Palo Alto, Calif., April 21, 2020—The International Chess Federation and Chess.com announce the Online Nations Cup, a team competition held May 5-10, 2020. Six teams are due to take part in this competition: Russia, USA, Europe, China, India...
The FIDE Candidates Countries Youth Online Chess Tournament was won by the team representing the International Chess Federation, closely followed by China. The tournament took place on April 18-19 on Chess.com. It was an expected victory for "Te...
GM Vladislav Artemiev of Russia won the $5,000 first prize in the Abu Dhabi Super Blitz Challenge on Wednesday. The Russian grandmaster defeated GM Oleksandr Bortnyk of Ukraine in the knockout final; GM Daniil Dubov came third. Organized by the ...
Update: The first-event premium arena will now take place Wednesday, June 3 at 9 a.m. Pacific Time (18:00 CEST)! Register for the Arena beginning one hour before it begins here: https://www.chess.com/live#r=212024 After postponing the original...
GM Salem Saleh's preparation for today's Abu Dhabi Super Blitz Challenge couldn't have been better. The UAE resident won April's second Titled Tuesday tournament alone with 8.5/9 after winning his first eight games. With another Titled Tuesday y...
The FIDE Candidates Countries Youth Online Chess Tournament is a team match for youth players representing China, France, Netherlands, Russia, USA, and FIDE. It will be played on Chess.com on April 18 and 19. Since all over-the-board tournaments...
The Blitzstream Cup, organized by Kevin Bordi and held over Easter Weekend, raised 11,250 euros for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). With the participation of GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, the event was a su...
SSON, the chess club from Selfoss, Iceland, won the first Nordic Internet Club Cup, played over the Easter Weekend on Chess.com. Vikingaklubburinn, also from Iceland, came second, ahead of Oslo (Norway). The top seed in the inaugural Nordic Inte...
Note: Registration is now closed. The inaugural Sunway Sitges International Online Chess Open tournament, likely the first-ever classical open tournament played online, will start Friday, April 17 on Chess.com. Questions about this event can be ...
GM David Smerdon (@smurfo) defeated chess engine Komodo (@PlayKomodo), playing with knight odds, 5-1. The Man vs. Machine rapid match was played on Chess.com on April 10 and 11 and provided more insight into the effect of material imbalance in hum...
A bit more than $6,000 was raised for India's Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund to fight COVID-19 in a Chess.com on Saturday with GM Viswanathan Anand and other top Indian grandmasters. The sim...
19-year-old GM Haik Martirosyan of Armenia won this month's Titled Tuesday tournament. With 888 titled players, including top GMs Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Hikaru Nakamura, it was by far the biggest...
The Nordic Internet Club Cup, an online competition for Nordic chess clubs organized by the Icelandic Chess Federation, starts today on Chess.com. Russian talent GM Andrey Esipenko and Africa's number-one GM Bassem Amin are among the top players. ...
Resuming our Man vs. Machine series, this week Chess.com is hosting a match between Australian grandmaster David Smerdon and Komodo. The chess engine will be playing with knight odds. The match, held in conjunction with a special anniversary iss...
The Abu Dhabi Chess & Culture Club and Chess.com announce the first Abu Dhabi Super Blitz Challenge, on Wednesday, April 15. The tournament features a prize fund of $10,000 and is open to all titled players. Early entries include GM Hikaru Nak...
The 2020 Grand Chess Tour has been canceled. The Saint Louis Chess Club stated that events planned for August-September in St. Louis might still happen if the situation has improved enough by that time. After a meeting on Friday, the Grand Chess...
Much has been said about the FIDE Candidates Tournament, the postponement of the second half and the situation regarding GM Teimour Radjabov. It's easy to forget that chess fans saw a marvelous (half) tournament, one that provided a wealth of grea...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is the new number four in the world rankings. The Russian grandmaster reached a career-high rating in the April FIDE rating list, published by the International Chess Federation on Wednesday. Note that the new ratin...
Edited April 2, 2020: Happy April Fool's everyone. Stay safe! The chess world was universally saddened by the postponement after seven rounds of the FIDE Candidates Tournament due to the escalating COVID-19 pandemic and the rapidly impending clo...
Arianne Caoili, a former Oceania women's chess champion, Woman International Master, and an incredibly versatile human being, has died due to the consequences of a car crash. Caoili, the wife of Armenia's number-one grandmaster Levon Aronian,...
While the FIDE Candidates tournament was stopped at the halfway point and almost all players are now back home, the situation surrounding GM Teimour Radjabov is still the talk of the town. In this report we've collected comments in other media sou...
Members of the national chess team of Azerbaijan have written an open letter in which they demand that FIDE puts GM Teimour Radjabov back into the Candidates tournament. Meanwhile, GM Sergey Karjakin has expressed his support for Radjabo...
GM Teimour Radjabov is considering legal action now that the second half of the FIDE Candidates tournament has been postponed amidst the coronavirus crisis. The Azerbaijani grandmaster, who predicted big problems and withdrew before the tournament...
The second half of the FIDE Candidates Tournament has been postponed. The imminent interruption of air traffic between Russia and other countries forced the decision, according to a statement by FIDE. The players were informed of the postpo...
