GM Zenon Franco Ocampos, the first Paraguayan grandmaster and a legendary author and chess coach, has passed away at the age of 68. He died in a hospital in Vigo, Spain on Tuesday, October 1 after suffering a heart attack. Franco was born in the...
Indian GM Gukesh Dommaraju has broken into the world top-five for the first time on the October 2024 FIDE rating list after scoring double gold at the 2024 FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest, while also growing the gap to his world championship oppon...
GM Andreas Dueckstein, an Austrian grandmaster known as a dangerous attacker who defeated world champions Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik and Boris Spassky, died peacefully on August 28 at the age of 97. The news was confirmed by the Austrian chess fe...
The US Chess Federation announced on Monday that Shama Yisrael, a 20-year-old from Florida, has crossed the 2200 USCF rating barrier and will become the first female, African-American national master in the country's history when the rating lists ...
It's been four months in the making, but Vaishali Rameshbabu is officially a grandmaster, now that FIDE has approved the latest batch of title applications. She joins her brother GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu to establish the first brother-sister G...
It's late at night at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City, early 1960s. Smoke wafts between shadowed men playing chess under lamplights. But what stands out most in this historic photograph is the sole young woman, exhaling the fog of war ove...
Isa Kasimi, better known as Igors Rausis, the Latvian International Master and coach who was banned for six years and was stripped of his GM title after being caught cheating, has died at the age of 62. The news was confirmed by his ex-wife Olita ...
On Friday, February 2, 2024, the legendary chess player Mian Sultan Khan (1903-1966) was posthumously awarded the honorary grandmaster title. FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich presented the award to caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan Anwaar-ul-Ha...
According to many (including GM Magnus Carlsen), GM Garry Kasparov is still the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) in chess. Today, it is exactly 25 years since Kasparov played his most famous and possibly best ever game, against GM Veselin Topalov in Wi...
GM Valentina Gunina is one of seven Russian women in history to attain the chess grandmaster title. She is a three-time European women's chess champion, a five-time Russian women's chess champion, has won three gold medals with the Russian nationa...
World Champion Ding Liren seems ready and eager to return to the chessboard for his first classical chess tournament in eight months. "I am much better than maybe two or three months ago," he said in an interview with Chess.com, a few days ahead o...
IM-elect Brewington Hardaway crossed the 2400 FIDE rating mark to earn the international master title at the U.S. Masters 2023 on Sunday at the Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina. Already having four IM norms, he should receive the title at ...
IM Levy Rozman, (aka "GothamChess") was recently announced as one of Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 in the class of 2024 in the "games" category, joining an illustrious group of entrepreneurs who were judged to be "leading a technological and artis...
After the weekend, you're back in school. You open the door. You're hit with thunder-like applause from all your classmates and teachers in the hallways; everyone's proud of you. For most teenagers, this fantasy happens only in dreams. But this ...
After standing for nearly three years, the record for the highest blitz rating on Chess.com (previously 3332) has twice been beaten by GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura posted new rating highs of 3334 and 3336 while streaming live on Kick on Monday and...
GM Aleksandar Matanovic, the oldest living chess grandmaster, one of the great players during the golden age of Serbian chess, and co-founder of Chess Informant, died on Wednesday at the age of 93. Matanovic was born on May 23, 1930 in Belgrade,...
IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, more commonly known as Sara Khadem, gained Spanish citizenship on Wednesday. The 26-year-old international master, who left her native country Iran in January and transferred chess federations in July, is the number-o...
As of July 27, the 28-year-old Russian-born GM Vladimir Fedoseev's federation transfer is complete and he will represent Slovenia in future chess tournaments. With a 2676 published rating, the "Bigfish" (from his username on Chess.com) is the Slov...
GM Gukesh D is expected to be the youngest player to have a published rating of 2750 in history when the next FIDE rating list comes out in 11 days (when he will be 17.17 years old). This news comes just off the heels of his countryman GM Praggnan...
17-year-old GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu continues to climb the highest rungs of professional chess. On Wednesday, he won the V. Geza Hetenyi Memorial | GM, held in Budapest, and will cross the 2700-rating threshold on the next official FIDE list....
Lukasz Nowak's movement off the board may be restricted, but on the chessboard, he can move better than most people. Last month the remarkable 25-year-old fulfilled all requirements for the IM title. Just months after his birth, FM Lukasz Nowak ...
Fourteen-year-old FM Brewington Hardaway earned his third and last norm required for the international master title on Tuesday after finishing with 6/9 points at the World Open 2023. His approximately 2472.7 rating performance left him at a 2390.4...
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed GM Hans Niemann's $100 million lawsuit against GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Chess.com, the Play Magnus Group, and IM Daniel Rensch. This means that, at least for the moment, the legal battle that follow...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk has transferred federations to Switzerland and will no longer represent Russia. You can read more about the federation transfer in this news article. The interview below focuses on the personal consequences of the federation...
