 to help fund the 2022 North American Chess Cup for Youth With Disabilities happening June 21 through 26. This amount will help the organizers to invest in staff for the ev...
The Chess.com Players League has been wildly popular, leading to a 20% increase in games played in December 2021 alone. Leagues have also given the Chess.com community another way to track progress in its favorite game. With Leagues came an opport...
Speed-addicted Chess.com members have a lot of reasons to celebrate as the 2022 Bullet Chess Championship approaches. Top players will battle for their piece of the $100,000 prize fund, with the qualifiers starting on February 21. This year's pr...
Chess.com's traditional weekly event for streamers Arena Kings is back for its ninth season, starting on February 2 at 9 a.m. PST/18:00 CET. With a $45,000 prize fund, this season promises to be the most exciting yet! Last season, GM Hikaru Naka...
GM Magnus Carlsen continues to lead the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament despite missing a win in his game with GM Vidit Gujrathi in round 11. GM Richard Rapport is half a point behind after getting a forfeit win vs. GM Daniil Dubov, who dropped o...
GM Magnus Carlsen maintained his half-point lead at the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament with three rounds to go. The world champion drew in just 20 minutes with GM Sergey Karjakin and then saw GM Anish Giri splitting the point with GM Jan-Krzyszt...
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated co-leader GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov on Tuesday to regain the sole lead at the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. GM Anish Giri is the only player trailing the world champion by half a point after scoring his fourth full po...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov are tied for first place after eight rounds at the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament and happen to be playing each other in the next round on Tuesday. GM Anish Giri and GM Vidit Gujrathi both won ...
Exciting changes are coming to Titled Tuesday starting on February 1. We are now offering two tournaments and a big bump to the prizes: we'll be dishing out $5,000 every Tuesday—$2,500 per tournament and more than $250,000 per year! That's m...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his second game in a row and is now the sole leader after seven rounds in the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The world champion defeated GM Praggnanandhaa R. with the black pieces on Saturday. GM Daniil Dubov forfei...
With a fairly smooth win vs. GM Richard Rapport, World Champion Magnus Carlsen joined the leaders in round six of the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. GM Fabiano Caruana had just equalized a tough position in time-trouble vs. GM Anish Giri w...
GMs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Richard Rapport both won their games in round five of the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament to catch GM Vidit Gujrathi in first place. GM Magnus Carlsen drew an exciting game with GM Nils Grandelius. How to watc...
Chess.com is partnering with Envy to support the Botez Sisters on their new adventures as they move into the Los Angeles Envy Content House. The sisters will share their roof with other star creators—former PogChamps participants JustaMinx a...
Season 3 of the Collegiate Chess League was the biggest season to date with over 80 schools from over a dozen countries fielding 160 teams across 10 divisions (over 1000 total students)! This is only a fraction of the number of schools and student...
Dear Chess.com Community, Today Chess.com is announcing something big, and yet also inconsequential: one of the world’s top “growth equity” firms, General Atlantic, has made a major investment in Chess.com. This transaction hap...
Chess.com is thrilled to announce the Chess.com Rapid Chess Championship, our most elite event ever. The first "RCC" debuts with a prize fund of $650,000. This 25-week extravaganza begins on February 12 and culminates in a dramatic finale on Augus...
Chess.com is happy to announce the release of Classroom! Classroom gives coaches and students a seamless, simple, all-in-one tool to help take their lessons to the next level. It also provides Chess.com members a streamlined way of connecting an...
GM Ray Robson won the 2022 Puzzle Battle World Championship that concluded on Sunday. The 27-year-old grandmaster from St. Louis again defended his title, which he has been holding since the 2020 Championship, and clinched a prize of $4,500 for bo...
Chess.com is excited to announce the winners of the 2021 Chess.com awards! It was a year of massive growth for chess. In February, PogChamps 3 set the Chess.com record for the biggest live-streamed event ever—at one point even breaking the 1...
Update: You can see all of the winners in this article. It's almost the end of the year, and what a year it has been! With so much good news for the chess world, there's certainly a lot to celebrate. To make sure we commemorate this year p...
