GMs Fabiano Caruana and Cristian Chirila (aka Team C-Squared) won the inaugural 2024 Team Chess Battle on Friday. In the Final, they defeated the commentary dream team of GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Robert Hess 1.5-0.5. In game one, they prop...
Saint Louis and Missouri defeated major rivals in week six of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL). The unstoppable GM Mikhail Antipov led Missouri to victory vs. Rio Grande, scoring 3.5/4. For Saint Louis, GMs Benjamin Bok and Dambasure...
Get ready to do some damage. Learn how to go straight for your opponent's throat from move one with GM Jan Gustafsson's new Aggressive 1.e4 Repertoire Part I on Chessable! Click the button below to try out the Short & Sweet free version o...
GM Wei Yi became the winner of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament on Sunday after winning a thrilling four-player tiebreak that also involved GMs Anish Giri, Gukesh Dommaraju, and Nodirbek Abdusattorov. For the first time, Wei entered the world'...
The Saint Louis and Webster University teams ascended to the top of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) leaderboard after winning their second-week matchups in contrasting styles. SLU relished a landslide 15-1 victory over the Prague University...
Clinical wins over GMs Wesley So and Jeffery Xiong have left GM Le Quang Liem in the sole lead on 5/6 at the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after the first day of play. The start would have been a perfect 6/6 if not for a mistake that cost him...
You can't keep GM Hikaru Namakura down for long. He won the early Titled Tuesday on October 3, his first since a perfect score on August 22 and his 57th overall since October 2020. Nakamura then nearly won the late event as well, but it ended up g...
Anastasios Koukas and Michael Duke emerged at the top of the 2000+ section in the qualifiers for the ChessPunks Champs 2023. In the 1700-1999 division, EvertonEejit clinched the first qualifier with a round to spare while Tushar Anand won the se...
The Indian Yogis are the first team to qualify for the playoffs after defeating the Levitov Chess Wizards in the Pro Chess League. In the other match, the Canada Chessbrahs defeated the Garden State Passers. The two siblings, GM Praggnanan...
The second day of the Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters 2023 set the stage for the match many chess fans have been waiting for. GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura defeated GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Wesley So respectively and will f...
GMs Daniil Dubov and Magnus Carlsen won the November 29 editions of Titled Tuesday. Dubov scored 10.5/11 in the early tournament, winning by 1.5 points, while Carlsen scored 9.5 and outlasted GM Vladimir Fedoseev on tiebreaks. Also making an imp...
Chess.com is happy to announce that we've released 50 lessons on the most popular chess openings. Developed by our team of master players, these lessons will teach you everything you need to know to take your opening play to the next level. Many...
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...
It wasn't a bolt from the blue, but GM Magnus Carlsen's decision not to defend his world title still came as shock to many. A day after the news came out, Chess.com gives an overview of reactions from the chess world. GM Vishy Anand, FIDE World ...
GM Magnus Carlsen will not defend his world championship title against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi next year. Carlsen announced his decision on a podcast on Tuesday. According to current regulations, FIDE Candidates tournament winner Nepomniachtchi will...
The FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship continued on Monday with a showdown between the world's number-one ranked woman player, GM Hou Yifan, against the U.S. women's chess champion, IM Carissa Yip, which Hou won in a 21.5-5.5 dru...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won week 14 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Dmitry Andreikin in a hard-fought knockout final. GM Jeffery Xiong won the Swiss tournament and finished in the semifinals along wi...
The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship by SIG returned on Thursday with double the action as GM Hans Niemann toppled GM Kiril Shevchenko in their quarterfinal matchup, while GM Nihal Sarin ended GM Awonder Liang's run with a nearly impeccable ef...
GM Yuri Averbakh, the world’s oldest grandmaster, a trainer, international arbiter, chess composer, endgame theoretician, writer, historian, honorary member of FIDE, and the last living participant of the famous Zurich 1953 Candidates Tourna...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov are tied for first place after eight rounds at the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament and happen to be playing each other in the next round on Tuesday. GM Anish Giri and GM Vidit Gujrathi both won ...
GM Wesley So defeated GM Nihal Sarin by a slender 15-14 margin in the first semifinal match of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. So thus becomes the first player to reach the finals of the event; the other semifinal match is scheduled ...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship on Friday after beating GM Ian Nepomniachtchi with the black pieces. The challenger made another big blunder and lost his fourth game in the match. The final score is 7.5-3.5 in favor of...
Lasting just two and a half hours, game seven of the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship was the fastest draw in the match so far. GM Magnus Carlsen repeated his 8...Rb8 line against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi's 8.a4 Anti-Marshall and quickly equalized ...
Going into the second rest day, the FIDE World Chess Championship is still tied as GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Magnus Carlsen also drew their fifth game on Wednesday. The challenger got a slight endgame advantage in another Anti-Marshall, bu...
GM Fabiano Caruana will be Chess.com's star commentator during the Carlsen-Nepomniachtchi world championship match alongside GM Robert Hess and IM Danny Rensch. Nobody can provide better insights than the world's number-two player, who was Carlsen...
