GM Hikaru Nakamura's commanding Bullet Brawl run continued after the now-24-time winner picked up his third straight $400 first prize on Saturday. Facing a field of bullet chess titans including GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk, Nihal Sarin, and Daniel Narod...
According to many (including GM Magnus Carlsen), GM Garry Kasparov is still the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) in chess. Today, it is exactly 25 years since Kasparov played his most famous and possibly best ever game, against GM Veselin Topalov in Wi...
GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Nijat Abasov, and Aydin Suleymanli emerged as joint leaders with seven points out of a maximum of 12 after six rounds of the Vugar Gashimov Memorial 2023 being held at Gabala, Azerbaijan, on Saturday. In a typically exciting da...
WR Chess, led by GM Wesley So, rose to clear first on day one of the World Rapid Team Championship 2023, winning all of their matches so far. The top seed, GM Viswanathan Anand's Freedom, had a rocky fourth round, nearly losing to GM Pental...
GM Simon Williams (a.k.a. GingerGM) added yet another candidate for Game of the Year in his round-two game at the Reykjavik Open 2023 on Wednesday. The English grandmaster has long been known for his daring, sacrificial, and "YOLO" style o...
The Levitov Chess Wizards and the Garden State Passers recorded comfortable victories in the second week of the Pro Chess League on Wednesday after gaining momentum from their respective board-fours who defeated their opponents' board ones. Join...
GM Humpy Koneru moved within striking range of the leader, GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, with a win vs. GM Elisabeth Paehtz in round nine of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix. Koneru has been in second for much of the event, currently trailing by a point...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters 2023 Division I after defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura in the Grand Final. He won the first game and, despite a major scare in game three, managed to draw the rest to consolidate hi...
In round 10, GM Magnus Carlsen scored a fourth victory at the 2023 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, defeating GM Parham Maghsoodloo in a double-edged tussle. The world champion is now within striking distance of the top two. GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov...
Puzzles are one of the first tools for improvement introduced to a chess player. Our first chess books are full with dazzling mating combinations to solve and worlds of tactical themes to explore. Our early jumps in ability are almost always due t...
Chess.com's Clock app just got updated on iOS and Android. With more functionality, tons of useful presets, and an overall better design, the most popular chess clock app in the world got even better. If you're on the go and have a chess s...
The third round of leg three of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix produced only one decisive game. With today’s win, GM Vincent Keymer joins GM Leinier Dominguez Perez in the lead in Group B. All the other games ended in draws and so the other g...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Wesley So contested their third Speed Chess Championship Final match today, a much-anticipated duel after each secured thrilling semi-final victories. Nakamura defeated GM Ding Liren in armageddon in likely the most epic ...
AlphaZero's learning process is, to some extent, similar to that of humans. A new paper from DeepMind, which includes a contribution from the 14th world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, provides strong evidence for the existence of human-understan...
Chess.com is happy to announce the launch of our new and improved Daily Puzzle experience! We've updated the look and feel of the page to make your daily dose of tactic training even better. Solve Today's Daily Puzzle! Here are the main updates...
Chess.com users can now take their endgame skills to the next level using our new Endgames feature. Visit Chess.com/Endgames to learn and master all of the endgames you'll need to know to become an endgame virtuoso! Get Better At Endgames Now! ...
Two weeks after clinching the Shenzhen Masters (online), GM Yu Yangyi won his third Chinese Championship title (over the board!). GM Ju Wenjun, who chose to play in the open section, was one of two players to beat the eventual champion. How to...
The stage is set for the 2020 Speed Chess Championship Final presented by OnJuno. GM Hikaru Nakamura will be facing GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on Saturday, December 12 at 9 a.m. Pacific, 18:00 Central Europe. On Friday, Vachier-Lag...
The score in the final of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals benefiting Kiva is tied after two matches as GM Magnus Carlsen beat GM Hikaru Nakamura on Saturday. The world champion came back after losing the first game an...
Hey, chess fans! Remember May? Well, before it recedes any further into the mists of time, let's shine a light on all the cool stuff that happened around the site last month... Web We made several changes to ensure Dark Mode look...
Greetings, chess fans! April certainly kept us—and our systems—busy! Behind the scenes, our operations specialists worked hard to keep the servers from boiling over, as COVID-19 kept site traffic higher than ever. But that wasn't all...
Hey, chess fans! It's that time again! Let's leap back to last month, and review what kept the Chess.com team busy in February 2020... Puzzles Made some behind-the-scenes changes to help when broadcasting Puzzle Battle events. Also behi...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave defeated Magnus Carlsen to reach the final of the Grand Chess Tour playoff. The Frenchman beat the world champion in a tiebreak of their semifinal and will now face Ding Liren in the final. Ding won against Levon A...
It's been one year since Chess.com released Puzzle Rush, the game where players solve as many chess problems as they can in a short time. Puzzle Rush quickly became one of the most popular features on the site, and everyone from chess beginners to...
With three rounds to go, four teams still have a perfect score at the European Club Cup, now underway in Montenegro. In the women's section, two teams are tied for first place. The competition for club teams is a seven-round Swiss, without a res...
