Some billionaires like to go to space while others enjoy posting weird tweets—some even fancy going to space and posting weird tweets. No one knows what goes on inside a billionaire's mind, but we do know one thing: When we turn them into bo...
GM Anna Muzychuk reached the semifinals of the 2022-2023 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament after winning her tiebreak match vs. GM Humpy Koneru on Sunday. After three draws, the Indian grandmaster blundered a full piece and quickly resigned. Mu...
GM Hikaru Nakamura was crowned as the FIDE Fischer Random World Chess Champion on Sunday after winning a thrilling armageddon tiebreaker final against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. Having split the points in their four-game mini-match, Nakamura saved h...
GM Anna Muzychuk defeated GM Humpy Koneru on demand in Saturday's fourth game of their Women's Candidates quarterfinal, thus forcing a tiebreak to be played on Sunday. The winner will face GM Lei Tingjie, who reached the draw she needed again...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura were confirmed on Saturday as the grand finalists for the 2022 Fischer Random World Championships after winning their respective semifinals by convincing margins. Nakamura only needed three games ...
IM Michael Basman, a strong British player in the 1960s and '70s, founder of the U.K. Chess Challenge, prolific author, and most of all an innovator both on and off the chessboard, died of pancreatic cancer on Wednesday at age 76. Most famous for ...
On June 19, 1996, GM Bobby Fischer, hoping to enhance the creative potential of chess, announced a variant he saw as the future of the game, Fischer Random. Twenty-six years later on the 50th anniversary of his world championship victory in R...
On Wednesday GM Humpy Koneru missed a great chance to take a 2-0 lead in her match with GM Anna Muzychuk in the 2022-23 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament in Monaco. The game ended in a draw, which also happened in GM Mariya Muzychuk vs. GM L...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov swept both matches vs. GM Hjorvar Gretarsson to increase his lead in group A of the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship on Wednesday. GM Magnus Carlsen also won two matches to join GM Hikaru Nakamura―who was held t...
GM Sam Shankland began Titled Tuesday with a 9/9 score before winning the early event with a score of 10/11. In the late event, a six-way tie for first place on nine points was not completely broken, leaving GMs Alexey Sarana and Bogdan-Daniel Dea...
It wasn't a good first day for the Muzychuk sisters at the 2022-23 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament in Monaco, as both lost their games as Black. GM Humpy Koneru found a nice tactic to quickly beat GM Anna Muzychuk, while GM Lei Tingjie defeated...
GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Hikaru Nakamura both won their matches on Tuesday to lead groups A and B at the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland. Abdusattorov swept vs. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and defeated GM Wesley So. Nak...
The 2022 World Junior Chess Championships were resounding successes for Azerbaijan with IM Abdulla Gadimbayli winning the open section and WGM Govhar Beydullayeva grabbing gold in the girls' section. The event, which was for players 20 years old a...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda won the Aimchess Rapid tournament on Friday after beating GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in a blitz tiebreak, necessary because Mamedyarov had levelled the score in the second match. It was Duda's second tournament victory in the t...
The Chess.com Global Championship Finals start on November 2, 2022! As our biggest tournament of the year reaches its thrilling conclusion, the live finals will now occur in two locations: Toronto, Canada, and Belgrade, Serbia. Check out the detai...
GM Hans Niemann has filed a defamation lawsuit against GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Hikaru Nakamura, Chess.com, the Play Magnus Group, and IM Danny Rensch, seeking at least $100 million in damages. The lawsuit is the next episode in the chess cheating sc...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda took a big step toward winning the Aimchess Rapid tournament as he beat GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 3-1 on Thursday. The 24-year-old Duda, who eliminated GM Magnus Carlsen in the semifinals, dominated the first of two matches in...
WGM Jennifer Yu was crowned the winner of the 2022 U.S. Women's Chess Championship on Thursday after a thrilling tiebreaker that had to be decided by an armageddon game. After winning the opening game of the match against GM Irina Krush, Yu very n...
GM Magnus Carlsen was eliminated from the Aimchess Rapid tournament on Wednesday after losing to GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the semifinals. Duda's next opponent is GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who beat GM Richard Rapport. How to watch? The games of t...
GM Fabiano Caruana was crowned the winner of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships on Wednesday after scoring an unbeaten 8.5/13 in St. Louis. GM Ray Robson did all that he could to equal Caruana's score but couldn't break through against GM Jeffery X...
GM Alireza Firouzja played in both Titled Tuesday tournaments on October 18, scoring 18/22 overall before winning the late event. They were his first games on Chess.com since April 22, 2021. The early event was won by GM-elect Tuan Minh Le with th...
By reaching the semifinals of the Aimchess Rapid tournament, GM Magnus Carlsen has secured overall victory in the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. The world champion knocked out GM Arjun Erigaisi and will face GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda next. The o...
Tuesday's penultimate round of the U.S. Chess Championship saw leader GM Fabiano Caruana draw his fifth game straight against GM Sam Shankland and move to 8/12. GM Ray Robson, his closest challenger, trails by half a point with the two players pla...
The quarterfinals of the Aimchess Rapid tournament will see another clash between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Arjun Erigaisi, who also played each other in the final of the Julius Baer Generation Cup last month. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda finished in firs...
