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Play Against The Mechanical Turk and Friends!

Play Against The Mechanical Turk and Friends!

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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 Announces Chess Events App

Chess.com Announces Chess Events App

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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...

Naroditsky Out-Brawls Hyperbullet Rivals

Naroditsky Out-Brawls Hyperbullet Rivals

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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...

Faustino Oro Edges Closer To Historic IM Title At 10

Faustino Oro Edges Closer To Historic IM Title At 10

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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...

Chess.com Returns To TwitchCon In Rotterdam

Chess.com Returns To TwitchCon In Rotterdam

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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...

Norway Chess 2024: 7 Talking Points

Norway Chess 2024: 7 Talking Points

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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...

Reid Emerges As NFL's Top Chess Player

Reid Emerges As NFL's Top Chess Player

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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 ...