The Saint Louis Arch Bishops and the Armenia Eagles will play in Sunday's PRO Chess League final. The teams defeated the China Pandas and the Canada Chessbrahs respectively, who will play the match for third place on Saturday. The game...
The 2020 PRO Chess League will be decided today in the final between the Saint Louis Arch Bishops and the Armenia Eagles. The teams will be fighting for a $20,000 first prize. The final will start Sunday, September 27 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific ...
Six new variants, including four from the recent AlphaZero paper, are now available for all Chess.com members to try. They can be found at Chess.com/variants. The recent scientific paper from Google's DeepMind, co-written by 14th worl...
GM Jeffery Xiong will be the opponent for GM Arjun Erigaisi in the quarterfinals of the Junior Speed Chess Championship sponsored by ChessKid. In what was the longest a match in the round of 16 so far, Xiong beat GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov 18.5...
On Sunday OSG Baden-Baden earned their 14th Bundesliga title in 15 years by winning the round-robin championship tournament in Karlsruhe, Germany. Many players returned to over-the-board chess for the first time in months and seemed quite inspired...
GM Alexey Sarana of Russia will be the opponent for American GM Sam Sevian in the quarterfinals of the Junior Speed Chess Championship sponsored by ChessKid. In a match on Sunday, Sarana defeated his compatriot Andrey Esipenko 14-11. It was...
The Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament ended in a shared victory for GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So. Both won $45,000 as the American grandmaster caught up with his Norwegian rival in the final round. Carlsen defeated So in their mutua...
The Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament seems to be a two-horse race between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So, who have separated themselves from the field. Carlsen is half a point ahead with nine rounds of blitz to go. Their closest riva...
As the only undefeated player, GM Wesley So leads the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament after nine rounds of rapid chess. Going into the blitz, the American grandmaster is a point ahead of GM Magnus Carlsen, who lost to ...
It's been a while since we heard the name of GM Richard Rapport, but today the Hungarian grandmaster reminded the chess world of his creative talent in a wonderful attacking game. It was played in the Bundesliga which is underway in Karlsruhe, Ger...
GM Magnus Carlsen bounced back from his unfortunate loss by disconnect as he won all three games on the second day of the Saint Louis Rapid tournament. The world champion is now the sole leader with 9 points out of a possible 12. GMs I...
GM Magnus Carlsen shockingly lost his round-two game of the Saint Louis Rapid on time as he lost his internet connection. GM Levon Aronian and GM Pentala Harikrishna are leading with 2.5/3. Only two days after the Chess9LX tournament f...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura both won $31,250 as they shared the first prize in the online Chess9LX tournament. The two grandmasters scored 6/9 in a tournament that had no tiebreak regulations. GM Levon Aronian, who was lea...
GM Levon Aronian is the new leader of the online Chess9LX tournament after winning all of his games on day two. GM Garry Kasparov managed to score only half a point from three promising positions. Kasparov's play was influenced by a tragic ...
GM Magnus Carlsen failed to take revenge for his loss in 2004 vs. GM Garry Kasparov. When they played for the first time in 16 years, Carlsen spoiled a winning endgame and let his legendary opponent off the hook in the second round of the online C...
Andrew Tang won the Junior Speed Chess Championship qualifier. The American grandmaster emerged as the winner in an eight-player bracket and will now play a match against GM Nihal Sarin on Friday. The qualifier was a knockout tournamen...
In a new paper from DeepMind, this time co-written by 14th world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, the self-learning chess engine AlphaZero is used to explore the design of different variants of the game of chess, with different sets of rules. Th...
The FIDE Candidates Tournament will resume on November 1, 2020, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, or Tbilisi, Georgia. This was announced moments ago by the International Chess Federation. Earlier today, the Russian news agency TASS broke the news, quot...
In an exciting set of matches, itsHafu played Gripex90 in the championship match, and easywithaces took on Cizzorz for the top spot in the consolation bracket. easywithaces vs. Cizzorz itsHafu vs. Gripex90 In case you missed it, here's how...
The Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, presented by ChessKid, kicks off today with the Knockout Qualifier. Eight players will be fighting for the last available spot in the championship. The 2020 edition of the Chess.com Junior Spee...
The PogChamps 2 semifinals were all hard-fought matches! Gripex played dogdog, and itsHafu played TFBlade in the championship bracket. Meanwhile, the consolation bracket saw TSM_Zexrow against easywithaces and Cizzorz against QTCinderella. Make ...
In the final two quarterfinal matches in PogChamps 2, itshafu and TSM_Zexrow grabbed the remaining slots in the semifinals that begin tomorrow, September 5. itshafu overcame Forsen, a fearsome foe, in a tense match with plenty of high drama while ...
The exciting action in the knockout stage of PogChamps continued on Thursday with two of the three matches being decided in tiebreaks. Thursday's games were commentated by GM Robert Hess, IM Levy Rozman, and WFM Alexandra Botez. In the cham...
Two players who intended to participate in the Spanish championships have tested positive for the coronavirus. They are part of a group of seven who have been quarantined. Thus far, the Spanish Chess Federation has not canceled the championsh...
