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...
GM Sam Shankland won the third edition of the Prague Masters. Playing his first over-the-board tournament in 16 months, the California-based grandmaster finished on 5.5/7, half a point more than Polish GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. How to watch?The g...
When Ferdinand Maumo (10) walked inside the chess club in the slum of Makoko, his peers started making fun of him. Born with cerebral palsy, Ferdinand is a quiet boy whose condition and poor background deprived him of an education, friends and the...
For 24 years the record stood but since today, GM Etienne Bacrot is no longer France's youngest grandmaster ever. Five days after turning 14, Marc'Andria Maurizzi secured the GM title at the GM tournament in Chartres. The news has been dominated...
On Monday, IM Abhimanyu Mishra scored his second GM norm at the May 2021 First Saturday Tournament in Budapest, Hungary. The 12-year-old player from New Jersey is 29 Elo points and one GM norm away from becoming the youngest-ever grandmaster in hi...
On Wednesday, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was officially crowned as the winner of the 2020-2021 FIDE Candidates Tournament. Before the ceremony, he answered questions from the media. The final press conference. Nepomniachtchi started by thanking his...
22 years after trying for the first time, GM Garry Kasparov repeated a bold move. The 13th world champion has announced the relaunch of KasparovChess, described as "a new multimedia content platform for chess lovers of all skill levels." The pla...
As the world celebrates International Women's Day, three women in chess received awards: Iranian arbiter Shohreh Bayat won the International Women of Courage Award, GM Humpy Koneru won the 2020 BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award and GM ...
A fascinating interview with GM Bobby Fischer shortly after he became the world champion in 1972 has recently been posted on YouTube. Apart from sharing his thoughts on the match, Fischer shows remarkable skill at solving the 15 Puzzle. The...
It was big news in the Netherlands when GM Jorden van Foreest won the prestigious Tata Steel Chess Tournament last Sunday. He appeared in the national news, as well as sports programs, the talk show "Jinek" and all major newspapers. The fac...
The Czech-American grandmaster, former number-10 in the world, coach, organizer, trainer, commentator, author, columnist, and member of the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek died at the age of 77 after a brief but severe illnes...
