GM Fabiano Caruana finished first in the Play-in stage of the Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic 2024. It's a resounding comeback for the world number-two who had a disappointing final round in the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament but showed gr...
We're happy to announce the release of IM Jeremy Silman's classic The Amateur's Mind on Chessable. Replace the most common amateur strategic misconceptions with the decision-making process of the masters and start dominating your opponents! C...
[Editor's note: Lula is one of the most popular Chess.com streamers with tens of thousands of fans. She started playing in December 2020 and earned her WCM title in 2024. This article is about her personal experience at the 2024 Reykjavik Open&nbs...
GM Wesley So and IM Alice Lee have risen out of the Elimination Bracket to challenge GMs Levon Aronian and Irina Krush in the Grand Finals of the 2024 American Cup. After a brilliant game by GM Ray Robson to take the lead, So won on demand...
On Sunday, eight-year-old Ashwath Kaushik from Singapore smashed the record to become the youngest player ever to defeat a grandmaster in classical chess. Just a month prior Leonid Ivanovic from Serbia dethroned GM Awonder Liang to become the fi...
"Here ye, here ye! Gather round as I tell a tale about the Kingdom Chess App that was just announced!" a wise knight once said. In this app, you can play chess against worthy opponents for gold, battle bots, solve fun missions, and build up YOUR k...
On his 25th birthday, GM Jose Martinez finished first in the all-GM Play-in of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters. The penultimate round against GM Hikaru Nakamura was absolutely critical, as the Peruvian GM managed to draw a losing e...
Leonid Ivanovic from Serbia has earned his place in the history books by becoming the first player under the age of nine to defeat a grandmaster in classical chess. The chess world has recently been witnessing a surge in children scoring e...
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...
GM Ray Robson did it again, winning his fifth consecutive title at the 2024 Puzzles World Championship. The undisputed G.O.A.T. of Puzzle Rush has won every edition of this tournament since it started in 2020. This seemed to be his toughest year...
As tradition has it, Chess.com again greeted the new year with our first event, the 2024 Puzzles World Championship. Eight players remain standing after the Puzzle Rush Royale on day one and have earned a minimum of $1,000 with a shot at the $5,00...
Here comes another Puzzle Week on Chess.com! In 2024 we are celebrating it the week of January 8 with Chess Played Quick and other puzzle-themed streamer events, culminating with the $25,000 Puzzles World Championship on January 11-12. One of Ches...
The chess world had a busy year in 2023. From the World Championship in the spring to a busy December that featured the Champions Chess Tour Finals and a mad dash to the next Candidates Tournament, there was no shortage of chess being played. Th...
After another 12 months logged in humanity's book, we might've lost track of how much we put into this timeless game. Thankfully, Chess.com has us covered with a brand new feature available now: YEAR IN CHESS! Look back at the stats of your fantas...
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...
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...
Chess.com is excited to announce our 2024 events calendar! 2023 has been a year full of groundbreaking formats and marquee tournaments. Recently, the 2023 Speed Chess Championship once again brought together GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamur...
Chess.com is excited to announce a new treat for the avid online chess fan—a dedicated chess browser created in partnership with leading web innovator Opera. Using this enhancement, chess will be put right inside the browser, meaning you can...
Update: The ChessKid National Festival has expanded its scope and now features events for kids up to K-8! Other new additions include Hula Chess, Fencing Chess, a live band, and a guest appearance by WFM Alexandra Botez and Andrea Botez! Chess...
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 ...
Update: Unfortunately, due to the late-notice replacement of GM Ding Liren with GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, we have had to cancel the 2023 SCC Bracket Contest. The 2023 Speed Chess Championship is sprinting towards us, with only a week left before ...
Go ahead ChessPunk, make my day! Now that the superb PogChamps 5 tournament is over, Chess.com is delighted to announce another exciting amateur event kicking off next month. ChessPunks Champs is the new PogChamps-style event for all of us norma...
It was a day of sad goodbyes as five players were eliminated from PogChamps 5. xQc won a tight match against Papaplatte, followed by three not-so-close match wins by Wirtual, QTCinderella, and I did a thing against Sykkuno, Jinnitty, and Tyler1 ...
Another avalanche of unexpected plot twists marked the fourth day of PogChamps 5. Squeex defeated Jinnitty in his debut, later losing a close match with Tyler1. Like a superhero from any given movie, Sapnap defeated his overpowered opponent Wirt...
GM Hikaru Nakamura once again won Saturday's Bullet Brawl and claimed the $400 first prize after scoring 263 points in the two-hour arena. This victory follows his record-breaking 75-win run in the previous event. In the most stacked edition yet...
