December's Titled Tuesday was a thoroughly star-studded holiday blast. With 353 players, it was our third-largest Titled Tuesday ever. The field was so packed with talent and skill that it could easily be mistaken for a prestige open or swiss. H...
Hikaru Nakamura has only ever been defeated in the Speed Chess Championship by Magnus Carlsen. In the Grandmaster Blitz Battle Championship and the first season of the Speed Chess Championship, he was defeated by Carlsen in the finals. In today'...
Two Russians topped Chess.com's November Titled Tuesday with performances of 8.5/10 each. GM Evgeny Tomashevsky (@EvgenyT), known as "The Professor" for his solidity, glasses, and demeanor, and Grigory Oparin (@OparinGrigoriy), one of Russia's ris...
Today, Ding Liren of China bested Mikhail Tal's legendary streak of 95 games played without a defeat. Ding Liren's unbeaten streak now stands at 96 and counting. Tal's mark was set between October of 1973 and October of 1974. Ding Liren'...
Last year, two new teams (the Armenia Eagles and the Chengdu Pandas) made it to the finals weekend in San Francisco where the Eagles eventually defeated the Pandas in a thrilling multiple-overtime battle. This year, six new teams and two returning...
Michael Adams won in round seven at the 2018 Chess.com Isle of Man International to join yesterday's six leaders. Adams was the only one of the round's winners to join the lead group. His victory over Abhijeet "Superman" Gupta was a great b...
GM Boris Savchenko (@tigra), a regular and strong performer in Titled Tuesday, won his first event with a strong 9/10 performance. Savchenko won his first eight (!) games to take a huge lead in the event. A ninth-round loss against runner-up Moska...
Pundits have often labeled the Pacific Division the toughest division in the PRO Chess League. In the first-ever PRO Chess League All Stars, they cemented that status with a thrilling multiple-overtime victory over the Atlantic Division. Four Al...
To begin day one of the St. Louis blitz, Hikaru Nakamura and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov led the field. To end day one, they were still tied for the lead. However, the day could not have been more dramatic as the lead changed hands in eight of the day's...
The popular Chess.com blitz and bullet player IM Minh Le (@wonderfultime) achieved a convincing victory in the August Titled Tuesday, scoring 9/10 and besting many excellent speed chess players. Minh Le started off hot with a beautiful fini...
Expectations for Hikaru Nakamura, the top seed in the Speed Chess Championship, were high against Hou Yifan, the world's highest-rated female player. Even so, he shattered those expectations, scoring 27.5-2.5, continually putting pressure on Hou Y...
The winning score in the July Titled Tuesday was 8.5/10. Two players made that mark. The first was GM Aram Hakobyan, a young Armenian player who has of late been a regular atop the Chess.com blitz leaderboard. Here was one accurate trick he landed...
June's Titled Tuesday was a fantastic success for Iranian players. As evidenced by their success in the 2016 Olympiad and the emergence of prodigies like GM Alireza Firouzja, Iran is becoming quite a strong chess country. With two trips (top m...
Titled Tuesday returned to its regular schedule this week on the first Tuesday of the month. Joining the fun with 275 titled players were two household names of chess: the world championship challenger Fabiano Caruana and the Dutch number-one ...
The PRO Chess League featured thrilling play from established superstars, promising talents, and journeymen and women who put it all on the line for their team. In addition to team pride and prizes, these players were competing for $12,000 in indi...
And on the third day, no one rose again in Shamkir. Three rounds and fifteen games have resulted in a perfect fifteen draws. Each player in the event therefore has the distinction of being on both shared first and shared last place. The first pl...
GMs Sergey Grigoriants, Aram Hakobyan and IM Zhamsaran Tsydypov won the April 17 Titled Tuesday, the biggest ever, with 373 entrants and $5,000 in prizes. FM Santiago Zapata equaled their score of 8.5/10 but was disqualified for fai...
It is a rare and special thing to be able to defeat the world champion in classical chess. Players who do so belong to an elite group, termed the "Chigorin Club." For a player outside the world's top 50 to have such a chance is doubly rare. GM G...
A small windstorm touched down in Chess.com's digital offices as IM Daniel Rensch and fellow staff members breathed a massive sigh of relief this Tuesday. We are thrilled to say that the Titled Tuesday CrASH Test Tournament ran perfectly, with no ...
The Armenia Eagles, Ljubljana Turtles, Saint Louis Arch Bishops, and Chengdu Pandas won their divisions in the 2018 season of the PRO Chess League. These four teams are headed to San Francisco on April 7 and 8 for finals weekend where they wi...
Predicting results in the Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League continues to be incredibly difficult. In the eight matches in round one of the PRO Chess League playoffs, three of the four divisional top seeds were upset by the fourth seeds....
The final round of the PRO Chess League regular season was a heartbreaker for many as several beloved teams either missed the playoffs or were relegated. Teams painfully falling short included Magnus Carlsen's Norway Gnomes, who held their fate in...
Like a black hole of drama, the world champion Magnus Carlsen's play has absorbed discussion and excitement each week. While Carlsen's results and play were likely frustrating to him this week, he dazzled the audience by playing a shocking swindle...
A PRO Chess League record 20,000 viewers were rooting on Magnus Carlsen as he raced toward a perfect score in the final rounds on Super Saturday. This made chess the sixth-most watched show on Twitch at the time! Some 220,000 unique viewers watche...
Justin Tan ("JannLeeCrazyhouse") claimed a solo and dramatic victory in Chess.com's 2018 Crazyhouse Championship on Thursday. Crazyhouse fans who haven't seen his epic streams (are there any?) will recall that he also shared victory (with FM ...