Webster reached 5-0 while Rio Grande defeated the defending champions in week five of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL). Though Webster achieved a commanding overall score, they did so with a balanced performance from each of their pl...
Chess.com and the nonprofit Lide Haiti raised $42,794 to empower at-risk adolescent girls in Haiti (including via chess programs) during a star-studded live event featuring Rainn Wilson on Friday. The June 2 event—hosted by IM Danny Rensch...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Fabiano Caruana in the Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2023 Grand Final to win Division I on Friday. The "half man, half zombie," as GM Robert Hess called Nakamura on the broadcast, came back from the dea...
Round six is in the books, and only one round remains in the regular season before the playoffs. The University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley is now the only team at 6-0 in division one and looks to go 7-0 to complete the perfect season before the...
After five rounds of the regular season, most teams know where they stand in the race to make the playoffs. With only two rounds remaining, many teams are facing must-win situations going into round six, and the teams at the top are fighting to cl...
Week five was the first BYE week scheduled in the regular season, but there was still plenty of action as many teams rescheduled matches to be this weekend. This was also an exciting week for Princeton's captain GM Andrew Tang who made his way to ...
The Collegiate Chess League's third week concluded last weekend, and the matches were packed with brilliant games filled with tactics and sacrifices. Now that we are deeper into the season, the matches are also becoming more closely contested with...
The Chess.com PogChamps quarterfinals concluded Wednesday, with NymN and xQc moving forward to the semifinals. In the championship bracket, NymN defeated Papaplatte and will face Hutch in the Semifinals. In the consolation bracket, xQc def...
Saturday's action in Group B of the PRO Chess League Summer Series saw each of the four teams do just enough to keep their Summer Series Championship hopes alive. With all four teams scoring points in the standings, fans will have to wai...
Taking part in yesterday's Death Match was more important than winning. IM Lawrence Trent, who lost 6-18 to IM John Bartholomew, will uphold the Olympic thought, supported by the dozens of donors who gave over $2,000 during the show. "This ...
On an island where the largest employer is a poker company, an element of pure chance helped shape the opening round of the 2017 Chess.com Isle of Man International. On the eve of round one, the top eight players gathered on the stage of the Vil...
UPDATE: Marc Esserman's simul will now take place on Saturday, December 3rd! Please look for Marc's live commentary on chess.com/tv of the games in progress and follow the games live yourself by following username "MEsserman" in live chess. Marc w...
The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival will see an exciting — and probably long — final day. With eight(!) players tied for first place, a playoff is very likely. Photo: Sophie Triay. It reminds a bit of the situation at the 2003 U...
After five rounds, the same number of players are sharing the lead with 4.5 points at the Thai Open: GMs Francisco Vallejo Pons, Wang Hao, Jozsef Horvath, Jan Gustafsson and IM Oliver Dimakiling. The Thai Open is being held for the 15t...
FM Evan Ju pulled away in the bullet portion of Death Match 23 on Tuesday, April 22, beating IM Marc Esserman 18-12. The match was the adjournment from the original matchup on April 12, which was postponed with the score even at 1.5-1.5. In the ...
After only three games of Death Match 23 on Saturday, the Chess.com live chess server failed and the match was postponed. IM Marc Essserman and FM Evan Ju were tied 1.5-1.5 at the time of the technical issue. IM Danny Rensch, commentating live, ...
This could be the one of the fastest-played Death Matches in history. Two blitz specialists qualified for the April contest - IM Marc Esserman and FM Evan Ju. They have both displayed unparalleled acumen on Chess.com's live chess, and they...
GMs So, Meier Headline Thanksgiving Open in St LouisPRESS RELEASE: SAINT LOUIS (October 31, 2012) -- Grandmaster Wesley So of the Philippines and Grandmaster Georg Meier of Germany headline the strongest field in the history of the Thanksgiving Op...
From the start of this website back in 2006 there has been no clear rule about which content would (should?) be published, except for: what kind of chess article would I, the editor-in-chief, find interesting to read? Five and a half years later I...
By Aviv Friedman - SAINT LOUIS, September 15, 2011 With two rounds still to go, on a combative and draw-less day in Saint Louis, the Kings scored 3-2 both in the chess960 match and the rapid match, to secure the overall match victory. With only 1...
ROUNDS 3-4Kings steamroll Queens to widen gapWhat a difference a day makes! Only one day after their strong showing, the Queens had a ‘very bad day at the office.’ A near perfect 4.5 – 0.5 result in the chess960 round, combined w...
Upholding the Sicilian by IM Mark Ginsburg, brought to you by the Internet Chess Club, provides a reliable repertoire to all those annoying Sicilian sidelines. It's the latest video series in ICC's webshop.(Advertisement)This week the Internet Che...
Would GM Lubomir Ftacnik like to play an opposite-bishop ending with a pawn down against me straight from the opening? I was left with this question after enjoying his latest work on the Sicilian Defence, published in the Grandmaster Repertoire se...
Welcome Dragon "Slayers", Najdorf "Demolishers", and Taimanov "Tyrants"!!! :) This group, designed specifically for Chess.com University's second course -- "Don't Fear the Sicilian", has been created just for you! Many chess players spend th...
During my holidays I received a lot of chess books from various publishers. There's lot to look forward to! One of the most interesting books is the latest volume of John Watson's ambitious project to explain and analyse all chess openings. But th...
