GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda were the winners of Titled Tuesday on March 14, both of them scoring 9.5 points. Nakamura edged out GM Daniil Dubov on tiebreaks early while Duda won outright late. GM Arjun Erigaisi scored two top-five...
Boom! GM Hikaru Nakamura and Misfits Gaming Group are thrilled to announce a massive and thrilling chess tournament series: Hikaru's Chess Decathlon. This epic 10-tournament contest kicks off with a format for which Hikaru is the reigning world ch...
GM Alexey Sarana won the European Individual Chess Championship on Monday in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. The 23-year-old Russian grandmaster, who played under the FIDE flag, edged out GMs Kirill Shevchenko (Romania) and Daniel Dardha (Belgium) on tieb...
GM Magnus Carlsen will return to Norway Chess, his homecoming tournament, after he abdicates his world champion title, it was announced on Monday. Once again, the world number-one tops the lineup for the elite event—now in its 11th year&md...
Fighting their way through 147 high-level competitors, GMs Liem Le, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Fedoseev, and Vladislav Artemiev finished at the top of the Play-In and qualified for Division I of Chessable Masters 2023. They will join GMs Magnus Carls...
Jamaica's government has announced an ambitious plan to pour J$40 million (approximately $260,000 at the time of writing) into chess in a drive to create a new grandmaster by 2033, local media reported. Ministers on the Caribbean island wa...
Ellen Carlsen, GM Magnus Carlsen's older sister, says WGM Jennifer Shahade's allegations against Alejandro Ramirez led to her report an incident where she says she was harassed by a chess player as a minor. Shahade's shocking tweet alleging that...
Do you only watch an award show if someone gets slapped in the face? Well, you're in luck (again)! Back for its second year, The Streamer Awards are happening on Saturday, March 11, starting at 3 p.m. PT, and it's being presented by and strea...
On the final day of week four of the 2023 Pro Chess League, the Norway Gnomes defeated Team MGD1 and made it to the Playoffs. In the second match, the Saint Louis Arch Bishops eliminated the Spanish Maniac Shrimps. GM Pranav V was indisputably t...
Chess.com is extending its Women's History Month celebrations with a special event in which you can get to know some of our members of staff and the streamers we work with. The event, which will be broadcasted live on Chess.com's channels on You...
In week four of the 2023 Pro Chess League, the Levitov Chess Wizards and the Garden State Passers won their matches against the Canada Chessbrahs and California Unicorns, respectively. The Chess Wizards qualify for the Playoffs, while the Passers ...
Blitz chess will be included in the upcoming inaugural Olympic Esports Series 2023 with Chess.com playing host to a unique qualifying event. The world’s leading online chess platform has been selected by FIDE, recognized by the Internation...
The fourth week of the 2023 Pro Chess League started with victories by the Shanghai Tigers and Blitz over the Croatia Bulldogs and Brazil Capybaras, respectively. After losing badly in round one (0.5-3.5), the Tigers bared their fangs and dominate...
The March 7, 2023, editions of Titled Tuesday were won by GM Vladimir Fedoseev early and GM Alireza Firouzja late, both scoring 9.5 points. Falling just shy were GMs Nihal Sarin and Dmitry Andreikin, who also scored 9.5 points but lost due to tieb...
She is one of Iran's top chess players who made headlines around the world when she went into exile for refusing to wear a headscarf at the 2022 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships. Now, in the International Women's Day edition of Elle maga...
Eight women have accused GM Alejandro Ramirez of wrongdoing in an article published by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. In the newspaper, the women claim that Ramirez used his status in chess to put himself in positions of influence and make re...
It's the moment the chess world has been holding its breath for—Magnus Carlsen's last major outing as world champion. And it will come at the 2023 Chessable Masters. Chess.com’s $2 million Champions Chess Tour will return with the la...
GM Alejandro Ramirez announced his resignation on Monday from the Saint Louis Chess Club and will no longer coach the Saint Louis University chess team. On February 15, WGM Jennifer Shahade reported on Twitter that Ramirez assaulted her twice an...
Chess history approaches the end of an era as GM Magnus Carlsen, for the first time since 2013, will soon no longer be the world champion. He played what is expected to be his final classical game while holding the title on Sunday, March 5. While ...
On Friday, top GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura as well as WGM Jennifer Shahade took part in a panel discussion at the MIT Sloan School of Management's annual Sports Analytics Conference in Boston. The three talked about the further growth ...
On Friday, Team MGD1 gained their second victory in a row, defeating the California Unicorns in week three of the Pro Chess League. Although the match started out very close, GM Adhiban Baskaran's 4-0 performance combined with solid support from t...
March Madness is here! Did you miss the start of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL), or want to relive the best moments so far? We’ve got you covered with this CCL mid-season recap: Don’t Mess With Texas Deep Dish Pizza Powers UChi...
Back in January, we proclaimed a new chess boom that was so big it was troubling our servers. Thankfully, those problems have been fixed now. But if you thought that sudden wave of interest in the game would pass, or it was perhaps just a fad fu...
In the match against the formidable Shanghai Tigers, the Gotham Knights showcased the most dominant victory so far in this season of the Pro Chess League. In the second match, the Croatia Bulldogs overcame the Blitz in a toe-to-toe tug-of-war stru...
