[The winners have been announced, and the competition is over! Click here for details.] The 2023 Pro Chess League Finals are upon us! Eight teams have made it through to this final stage, and will be competing for their part of the $150,000 priz...
With the start of the 2023 Airthings Masters just around the corner, chess fans may already be expecting a renewed focus on how air quality affects players. After all, the first event of the new $2 million Champions Chess Tour season is sponsore...
The German chess software company ChessBase and the team behind the open-source chess engine Stockfish have reached a settlement and ended their legal dispute over the latter's claim regarding a repeated license violation by Chessbase with their p...
The 2022 Speed Chess Championship main event begins in less than a week! Sixteen of the world’s top players will find out who’s the quickest on their feet as they vie for the world’s most prestigious online speed chess title.&nbs...
In a 72-page report made public on Tuesday, Chess.com states that GM Hans Niemann "has likely cheated in more than 100 online chess games, including several prize money events." Chess.com also notes that Niemann is "the fastest rising top player i...
The Chess.com Global Championship Knockout phase begins on September 14. An event that started with thousands of participants is down to a field of 64. In the next few weeks, there will only be 32, then 16, and then eight hopefuls. By November? On...
In the latest episode of his popular podcast, the American computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Lex Fridman had a fascinating, two-and-a-half-hour conversation with GM Magnus Carlsen. The two discussed a wide variety of topics...
Titled Tuesday presented by SEOcrawl took a surprising turn on May 10 as none other than GM Magnus Carlsen played in the early event, his first games on Chess.com since February 2021. Carlsen delivered, effectively clinching the tournament with a ...
The Stockfish team has filed a lawsuit against Chessbase, claiming that the German chess software company is selling their software without having the license to do so. The lawsuit, filed in a German court, was announced last Tuesday in a blog on ...
GM Anish Giri and GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov did not survive the tiebreaks of the FIDE World Cup's third round. The two top grandmasters lost to GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Haik Martirosyan, respectively. Other big names that were sent home ...
ChessKid.com, the scholastic branch of Chess.com, is pleased to announce its first United States national online tournament exclusive for female players. To promote and highlight the continued growth of female scholastic players in the US, Chess...
The development teams behind the two most successful and influential open-source chess programs, Stockfish and Leela Chess Zero, have issued statements denouncing the commercial program Fat Fritz 2 and the company Chessbase that is selling the pro...
The Komodo team has released Komodo 14.1 and a new chess engine dubbed "Dragon." Dragon adds powerful NNUE (Efficiently Updatable Neural Networks) technology to the successful Komodo engine. Komodo is the 2019 World Computer Chess Champion, 2019...
Six new variants, including four from the recent AlphaZero paper, are now available for all Chess.com members to try. They can be found at Chess.com/variants. The recent scientific paper from Google's DeepMind, co-written by 14th worl...
The decision from FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich to give the Online Olympiad gold medals to both India and Russia was debated heavily in the chess community. In this interview, Chess.com is asking all the questions that were raised over the past...
The semifinals of the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship will be played among IMs John Bartholomew, Teddy Coleman, Alina Kashlinskaya, and Greg Shahade, who won their quarterfinal matches this week. The first semifinal featuring...
The Chess.com Computer Chess Championship (CCCC) is back with a new, always-on format and more chess engines as Chess.com makes a major investment in the future of computer chess. Update: CCCC 1: Rapid Rumble is now live! Watch and cha...
The usually irrepressible Magnus Carlsen couldn't put away Fabiano Caruana today at the 2018 Sinquefield Cup. They drew, and the chess world will now wait 76 days until the two do it all over again, 12 more times in London. "Considering the posi...
On Monday, FIDE presidential candidate Georgios Makropoulos announced his ticket. The deputy president on his ticket is the well-known organizer Malcolm Pein, who told Chess.com he "would be interested" in running for president in 2022. The FIDE...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chess.com acquires the Komodo chess engine and launches Komodo Monte Carlo with a probability search similar to AlphaZero. Palo Alto, Calif., May 24, 2018—Chess.com has acquired the powerful computer chess engine K...
"If I come well prepared, and I assume he will come well prepared as well, then it's going to be very close." Interviewed by Chess.com the day after winning the FIDE Candidates' Tournament, Fabiano Caruana rated his chances in the world champion...
By beating Vladimir Kramnik today, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov caught Fabiano Caruana in first place at the 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament. Wesley So scored his first win in this sixth round, at the expense of Levon Aronian. If stamina ...
Fabiano Caruana, Vladimir Kramnik and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov started with wins at the FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin. Caruana beat Wesley So from the white side of a Closed Catalan, whereas Kramnik outplayed Alexander Grischuk with the ...
The news about AlphaZero beating Stockfish 64-36 without a single loss after just four hours of self-training has shocked the chess world. Chess.com has early reactions from the London Chess Classic participants and from one of the original author...
