In a move that could potentially shake up the chess world, GM Magnus Carlsen and German entrepreneur Jan-Henric Buettner have launched the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, a new ambitious series of Chess960 tournaments that will run across five co...
The 2024 Candidates Tournament is rapidly approaching, and it could very well be a landmark moment in chess history once all is said and done. Exciting young talents combine with established veterans of the game, with the winner taking on current ...
The 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) playoffs are upon us, and you can join in on the excitement by predicting who wins! Can you see Saint Louis clinching their third title in a row? Do you envision Webster taking over the CCL in their d...
One of the world's most prestigious tournaments is facing a significant hurdle as FIDE has announced a public appeal to the Canadian authorities to expedite the visa process for several players. Update, March 2: Canadian Chess Federation President...
World Champion GM Ding Liren and World Rapid Champion GM Magnus Carlsen top the field for the GRENKE Chess Classic, which returns March 26-31 after a five-year hiatus. Carlsen will be looking to win a third title to add to his wins in 2015 and 201...
ChessKid, the scholastic extension of Chess.com aimed at a younger target audience, has reached the milestone of 10,000,000 individual child accounts. To celebrate the achievement, ChessKid is offering free access to its Gold membership fe...
Tired of playing the same opening every time, but don't know where to start? Here's a great new way to expand your repertoire and get comfortable with different openings: Opening Roulette! Aimed specifically at chess improvers seeking to broaden...
GM Daniil Dubov missed out on tying world number-one Magnus Carlsen for first place in the FIDE World Blitz Championship 2023 after both he and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi got zero points for the knight-moves-only draw they made in round 11. In a 59-min...
GM Alireza Firouzja has likely wrapped up qualification for the 2024 FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament in Toronto after winning the Rouen Open with a perfect 7/7. He beat GM Gata Kamsky along the way and picked up sufficient rating points that even...
Time sure flies when you're having having fun-damental endgame clashes! It's the end of 2023 already, and what a tremendous year it was for chess! There are numerous reasons to celebrate the last 12 months—so many that choosing the best amon...
GM Gukesh Dommaraju scored his second consecutive victory by outwitting GM Sanan Sjugirov, with the black pieces and aggressive play, to jump into the sole lead with three and a half points from five rounds in the Chennai Grand Masters 2023. Overn...
It's finally here. The biggest names in chess will be facing each other in one of the year's most prestigious events: the Finals of the 2023 Champions Chess Tour. A full season of chess tournaments has culminated in this showdown, as GMs Magnus Ca...
Big news! IM Danny Rensch's iconic 'Everything You Need To Know' series is now available on Chessable for free. The original videos have been viewed on YouTube over six million times since their release, and have now been re-recorded and optimized...
It’s the last month of 2023, and this has been one of the biggest years ever for chess. A record number of players, a record number of games, and a spectacular year for bots fans (hehehe). What better way to celebrate than to bring back th...
The Champions Chess Tour Finals is almost upon us, and soon we'll get to enjoy watching GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, and more battling live in Toronto. To celebrate, Chess.com is offering all our basic members the opportun...
The 2023 Women’s Speed Chess Championship starts on November 13, promising plenty of fast and furious action for speed chess fans to enjoy. Eight of the game's quickest-thinking women will compete to see who will be crowned as this year's WS...
GM Ding Liren has withdrawn from several events since becoming world champion. Now the Chinese star reveals to Chess.com that an unspecified illness is the cause of his absence and that he intends to return to tournament play in 2024. Where is D...
Chess.com, the world’s largest chess site with a global community of more than 150 million members, today announced a partnership with Duolingo, the world’s leading mobile learning platform. To celebrate the occasion, Chess.com is ad...
A top-of-the-table clash between Saint Louis University (SLU) and The University of Texas Dallas (UT Dallas) saw SLU steal the match and ascend to first place in the 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) on Saturday. Powered by SIG, the matchup pro...
The green pawn took over TwitchCon! With the rise of chess on Twitch in the past three years, we’ve seen more and more streamers eager to try the game, whether online or over the board. Since PogChamps launched three years ago and skyrockete...
Arlen Abdrashev won the 2000+ knockout of the ChessPunks Champs 2023, defeating NM Alexander Balkum in a final playoff. Tushar Anand went undefeated in every round to win the 1700-1999 division. Ivan Zhuk swept all of his matches to win the 1300...
In the heart of Budapest at Judit Polgar's ninth Global Chess Festival 2023, the Hungarian duo, Team Mighty Fox, claimed victory in the festival's invitational triathlon event, bagging $4,000 in prize money in the process. The winning team, comp...
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 US Chess Federation's handling of allegations of sexual misconduct continued in the spotlight after Randy Bauer, the President of the federation, made public comments on social media. Former U.S. Women's Chess Champion WGM Jennifer Shahade r...
The summer holidays are coming to an end, and school is about to start again (or already has!). For parents and educators (or anyone with a chess-loving kid in their family), ChessKid is the best resource you can use to give them an extraordinary ...
