Season 3 of the Collegiate Chess League was the biggest season to date with over 80 schools from over a dozen countries fielding 160 teams across 10 divisions (over 1000 total students)! This is only a fraction of the number of schools and student...
GM Vidit Gujrathi is the sole leader at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament after defending brilliantly against GM Daniil Dubov, who played creatively but eventually over-pressed. Co-leaders Jan-Krzysztof Duda and GM Magnus Carlsen drew, while GM...
GM Magnus Carlsen got his first win in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's second round as the world champion scored a fairly quick full-point vs. Dutch GM Anish Giri. GM Richard Rapport was the only other winner in the Masters as the Hungarian play...
The first round of the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament saw three leaders emerge, including the 2021 winner GM Jorden van Foreest. World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen started with a quick draw vs. GM Andrey Esipenko. The Challengers group saw four de...
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Chess.com is thrilled to announce the Chess.com Rapid Chess Championship, our most elite event ever. The first "RCC" debuts with a prize fund of $650,000. This 25-week extravaganza begins on February 12 and culminates in a dramatic finale on Augus...
GM Alexey Sarana won Titled Tuesday on January 11 with a score of 9.5/11, a week after finishing in second place. He won on tiebreaks over second-place GM Aram Hakobyan and third-place Kacper Piorun. The top 10 was rounded out by seven players on ...
Following last year's controversy in Wijk aan Zee, the Tata Steel Chess Tournament today announced new regulations for tiebreaks. The biggest change is that if more than two players tie for first, all of them will be playing in the tiebreak. How...
The Saint Louis University (SLU) team earned its spot in the President's Cup by winning clear first at the 2022 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship with a perfect score. The winners will be joined at the Final Four alongside UT Dallas a...
Chess.com is happy to announce the release of Classroom! Classroom gives coaches and students a seamless, simple, all-in-one tool to help take their lessons to the next level. It also provides Chess.com members a streamlined way of connecting an...
World Chess, the organizer and owner of the commercial rights of the FIDE Grand Prix, has contacted participants about their personal sponsorship. GMs Anish Giri and Vidit Gujrathi reacted on Twitter, suggesting World Chess is trying to get "a cut...
GM Ray Robson won the 2022 Puzzle Battle World Championship that concluded on Sunday. The 27-year-old grandmaster from St. Louis again defended his title, which he has been holding since the 2020 Championship, and clinched a prize of $4,500 for bo...
Eline Roebers, only 15 years old, became the first-ever female winner of the Untergrombach Open on Saturday. Still untitled, the very talented Dutch player defeated GM Vyacheslav Ikonnikov in the final round to finish in sole first place with 6.5/...
Chess.com is excited to announce the winners of the 2021 Chess.com awards! It was a year of massive growth for chess. In February, PogChamps 3 set the Chess.com record for the biggest live-streamed event ever—at one point even breaking the 1...
College chess is starting off the new year with an exciting annual classic: the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship. This year, the tournament is returning to over-the-board just outside of Washington DC. Top college chess teams will be...
The first Titled Tuesday of 2022 went to GM David Howell on January 4. He scored 10/11 for an outright victory. In second place, also untied at 9.5/11, was GM Alexey Sarana. Meanwhile, seven players tied with nine points, with IM Pranav V in third...
Shortly after recovering from Covid, GM Nigel Short is back at the board in a tournament in Italy. He survived a lost position against a 14-year-old 1900-player whose phone went off. Meanwhile, top seed GM Anton Korobov has been showing some nice ...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (also known as MVL) finished first in the World Blitz Chess Championship with 15/21 in the Swiss tournament, after defeating GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in their third blitz playoff game. Duda finished in second and GM Alireza ...
The World Champion, a film directed by Alexey Sidorov that depicts the dramatic world championship match between GM Anatoly Karpov and GM Viktor Korchnoi in 1978, hits cinemas in Russia on Thursday. While the 1972 "Match of the Century" in Reykj...
GM Levon Aronian, the Armenian star-player who recently moved to and now represents the United States, finished day one of the World Blitz Chess Championship with 10/12 and in clear first. Behind him are Egyptian GM Bassem Amin, the five-time Afri...
The tiebreak regulations at the World Rapid Chess Championship, which finished yesterday in Warsaw, Poland, are being heavily debated on social media. This report provides an overview of the different opinions being expressed online. The World R...
After many twists and turns on day three of the World Rapid Chess Championship, 17-year-old Uzbek GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the event with 9.5/13 in the Swiss tournament, after winning the second tiebreak blitz game against GM Ian Nepomniachtch...
Palo Alto, Calif., Dec. 28, 2021—The 2022 Candidates Tournament, which will produce the challenger for the next world chess championship match, will take place in June 2022 in Madrid, Spain. As the organizing sponsor of this prestigious tour...
GM Magnus Carlsen finished the second day at the World Rapid Championship in sole first place with 7.5/9, notably defeating two young up-and-coming GMs: Alireza Firouzja and Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Carlsen is pursued by three GMs with 7/9: Nodirbek ...
