A player was caught red-handed at the Chicago Open 2024, using a phone to win chess games over the board. Unlike other offline cheating cases, the player didn't use a device outside the playing hall; instead, he used his phone in his lap, right at...
The first game of the 2024 NBA Finals is on Thursday, and we're celebrating the ultimate basketball showdown with chess. Two of the biggest stars in the Finals have Chess.com bots and we're offering a limited-time only bot challenge starting on&nb...
GMs Alexey Sarana and Oleksandr Bortnyk scored 10 points each in the early and late Titled Tuesdays of June 4, respectively, earning Sarana his second victory of the year and Bortnyk his first. Neither required tiebreaks, both winning outright. ...
After an intense 61-hour blitz marathon, Norwegian chess enthusiasts Askild Bryn and CM Odin Blikra Vea have shattered the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ record for the Longest Chess Marathon. In a stunning display of endurance and mental fortitu...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen extended his Norway Chess 2024 lead to a full point after beating GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu in armageddon. For most of the day it had looked as though GM Hikaru Nakamura would defeat GM Alireza Firouzja in classi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura closed the gap to Norway Chess 2024 leader GM Magnus Carlsen down to to half a point after winning an armageddon thriller on time. World Champion Ding Liren ended his losing streak to draw against GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshba...
You’ve played fun, new monthly Chess.com bots for years. Now it’s time for you to play the first chess robot ever built, The Mechanical Turk! Created in 1770, The Mechanical Turk was a chess playing automaton that toured around...
Chess.com is excited to announce Chess Events, a brand new app that isolates key features of the site and main app to streamline a user's experience with major events. Chess Events will help you stay up-to-date with the latest tournaments and resu...
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 sank to a fourth loss in a row. Elsewhere there was armageddon revenge for the first-round result...
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...
