World number-one Magnus Carlsen has taken over as the leader of Norway Chess 2024 after World Champion Ding Liren blundered into mate-in-two and lost a fourth game in a row. Elsewhere there was armageddon revenge for the first-round results, with ...
Days after his second-place finish in the Chess.com Hyperbullet Championship, GM Daniel Naroditsky finished atop June's first Bullet Brawl ahead of rival GMs Tuan Minh Le and Andrew Tang. After scoring 236 points in a run that included a precision...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is rated over 2800 for the first time in nine years after handing a third defeat in a row to World Champion Ding Liren. Nakamura is also world number-two after GM Fabiano Caruana cracked in the endgame for a second game in a row...
GM Andrew Tang won the inaugural 2024 Hyperbullet Chess Championship, the first event of the Chess.com Community Championships, on Friday. After losing a close match against GM Daniel Naroditsky in the first round, he climbed through the Lose...
At just 10 years old, Argentinian chess prodigy FM Faustino Oro is making significant strides towards achieving the international master (IM) title. On Friday, Oro secured his second norm, edging closer to becoming one of the youngest to ever achi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won a good game against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu on Thursday to take over the lead from his opponent at Norway Chess 2024. Two more classical results included GM Magnus Carlsen scoring a vintage bounce-back-after-a-loss...
A major new international chess event is coming to Spain next month featuring some of the most popular content creators in the game competing for title norms. The first Madrid Chess Festival will play host to three classical tournaments and a bl...
Norwegian chess enthusiasts Askild Bryn and CM Odin Blikra Vea aim to make history by playing for 61 hours straight. Their ambitious GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ attempt for the Longest Chess Marathon will take place next week. Staying awake fo...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is the new leader at Norway Chess 2024 after beating world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen for the first time in classical chess in Wednesday's third round. Fabiano Caruana was the other player to earn the full three...
GM Alexander Grischuk, two weeks removed from the best second-place finish in Titled Tuesday history (or most painful, depending how you look at it), won the early edition of the tournament on May 28. That was followed by a win for GM Minh Le in t...
Chess.com is back at TwitchCon this year, with 2024's European TwitchCon event kicking off in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on June 29. There are plenty of amazing activities planned for chess fans, and we look forward to meeting many of you there...
GM Magnus Carlsen captured the sole lead of Norway Chess 2024 after defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura in armageddon in round two. White won the other two armageddons as well, after GM Ding Liren outplayed GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and GM Alireza Fir...
In a surprising turn of events, the Hungarian Chess Federation has announced that GM Richard Rapport will return to play for his native country just two years after transferring to Romania. GM Peter Leko also confirmed his participation. Hungary...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu lead Norway Chess 2024 after armageddon wins in round one, with the much-anticipated clash between Carlsen and GM Ding Liren most notable for the Norwegian eating dinner after the ...
World Champion Ding Liren will play his first classical game against former champion Magnus Carlsen as the new-look 2024 Norway Chess starts on Monday in Stavanger. Defending champion GM Hikaru Nakamura and 2023 runner-up GM Fabiano Caruana also c...
GM Hikaru Nakamura has reaffirmed his status as the king of Bullet Brawl after going 74 games without a single loss during Saturday's arena. With 70 wins, four draws, no losses, and 269 points to his name, Nakamura was the deserving winner of the ...
GMs Vladimir Fedoseev, David Paravyan, Sam Sevian, and Christopher Yoo fought through the Play-Ins to advance to the main event of the Bullet Chess Championship 2024. In the first Play-In, Paravyan defeated Sevian in the Winners Final. Yet, Sevi...
When it comes to chess, are you a Mad Scientist or a Professor? An Artist or a Technician? You can now learn more about your chess self with our new Chess Personality page! Visit Chess Personality Chess Personality will pose 20 quick and fun q...
12-year-old GM-elect Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus has established himself as one of the world's greatest prodigies, breaking GM Judit Polgar's 35-year-old record as the highest-rated player before the age of 13. One of his many grandmaster coaches shares f...
Kansas City Chiefs' safety Justin Reid was crowned the winner of BlitzChamps III after sweeping Cardinals' quarterback Kyler Murray 2-0 in the Grand Final of an eight-player double-elimination bracket on Wednesday. Outplaying BlitzChamps I winner ...
The strong Sharjah Masters in the UAE finished today in a four-way tie for first place among, in order of tiebreak, GMs Bardiya Daneshvar, Volodar Murzin, Sam Shankland, and Shamsiddin Vokhidov. With two of them being only 17 years old, it showcas...
In an era where it only takes a few clicks for anyone to learn a trappy chess opening, cheeky opponents abound. In fact, anyone who enjoys playing online chess is almost guaranteed to come across a tricky and trappy gambit. Now, it's time for yo...
The victors in Titled Tuesday on May 21, 2024, were GM Vladislav Kovalev in the early tournament and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the late tournament. FM Faustino Oro, the 10-year-old from Argentina who already has bullet wins against the very best co...
The Kids, FM Rose Atwell and WFM Megan Paragua, defeated the Stars, WGM Nemo Zhou and WFM Anna Cramling in the first Kids vs. Stars match on Tuesday. With a combination of tactical awareness, endgame technique, and superior time management...
Unleash the beast! Chess played its part at an unlikely event over the weekend—the 2024 Professional Bull Riding World Finals. As PBR celebrated its most prestigious event of the year at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, two cowboy...
