GM Vladislav Artemiev leads the A group of the Chessable Masters after day one. The Russian grandmaster scored 3.5/5, half a point more than GM Daniil Dubov, who beat GM Magnus Carlsen in round four. How to watch?The games of the Chess...
The Chess.com PogChamps semifinals started Thursday, with Hutch, MoisCr1tikal, and VoyBoy advancing to the finals. In the championship bracket, Hutch defeated NymN in a close match that went to a tiebreak game while Voyboy beat Boxbox. Hutch and V...
Do female chess players play better or worse when they play against men, or is there no difference? A recent study suggests that women perform slightly worse as a result of what has been labeled "stereotype threat." Co-authored by Australian GM ...
The Chess.com PogChamps quarterfinals concluded Wednesday, with NymN and xQc moving forward to the semifinals. In the championship bracket, NymN defeated Papaplatte and will face Hutch in the Semifinals. In the consolation bracket, xQc def...
The Chess.com PogChamps Quarterfinals continued Tuesday, with Boxbox, SlikeR, and Ludwig advancing with their respective victories. In the championship bracket, the Boxbox-Forsen matchup was an entertaining slugfest with Boxbox winning in an ...
FIDE and Chess.com have announced the 2020 FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship, an online competition for female players to be held between June 18 and July 20, 2020. The tournament has a total prize fund of $52,000. ...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the Clutch Chess International. In the second half of the final, played on Sunday, the Norwegian grandmaster was on the verge of defeat after losing the first clutch game to GM Fabiano Caruana but the...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Fabiano Caruana both won one regular games and then both won one clutch game to tie their Clutch Chess International halfway. Caruana came back twice after a loss. The second half of the match is played...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Fabiano Caruana will play the final of the Clutch Chess International. Although Carlsen's win vs GM Levon Aronian was never really in doubt, Caruana made a big comeback vs. GM Wesley So o...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So are leading their Clutch Chess semifinal matches 6-2 against GM Levon Aronian and GM Fabiano Caruana, respectively. The matches were identical with Carlsen and So winning the fi...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the second Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix, formerly known as Titled Tuesday. The French grandmaster beat GM Alireza Firouzja in the final, an eight-player knockout held after 10 rounds of Swiss. ...
GM Levon Aronian will be playing GM Magnus Carlsen in the Clutch Chess semifinals as he defeated GM Alexander Grischuk 10-8 on Tuesday. The other match will be GM Wesley So vs. GM Fabiano Caruana, who b...
On Tuesday, GM Sergey Karjakin played a chess game against cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first-ever Space vs. Earth chess battle. The game was played on a fairly high level (bo...
An Indian charity tournament held June 4-7 on Chess.com raised just over $7500 for the state of West Bengal, India, which was paralyzed by the Cyclone Amphan a couple of weeks ago. This event was a joint effort by Chess.com and Samay Raina, o...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So are the first two players to reach the Clutch Chess International's semifinals. On Monday they defeated GM Jeffery Xiong and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave respectively. How to watch?The games of the ...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian are leading their Clutch Chess matches at halftime vs. GMs Leinier Dominguez and Alexander Grischuk respectively. Caruana and Aronian both won one clutch game for a $2,000 bonus prize. How to watch?The games...
GM Magnus Carlsen leads his Clutch Chess match vs GM Jeffery Xiong 4.5-3.5 after the first day of play. In the other half of the bracket, GM Wesley So scored 5.5-2.5 vs. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. A week after the first Clutch Chess event, an Am...
The FIDE Checkmate Coronavirus project has resulted in over 1,500 tournaments played in the last 17 days on multiple chess platforms. The project runs until June 16, and many more prizes are up for grabs for players of all levels. The Internatio...
GM Daniil Dubov won the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge on Wednesday. The Russian grandmaster defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura in the armageddon game to clinch the $45,000 first prize. Nakamura won $27,000. How to watch?The ga...
This weekend, GM Jorden van Foreest will have his chance to take down Stockfish in what promises to be another epic showdown featuring man and machine. The Stockfish Challenge, set to start on Sunday, June 7 at 5 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m...
GM Vladislav Artemiev became the winner of the first Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix, formerly known as Titled Tuesday. The Russian grandmaster beat his compatriot GM Sergey Karjakin in the final, an eight-player knockout held after 10 ro...
The Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge will see one more day of chess as GM Daniil Dubov tied the score vs GM Hikaru Nakamura on Monday. The Russian GM won the first game as Black and the next three then ended in draws. ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura took the lead in the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge final. The American grandmaster defeated GM Daniil Dubov 2.5-1.5 on Monday and is now a match victory away from clinching the whole tournament. How t...
On Sunday, Russian GM Alexey Sarana won the group for 2300+ players of the first European Online Chess Championship. The tournament was played over different rating categories between May 16 and 31 on Chess.com. Sarana won a 16-player knockout o...
