GM Anna Ushenina beat GM Valentina Gunina 7-4 in Sunday's final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix's first leg. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk defeated Vaishali Rameshbabu 7-4 in a match for third place hel...
GMs Anna Ushenina beat GM Valentina Gunina 7-4 in the final of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix's first leg. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk had defeated Vaishali Rameshbabu 7-4 in a match for third place hel...
The Chess.com PogChamps Championship and Consolation Finals on Friday, June 19th saw Voyboy, Hutch, Ludwig, and MoisCr1tikal battling their way through two thrilling and close finals matches that each went to tiebreaks. In the championship bracket...
WGM Tatev Abrahamyan and GM Valentina Gunina qualified for the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix as the top-two finishers of the sixth qualifier tournament held on Monday. Abrahamyan and Gunina had finishe...
Hey, chess fans! Remember May? Well, before it recedes any further into the mists of time, let's shine a light on all the cool stuff that happened around the site last month... Web We made several changes to ensure Dark Mode look...
Russian GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the third Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix after beating Ukrainian GM Alexander Zubov in a thrilling final. Fedoseev is now also the new leader in the overall Grand Prix leaderboard. The next Sp...
The Chess.com PogChamps Quarterfinals kicked off Monday, with MoistCr1tikal, Hutch, and Voyboy progressing with decisive results. In the championship bracket, the quality of play from both Hutch and Voyboy was seamless, and many expect both p...
With the group stage complete, Chess.com PogChamps is headed to the quarterfinals. Sunday's action saw Boxbox continue his unbeaten run, fan-favorite Ludwig score his first win, and an emboldened xQc stand toe-to-toe with one of the tournamen...
The Chess.com PogChamps is nearing the end of the group stage. On Friday, Yassuo clinched the final championship bracket berth against MoistCr1tikal, meaning that players were fighting for superior seeding on Saturday. NymN pulled an ups...
The third round of the Chess.com PogChamps kicked off on Thursday, with Fuslie and NateHill battling for their championship bracket lives. While Erobb's match with Voyboy was postponed to this Saturday, Ludwig and SlikeR brought the tras...
The second round of the Chess.com PogChamps came to an end on Wednesday, with NymN, Boxbox, and Forsen each punching their ticket into the championship bracket. While the losses mean Swiftor, SlikeR, and xChocobars will be relegated to t...
Even with just two games, the sixth day of the Chess.com PogChamps brought the event's biggest surprise when moistCr1tikal shocked xQc with a six move win. After non-stop trash talk from both players in the build-up, the result shocked t...
The second round of the Chess.com PogChamps saw Voyboy become the first streamer to clinch his spot in the championship bracket. With his win over Fuslie, the League of Legends talent will be one of eight streamers playing for the $10,00...
The Chess.com PogChamps' first round ended with three decisive results, as Papaplatte, Forsen, and Boxbox were each able to earn three points from their respective openings. Once again, fans from all over the world tuned into Chess.com's broa...
The second day of the Chess.com PogChamps brought tense action in both clashes. A rivalry was born between NymN and SlikeR, when trash-talking in chess was redefined live on broadcast. Meanwhile, the much-anticipated clash between Y...
The first-ever Chess.com PogChamps kicked off Friday, with fans across the world tuning in to watch their favorite Twitch streamers clash on the chessboard. Opening day action saw Group A kick off in earnest, with Fuslie and Voyboy both notching w...
On Monday, GM Anish Giri and IM Danny Rensch teamed up for the third installment of the "Adopt-a-Danny" series—a special event to help raise awareness for adoption, contributing all donated proceeds to the Dave Thomas Foundation fo...
IM Alina Kashlinksaya will be facing IM John Bartholomew in the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship final. Bartholomew defeated IM Greg Shahade 15.5-6.5 in a much-anticipated match that saw great banter before and after the games. The...
IM Alina Kashlinskaya became the first player to reach the final of the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship. On Thursday, the Russian player defeated IM Teddy Coleman 17.5-6.5. In the final, Kashlinskaya will meet the winner of the ma...
Greetings, chess fans! April certainly kept us—and our systems—busy! Behind the scenes, our operations specialists worked hard to keep the servers from boiling over, as COVID-19 kept site traffic higher than ever. But that wasn't all...
The semifinals of the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship will be played among IMs John Bartholomew, Teddy Coleman, Alina Kashlinskaya, and Greg Shahade, who won their quarterfinal matches this week. The first semifinal featuring...
The last Titled Tuesday tournament in the month of April was won by GM Anton Korobov. The Ukrainian grandmasters scored 8.5/9 and finished ahead of a group of 10 players on 8 points, including GM Alexander Grischuk and GM Hikaru Nakamura...
With three more winners on Friday and Saturday, the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship moves to the next stage: the quarterfinals. IMs Teddy Coleman, Lawrence Trent, and Carissa Yip defeated IMs Danny Rensch, Kostya Kavutskiy, and Dean...
IM Greg Shahade and IM Eric Rosen qualified for the quarterfinals of the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship after beating IM Anna Zatonskih and IM Elisabeth Paehtz, respectively. Three more matches in the round of 16 will follow on Friday a...
