BlockChamps, presented by the dynamic streaming sibling duo WFM Alexandra Botez and Andrea Botez and sponsored by Envy and CashApp, broke the chess viewership record for a single stream previously held by PogChamps. Over 91,000 concurrent viewers ...
Today the Skilling Open advanced to the knockout phase with its eight leading players from the preliminaries—GMs Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, Levon Aronian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Teimour Radjabov, Wesley So, and Ani...
The Rockefeller family is one of the wealthiest in American history and one of the most philanthropic. The latest beneficiary of their familial generosity is US Chess who has received a gift of $3 million from John Davison Rockefeller V, the son o...
GM Wesley So defeated GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in a Speed Chess Championship match that was tight in the beginning and tight in the end, but it was a tour de force by So in the middle. With the exception of World Champion Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru...
GM Hikaru Nakamura will play an eight-game odds match against the new "Dragon" chess engine developed by Komodo. In all games, Nakamura will receive odds of two pawns and will play Black. The match will be an exciting battle between artificial int...
The Komodo team has released Komodo 14.1 and a new chess engine dubbed "Dragon." Dragon adds powerful NNUE (Efficiently Updatable Neural Networks) technology to the successful Komodo engine. Komodo is the 2019 World Computer Chess Champion, 2019...
In the final two quarterfinal matches in PogChamps 2, itshafu and TSM_Zexrow grabbed the remaining slots in the semifinals that begin tomorrow, September 5. itshafu overcame Forsen, a fearsome foe, in a tense match with plenty of high drama while ...
After the incredible success of the first PogChamps, many wondered if chess would be a short-lived Twitch fad and a fleeting meta. Could chess continue to bring in tens of thousands of spectators, showcasing the joy of a 1,400-year-old game to leg...
In arguably the biggest development in computer chess since AlphaZero was introduced, Stockfish (the strongest traditional chess engine) is absorbing the fledgling Stockfish+NNUE project. Update: see also our news report on the launch of Stockfi...
Eight of the world's most popular anitubers (anime youtubers) took their drama off the page and screen and to the chessboard in the first-ever Tournament Arc. The event was won by Gigguk. Tournament Arc delivered in every way possible—with...
As our readers are no doubt aware, Beirut, Lebanon was devastated on Tuesday, August, 4th by a massive chemical explosion aboard a container ship at port. The explosion, apparently the result of negligence, has rocked the country to it's core, kil...
Only two federations, Hong Kong and Angola, achieved perfect scores in division four of the Online Chess Olympiad. Along with 13 other triumphant federations, they secured advancement to division three that takes place August 7-9 on Chess.com. T...
Update: Quotes from Chief Arbiter Bayat have been included in this report. 1/16/20 Iran has been the center of much turbulence recently on and off the chessboard. Ongoing protests in the country seeking political reform are the second such upris...
The FIDE Grand Prix cycle resumed today in Riga, Latvia. This is the second Grand Prix tournament, following the Moscow Grand Prix won by Ian Nepomniachtchi. Each Grand Prix is a 16-player knockout event in which the players play two classical gam...
Which top-10 players has Magnus Carlsen never beaten in classical chess? Until today, the answer was Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren. Now only Ding Liren is unscathed. Even as the round was just beginning, fans on Twitter were anticipating t...
Both Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So won important and impressive games today to catch Ian Nepomniachtchi in first place as the Russian GM found his king netted in dangerous central waters against Ding Liren. In a tournament that has proved quite e...
Thirteen players in chess history have crossed the 2800 rating barrier. Could Ian Nepomniachtchi become the 14th? The Russian star won his third consecutive game in Zagreb, reaching a 3/3 score by defeating Shakhriyar Mamedyarov with the black p...
A day earlier, and the numbers would have been suspiciously good, but Titled Tuesday on April 2 was no joke as it set the record for the largest Titled Tuesday ever with 432 titled participants, including Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Grischuk, Ian N...
March's Titled Tuesday event featured 396 titled players (just shy of February's 400-plus record) competing for cash and glory. The top seed was Hikaru Nakamura, the record-holder for most Titled Tuesday wins. Despite losing to a player who d...
The Dallas Destiny scored a league-high 20 points in PRO Chess League Battles Royale as several teams such as the Miami Champions made big strides forward in the league standings with strong performances. Other favorites such as the Montreal Chess...
The Mumbai Movers won one of the most exciting matches of the week as the PRO Chess League's two Indian teams clashed. Elsewhere, carnage ensued as the league saw a surprising number of blowouts as the Pittsburgh Pawngrabbers, New York Marshalls...
The PRO Chess League debuted its new Battle Royale format in week four. The different format and large number of points available significantly shook up the standings in most divisions. Some teams like the Webster Windmills and the Baden-Baden Sno...
The PRO Chess League has always been known for its innovative formats. This Tuesday and Friday, we debut our first new format of 2019: Battle Royales! Diving into the action this week will be two PRO Chess League stars making their 2019 debuts, ...
Week three of the 2019 PRO Chess League season featured probably the biggest regular season match in the league's history as the Montreal Chessbrahs and the Saint Louis Arch Bishops played back and forth match full of surprises, upsets, and post-s...
This week's PRO Chess League dodges, ducks, dips, dives and dodges as it moves to Monday and Tuesday to accommodate many player conflicts with Tata Steel and Gibraltar. The Eastern and Central Divisions play on Monday beginning at 7 a.m. PT while ...