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 ...
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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...
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, now more than two months ago, several Russian grandmasters have decided to leave their country or not return to it. Chess.com spoke to four well-known players about their views of the war and the personal cho...
Chess.com and ChessKid are collaborating with GM Anna Muzychuk in order to support the people of Ukraine, who continue to suffer the effects of the Russian invasion of their country. On Tuesday, May 17 at 9 a.m. Pacific/12 p.m. Eastern/18:00 CET...
The May FIDE rating list has GM Ding Liren back as the world's number-two player, 58 points behind World Champion Magnus Carlsen and just two points ahead of GM Alireza Firouzja, who had been in second place before. Meanwhile, the list reflects th...
Yesterday, Chess.com was banned by the Russian government agency Roscomnadzor, the "Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media." Roscomnadzor is responsible for censorship within Russia, a busy occupat...
"Ukraine is now on the frontline of the global war of freedom against tyranny," was one of several powerful quotes from GM Garry Kasparov in a TED Talk published on Tuesday—the day before his 59th birthday today. The pro-democracy activist a...
The main event of the 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by SIG gets going on Monday, April 11, and Chess.com is running a contest for you the viewer as well! We are offering $1,500 in cash prizes and over a dozen diamond mem...
In what has become an annual 24-hour charity chess marathon organized by the English Chess Federation, the British Red Cross Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) raised over £18,000 ($23,636) last weekend for its Ukraine c...
The 2022 Chess Olympiad, scheduled for July 26-August 9, won't take place in Russia. This was announced by FIDE following Russia's invasion into Ukraine. Note that you can find Chess.com's stance on this topic here. This year's Olympiad was su...
WARNING: This reporting includes disturbing information of a sexual nature. Letters with pages from porn magazines and used condoms have been sent to at least 15 female chess players for over a decade. This troubling news was revealed today by t...
