Polish number-one GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda’s greatest achievement so far is winning the 2021 FIDE World Cup, but in a recent interview the 26-year-old described that as “a big step backward” for his career. He revealed he’d st...
The negotiations between Freestyle Chess, led by its founders Jan Henric Buettner and GM Magnus Carlsen, and the International Chess Federation (FIDE) have collapsed and escalated into a deadlocked conflict. Freestyle Chess has backed down and pos...
German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner is the driving force behind the Freestyle Chess events, the series of tournaments that could shake up the chess world. Along with his friend and business partner, GM Magnus Carlsen, he hopes to revolutionize...
Athens scored their first victory, against Virginia, in the Collegiate Chess League Spring 2025 (CCL), and Saint Louis scored another point against Texas to go on a perfect 2/2. While the first match was one-sided, Saint Louis staged a great comeb...
German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner, the head of Freestyle Chess, has fired back at the International Chess Federation's (FIDE) threats of legal action, labeling it "blackmail," and alleging that FIDE demanded $500,000 for the rights to use th...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has criticized Freestyle Chess for branding its upcoming Grand Slam tour as a "World Championship," claiming the move threatens to divide the chess community and warning of potential legal action. The on...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is the sole leader of the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters on 3.5/4 after smoothly outplaying GM Leon Luke Mendonca for a third win in a row. GM Pentala Harikrishna scored the day's most beautiful win by sacrificing both ...
A major cheating scandal has rocked the world of Chinese chess and tarnished the reputation of one of China's most cherished traditional games. A number of the game's best players have been handed lifetime bans. Chinese chess, also known as Xian...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev beat GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the Semifinals and then GM Javokhir Sindarov in a thrilling Final to clinch the last spot in next month's $750,000 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam. 19-year-old Sindarov inflicted the o...
GMs Vladimir Fedoseev, Denis Lazavik, Javokhir Sindarov, and Oleksandr Bortnyk will join the likes of GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Wesley So in a 16-player Knockout on Chess.com to decide the final spot in the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand ...
Another year is upon us, and we're all looking forward to what 2025 will bring us. But before we look forward, let's take one last moment to celebrate the great things that happened to chess in 2024! The community has voted, and we finally know ...
GM Robert Huebner, the best German chess player since Emanuel Lasker, a four-time world championship candidate, Olympic board one gold medalist, former world number-three, master analyst, writer, polyglot, and papyrologist, has died at the age of ...
The top eight players of the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship and FIDE Women's World Blitz Chess Championship have qualified for their respective knockout tournaments on day two. The following eight players advance in the Open: Russian ...
2024 has been an eventful year for chess. We saw quite some movement in the FIDE's top 10 list, with a new generation of young talents cementing themselves among the chess elite. We all cheered on as legendary players put on some thrilling perform...
We’re excited to announce another official partner for the Champions Chess Tour Finals, currently underway in Olso, Norway! Rubik’s Cube, the company behind the most iconic puzzle in the world, is once more teaming up with Chess.com to...
IM Mark Plotkin and NM Janak Awatramani, both from Canada, respectively won Qualifiers 3 and 4 of the 2024 Crazyhouse Championship, the final event of the Chess.com Community Championship series. Half the seats in the Knockout are taken, and the r...
"I just like playing chess!" said Indian GM Gukesh Dommaraju after rejecting a draw by repetition in game six of the 2024 FIDE World Championship. It was a decision that could have backfired, as World Champion Ding Liren had chances to push for a ...
World Champion Ding Liren was joined by GM Richard Rapport on the way to game four of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, and 1.Nf3 and the offbeat opening that followed felt right out of the Rapport playbook. GM Gukesh Dommaraju reacted quickly and...
World Champion Ding Liren's first classical win in 304 days has given him the early lead in the 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore. Pre-event favorite GM Gukesh Dommaraju looked in command as Ding played the French Defense and burned up 27 ...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju goes into the 2024 FIDE World Championship against GM Ding Liren never having beaten the world champion in classical chess, but in an exclusive interview with FM Mike Klein he talks about following in the footsteps of 11th Worl...
"We could see a bloodbath!" said GM Magnus Carlsen on the likelihood of decisive games in the Ding-Gukesh 2024 FIDE World Championship that starts Monday in Singapore, with most grandmasters predicting an early knockout in favor of GM Gukesh Domma...
GM Magnus Carlsen and IM Tania Sachdev proved to be the dream team in "Head & Hand" as the duo defeated GMs Fabiano Caruana and Maurice Ashley 2-0. Day one was a promotional event for the Freestyle Chess Match: Carlsen vs. Caruana in Singapore...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov is the sole leader of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess India Open Rapid after beating GMs Vincent Keymer and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu on day one to score 2.5/3 in Kolkata. GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, and Narayanan S.L. are ju...
Just days after winning the U.S. Championship for the fourth time, GM Fabiano Caruana also started his 2024 Chess 9LX tournament very well. The St. Louis resident won his three games on the first day, including against GM Hikaru Nakamura, and lead...
The recently released TV series Rematch, a dramatized version of the legendary matches between GM Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue, was an excellent reason for an interview with the 13th world champion. Although he hadn't see the series just yet...
