GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Fabiano Caruana both won one regular games and then both won one clutch game to tie their Clutch Chess International halfway. Caruana came back twice after a loss. The second half of the match is played...
The Chess.com PogChamps is nearing the end of the group stage. On Friday, Yassuo clinched the final championship bracket berth against MoistCr1tikal, meaning that players were fighting for superior seeding on Saturday. NymN pulled an ups...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Fabiano Caruana will play the final of the Clutch Chess International. Although Carlsen's win vs GM Levon Aronian was never really in doubt, Caruana made a big comeback vs. GM Wesley So o...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So are leading their Clutch Chess semifinal matches 6-2 against GM Levon Aronian and GM Fabiano Caruana, respectively. The matches were identical with Carlsen and So winning the fi...
The third round of the Chess.com PogChamps kicked off on Thursday, with Fuslie and NateHill battling for their championship bracket lives. While Erobb's match with Voyboy was postponed to this Saturday, Ludwig and SlikeR brought the tras...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the second Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix, formerly known as Titled Tuesday. The French grandmaster beat GM Alireza Firouzja in the final, an eight-player knockout held after 10 rounds of Swiss. ...
The second round of the Chess.com PogChamps came to an end on Wednesday, with NymN, Boxbox, and Forsen each punching their ticket into the championship bracket. While the losses mean Swiftor, SlikeR, and xChocobars will be relegated to t...
GM Levon Aronian will be playing GM Magnus Carlsen in the Clutch Chess semifinals as he defeated GM Alexander Grischuk 10-8 on Tuesday. The other match will be GM Wesley So vs. GM Fabiano Caruana, who b...
Even with just two games, the sixth day of the Chess.com PogChamps brought the event's biggest surprise when moistCr1tikal shocked xQc with a six move win. After non-stop trash talk from both players in the build-up, the result shocked t...
On Tuesday, GM Sergey Karjakin played a chess game against cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first-ever Space vs. Earth chess battle. The game was played on a fairly high level (bo...
An Indian charity tournament held June 4-7 on Chess.com raised just over $7500 for the state of West Bengal, India, which was paralyzed by the Cyclone Amphan a couple of weeks ago. This event was a joint effort by Chess.com and Samay Raina, o...
GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Wesley So are the first two players to reach the Clutch Chess International's semifinals. On Monday they defeated GM Jeffery Xiong and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave respectively. How to watch?The games of the ...
The second round of the Chess.com PogChamps saw Voyboy become the first streamer to clinch his spot in the championship bracket. With his win over Fuslie, the League of Legends talent will be one of eight streamers playing for the $10,00...
GMs Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian are leading their Clutch Chess matches at halftime vs. GMs Leinier Dominguez and Alexander Grischuk respectively. Caruana and Aronian both won one clutch game for a $2,000 bonus prize. How to watch?The games...
The Chess.com PogChamps' first round ended with three decisive results, as Papaplatte, Forsen, and Boxbox were each able to earn three points from their respective openings. Once again, fans from all over the world tuned into Chess.com's broa...
GM Magnus Carlsen leads his Clutch Chess match vs GM Jeffery Xiong 4.5-3.5 after the first day of play. In the other half of the bracket, GM Wesley So scored 5.5-2.5 vs. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. A week after the first Clutch Chess event, an Am...
The second day of the Chess.com PogChamps brought tense action in both clashes. A rivalry was born between NymN and SlikeR, when trash-talking in chess was redefined live on broadcast. Meanwhile, the much-anticipated clash between Y...
The first-ever Chess.com PogChamps kicked off Friday, with fans across the world tuning in to watch their favorite Twitch streamers clash on the chessboard. Opening day action saw Group A kick off in earnest, with Fuslie and Voyboy both notching w...
The FIDE Checkmate Coronavirus project has resulted in over 1,500 tournaments played in the last 17 days on multiple chess platforms. The project runs until June 16, and many more prizes are up for grabs for players of all levels. The Internatio...
GM Daniil Dubov won the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge on Wednesday. The Russian grandmaster defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura in the armageddon game to clinch the $45,000 first prize. Nakamura won $27,000. How to watch?The ga...
This weekend, GM Jorden van Foreest will have his chance to take down Stockfish in what promises to be another epic showdown featuring man and machine. The Stockfish Challenge, set to start on Sunday, June 7 at 5 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m...
GM Vladislav Artemiev became the winner of the first Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix, formerly known as Titled Tuesday. The Russian grandmaster beat his compatriot GM Sergey Karjakin in the final, an eight-player knockout held after 10 ro...
The Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge will see one more day of chess as GM Daniil Dubov tied the score vs GM Hikaru Nakamura on Monday. The Russian GM won the first game as Black and the next three then ended in draws. ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura took the lead in the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge final. The American grandmaster defeated GM Daniil Dubov 2.5-1.5 on Monday and is now a match victory away from clinching the whole tournament. How t...
