Team Chess Gurukul won the inaugural edition of the Sukooon Resort Indian Chess.com League by beating team Superkids in a thrilling Superfinal that lasted over four hours in a PRO Chess League elimination style match. Two-time Indian champion GM...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, and Wesley So are tied for first place after the first day at the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge. The event is the second tournament in the recently announced Magnus Carlsen Tour. How to watc...
On Monday, GM Anish Giri and IM Danny Rensch teamed up for the third installment of the "Adopt-a-Danny" series—a special event to help raise awareness for adoption, contributing all donated proceeds to the Dave Thomas Foundation fo...
Resuming our Man vs. Machine series, this week Chess.com is hosting a match between American grandmaster Aleksandr Lenderman and Komodo. The chess engine will be playing with knight odds but with offsetting factors. How to watch?The match runs M...
The FIDE Online Steinitz Memorial, an online blitz tournament held over the weekend, was clinched by the two reigning world blitz champions. Magnus Carlsen won the men's event with a round to spare while the women's sectio...
IM Alina Kashlinksaya will be facing IM John Bartholomew in the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship final. Bartholomew defeated IM Greg Shahade 15.5-6.5 in a much-anticipated match that saw great banter before and after the games. The...
GM Alireza Firouzja won the Chessbrah Invitational, a blitz tournament among six super grandmasters held Friday and Saturday on Chess.com. The Iranian grandmaster defeated GM Anish Giri of the Netherlands in a best-of-10 final. Yesterday the pre...
The beloved series Adopt-A-Danny returns with its third father-to-be, GM Anish Giri this Monday, May 18 at 9 a.m. Pacific time / 18:00 Central Europe on Chess.com/tv. The show's second guest, world number-eight GM Wesley So, adopted Danny i...
Over-the-board chess has shifted to the internet and this weekend is more crowded than ever with both the FIDE Online Steinitz Memorial and the Chessbrah Invitational. GM Alexander Grischuk plays both. Steinitz Memorial The Steinitz Memori...
IM Alina Kashlinskaya became the first player to reach the final of the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship. On Thursday, the Russian player defeated IM Teddy Coleman 17.5-6.5. In the final, Kashlinskaya will meet the winner of the ma...
GM Alexander Grischuk won the "Play For Russia" tournament on Thursday after beating GM Evgeny Tomashevsky in the final. Held May 12-14, the online blitz tournament raised an impressive amount of over $354,000 for hospitals and health workers...
GM Magnus Carlsen announced the Magnus Carlsen Tour, a series of five tournaments to be held online with a total prize fund of $1 million, at a press conference on May 14 in Oslo, Norway. The tour includes the already concluded Magnus ...
There's more news about GM Hikaru Nakamura this week, as the American grandmaster won the May 12 edition of Titled Tuesday with 9.5/10, finishing ahead of the Iranian prodigy Alireza Firouzja and 1,083 other participants. The...
GM Hikaru Nakamura made a cameo appearance in the TV show Billions. The American grandmaster appeared in the second episode of season five, aired on Sunday on the premium television network Showtime. Billions is an award-winning and crit...
Greetings, chess fans! April certainly kept us—and our systems—busy! Behind the scenes, our operations specialists worked hard to keep the servers from boiling over, as COVID-19 kept site traffic higher than ever. But that wasn't all...
Chess.com expands Speed Chess Championship series with grand prix qualification system and significantly increased prizes. Palo Alto, Calif., May 10, 2020—Chess.com has announced that it will be expanding its 2020 Speed Chess Championship ...
China won the inaugural FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup on Sunday. Their Superfinal with the USA ended 2-2 with China having draw odds for winning the round-robin phase. The Superfinal concluded six days of online competitive chess at the...
China and the USA will face each other in Sunday's Superfinal of the FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup. On Saturday, the USA lost to Europe in round one, but then they became the only team to beat China in the tournament. Thus, USA finis...
After eight rounds, China is already secured of a place in Sunday's Superfinal of the FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup. The USA leapfrogged Europe in the standings on Friday and these teams will battle for second place in tomorrow's fin...
China continues to lead the FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup with four regular rounds to go. It is Europe that has the best chances to join them in Sunday's Superfinal. Team USA defeated and leapfrogged Russia in the standings, while India...
China increased its lead at the FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup to two match points on the second day of play. The USA and Europe are tied for second place, followed by Russia, Rest of the World, and India. How to watchAll games will be played...
China took an early lead at the FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup as the only team to win both matches on the first day. The top seeds defeated both team Rest of the World and team Europe. The USA is in sole second place after beating Russia in ...
The pairings for the first round of the $180,000 FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup are Europe vs. Russia, China vs. Rest of the World, and India vs. the USA. This was the result of the drawing of lots, held during the online opening...
GM Magnus Carlsen won the Magnus Carlsen Invitational on Sunday. The Norwegian grandmaster clinched the $70,000 first prize after beating GM Hikaru Nakamura in the final of this very strong online tournament held April 18-May 3. The event was an...
