Football fans, rejoice! If you've ever caught yourself squeezing some bullet games in between Super Bowl commercials, we have good news. Chess.com is excited to announce BlitzChamps, an event where NFL stars will compete in a series of rapid games...
The main event of this year's Women's Speed Chess Championship begins on June 13. That means it's time for another bracket contest! Still free-to-play and featuring cash prizes, we've streamlined the prediction system, so keep reading! The prize p...
With the top four players in the tournament standings playing each other in round five, the situation at the top of the leaderboard is sharpening further at the 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger. The current world champion, GM Magnus Carlsen, said ...
GM Dmitry Andreikin won week 17 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, overcoming GM Jules Moussard, who made it to the final in his first-ever knockout. GMs Vladimir Fedoseev and Nodirbek Abdusattorov made it to the se...
This is our quick summary report. Check out our full report after Sunday's knockout tournament. GM Vladimir Fedoseev won week 17 of the Rapid Chess Championship, presented by Coinbase, tying with and edging out GM Levon Aronian by tiebreaks.&nbs...
The situation at the top of the leaderboard is beginning to sharpen at the 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger. The current world champion, GM Magnus Carlsen, announced his intentions to play for the tournament title by winning the second classical g...
IM Lawrence Trent overcame the match favorite and fifth seed, IM Alina Kashlinskaya, in the 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship on Friday. The players traded victories for much of the match until the finish of the bullet segment wh...
Has GM Viswanathan Anand been retigered? As the events unfold this week at 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger, the 52-year-old is certainly beginning to make it look like it. The former world champion continued to demonstrate that he is still ...
Chess.com is excited to announce the return of Chess Played Quick, our event series where streamers speed through challenges to collect prizes and bounties! This month's CPQ Bot Battles Bingo Edition happens on June 13 at 10 a.m. PT/19:00 CET and ...
Dull or exciting? That was the question in round two of Norway Chess on Wednesday. When GM Veselin Topalov exceeded the time limit against GM Viswanathan Anand, the Indian became the sole victor in the classical games of the second round. GM Wes...
After Monday's fun and exciting blitz tournament, the real play started in this year's edition of Norway Chess on Tuesday. With victories with the white pieces, GMs Viswanathan Anand and Wesley So won their respective games against GMs Maxime Va...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his second straight late Titled Tuesday event after GM Hans Niemann claimed the early tournament on May 31. Niemann was also a Titled Tuesday victor back on February 15. This week, one player also placed top five in both e...
GM Richard Rapport no longer plans to play for Hungary but will represent Romania instead. His wife Jovana will join him, making the switch from Serbia to Romania. This news was announced by the Romanian Chess Federation. Meanwhile, the Hungarian ...
Rather than having a traditional drawing of start numbers, Norway Chess has made a tradition of starting out with a blitz tournament to decide the start numbers for each player in the main event. American GM Wesley So took a decisive lead by bea...
It is probably a record: scoring two norms in a time span of fewer than 24 hours. GM-elect Frederik Svane, the brother of GM Rasmus Svane, managed to do so last weekend in Hamburg, Germany. 17-year-old Svane, the younger of two brothers (Rasmus ...
The 16th week of the Rapid Chess Championship, presented by Coinbase, concluded today with an inaugural win for GM Alexander Grischuk in the knockout, while GM Raunak Sadhwani won the Swiss on tiebreak ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana...
Former Women's World Champion and GM Antoaneta Stefanova won the second qualifier of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship. She defeated WIM Mobina Alinasab in an incredibly hard-fought final match. IM Karina Ambartsumova w...
The fourth season of the Collegiate Chess League came to a dramatic finish this weekend with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley completing their perfect season 10-0 to win the championship title along with $5,000. They took down last season...
GM Ding Liren won the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters despite a comeback by GM Praggnanandhaa R, who won Thursday's second mini-match. It was Ding who clinched the title and the $25,000 first prize by winning a two-game pla...
The 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship continued on Thursday with the one of the event's most anticipated clashes, IM Eric Rosen vs. Levy Rozman. The two world-class content creators met in the quarterfinals for a rematch of last year's sho...
You probably know that the biggest online rapid event for elite players, the Rapid Chess Championship, is happening right now, don't you? But have you ever wondered how you'd stack up against some of the grandmasters playing in the event? Well, no...
GM Ding Liren took a first step to winning the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour's Chessable Masters. The Chinese grandmaster beat GM Praggnanandhaa R in their first mini-match on Wednesday and needs only a tie on Thursday to win the $25,000 fir...
The 2022 IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship resumed on Wednesday with a gripping round of 16 match between IM Polina Shuvalova and IM David Pruess, in which Shuvalova won with a convincing 16.5-6.5 score. The match was a tactical slugfest that...
WGM Vantika Agrawal won the first qualifier of the FIDE Chess.com 2022 Women's Speed Chess Championship. She defeated WGM Annamaria Marjanovic in a thrilling final bullet tiebreaker. IM Gulnar Mammadova won the Swiss tournament on the previo...
