GM Magnus Carlsen is the only player with a perfect streak at the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament after four rounds. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is in second place, having won one match in the armageddon. Meanwhile, GM Ding Liren ...
Eight anime Youtubers will compete for a $5,000 prize fund in Tournament Arc, a single-elimination bracket tournament that will run August 6-9 on Chess.com with live commentary. After Pogchamps (and in anticipation of the next Pogchamps!) Chess....
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Peter Svidler maintained their winning streaks and continue to lead the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament after three rounds. GM Ding Liren and Viswanathan Anand have started with three losses while GM Vasyl Ivan...
The United States Chess Federation will hold some of its longest-running and most prestigious scholastic tournaments online this year, starting this weekend on Chess.com. Like many "over the board" tournaments, the U.S. Open (historically ...
GM Haik Martirosyan has won the eighth Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The 20-year-old Armenian grandmaster beat Russian GM Vladislav Artemiev 2-0 in the knockout final and is now in fourth place in the overall Grand Prix standings. Th...
After a quartet of the most promising masters competed on Saturday, the 2020 ChessKid Youth Speed Chess Championship finals are set. In the opening match, top-seeded FM Marco Materia frustrated NM Brewington Hardaway with his ultra-solid style a...
The FIDE Online Olympiad, a major online chess event for national teams, will run July 25-August 30 on the Chess.com server. With 163 teams and over 1,500 participants from all over the world, the tournament will be a truly global team event ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Boris Gelfand, and Peter Svidler are leading the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament after having won both of their first two matches. GM Ding Liren seems hopelessly out of shape and started with two losses. How to ...
On July 16, GM Anish Giri played a 30-board simul on Chess.com against the top-ranked players of Nepal, the home country of Giri's father. Giri scored 28/30 while streaming the simul on his channel. The simul was organized by the Nepal Chess Ass...
GM Boris Gelfand scored an upset victory over GM Ding Liren in the first round of the chess24 Legends of Chess tournament that started on Tuesday. The event is part of the Magnus Carlsen Tour and brings together top GMs with older legends of the g...
On Monday GM Anna Ushenina won the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship. The Ukrainian grandmaster defeated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 14.5-13.5 in the Super Final, purposely held on International Chess Day. The final ...
Chess.com is announcing the second edition of Pogchamps, the critically-acclaimed Twitch streamer chess tournament featuring some of the most well-known content creators in the world. The second edition of Pogchamps will kick off August 21, starri...
On Sunday GM Alexandra Kosteniuk won the fourth and final leg of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. Thanks to her 7-5 win against Indian GM Humpy Koneru, Kosteniuk finished first in the overall Grand Prix and qual...
What happens when you combine the brute-force computing power of Stockfish with the positional understanding of AlphaZero (or Leela Chess Zero)? The chess world is about to find out! Starting July 20 at 8 a.m. Pacific / 17:00 Central Europe poss...
As the first, top-level over-the-board chess event that wasn't canceled due to the coronavirus since March, the Biel Chess Festival began on Saturday in Biel, Switzerland. GM Pentala Harikrishna won the one-day Chess960 tournament ahead of GM...
On the occasion of International Chess Day on Monday, July 20, top chess personalities will join the International Chess Federation and the United Nations in an online event. FIDE's motto this year is, "Teach someone how to play chess." United N...
Hey, chess fans! It's that time again. Let's take a quick moment to catch up on what kept our product development, support and fair play teams busy last month... Here's what we did in June! Web Removed the big modal (that you had t...
GM Humpy Koneru and GM Alexandra Kosteniuk will play in Sunday's final of the fourth leg of the FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The two grandmasters beat GM Hou Yifan and IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh...
GM Pavel Ponkratov has won the International Chess Open "Ciudad de Leon." The Russian grandmaster emerged victorious from the eight-player knockout that was held after a 10-round Swiss. As part of the 2020 Leon Chess Festival, the Leon Open star...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk won the fourth and final FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix. The Russian GM defeated GM Humpy Koneru 7-5 and qualified for the Super Final against GM Anna Ushenina on Monday, July 20. ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the seventh Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix and his second in a row after beating Russian GM Sanan Sjugirov in the knockout final. Nakamura is now also the new leader in the overall Grand Prix standings. ...
ClearSale, in partnership with Chess.com, organizes the ClearSale Blitz Chess Masters, held from July 24-26, 2020, bringing for the first time an event with 10 GMs and 2 IMs from Brazil! The event starts with a group stage and ends with an 8-playe...
After more than 10 hours of opening-round action this past Friday and Saturday, the first matches of the 2020 ChessKid Youth Speed Chess Championship are in the books. This inaugural edition features eight of the best ChessKids from arou...
Regular, over-the-board tournaments are returning as countries are easing their lockdowns. A protocol published by FIDE could provide guidance for organizers and players to safely hold and play an event. Starting from late February/early March 2...
