Challenger GM Lei Tingjie once again seized the initiative in game two of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship in Shanghai, but a lack of time, and precise defense from reigning champion GM Ju Wenjun, saw the game end in a 40-move draw. The sc...
GM Viswanathan Anand emerged as the early leader, defeating GMs Richard Rapport and Constantin Lupulescu on day one of the SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia 2023. Rapport himself beat GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, the previous leader, in the la...
Fourteen-year-old FM Brewington Hardaway earned his third and last norm required for the international master title on Tuesday after finishing with 6/9 points at the World Open 2023. His approximately 2472.7 rating performance left him at a 2390.4...
GM Magnus Carlsen became only the second player, and first in nearly two years, to score a perfect 11/11 in Titled Tuesday, achieving the feat in the late tournament on July 4, 2023. He won the event by two full points—a half-point better th...
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun had to fight hard to hold a draw in game one of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship Match after challenger GM Lei Tingjie opened with an aggressive pawn sacrifice in her first-ever match at the very highest le...
GM Fabiano Caruana has been crowned the winner of the 2023 No Castling World Masters after scoring 4/6 in a double round-robin classical tournament in Dortmund, Germany, and finishing half a point ahead of GM Vladimir Kramnik. As part of the 50t...
Chess.com’s blistering Bullet Chess Championship is back with a star-studded posse of the fastest gunslingers in the game ready to duel. This year’s quickfire one-minute chess tournament, which runs July 17 to 21, boasts its strongest ...
The Triveni Continental Kings completed their comeback story with a victory in the finals of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 that went all the way down to sudden death. The 19-year-old GM Jonas Bjerre was the hero for the Kings as he to...
GM Daniel Naroditsky outclassed the field in the first weekly Bullet Brawl and convincingly won the event ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen on Saturday. Naroditsky scored 242 points during the two-hour arena, playing out 67 wins, six...
On a blockbuster final day of the regular season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023, GM Levon Aronian's Triveni Continental Kings and the GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave-led UpGrad Mumba Masters stole the two finals spots on offer from the lo...
While humankind has yet to answer the age-old question "Who let the dogs out," there's one thing we do know: You can now play chess against humans' adorable best friends. Meet IM Levy Rozman's dog Benji, Wishboy, Buddy Buckets, Pinky, and GM Levon...
GM Levon Aronian and the Triveni Continental Kings stole the show on day nine of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023, winning vs. both the SG Alpine Warriors and Balan Alaskan Knights to join the tie for first. Aronian defeated fellow ico...
GM Ray Robson won the Prague Chess Festival Masters after finishing in shared first with GM Bogan-Daniel Deac on 5.5/9 points. In the blitz tiebreak, the American grandmaster won the first game with Black and then offered a draw in a winning posit...
The US Chess Federation has published a list of members who have been sanctioned by the organization. A total of 27 members have been sanctioned for a shorter or longer time period. Minors are not named, but their sanction is listed. Amo...
TwitchCon Paris takes place on July 8 and 9, 2023, and chess will be well-represented as one of the internet's most popular games. Some of the biggest names in chess content creation will be present at the convention to meet their fans and...
It’s the amateur event that fueled a massive chess boom, spawned a mountain of memes, and became one of the game’s biggest sensations ever. Now Chess.com is delighted to reveal that its celebrity-packed PogChamps tournament is back for...
Day eight of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 featured two combative matchups that came down to photo finishes. In a match of almost all decisive games, GM Levon Aronian defeated fellow icon, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, leading the Triveni ...
The ambitious crossover between gridiron and chess continued on Wednesday with BlitzChamps: Michigan and was won by Wolverines wide receiver Cornelius Johnson after he swept the offensive lineman Ladarius Henderson in the champions final with a sc...
In a highly-anticipated rematch, GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Viswanathan Anand, leading the SG Alpine Warriors to an epic comeback victory and the top of the standings on day seven of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023. Carlsen had ...
To win Titled Tuesday, 9.5 points continue to be enough as GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Oleksandr Bortnyk won the June 27 renditions of the event, each on that score. Both needed the tiebreak score advantage over one other player in order to secure fi...
Chess.com is excited to announce that GM Anish Giri's Lifetime Repertoire for 1.e4 is now fully available on Chessable. This three-part course is another masterpiece by the renowned Dutch number-one that teaches everything you need to know to play...
GM Viswanathan Anand scored yet another victory, defeating GM Jan-Krysztof Duda, but it wasn't enough for the Ganges Grandmasters, who lost a nailbiter to the Chingari Gulf Titans on day six of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023. W...
The Collegiate Chess League is excited to announce the 2023 summer season following last year's inaugural summer season. We will be bringing back both the bullet and bughouse college championships! These championship matches will last four weeks s...
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed GM Hans Niemann's $100 million lawsuit against GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Chess.com, the Play Magnus Group, and IM Daniel Rensch. This means that, at least for the moment, the legal battle that follow...
