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...
Beginning June 2, Titled Tuesday will be part of the Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix as a direct path to qualify for the 2020 Speed Chess Championship. The SCC GP is presented by Gambit, where you can play classic games like Reversi,...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is GM Daniil Dubov's opponent in the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge final and not GM Magnus Carlsen. Their third match in the semifinals went all the way to armageddon, in which the world champion blunde...
GM Wesley So won the Clutch Chess Champions Showdown on Friday as he beat GM Fabiano Caruana in the final, with a game to spare. The final score was 9-9, with So winning on first tiebreak: most clutch victories. So went into ...
GM Daniil Dubov became the first player to reach the final of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge as the Russian GM beat GM Ding Liren once again on Friday. GM Hikaru Nakamura managed to level the score against&nb...
The chess for West Bengal charity will take place on Chess.com from June 4-7, 2020. This charity is organized to support the people affected by the Cyclone Amphan that devastated India's largest state on the east coast, West Bengal. This event wil...
GM Wesley So took the lead against GM Fabiano Caruana on Thursday in the Clutch Chess Champions Showdown final. At the halfway point of the final, So leads the match with a score of 4.5-3.5. The second half of the match will be...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Daniil Dubov won their first matches in the semifinals of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge. Carlsen crushed GM Hikaru Nakamura 3-0, putting the American in a must-win situation on Friday. That's also the cas...
On Wednesday, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and IM Danny Rensch teamed up for the fourth installment of the "Adopt-a-Danny" series—a special event to help raise awareness for adoption, contributing all donated proceeds to the Dave Thomas F...
GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Wesley So won their respective matches in the Clutch Chess Champions Showdown on Wednesday. Caruana defeated GM Leinier Dominguez Perez with a 15-3 score, while So beat GM Hikaru Nakamura by a sco...
GMs Daniil Dubov and Ding Liren will face each other on Thursday in the semifinals of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge. Dubov beat GM Sergey Karjakin 3-0, Ding eventually drew GM Yu Yangyi as Black in the armageddon game to advance. ...
The Clutch Chess Champions Showdown began on Tuesday with the top four American grandmasters participating in this knockout event with a twist: the last two games of each day are worth more points. GM Fabiano Caruana leads his match against G...
The beloved series Adopt-A-Danny returns with its fourth father-to-be, GM Ian Nepomniachtchithis Wednesday, May 27 at 11 a.m. Pacific time / 20:00 Central Europe on Chess.com/tv. The show's third guest, world number-ten GM Anish Giri, adopt...
