Ukrainian grandmaster Vadim Malakhatko, two-time Kyiv champion, winner of Olympic bronze and world championship gold medals, open tournament warrior, and passionate organizer of chess tournaments in Ukraine, suddenly died on Monday of a heart atta...
Have you watched Bullet Brawl yet? This two-hour monthly arena sees titled players compete against each other at lightning speed using a 1+0 time control. While you might not be able to compete with GM Hikaru Nakamura in the titled event, ...
GM Magnus Carlsen won't be the world champion starting next week, but he's still looking for new ways to grow the game of chess. On Thursday, Norway Chess announced their new joint venture called Pawn, together with Iterate, Norway's premier ventu...
A mysterious participant in the women's section of the Kenya Open Chess Championship in Nairobi, Kenya was exposed as a male impostor and removed from the tournament. The player, whose identity was not made public, admitted to the cheating and sai...
Do you only watch an award show if someone gets slapped in the face? Well, you're in luck (again)! Back for its second year, The Streamer Awards are happening on Saturday, March 11, starting at 3 p.m. PT, and it's being presented by and strea...
Eight women have accused GM Alejandro Ramirez of wrongdoing in an article published by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. In the newspaper, the women claim that Ramirez used his status in chess to put himself in positions of influence and make re...
On Friday, top GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura as well as WGM Jennifer Shahade took part in a panel discussion at the MIT Sloan School of Management's annual Sports Analytics Conference in Boston. The three talked about the further growth ...
The official FIDE ratings are in for March 2023, and at first glance they seem consistent with the February list, but look more closely and you see a notable name missing: GM Sergey Karajkin, who has now been inactive for a full 12 months and...
One year ago, Russia invaded Ukraine and started a war that has been going on much longer than expected and that is probably not ending soon. In March of 2022, Chess.com spoke to several Ukrainian chess players about how the terrible developments ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi has signed a five-year sponsorship deal with Singapore-based quantitative trading firm Quantbox. This marked Erigaisi's first-ever sponsorship deal in his chess career as a professional player of the sport. GM Arjun ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura filed a motion in the Eastern District of Missouri to dismiss GM Hans Niemann's lawsuit on December 7. This is the latest development in the defamation lawsuit that has received international attention, filed in late October. Ch...
Wearing a face mask during a game of chess decreases the quality of chess players' decisions, an effect that is relatively short and mostly hurts strong players. This is the conclusion of a study about the effect of masks on cognitive performance ...
Are you a member of the Chess.com Discord server? If not, now’s the time to join! We’ve just revamped our server, giving you lots of brand-new benefits and ways to be part of a community full of 35,000+ chess lovers. What’s new...
Chess.com has formally requested the Eastern Missouri District Court to dismiss GM Hans Niemann's defamation lawsuit. The motion to dismiss, filed on December 2, 2022, asserts that the lawsuit "could have been brought only as a public relations st...
The German chess software company ChessBase and the team behind the open-source chess engine Stockfish have reached a settlement and ended their legal dispute over the latter's claim regarding a repeated license violation by Chessbase with their p...
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the two biggest stars of football (soccer), are playing chess in Louis Vuitton's latest campaign, launched on Saturday. Chess fans quickly discovered that the position on the board is from a real game. "Victor...
FM Tani Adewumi is scheduled to play against fellow young chess sensation IM Yagiz Erdogmus at 7 a.m. Pacific Time/16:00 Central European Time on November 20 in the next episode of his regular ChessKid series "Tani vs. The World." Erdogmus ...
The Edinburgh Chess Club, the second oldest chess club in the world, celebrates its bicentenary today. Founded on November 4, 1822, over the two centuries the club has been visited by famous players such as Howard Staunton, Joseph Blackburne, Jose...
Chess fans will have one more reason to celebrate National Chess Day, which falls on October 8 in 2022. From October 8 to October 16, ChessKid.com is offering free access to all of its premium features: unlimited lessons, puzzles, videos, and bots...
The International Chess Federation has announced plans to form an investigatory panel with the intention to check both GM Magnus Carlsen's claims of alleged cheating by GM Hans Niemann and Niemann's own statement regarding online cheating. A wee...
The September FIDE rating list, published today on the website of the International Chess Federation, shows the rise of the new generation of chess. Especially India is doing well, with big jumps for GMs Gukesh D, Arjun Erigaisi, as well as GM Nih...
Mark your calendars for August 27-28 at 2 p.m. PT/23:00 CEST: PogChamps star Ludwig will be hosting the "dumbest" chess tournament yet. Yes, you read that right—Ludwig's Dumb Chess Tournament is coming this weekend! It is a collaboratio...
The summer holidays are coming to an end, and ChessKid is giving all parents and educators a 20% discount on Gold memberships to make sure young chess players can get easy access to child-friendly game analysis, puzzles, video lessons, and more. ...
A seven-year-old boy's finger was broken by an automated chess-playing robot during the Moscow Open in a video posted on July 21st. The original video, featured on the Baza channel on Telegram, has circulated on several social media platforms and ...
The main event of this year's Women's Speed Chess Championship begins on June 13. That means it's time for another bracket contest! Still free-to-play and featuring cash prizes, we've streamlined the prediction system, so keep reading! The prize p...