It wasn't a bolt from the blue, but GM Magnus Carlsen's decision not to defend his world title still came as shock to many. A day after the news came out, Chess.com gives an overview of reactions from the chess world. GM Vishy Anand, FIDE World ...
GM Magnus Carlsen will not defend his world championship title against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi next year. Carlsen announced his decision on a podcast on Tuesday. According to current regulations, FIDE Candidates tournament winner Nepomniachtchi will...
A degenerative condition has taken away most of his eyesight, but that didn't stop IM Daniel Pulvett from scoring his third GM norm at the Valencia Open on Sunday. With an Elo rating already over 2500, gaining his GM title should be only a technic...
FM Tanitoluwa Adewumi, age 11, has earned his second IM norm, of the three required to earn the coveted international master title, at the NY Summer Invitational IM C closed round-robin tournament which concluded on July 11, 2022. He won the tourn...
A report in Russian media that GM Magnus Carlsen has agreed to defend his world championship title against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi under a new match format with fewer classical games is "totally inaccurate," according to FIDE Director General Emil S...
GM Richard Rapport no longer plans to play for Hungary but will represent Romania instead. His wife Jovana will join him, making the switch from Serbia to Romania. This news was announced by the Romanian Chess Federation. Meanwhile, the Hungarian ...
It is probably a record: scoring two norms in a time span of fewer than 24 hours. GM-elect Frederik Svane, the brother of GM Rasmus Svane, managed to do so last weekend in Hamburg, Germany. 17-year-old Svane, the younger of two brothers (Rasmus ...
GM Yuri Averbakh, the world’s oldest grandmaster, a trainer, international arbiter, chess composer, endgame theoretician, writer, historian, honorary member of FIDE, and the last living participant of the famous Zurich 1953 Candidates Tourna...
NM Griffin McConnell earned the national master title on March 19, 2022, at the age of 17, after undergoing four brain surgeries. Despite having seizures since childhood and undergoing several operations—after various medications failed to h...
"If anyone expects or hopes that I will say yes, I have to prepare them for disappointment," said Magnus Carlsen in an interview with Norway's biggest newspaper on Monday. The world champion repeated his earlier statements that he is not sure...
Last Sunday, GM Hikaru Nakamura joined commentators GM Yasser Seirawan and GM Daniel Naroditsky after winning the week nine Rapid Chess Championship knockout and explained his Candidates preparation, his mentality going into one of the biggest eve...
GM Ding Liren started a 12-game tournament in Hangzhou, China with three wins in two days, which brought him back to second place in the world rankings. According to the Chinese GM's upcoming schedule, he will reach the 30 rated games that he need...
The final of the 2022 Charity Cup will be played between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, the Polish player who ended Carlsen's 125-game unbeaten streak in October 2020 and eliminated the world champion from the 2021 FIDE World Cup. ...
The FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has banned GM Sergey Karjakin for six months from participating as a player in any FIDE rated chess competition. The 32-year-old Russian grandmaster, who is a fierce supporter of Russian president ...
On Thursday, February 24, 2022, 19-year-old GM Kirill Shevchenko and his family woke up from the sounds of numerous explosions not far from them. They took their documents and went to the basement, where they stayed all day and tried to follow the...
Forty-four top Russian chess players published an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, voicing firm opposition to the war in Ukraine and expressing solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Signees include the most ...
GM Borislav Ivkov, the first World Junior Champion, three-time Yugoslav champion, and former world championship candidate who defeated five world champions of chess, died on Monday at the age of 88. The news was confirmed by FIDE. "To be honest,...
A judge on Thursday refused to dismiss GM Nona Gaprindashvili's defamation lawsuit against Netflix, meaning the suit can proceed. The streaming and production company had claimed that because The Queen's Gambit is a work of fiction, it would be im...
"It is unlikely that I will play another match unless maybe if the next challenger represents the next generation," wrote GM Magnus Carlsen on Tuesday in a blog post for one of his sponsors. The world champion once again mentioned GM Alireza Firou...
FM Mike Klein, Chess.com's onsite correspondent at the 2021 FIDE World Championship and the Chief Chess Officer of ChessKid, caught up with GM Ian Nepomniachtchi for an interview a couple of days after the match with GM Magnus Carlsen. Feel free t...
GM Magnus Carlsen might be letting go of his world title in classical chess unless GM Alireza Firouzja will be his opponent for the next match. "If someone other than Firouzja wins the Candidates Tournament, it is unlikely that I will play the nex...
Jonathan Penrose, a 10-time British champion, grandmaster as well as correspondence grandmaster who famously defeated reigning world champion Mikhail Tal at the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad, has died at the age of 88. This was reported by The Guardian. ...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi will be the challenger for the 2021 FIDE World Championship Match which begins on November 24. Chess.com is his official chess sponsor, and we were able to catch up with him for this interview. You can watch the video below...
GM Fabiano Caruana will be Chess.com's star commentator during the Carlsen-Nepomniachtchi world championship match alongside GM Robert Hess and IM Danny Rensch. Nobody can provide better insights than the world's number-two player, who was Carlsen...
An 88-year-old chess player from Venezuela recently received a very nice surprise: his FM title. He was informed that FIDE had acknowledged the title application based on results that he scored in the 1960s. It's a record that won't be easy to b...