Chess.com and the Botez sisters are excited to announce BlockBattles, the second edition of the highly successful BlockChamps event! On August 8 at 11 a.m. PT/20:00 CEST, the best Minecraft and Variety streamers in the world will gather to compete...
GM Le Quang Liem continues to surprise at the Chessable Masters. The Vietnamese grandmaster beat GM Levon Aronian 3-1 in the first semifinal match and played a spectacular game that included a queen sacrifice to force checkmate. In the other sem...
Arena Kings Season 7 concluded on Wednesday, August 4, with GM Jose Martinez (@Jospem) emerging victorious, earning the $4,000 prize for first place. Martinez won an additional $725 during the season for a total earnings of $4,725. 👏 Congratul...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda won the 2021 FIDE World Cup on Thursday, beating GM Sergey Karjakin convincingly in his white game, thereby avoiding a tiebreak. The 23-year-old Polish grandmaster finished the tournament undefeated and takes home $88,000. ...
GM Gata Kamsky clinched the Biel Chess Festival Chess Triathlon on Wednesday. The American grandmaster won both the classical and rapid segments while GM Nihal Sarin won the blitz. Sarin came in third in the overall standings. GM Kirill Alekseenko...
The Chessable Masters semifinals will see the matchups GM Vladislav Artemiev vs. GM Wesley So and GM Levon Aronian vs. GM Le Quang Liem. Favorites in their quarterfinal matches, GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Hikaru Nakamura were knocked out, the latt...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu won his first Titled Tuesday on August 3, with a score of 9.5/11. He won on tiebreaks over GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Dmitry Andreikin, who also scored 9.5/11. In fourth place was GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan with the best ...
GM Magnus Carlsen bounced back forcefully from his lost FIDE World Cup semifinal. The world champion played a masterpiece with the black pieces on Wednesday and defeated GM Vladimir Fedoseev in the first game of the match for third place. The fina...
GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov need to win on demand on Wednesday after losing their first quarterfinal matches of the Chessable Masters vs. GM Le Quang Liem and GM Levon Aronian respectively. GM Jorden van Foreest had a good f...
GM Haik Martirosyan defeated GM Arjun Erigaisi in the Tuesday quarterfinal of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid with a 15.5-13.5 score. Martirosyan consistently held early leads in each section and held off several str...
Not GM Magnus Carlsen but GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda has reached the final of the FIDE World Cup. On Tuesday, the Polish grandmaster beat the world champion in the second rapid game to set up a clash with GM Sergey Karjakin. Both finalists have also qu...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo narrowly defeated GM Jeffery Xiong in Monday's quarterfinal of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The Iranian GM came back from a three-point deficit and decided the match in the final bullet games. ...
GM Wesley So has finished in sole first place in the Chessable Masters preliminaries, just ahead of GM Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura, and GM Levon Aronian. GM Le Quang Liem and GM Jorden van Foreest just made the cut and have qualified fo...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk won the Women's FIDE World Cup final on Monday after drawing her second game vs. GM Aleksandra Goryachkina. GM Sergey Karjakin defeated GM Vladimir Fedoseev to qualify for both the World Cup final and the 2022 FIDE Candidate...
Chess.com is happy to announce the release of tablebases inside of our Analysis page, a new tool that will help you get even better in the endgame! Combined with our recently released Endgame page, this new feature is everything you need to domina...
Chess.com is thrilled to announce that GM Fabiano Caruana, the 2018 world championship challenger, #1 rated American chess player, and longtime #2 player in the world, will be a Chess.com commentator for the 2021 World Chess Championship! The lege...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk grabbed the lead in the Women's FIDE World Cup final on Sunday by winning a dramatic game vs. GM Aleksandra Goryachkina. GM Tan Zhongyi and GM Anna Muzychuk started their match for third place with a draw. Both games in the ...
GM Raunak Sadhwani on Saturday defeated IM Christopher Yoo in the first quarterfinal of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid. The tournament is a knockout competition for top junior chess players with a $35,000 prize fund. T...
GM Wesley So leads the Chessable Masters preliminaries after the first day of play. GMs Vladislav Artemiev, Alireza Firouzja, and Hikaru Nakamura are trailing by half a point. The eighth leg of the Champions Chess Tour runs until August 8. ...
Again coming back from a one-point deficit in the rapid, GM Sergey Karjakin eventually knocked GM Sam Shankland out of the FIDE World Cup on Friday. Karjakin will now play GM Vladimir Fedoseev, which means a Russian player is guaranteed for the fi...
GM Magnus Carlsen has reached the semifinals of the FIDE World Cup after beating GM Etienne Bacrot twice. He will next play GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, who defeated GM Vidit Gujrathi on Thursday. GM Vladimir Fedoseev has also qualified as he won agai...
Using a positional queen sacrifice, an inspired GM Magnus Carlsen started his FIDE World Cup quarterfinal with a win against GM Etienne Bacrot. GM Sam Shankland might eliminate another former World Cup winner as the American GM defeated GM Sergey ...
For the third time in four weeks, GM Hikaru Nakamura has taken first place in Titled Tuesday. His 9.5 points out of 11 were enough to finish ahead of GM Giga Quparadze on tiebreaks. GM Raunak Sadhwani and GM Aleksey Sarana rounded out the top four...
GM Magnus Carlsen eliminated GM Andrey Esipenko on Tuesday from the FIDE World Cup in an epic tiebreak match that was decided in the blitz games. Carlsen will now play GM Etienne Bacrot, who defeated GM Kacper Piorun. The other winners of the ro...
