Today was the first day of something you thought you'd never see. When watching PogChamps, one might expect Botez Gambits, stalemates, and generally the worst chess you've ever seen when tens of thousands of dollars are on the line. That was not...
GM Magnus Carlsen won his second Titled Tuesday in four weeks on December 2, needing only 9.5 points to take the tournament without even needing tiebreaks. He caught and passed GM Sina Movahed in the 11th round, and clinched the outright win when ...
We're excited to announce the final event of this year's Chess.com Community Championships, the Chess.com Fog of War Chess Championship! The event starts on December 11 and features a $2,500 prize fund. Fog of War chess is not a variant fo...
The FIDE World Cup dominated chess headlines in November, leading to several changes in the December 2025 FIDE rating list. No one benefited more than quarterfinalist GM Jose Martinez, known primarily for his Titled Tuesday and other online blitz ...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov made it a magnificent five wins in a row at the London Chess Classic Elite Tournament after GM Sam Shankland went astray in a razor-sharp position. Abdusattorov now has a 1.5-point lead over GM Alireza Firouzja, who had to...
The Academy Award-winning animated short War Is Over!, a film in which an emotional game of correspondence chess becomes a lifeline between two soldiers on opposite sides of a battlefield, was released on YouTube today. Last year, War Is Over! b...
This December, Chess.com is giving you the gift of five limited-edition bots for you to defeat! Take on classic holiday characters like Frosty and Santa, or test your luck against a ghostly chess spirit, a claymation monster, and more. Wil...
After 225,000 Chess.com players cast 988,000 votes, posted 52,000 forum comments, and made 41 moves, IM Levy Rozman delivered checkmate as The World finally fell on Saturday during Thanksgiving weekend, bringing an end to Chess.com's GothamChess v...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov extended his lead on Sunday at the London Chess Classic's Elite Tournament to a full point after winning his fourth game in a row, against GM Nikolas Theodorou. GM Alireza Firouzja, who drew with GM Gawain Maroroa Jones, i...
In Saturday's fourth round, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov maintained his half-point lead at the London Chess Classic's Elite Tournament with a third consecutive win. The Uzbek GM defeated GM Michael Adams as Black but saw his main rival GM Alireza Firo...
GM Ediz Gurel capped off a tremendous November in the Bullet Brawl arena by picking up his third $400 win of the month on Saturday. Gurel won 49 games, drew three, and lost 13, amassing a winning score of 167 points in the process. GMs Hikaru Na...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov's second win in a row, this time over GM Nikita Vitiugov, has given him the sole lead in the London Chess Classic's Elite Tournament on 2.5/3 after the remaining games were drawn. GM Michael Adams took a draw by repetition...
GM Arjun Erigaisi joined the five-time Freestyle Friday winner's club after clinching November's final event with a score of 10/11. GM Hans Niemann, who was the only player to topple Arjun, went undefeated; however, three draws relegated him to se...
The 2025 FIDE World Cup is over, with a month of frenetic chess action whittling 206 players down to just one, GM Javokhir Sindarov. The 19-year-old star is both the youngest and lowest-seeded player ever to win the World Cup, earning him a hero's...
GM Denis Lazavik, GM Magnus Carlsen, and IM Renato Terry won the third week of 3 0 Thursday events, which were held on November 27. The first two tournaments were fought mainly between Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura, while the third event p...
Top seed GM Alireza Firouzja profited from a big blunder by GM Luke McShane to score a win with the black pieces in round two of the London Chess Classic's Elite Tournament. Firouzja now shares the lead with GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who used 34(!...
An exciting first round at the London Chess Classic's Elite Tournament saw all games ending in draws, but not without quite a bit of fighting chess on the boards. GM Sam Shankland was fortunate to get away with a draw against GM Alireza Firou...
Nineteen-year-old Uzbek GM Javokhir Sindarov has won the 2025 FIDE World Cup and the $120,000 top prize after beating GM Wei Yi 1.5-0.5 in tiebreaks. Sindarov missed a one-move chance to win with White in the first tiebreak game, but he made no mi...
The ChessBrahs, GMs Eric Hansen and Aman Hambleton, stopped by the Las Vegas Grand Prix race on November 20-22. The grandmasters manned a Chess.com booth at the race, playing with fans, drivers, and celebrities alike! Racecar drivers are competi...
GM Pranesh M won a wild game in a wild final round of a wild Titled Tuesday on November 25 to take home first place ahead of GM Magnus Carlsen on tiebreaks. With five players tied for first after 10 rounds, Pranesh and Carlsen were both fighting j...
Chess.com has been announced as one of three new publishers for the inaugural Esports Nations Cup (ENC), joining a lineup of major game developers partnering with the Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) to build the first major country-versus-coun...
Note that this event has been renamed to Chess.com Open on February 25, 2026. We're excited to announce the return of the Chess.com Global Championship (CGC), starting on March 14, 2026! With a whopping $250,000 prize fund and up to three spots ...
GM Andrey Esipenko has snatched the final spot in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament after beating GM Nodirbek Yakubboev 2-0 to take third place in the 2025 FIDE World Cup. Yakubboev had to win on demand, but blundered into a crushing line where ...
It wasn't easy, but the St. Louis University (SLU) chess team won the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) championship, defeating the University of Texas, Dallas, 8.5-7.5 in a tense match. SLU also won the championship in the Spring 2025 season, jo...
