GMs Magnus Carlsen and GM Praggnanandhaa R. are in a tie for first place at the FTX Crypto Cup with the maximum score of six points after two days of play. GM Levon Aronian is in second place with five points, ahead of GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda w...
The exciting finals of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship begin on August 18. That means it's time for another bracket contest! This time, it's a double elimination bracket—you will really have to be on your game to make the best selections t...
GMs Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen, Praggnanandhaa R., and Jan-Krzysztof Duda started with wins in a first round full of fighting chess at the FTX Crypto Cup in Miami. The tournament is the sixth event in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour and its ...
GM R.B. Ramesh is a name recognized globally in the chess community, thanks to his reputation as a chess trainer. Over the years, he has helped many chess players attain titles and secure medals at International levels. He is the only Indian coach...
GM Wesley So won week 25 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, defeating GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in a hard-fought final that culminated in an armageddon playoff. GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Oleksandr Bortnyk made ...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the week 25 Swiss of the Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. Participating in the event were 48 competit...
GM Ivan Sokolov, a former top player himself, was the coach of the gold-winning Uzbek team at the Olympiad in Chennai, India. In an interview with Chess.com, the Dutch-Bosnian grandmaster reveals what it's like to work with prodigies who have taug...
GM Dmitry Andreikin won the late Titled Tuesday event on August 9 with a nearly perfect 10.5/11 score, after GM Alexey Sarana had staged an improbable comeback in the early tournament. GM Hikaru Nakamura rode a 9/9 start to a tie for first (second...
Continuing with their good form in the event, Uzbekistan and Armenia prevailed over higher seeds Netherland and Spain respectively in the 11th and final round to tie for first-second places with 19 match points in the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad, wit...
The 12th-seeded Armenia defeated the sixth-seeded Azerbaijan with a convincing 3-1 victory to reach 17 match points and become the joint leaders at the end of the 10th and penultimate round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad. Dramatic developments in...
The 14th-seeded young Uzbekistan team with an average age of 20 prevailed over the overnight leader, 12th-seeded Armenia, by a strong 3-1 score to jump into sole lead with 16 match points at the end of the ninth round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympi...
GM Hans Niemann, ranked sixth in the world for juniors in live ratings, won week 24 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, accomplishing the rare feat of winning both the knockout and Swiss in the same week. GM Je...
FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich was re-elected for a second term in the presidential elections during the FIDE Congress in Chennai, India, on Sunday. He received 157 of the votes. The only other remaining candidate, Andrii Baryshpolets, received ...
Continuing their remarkable run in the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad, the 12th-seeded Armenia defeated second-seeded India 2.5-1.5 and maintained their sole lead with 15 match points at the end of the eighth round. The 11th-seeded India 2 defeated the ...
GM Le Quang Liem and GM-elect Tuan Minh Le won the final two Chess.com Global Championship Play-Ins. GMs Vladislav Kovalev and Maxim Matlakov finished second. These are the last four players who have qualified to join the incredible field of playe...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament. GM Hans Niemann won the week 24 Swiss of the Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. Participating in the event were 39 competitors&md...
The 12th-seeded Armenia held the top-seeded U.S. to a 2-2 draw in a dramatic conclusion to a tense match involving a touched-piece blunder by GM Sam Shankland. Armenia retained the lead with 13 match points after the seventh round of the 44th FIDE...
Chess.com is happy to announce the release of Recommended Matches. For the first time ever, you will be presented with personalized pairings for Daily Games on your home screen. So how does it work? If you’ve finished playing all of y...
GMs Samvel Ter-Sahakyan and Robert Hovhannisyan scored crucial wins to enable Armenia to prevail over India 2 with a 2.5-1.5 score and capture the lead with 12 match points at the end of the sixth round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad. GM Fabiano ...
No one needed a tiebreaker in this week's Titled Tuesday as GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk both won outright on August 2. It was Nakamura's second straight Tuesday winning one of the tournaments. GM Daniel Naroditsky finished s...
11th-seeded India 2 scored an upset victory over fourth-seeded Spain, while 12th-seeded Armenia defeated 10th-seeded England, both with an identical score of 2.5-1.5, to jointly lead the open section with 10 match points at the end of the fifth ro...
The final week to qualify for the Chess.com Global Championship Knockout Phase began with GMs Maksim Chigaev and Andrey Esipenko winning the 13th and 14th Play-ins. GMs Pavel Ponkratov and Ray Robson also qualified by each winning second place res...
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India 2, Israel, England, Spain, and Armenia lead with eight match points at the end of the fourth round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad. The U.S. and India, the top two seeds, were held to 2-2 draws by Uzbekistan and France respectively. Norway s...
