17-year-old GM Gukesh Dommaraju has taken the sole lead of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament with one round to go after exacting revenge against GM Alireza Firouzja in round 13. GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura made a draw to stay a ha...
GM Arjun Erigaisi won the 2024 Menorca Open on Sunday. The Indian top-GM edged out GMs Kirill Alekseenko and Maksim Chigaev on tiebreaks after all finished on 7.5/9. Arjun reached a career-peak live rating of 2761 and briefly occupied the fifth pl...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen beat GM Vincent Keymer to wrap up victory in the 2024 GRENKE Chess Classic round-robin. He now faces GM Richard Rapport in Monday's title match, while GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave takes on Keymer for third place. ...
10-year-old prodigy FM Faustino Oro is once again in the spotlight. Now a clip of the Argentinian beating world number-one Magnus Carlsen in Chess.com's Bullet Brawl has captured the attention of millions of viewers within a few days. Few player...
In a fresh podcast interview released Monday, GM Magnus Carlsen talked about his two favorites for the Candidates Tournament that begins in Toronto on April 4, his future in classical events, his new motivation, the Chess960 tour, and much more. ...
The state of Missouri has stamped its supremacy on collegiate chess after Saint Louis University won the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) final against Webster University and the University of Missouri (Mizzou) secured victory in their third-pla...
Day one of the 2024 American Cup saw a whopping 13 decisive games across the Open and Women's tournaments in St. Louis on Tuesday. GM Fabiano Caruana got off to a 2-0 start against GM Grigoriy Oparin, while GM Wesley So is the only other player ...
The Prague Masters has become a dream tournament for GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov. In a field with three candidates, the 19-year-old Uzbek GM secured victory with a round to spare today while moving to world number four in the live ratings, surpa...
Former world champion and Putin critic GM Garry Kasparov has been added to Russia's list of "terrorists and extremists." The chess legend calls it "an honor." Kasparov's name is included in the list of "terrorists and extremists" by the Russian ...
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...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu hadn't lost for 47 classical games straight, but today that impressive streak came to an end. He lost to GM Parham Maghsoodloo, who is the proud leader of the Prague Masters with a 100 percent score. GM Gukesh Dommar...
Last week, FIDE launched the ChessMom initiative, a pilot project that will offer financial assistance to ten female players traveling with their infants to the 45th Chess Olympiad, which takes place in Budapest, Hungary, this September. All expen...
GM Anish Giri earned his first win in Titled Tuesday on February 20, taking the early edition with a score of 10/11. In the late event, GM Velimir Ivic also scored 10/11, making for a rare day with no tiebreaks for first place. Early Tournamen...
Cleveland Guardians outfielder Steven Kwan stepped up to the challenge and earned locker-room bragging rights after taking out the first edition of SlugChamps on Tuesday. In a high-octane final against shortstop Daniel Schneemann, Kwan scored 2.5/...
After a wild round on Saturday, there is a five-way tie for first place in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's Masters group. With GM Vidit Gujrathi, GM Anish Giri, GM Gukesh Dommaraju, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and GM Wei Yi all on 7.5/12, chances ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda took home Titled Tuesday on January 23 with 9.5 points. After Nakamura held tiebreaks over GM Wesley So and GM Vladimir Fedoseev, Duda became the first outright winner of 2024 (with seven people tied be...
GM Alireza Firouzja is trailing GM Anish Giri by half a point again after Friday's sixth round of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. While the tournament leader missed several chances to beat GM Parham Maghsoodloo, Firouzja did score the full p...
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...
World Champion Ding Liren seems ready and eager to return to the chessboard for his first classical chess tournament in eight months. "I am much better than maybe two or three months ago," he said in an interview with Chess.com, a few days ahead o...
Chess has found its way back into the spotlight―this time through the lens of a new female protagonist. Check & Mate, written by New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood, won the 2023 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fiction....
The people have spoken! Over 16,000 voters chose the best games, moves, creators, and all things chess in 2023. Now, it's time for us to reveal the winners of the 2023 Chess.com Awards. GM Magnus Carlsen at the Champions Chess Tour Finals, one...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored six consecutive wins in rounds 14-19 setting the tone of the second and final day at the 2023 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship. It helped him capture the lead and win his seventh title after draws in the final two round...
GMs Vladislav Artemiev, Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Nihal Sarin, Arjun Erigaisi, and Alexander Riazantsev scored nine points apiece to share the lead at the end of day one of the 2023 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship. The sixt...
GM Alireza Firouzja had overtaken GM Wesley So on the live rating list after scoring 5/5 in a series of three matches against veterans in his home chess club of Chartres. Alas for the 20-year-old, he had one more game to play, and a draw from a lo...
Half the field of eight players was eliminated on day four of the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals. GMs Alireza Firouzja and Denis Lazavik exited in the round-robin, while GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Hikaru Nakamura bid goodbye in the Survival ...
