GM Pavel Anisimov (@PaulfromSPb) won the Chess.com Titled Tuesday tournament on March 23. The grandmaster from St. Petersburg (as his handle points out!) finished half a point ahead of GM Hikaru Nakamura (@Hikaru) and Dmitry Andreikin (@FairChess_...
A friendly chess match held on Monday in Indonesia, which was streamed on YouTube, attracted a record-shattering number of over a million concurrent viewers. The match was played between IM Irene Sukandar and Dadang Subur, an amateur pla...
After another 2-2 in their second match, GM Anish Giri defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the playoff to win the Magnus Carlsen Invitational on Sunday. Giri earned $60,000 for first place. GM Magnus Carlsen came in third after securi...
GM Anish Giri and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi will start their second match in the Magnus Carlsen Invitational's final with a blank sheet after drawing four times on Saturday. GM Magnus Carlsen beat Wesley So 3-1. How to watch?The games...
The final of the 2021 Magnus Carlsen Invitational will be played between GM Anish Giri and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. While Giri beat Wesley So twice, Nepomniachtchi lost his second match to GM Magnus Carlsen but then won the playo...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So both need to win their second matches (and the playoff) to set up another Champions Chess Tour final among themselves. The two favorites lost to GM Anish Giri and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi&nb...
GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Anish Giri, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, and GM Wesley So reached the semifinals of the 2021 Magnus Carlsen Invitational. None of their opponents GM Levon Aronian, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, GM Hikaru Nakamura, ...
This week's Titled Tuesday saw a surprising winner. The Belarusian FM Denis Lazavik (@DenLaz) clinched the first prize as he edged out GM Jeffery Xiong (@jefferyx) on tiebreak. Both scored 9.5/11. Only 15 years old, Lazavik was the first FM t...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So won their matches on day one of the 2021 Magnus Carlsen Invitational's quarterfinals. GM Levon Aronian and GM Alireza Firouzja need to win on demand on Wednesday to force a playoff. Wi...
Eight players advanced to the knockout stage of the 2021 Magnus Carlsen Invitational on Monday, headlined by early leaders GMs Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri, who held their top two positions entering the day but switched places. Carlsen enters the...
GM Anish Giri continues to lead the Magnus Carlsen Invitational. Again scoring an excellent 4/5, the Dutchman is still half a point ahead of GM Magnus Carlsen with one more day to go in the preliminaries. How to watch?The games of...
The Magnus Carlsen Invitational, the fourth leg of the Champions Chess Tour, began on Saturday. GM Anish Giri is leading with 4/5 after beating both GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So on the first day. How to watch?The games of th...
GM Vladislav Artemiev is having an incredible run in Chess.com's Titled Tuesday blitz events. On March 9, he won his third tournament in four weeks, again as the only player to score 10/11. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament had a t...
IM Roberto Molina won the 2021 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship on Wednesday. The Brazilian player defeated IM Levy Rozman 12.5-7.5 in the final after taking the lead in the three-minute segment and holding on to it in the bullet. The match...
IM Levy Rozman beat IM Greg Shahade in their semifinals match for the 2021 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship by a score of 13.5-10.5. Rozman advanced to the IMSCC final where he will face IM Roberto Molina. Watch the...
For the first time, online chess will be part of the world championship cycle. A new "hybrid" format, where chess players play online but in a public place under the supervision of an arbiter, will be allowed for qualification tournaments for the ...
Reigning U.S. chess champion GM Wesley So is now officially a U.S. citizen. The Filipino-born 27-year-old super-grandmaster got his American citizenship on February 26, 2021, at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices in St. Paul/Min...
IM Roberto Junio Brito Molina is the first player to reach the 2021 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship final. Molina defeated IM Lars Oskar Hauge on Wednesday by a score of 14.5-7.5. The other IMSCC semifinals match will be between&...
GM Vladislav Artemiev won the Titled Tuesday blitz tournament on March 2, his second victory in three weeks and his third overall. This time, the Russian grandmaster was the only player to finish on 10/11. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament h...
The final of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6 brought all the excitement—and many charities—with viewers blowing past the original $50,000 goal. Chess.com decided to double its match, which brought the total for charity to over $150...
The video footage does not tell the full story of the controversy around the Firouzja-Wojtaszek game at the 2021 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, says the chief arbiter of the tournament, Pavel Votruba. In an open letter, the Czech arbiter explains hi...
Wild semifinals marked one of the last days of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6. Emerging victorious from the highly anticipated match against Benjyfishy, Rainn Wilson advanced to the championship bracket finals. Neeko narrowly escaped defeat and ...
Another exhilarrating day of chess happened as PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6 entered its first day of the semifinals. Sardoche won a close match against PogChamps veteran Ludwig, and Michelle Khare stole the show after winning two matches to ad...
GM Levon Aronian will switch federations from Armenia to the United States and will relocate to St. Louis. Earlier today, Aronian announced the news via a statement on social media. "I am sincerely proud to have had the honor of making a si...
