The Airthings Masters, the first leg of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, began on February 19. GM Ding Liren leads after the first day with a score of 10/12, a point ahead of GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, on 9/12, and two points ahead of third-pl...
The Collegiate Chess League kicked off its fourth season last weekend. This was the first round of seven and the start to what will surely make for another exciting season. Below is a recap of all the week one highlights and a preview of what will...
GM Hikaru Nakamura demonstrated his superiority in quicker time controls by defeating fellow-American GM Levon Aronian with a clean 2-0 score in the rapid chess tiebreak of the final to emerge as the winner of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first leg in...
GM Raunak Sadhwani earned the win in the third week of the ninth season of Arena Kings on Wednesday, holding off IM Le Tuan Minh in the finals with a score of 3-2, which just stopped Le from a second consecutive victory. The semifina...
GMs Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alireza Firouzja, Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Richard Rapport, and Leinier Dominguez are the "full-tour" participants of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour. World champio...
The second game of the final between GM Levon Aronian and GM Hikaru Nakamura ended in a draw in only 29 moves after a threefold repetition, leaving the scores tied at the end of the classical games of the final of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first le...
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won his first Titled Tuesday in nearly a year, while GM Hans Niemann earned his first-ever victory. For the first time in the three weeks since Titled Tuesday expanded to two tournaments, no one placed in the top five in both ...
GM Borislav Ivkov, the first World Junior Champion, three-time Yugoslav champion, and former world championship candidate who defeated five world champions of chess, died on Monday at the age of 88. The news was confirmed by FIDE. "To be honest,...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Levon Aronian were involved in a memorable clash in the first game of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first leg finals in Berlin. Both the players had the upper hand at different points of the game which ended in a draw by perpe...
Chess.com is happy to foster the growth of the royal game by giving $25,000 to help fund the 2022 North American Chess Cup for Youth With Disabilities happening June 21 through 26. This amount will help the organizers to invest in staff for the ev...
The Chess.com Players League has been wildly popular, leading to a 20% increase in games played in December 2021 alone. Leagues have also given the Chess.com community another way to track progress in its favorite game. With Leagues came an opport...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the knockout phase of the inaugural 2022 Rapid Chess Championship tournament presented by Coinbase. GM Anish Giri finished second in the knockout—after taking first in the preliminary Swiss tournament—while GM...
GM Levon Aronian and GM Hikaru Nakamura comfortably neutralized the challenges of GM Leinier Dominguez and GM Richard Rapport respectively in the second game of the semifinal matches to set up an all-American clash in the final of the first leg of...
GM Levon Aronian and GM Hikaru Nakamura outplayed GM Leinier Dominguez and GM Richard Rapport respectively in the first game of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first leg semifinals in Berlin, both achieved with the white pieces in contrasting styles. The...
GM Leinier Dominguez and GM Richard Rapport defeated GM Wesley So and GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek respectively in the rapid tiebreak games with identical 1.5-0.5 victories to reach the semifinals of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix in Berlin. Ironically, the ...
Speed-addicted Chess.com members have a lot of reasons to celebrate as the 2022 Bullet Chess Championship approaches. Top players will battle for their piece of the $100,000 prize fund, with the qualifiers starting on February 21. This year's pr...
The Collegiate Chess League's fourth season is set to begin on February 12, 2022, and runs until the finals on May 21. Last season was our largest ever with over 1,000 players representing 160 teams from 80 schools from around the world. This se...
The last round of the group stage of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first leg produced high-voltage drama in Berlin with GM Hikaru Nakamura joining GM Levon Aronian for the semifinal lineup after winning Group A and Group C respectively. It was a day of...
GM Levon Aronian won a tense tactical game with the black pieces against GM Vincent Keymer to reach 4/5 and qualify with a round to spare from Group C to the semifinals of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix first leg in Berlin. Though GM Hikaru Nakamura won...
A week after finishing in third place, IM Le Tuan Minh earned a victory in the second week of Arena Kings Season 9 on Wednesday. He defeated GM Vugar Rasulov in a close 3-2 final (+2 -1 =2). Semifinalists GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Jose Martine...
GM Kirill Shevchenko, who also won Titled Tuesday on June 15, 2021, won the early tournament on February 8 and finished third in the late tournament. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the late tournament. Both players won outright, Shevchenko with 10/11...
GM Yuri Averbakh, the oldest living grandmaster in the world, turns 100 today. After recovering from Covid last summer, he seems to be back in shape again and says he still analyzes endgames to keep his mind sharp. Born February 8, 1922, in Kalu...
GM Levon Aronian consolidated his position while GM Wesley So defeated GM Leinier Dominguez in a crucial game, as both opened a full point lead on 3/4 in Group C and Group D respectively at the end of the fourth round of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix a...
WARNING: This reporting includes disturbing information of a sexual nature. Letters with pages from porn magazines and used condoms have been sent to at least 15 female chess players for over a decade. This troubling news was revealed today by t...
