Profiting from a mistake by GM Evgeniy Najer in a rook endgame, GM Alireza Firouzja regained the sole lead in the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss with four rounds to go. GM Lei Tingjie continues to lead the women's section and now has IM...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the November 2 Titled Tuesday outright with 9.5/11, followed by a three-way tie for second place at 9 points out of 11. When the dust settled, that put GM Daniel Naroditsky in second place, GM Sergei Zhigalko in third, and G...
Note: GM Richard Rapport has replaced GM Alireza Firouzja in the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event. All picks in the Bracket Contest for Firouzja will now be counted as Rapport picks. We know that this is not an ideal situation and we thank...
There's a five-way tie for first place at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss going into the rest day. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and GM Krishnan Sasikiran won their games and joined the leaders GM Evgeniy Najer, GM Alexei Shirov, and GM Alireza Firouzj...
After four previous days of Blitzcoin Invitational, it was time for the final match. The top-seed GM Daniel Naroditsky faced another very dangerous and fast player, GM Awonder Liang, and went on to convincingly beat him to win the tournament and...
We are excited to announce that GM Daniel Naroditsky has officially signed on as Chess.com's lead commentator! You will now enjoy Danya's insightful and well-humored commentary on most of the chess events we cover, starting on November 8 with the ...
Russian GM Evgeniy Najer and former world number-two GM Alexei Shirov caught GM Alireza Firouzja in the lead in round five of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Riga. The two won their games, while Firouzja drew the all-French clash with GM Maxime ...
The fourth day of Blitzcoin Invitational saw two semifinals matches, with the four fastest and stubbornest players competing for the spots in the final match. The top-seed GM Daniel Naroditsky went on to defeat the fastest bullet player, GM Andr...
We are happy to announce the 2021-2022 Bughouse World Championship! The beloved variant championship starts on November 8 and will extend through January 2022. The strongest bughouse players in the world will come together to fight for their piece...
With a quick draw, GM Alireza Firouzja maintained his sole lead at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Riga on Saturday. Russian GM Evgeniy Najer was close to catching Firouzja but missed a win in the endgame against GM Ivan Saric. China's GM L...
GM Fabiano Caruana will be Chess.com's star commentator during the Carlsen-Nepomniachtchi world championship match alongside GM Robert Hess and IM Danny Rensch. Nobody can provide better insights than the world's number-two player, who was Carlsen...
On Friday, the third day of the Blitzcoin Invitational tournament, players entered the quarterfinals stage. As a result, four players were eliminated, as GM Daniel Naroditsky outplayed GM Brandon Jacobson, GM Andrew Tang beat IM Atulya Shetty, I...
GM Alireza Firouzja is the sole leader at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Riga after beating GM Alexandr Predke on Friday, while co-leader GM Ivan Saric drew his game with GM Fabiano Caruana. Nine players are sharing the lead in the FIDE Chess.c...
The 28th of October brought us the second day of the Blitzcoin Invitational, a bullet and blitz knockout event hosted by the Charlotte Chess Center, where 16 top US players U-25 compete in blitz matches for a prize of one Bitcoin. This was the l...
After two rounds, there are three players in the open section on 2/2 and seven women players on the same score at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss in Riga, Latvia. There are nine rounds to go in the tournament. How t...
The Collegiate Chess League only has two weeks left in the regular season, and teams are starting to face must-win situations on the brink of elimination. Other teams are starting to clinch playoff spots, most notably division one teams UC Berkele...
On Wednesday, October 27, chess fans got treated to the first day of the Blitzcoin Invitational, a bullet and blitz knockout event hosted by the Charlotte Chess Center, where 16 top US players U-25 compete in blitz matches for a prize of one Bitco...
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the October 26 edition of Titled Tuesday with a score of 10/11. It was his first win in the event since January 19 and third overall. In sole second place was GM Jose Martinez with 9.5/11. Four players tied for the nex...
Following a precautionary move from the Isle of Man to Riga and despite a new local lockdown in Latvia, the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss took off on Wednesday. Top-seed GM Fabiano Caruana and third-seed GM Alireza Firouzja we...
The 84th edition of the Tata Steel Chess tournament during January 14-30, 2022 in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, will again have the world's top two players, GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Fabiano Caruana. On Tuesday, 13 of the 14 participants were anno...
The spookiest night of the year is almost upon us, but you don't need to be scared. It turns out that some monsters actually enjoy a good game of chess! You can now play against two brand new Halloween bots—but do it quickly, before they dis...
The Collegiate Chess League is officially past the halfway mark, and teams are starting to jock for playoff positions. With only three rounds remaining in the regular season, every point earned could be the difference between being eliminated or n...
The FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss and Women’s Grand Swiss will go on despite a new COVID-19 lockdown in Latvia that started on Thursday. The Latvian government included the chess tournament, scheduled for Oct. 27-Nov. 8, in a list of exceptions...
On his 15th attempt, GM Nikita Vitiugov won his first-ever Russian championship title on Wednesday in Ufa. The 2017 runner-up finished in clear first place, half a point ahead of GM Maxim Matlakov. GM Valentina Gunina won her fourth women's champi...
