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...
Tensions are sky-high in St. Louis after a high-voltage 11th round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championship featured three decisive results. GM Sam Sevian scored a blistering win over GM Dariusz Swiercz with black to move into third place, while the le...
Winning three games and drawing one on Sunday, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda emerged as the new leader in the Aimchess Rapid preliminaries with three rounds to go. GM Magnus Carlsen continues to struggle with his form as he lost another game, this time ag...
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov still leads the preliminaries of the Aimchess Rapid tournament after eight rounds of play, but it was again GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov who got fans on the edge of their seats as he played a brilliant move in his game with GM...
The 10th round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championship took place on Saturday with a single decisive result in favor of GM Hans Niemann. Draws for GMs Fabiano Caruana and Ray Robson left them on 7/10 and 6.5/10 respectively with chances for chasers to...
Uzbekistan's GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov leads the preliminaries of the Aimchess Rapid tournament after four rounds of play. It was GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov who stole the show, beating GM Magnus Carlsen and, brilliantly, GM Anish Giri. How to watch...
GM Sam Shankland was the sole winner in round nine of the 2022 U.S. Championships on Friday after he defeated a struggling GM Christopher Yoo. Besides this game, the remainder of the encounters were drawn with remarkably high accuracy: an average ...
Scoring his third win in a row, GM Ray Robson completed a hat trick on Thursday at the 2022 U.S. Championship. The 27-year-old grandmaster beat GM Elshan Moradiabadi with the black pieces and is now trailing the leader, GM Fabiano Caruana, by half...
Instructive attacking chess, dazzling tactics, and a 10-move disaster game all came to the fore during the seventh round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships on Tuesday. GM Fabiano Caruana won his fourth game and remains ahead of his newest challe...
GM Konstantin Landa has passed away at the age of 50, after a long struggle with cancer. The news was confirmed by the Russian Chess Federation. Landa was born May 22, 1972 in Omsk, a city in southwestern Siberia. He got his first chess lessons ...
Chess.com is pleased to announce that you can now play three exciting chess variants on our website: Duck Chess, Seirawan Chess, and Setup Chess. Head over to our Variants page to try these and other chess variants now! Chess variants give pl...
In a day marked by underdog dominance, GMs Teimour Radjabov and Nihal Sarin defeated the two 2023 World Championship challengers Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren in the 2022 Chess.com Global Championship round of 16, presented by Brave. Nihal and...
GM Hikaru Nakamura just keeps on winning Titled Tuesday, taking home the early tournament on October 11, his fourth straight week with at least one tournament victory. GM Magnus Carlsen finished in third place despite missing the first round, but ...
A day of decisive results with the black pieces ruled the sixth round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championship on Tuesday. GM Fabiano Caruana was able to extend his lead to a full point after beating GM Elshan Moradiabadi while GMs Ray Robson and Dariu...
Novy Bor won the 2022 European Club Cup on Sunday after beating Asnieres Le Grand Echiquier in the final round. The Czech team won the tournament nine years after their first European gold in 2013. Third-seeded ASVOe Pamhagen became the surpr...
The fifth round of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships saw a new contender, GM Awonder Liang, rise to challenge GM Fabiano Caruana after a scintillating win over one of the pre-tournament favorites, GM Levon Aronian using the Scotch Gambit. In the...
The 2022 U.S. Chess Championship continued on Saturday with electric games across the board in round four. GMs Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Alex Lenderman won their respective games with the former rising above the rest of the field by half a p...
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Christopher Yoo, and Awonder Liang all won their third-round games at the 2022 U.S. Championships on Friday, with the former two joining GMs Sam Sevian and Hans Niemann atop the leaderboard on 2/3. Players with the white pie...
IM Joachim Birger Nilsen (29) resigned as the president of the Norwegian Chess Federation, a day after admitting to cheating on Chess.com during one match in the 2016-2017 season of the PRO Chess League. Nilsen was part of the Norway Gnomes team, ...
The third and fourth rounds at the European Club Cup saw nice wins for both GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Viswanathan Anand, but their respective teams dropped in the standings. Novy Bor (Czech Republic) is the only team that scored four victories, whi...
The second day of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships was a day of upsets as GM Christopher Yoo stunned 2021 champion GM Wesley So with the black pieces in a remarkably aggressive clash. Several results went the way of the underdogs in the women's e...
The wait is over: Chess.com is happy to announce that the Pro Chess League is returning in 2023! The PCL is the world's premier online chess league for professional players. The 2023 season starts on February 1, with top grandmasters from around t...
