GM Fabiano Caruana trails leader GM Ian Nepomniachtchi by half a point at the midway stage of the 2024 Candidates Tournament, just as he did in 2022. Back then he crashed and burned as he fought for first place, only for it turn out that second pl...
It’s the ingenious new device that’s set to revolutionize the way you play games on Chess.com—and here's how you can get one. The new ChessUp 2 is a major leap forward in smart chessboards. Following on from the market-leading ...
Isa Kasimi, better known as Igors Rausis, the Latvian International Master and coach who was banned for six years and was stripped of his GM title after being caught cheating, has died at the age of 62. The news was confirmed by his ex-wife Olita ...
14-year-old IM Alice Lee is the first player ever to emerge from the Elimination Bracket to win the American Cup. She defeated GM Irina Krush for the second time on Thursday, in the blitz playoffs after four decisive rapid games, to win her maiden...
Team C-Squared (GMs Fabiano Caruana and Cristian Chirila) claimed the first Team Chess Battle title this Friday, a new format that elevates chess from a silent duel on the 64 squares. Not quite hand-and-brain or Banter Blitz, but a sort of combina...
Saint Louis and Webster cemented their places as the top two to close the regular season of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL). Webster's victory was a true team effort. Every single player―GMs Benjamin Gledura, Harsha Bharathakoti, Ge...
FM Brandon Burrows achieved his first IM norm by winning one game and making nine draws that lasted an average of 10 moves. Now the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has invalidated the Las Vegas tournament and U.S. Chess has confirmed an investigatio...
Black was more than OK in Saturday's opening round of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament as GMs Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Wei Yi all started with wins with the black pieces. The Challengers group also saw four de...
GM Valentina Gunina is one of seven Russian women in history to attain the chess grandmaster title. She is a three-time European women's chess champion, a five-time Russian women's chess champion, has won three gold medals with the Russian nationa...
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 Magnus Carlsen is one set away from winning his third title and $200,000 at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. On day one of the Title Match, he defeated GM Wesley So with the black pieces in game three, squeezing water from stone in the roo...
IM Stefan Docx has been handed a one-year ban from taking part in FIDE-rated tournaments after refusing a metal detector body scan during an incident in Spain. Docx was found not guilty of computer cheating and says he has appealed the suspension....
After round two of the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss, seven players are on a perfect score in the Open and five in the Women's. In the Open, top seed GM Fabiano Caruana beat GM Hans Niemann and broke 2800 in the live ratings for the first time sin...
Turkish Women's Champion and WGM Kubra Ozturk Orenli says her federation terminated her monthly salary and dropped her from the national team once they found out that she was pregnant. Ozturk Orenli gave birth to her second child this summer, bu...
GM Fabiano Caruana cemented his lead by defeating GM Hans Niemann—the player who's been chasing him since round four—on day nine of the 2023 U.S. Championship. Though Caruana is a full point ahead, GMs Wesley So, Leinier Dominguez, and...
Moves were delayed 15 minutes and watches outlawed as world number-one Magnus Carlsen's tweets had an instant impact on round three of the 2023 Qatar Masters. The drama was limited on the board; GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri were frustra...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen confessed he was "completely crushed" by 23-year-old Kazakh GM Alisher Suleymenov in round two of the 2023 Qatar Masters, but afterward blamed a failure to concentrate on his opponent wearing a watch in contraventio...
GM Magnus Carlsen can now say that he has won every significant classical chess title that he's set his sights on. The five-time world champion won his first World Cup crown by defeating GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu 1.5-0.5 in the rapid tiebreaks ...
Warning: The following clips contain an aggressive display of racial harassment, including multiple expletives and a slur. Chess streamer Alyssazhu was streaming live on Twitch from a park when her camera was knocked over before a racist rant ag...
All 16 participants in the 2023 Bullet Chess Championship are now determined. Along with 10 invited players, the six additional spots have been filled—four of them on Friday. GMs David Paravyan and Denis Lazavik won in Qualifier 2, while G...
The 17-year-old IM Eline Roebers gained her first Dutch Women's Championship on Thursday in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in an event disrupted by a row over a freak "code red" storm that resulted in one player dropping out. Roebers won a double round...
GM Alexey Sarana won the inaugural Olympic Esports Series 2023 Finals chess event after defeating GM Maksim Chigaev with a perfect 3-0 score in the final match. This is one of the first major victories for Sarana since he changed federations from ...
GM Fabiano Caruana defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura in the Division I Winners Final of the Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2023 to punch his ticket to the Grand Final. In the Losers Quarterfinals, GM Magnus Carlsen eliminated GM Wesley So, ...
Ellen Carlsen, GM Magnus Carlsen's older sister, says WGM Jennifer Shahade's allegations against Alejandro Ramirez led to her report an incident where she says she was harassed by a chess player as a minor. Shahade's shocking tweet alleging that...
A chess player was expelled from the Romanian Chess Championship after a phone was found in the restroom with a chess app showing his game's position after move 15. Although certain information on the phone strongly suggested it was his, the playe...
