GMs Fabiano Caruana and Anish Giri won their games in the ninth round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament and are now tied for first place with GM Alireza Firouzja. After six draws and a loss, GM Magnus Carlsen finally won ...
In his first-ever classical game with the world champion, GM Andrey Esipenko scored a crushing, upset victory vs. GM Magnus Carlsen. The just 18-year-old Russian GM dominated the game from start to finish. GM Alireza Firouzja won his third consecu...
GM Nils Grandelius couldn't keep his lead at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. In the seventh round, the Swedish grandmaster lost to GM Anish Giri, who is now in shared first place together with co-Dutchman GM Jorden van Foreest ...
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Jorden van Foreest won their games in the sixth round in Wijk aan Zee to move up the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's standings with 3.5/6. After six hours of defending, tournament leader GM Nils Grandelius hel...
For the second time, GM Nils Grandelius is the sole leader at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. In a superb game, the Swedish grandmaster with the white pieces defeated GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. All other games in round five ended in draws. ...
Four weeks after his first win, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the January 19 Titled Tuesday tournament as well. The Azerbaijani grandmaster finished in clear first place with 10/11. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament, our weekly blitz event fo...
The five-way tie for first place did not change as all games in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's fourth round ended in draws, although there was a lot of fighting chess. Wednesday is the first rest day. How to watch?The Tata Steel C...
The Czech-American grandmaster, former number-10 in the world, coach, organizer, trainer, commentator, author, columnist, and member of the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek died at the age of 77 after a brief but severe illnes...
NOTE: Chess.com has now reverted all rating adjustments referred to in this announcement. We appreciate all of the community feedback and are considering it carefully going forward Today, Chess.com made two significant changes to our Daily...
In the third round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, GM Fabiano Caruana failed to convert a much better ending after having played a brilliant, sacrificial middlegame vs. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Tournament leader GM Nils Grandelius...
GM Nils Grandelius is having a dream debut in the Masters group of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The Swedish grandmaster is the only player on 2/2. There's a group of three players right behind him with 1.5 points, including GM&n...
BlockChamps, presented by the dynamic streaming sibling duo WFM Alexandra Botez and Andrea Botez and sponsored by Envy and CashApp, broke the chess viewership record for a single stream previously held by PogChamps. Over 91,000 concurrent viewers ...
GM Magnus Carlsen started his Tata Steel Chess Tournament with a win. The world champion took some risks but then was rewarded as he profited from a blunder by GM Alireza Firouzja. The other winners of the day were GMs Anish Giri and Nil...
Pandemic or not, there is always chess—even over the board. On Saturday, the 83rd Tata Steel Chess Tournament will start with the world's highest-ranked grandmasters Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana making their first moves on a physical c...
GM Aleksey Sarana won the January 12 Titled Tuesday tournament. The Russian grandmaster edged out GM Aleksandar Indjic on tiebreak after both finished on 10/11. This week's Titled Tuesday tournament had a total of 773 participants. It was a...
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura are not among the main participants of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour. The two biggest stars of (online) chess might still participate as wildcards. The organizers announced the full field of participants on Wedne...
The International Chess Federation and Chess.com are excited to bring you the first FIDE Online World Corporate Chess Championship, an online team competition that will take place on February 19-21, 2021. Companies in industries spanning from fina...
WFM Alexandra Botez and her sister Andrea Botez, a fan-favorite streamer duo that was recently signed by Team Envy, will be presenting BlockChamps on January 16 at 10 a.m. PT / 18:00 CET. In this event, prominent streamers in the Minecraft commu...
For many, chess is a fun hobby that allows them to have a good time with their friends. However, to Griffin McConnell, it's much more than that—chess helped him recover from brain surgery. Chess.com is proud to present "Griffin's Gambit," ...
February 14 will mark the beginning of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6, a tournament poised to be one of the most viewed chess events in history. Both the first PogChamps and PogChamps 2 achieved unprecedented numbers of viewers, with live vie...
GM Ray Robson won the Puzzle Battle World Championship on Friday. The 26-year-old U.S. grandmaster clinched the $8,000 first prize in an eight-player, winner-takes-all elimination bracket where players faced each other in three-minute Puzzle ...
If you enjoyed playing the virtual Beth Harmon bots from the Netflix show “The Queen’s Gambit” or our many computer personalities, you can now test your abilities against seven new chess streamers, chess personalities, and t...
With the first month of the new year, Chess.com is bringing back an event that proved both fan and streamer favorite: Arena Kings! The sixth season of the Arena Kings chess tournament series will start on January 11, 2021 and w...
One of the chess highlights of 2020 happened shortly before the end of the year, and you might have missed it. On December 30, commentators IM Anna Rudolf and IM Levy Rozman raised $355,720 on GM Hikaru Nakamura's Twitch channel for CARE...
