GM Gawain Jones won the European Online Blitz Championship, held online over the weekend. The English grandmaster defeated the legendary GM Alexei Shirov in the final. The championship took place on Tornelo on Dec. 18-20. Organized by the Europe...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Alireza Firouzja in the final to win the Chess.com Bullet Open Championship on Sunday. Nakamura won the $5,000 first prize while Firouzja earned $2,000. The live broadcast of the second day...
GMs Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura, Daniel Naroditsky, and Andrew Tang are the favorites to win the Chess.com Bullet Open Championship on Sunday. Among 12 qualifiers, these four grandmasters are directly seeded into the quarterfinals. You can...
The tiebreaker of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier concluded with GM Aleksandr Lenderman beating IM Christopher Yoo. With this, Lenderman earned a seat at the 2021 U.S. Chess Championship, along with $2,500. Yoo, who tu...
Day seven of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier yielded a result that perhaps many did not expect, but one that is sure to please anybody who has enjoyed the high-quality chess in this event. With GM Elshan Moradiabadi and IM Ch...
As one of the few strong open chess tournaments during the pandemic, the Sunway Sitges Chess Festival is underway in Sitges, Spain. While the participants enjoy playing chess as never before, the tournament hall showcases a wonderful variety of fa...
The penultimate round of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier featured exciting, double-edged games as it was the last chance for some players to stay in the running for first place. The game of the day was between GMs Daniel Naroditsk...
Day five of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier was relatively quiet, with GMs Daniel Naroditsky, Aleksandr Lenderman, Timur Gareyev, Dariusz Swiercz, Elshan Moradiabadi, and IM Christopher Yoo all drawing the...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won his second Russian Championship title, exactly 10 years after his first. A quick draw in the final round proved enough after co-leader GM Sergey Karjakin was beaten by GM Daniil Dubov in brilliant style. GM Aleksandr...
GM Hikaru Nakamura can easily be called the Big Winner of 2020. Three days after clinching the Speed Chess Championship, he also won another Titled Tuesday, his third in eight weeks. This week's December Titled Tuesday tournament had a...
After being postponed a year because of the pandemic, the 2020 Chess Olympiad has now been canceled. The next Olympiad will be held in 2022 in Moscow, and two years later Budapest will be the host city. The 2020 Olympiad was supposed t...
The fourth round of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier kept viewers at the edge of their seats, as GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Andrew Tang emerged victorious in their action-packed games against GMs Timur Gareyev and Els...
If the pandemic situation permits, the Isle of Man will be the center of the chess world again in the autumn of 2021. There will be another FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss, now also with a women's tournament, between Oct. 25 and Nov. 8, 2021. The two...
An exciting third round of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier featured four decisive games, all ending in favor of the players playing white. GM Daniel Naroditsky lost his game in a tough endgame to IM Christopher Yoo, who has t...
The action ramped up in round two of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier, with the excitement starting on the second move in some games. GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Robert Hess did not disappoint their fans, as the famous chess players produced a...
On Saturday GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 2020 Speed Chess Championship final presented by OnJuno. The American grandmaster decided matters in the bullet segment as he defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 18.5-12.5 to win his third ...
The first round of the U.S. Championship Online Qualifier kicked off on Friday with GMs Dariusz Swiercz, Andrew Tang, Elshan Moradiabadi, Aleksandr Lenderman, Timur Gareyev, Daniel Naroditsky, Robert Hess, and IM Christopher Yoo playing ...
The stage is set for the 2020 Speed Chess Championship Final presented by OnJuno. GM Hikaru Nakamura will be facing GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on Saturday, December 12 at 9 a.m. Pacific, 18:00 Central Europe. On Friday, Vachier-Lag...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave defied the odds as he defeated GM Magnus Carlsen to reach Saturday's 2020 Speed Chess Championship final presented by OnJuno. MVL scored 13-11 and will face GM Hikaru Nakamura in the final. Ho...
GM Sergey Karjakin and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi are tied for first place after six rounds at the Russian Championship Superfinal that is underway in Moscow. IM Polina Shuvalova, who started with 6/6 in the women's section, is the surprise of the even...
The U.S. Championship Online Qualifier will kick off on December 11 with thousands of dollars and a spot at the 2021 U.S. Chess Championship on the line. Chess.com is proud to host this event that brings the quality and excitement of U.S. Chess to...
The 83rd Tata Steel Chess tournament will have GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Fabiano Caruana once again. The top two players in the world are the favorites in a young field of participants that includes five players from the world's top 10. Carlsen w...
On his 33rd birthday, GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated Wesley So 13.5-12.5, thereby qualifying for Saturday's final of the 2020 Speed Chess Championship presented by Onjuno. GM Magnus Carlsen and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will play on ...
On Wednesday GM Richard Rapport won the 11th Danzhou Tournament. The Hungarian grandmaster was the only player to remain undefeated and finished half a point ahead of GM Ding Liren. Rapport won 80,000 RMB ($12,249 or 10,103 euros) with...
