While GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren were in their final preparations for the battle of the crown, soon-to-be former World Champion Magnus Carlsen and his club Offerspill invited some of the hopes of the next generation to a training camp i...
Chess fans didn't have to wait long for a decisive result in the 2023 FIDE World Championship, as GM Ian Nepomniachtchi convincingly took down GM Ding Liren in game two. Despite a successful-looking novelty by Ding on move 4, things quickly turned...
The first FIDE World Championship without GM Magnus Carlsen in more than 10 years began with a dramatic game on Sunday in Astana, Kazakhstan. While there is no defending world champion, there is a returning challenger, and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi le...
GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Fabiano Caruana in the Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2023 Grand Final to win Division I on Friday. The "half man, half zombie," as GM Robert Hess called Nakamura on the broadcast, came back from the dea...
The 2023 FIDE World Championship is starting soon, with the first move happening this Sunday, April 9. While you wait to see who becomes the next world champion, why not play chess against our FIDE World Championship bots? Go to our Play C...
Fan-favorite GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen produced yet another epic match, this time in the Losers Final of the Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2023. Following two draws, Nakamura won the armageddon game after tenaciously defendin...
IM Levy Rozman, a.k.a "GothamChess" the world's biggest chess Youtuber, talked about his incredible growth over the last six months, reactions from other top players, an amusing one-line response from Magnus Carlsen, and his thoughts about the upc...
GM Fabiano Caruana defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura in the Division I Winners Final of the Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2023 to punch his ticket to the Grand Final. In the Losers Quarterfinals, GM Magnus Carlsen eliminated GM Wesley So, ...
GM Dmitry Andreikin and GM Parham Maghsoodloo emerged victorious at Titled Tuesday on April 4. Both scored 9.5 points out of a possible 11, but Andrekin needed a tiebreak advantage over two rivals while Maghsoodloo won outright. This was A...
GMs Aleksandra Goryachkina, Bibisara Assaubayeva, and Zhu Jiner tied for first in the recently concluded third leg of the 2022-2023 FIDE Women's Grand Prix with scores of 6/9 in New Delhi, with Goryachkina edging out the trio on tiebreaks. Follo...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana advance to the Winners Final of the Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2023 after respectively defeating GMs Wesley So and Vladislav Artemiev in Division I on Tuesday. In the Losers Bracket, GM Magnus Ca...
Your favorite chess personalities—the Botez sisters, Levy, Fabiano, and of course Hikaru —fell down a green warp tube! Now, they're trapped in the Chess Kingdom as classic video game characters. But don't worry! They still love to play...
The Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2023 Knockout kicked off on Monday, and Division I saw four players advance to the Winners Semifinals: GMs Vladislav Artemiev, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, and Wesley So. They respectively knocked GM...
With a second win in a row, GM Lei Tingjie defeated GM Tan Zhongyi on Monday to clinch victory in the final of the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022-2023 with a round to spare. She will challenge GM Ju Wenjun later this year for the wom...
GM Lei Tingjie scored an important win over GM Tan Zhongyi with White to push herself a point in front with two rounds to go in the final of the FIDE Women's Candidate's Tournament 2022-2023 on Sunday. Selecting a theoretical approach in the Cat...
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Edited April 3, 2023: Happy April Fool’s Day, everyone. Stay safe! Happy April Fool's Day, everyone! Chess.com, the world’s leading online chess platform, is pleased to announce the appointment of GM Anish Giri as its new CEO. G...
After opening the match with back-to-back decisive results, GM Lei Tingjie and GM Tan Zhongyi made their first draw in game three of the final of the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022-2023 on Friday. With white, Tan explored a new move out...
Edited April 2, 2023: Happy April Fool’s Day, everyone. Stay safe! Chess.com has launched a search for its new CEO. Current CEO, Erik, co-founded Chess.com in 2006 with his friend and co-founder Jay, and for 17 years has grown the compa...
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...
GM Lei Tingjie retaliated vs. GM Tan Zhongyi, winning game two of the final of the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022-2023 on Thursday. Rising from the ashes of her own time trouble blunder in game one, Lei didn't hesitate when Tan made a mis...
The three-time and reigning Ukrainian champion, GM Andrei Volokitin, defeated the English number-one and seven-time British champion, GM Michael Adams, in the UK vs. Ukraine Match 2023, with a score of 4.5-3.5. The match concluded on Thursday. T...
GM Tan Zhongyi defeated GM Lei Tingjie in game one of the final of the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022-2023 on Wednesday. Tan played enterprisingly from start to finish, sacrificing two pawns to create complex problems for Lei, who overloo...
GMs Daniil Dubov and David Paravyan each won a Titled Tuesday tournament on March 28, both winning outright. They became the first players to score 10 points since February 14. Each second-place finish also belonged to the only two players to scor...
GM Jose Martinez was crowned as the winner and won $1,000 in the March edition of Chess.com's newest titled arena, Bullet Brawl, after winning 59 of his 74 games during the two-hour event. Ukraine's GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and Armenian IM Emin Ohanya...
