In the early stages of the COVID pandemic, Chess.com launched the first season of our official Chess.com Clubs League, an online competition league for interested clubs all around the world. In season one, 116 clubs competed from all over the worl...
On Sunday OSG Baden-Baden earned their 14th Bundesliga title in 15 years by winning the round-robin championship tournament in Karlsruhe, Germany. Many players returned to over-the-board chess for the first time in months and seemed quite inspired...
GM Alexey Sarana of Russia will be the opponent for American GM Sam Sevian in the quarterfinals of the Junior Speed Chess Championship sponsored by ChessKid. In a match on Sunday, Sarana defeated his compatriot Andrey Esipenko 14-11. It was...
GM Parham Maghsoodloo will be the opponent for GM Haik Martirosyan in the quarterfinals of the Junior Speed Chess Championship sponsored by ChessKid. In their match on Saturday, Maghsoodloo eliminated the Indian youngster GM Praggnanandhaa R....
The Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament ended in a shared victory for GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So. Both won $45,000 as the American grandmaster caught up with his Norwegian rival in the final round. Carlsen defeated So in their mutua...
The Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament seems to be a two-horse race between GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So, who have separated themselves from the field. Carlsen is half a point ahead with nine rounds of blitz to go. Their closest riva...
As the only undefeated player, GM Wesley So leads the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament after nine rounds of rapid chess. Going into the blitz, the American grandmaster is a point ahead of GM Magnus Carlsen, who lost to ...
It's been a while since we heard the name of GM Richard Rapport, but today the Hungarian grandmaster reminded the chess world of his creative talent in a wonderful attacking game. It was played in the Bundesliga which is underway in Karlsruhe, Ger...
GM Magnus Carlsen bounced back from his unfortunate loss by disconnect as he won all three games on the second day of the Saint Louis Rapid tournament. The world champion is now the sole leader with 9 points out of a possible 12. GMs I...
GM Baadur Jobava won the 16th Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix, his first in the series. The Georgian grandmaster beat GM Le Quang Liem of Vietnam 2-1 in the knockout final. The next Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix will be played on Septe...
GM Magnus Carlsen shockingly lost his round-two game of the Saint Louis Rapid on time as he lost his internet connection. GM Levon Aronian and GM Pentala Harikrishna are leading with 2.5/3. Only two days after the Chess9LX tournament f...
GM Haik Martirosyan comfortably reached the quarterfinals of the Junior Speed Chess Championship sponsored by ChessKid. In a match on Monday, the talented Armenian beat Germany's Vincent Keymer with the biggest score so far in the competition...
GM Sam Sevian is the third player to qualify for the quarterfinals of the Junior Speed Chess Championship sponsored by ChessKid. In a match on Sunday between two 19-year-olds, the American grandmaster beat GM Amin Tabatabaei 15.5-9.5. For t...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura both won $31,250 as they shared the first prize in the online Chess9LX tournament. The two grandmasters scored 6/9 in a tournament that had no tiebreak regulations. GM Levon Aronian, who was lea...
In an all-Indian clash on Saturday, GM Arjun Erigaisi defeated Gukesh D. with a big score: 18-8. It was the second match in the Junior Speed Chess Championship sponsored by ChessKid. This second edition of the junior championship has ...
GM Levon Aronian is the new leader of the online Chess9LX tournament after winning all of his games on day two. GM Garry Kasparov managed to score only half a point from three promising positions. Kasparov's play was influenced by a tragic ...
In the first match of the Junior Speed Chess Championship sponsored by ChessKid, GM Nihal Sarin (India) defeated GM Andrew Tang (U.S.) 16-8. Tang had entered the tournament by winning the eight-player Knockout Qualifier tournament on Wednesda...
GM Magnus Carlsen failed to take revenge for his loss in 2004 vs. GM Garry Kasparov. When they played for the first time in 16 years, Carlsen spoiled a winning endgame and let his legendary opponent off the hook in the second round of the online C...
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Today, Chess.com made two significant changes to our rating system. First, all 10-minute games (10|0) are now rapid rated instead of blitz rated. Second, all bullet chess ratings have been increased by 150 points. 10-Minute Chess Now Rapid Rated...
Andrew Tang won the Junior Speed Chess Championship qualifier. The American grandmaster emerged as the winner in an eight-player bracket and will now play a match against GM Nihal Sarin on Friday. The qualifier was a knockout tournamen...
In a new paper from DeepMind, this time co-written by 14th world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, the self-learning chess engine AlphaZero is used to explore the design of different variants of the game of chess, with different sets of rules. Th...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 15th Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix, his second week straight and already his fourth win since the start of the series. The American grandmaster beat his compatriot GM Sam Sevian 1.5-0.5 in the knockout final and co...
The FIDE Candidates Tournament will resume on November 1, 2020, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, or Tbilisi, Georgia. This was announced moments ago by the International Chess Federation. Earlier today, the Russian news agency TASS broke the news, quot...
Hey, chess fans! September is here, and it's time to review our accomplishments from last month! So let's consider August 2020 with respect to product development, support, and fair play. Web Developments If you want to learn from y...
