The semifinals of the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship will be played among IMs John Bartholomew, Teddy Coleman, Alina Kashlinskaya, and Greg Shahade, who won their quarterfinal matches this week. The first semifinal featuring...
The last Titled Tuesday tournament in the month of April was won by GM Anton Korobov. The Ukrainian grandmasters scored 8.5/9 and finished ahead of a group of 10 players on 8 points, including GM Alexander Grischuk and GM Hikaru Nakamura...
GM Ahmed Adly won the Sunway Sitges International Online Chess Open, the first-ever open Swiss tournament held online with a classical time control. The Egyptian grandmaster beat IM Liam Vrolijk of the Netherlands in the knockout final. Just lik...
The FIDE Chess.com Nations Cup starts in exactly one week. It's one of the most prestigious online events ever held with some of the strongest players on the planet participating and $180,000 in prize money. In this preview, we've collected a nu...
With three more winners on Friday and Saturday, the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship moves to the next stage: the quarterfinals. IMs Teddy Coleman, Lawrence Trent, and Carissa Yip defeated IMs Danny Rensch, Kostya Kavutskiy, and Dean...
A much-anticipated second edition of "Adopt-A-Danny" is set to kick-off on Sunday, April 26 at 9 a.m. Pacific time / 18:00 Central Europe on Chess.com/tv. The show's second guest, GM Wesley So, the world's eighth highest-rated pla...
IM Greg Shahade and IM Eric Rosen qualified for the quarterfinals of the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship after beating IM Anna Zatonskih and IM Elisabeth Paehtz, respectively. Three more matches in the round of 16 will follow on Friday a...
Chess.com's Team Battle series continues on Saturday, April 25 at 9 a.m. Pacific Time (6 p.m. Central European Time) on Twitch.tv/Chess. This week's match-up will feature an all-Chess.com commentator clash between the U.S. and Spain. G...
After some hiccups on the first two days, the Sunway Sitges International Online Chess Open is now well underway. It's a historic event: never before has a Swiss tournament with a classical time control been held online. The inaugural Sun...
With lots of usual suspects playing (such as GM Alexander Grischuk, GM Hikaru Nakamura, and GM Vidit Gujrathi) it was GM Shant Sargsyan who finished in clear first place. The 18-year-old Armenian grandmaster scored 8.5/9 in April's third Titled Tu...
In Monday's round of 16, IM Alina Kashlinskaya of Russia eliminated IM Christof Sielecki of Germany from the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship. The match was a close affair, with a final score of 13-11 for the winner. Kashlinskaya j...
Palo Alto, Calif., April 21, 2020—The International Chess Federation and Chess.com announce the Online Nations Cup, a team competition held May 5-10, 2020. Six teams are due to take part in this competition: Russia, USA, Europe, China, India...
IM John Bartholomew was the first to reach the quarterfinals of the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship as he defeated IM David Pruess on Saturday. A day later, IM Levy Rozman knocked out IM Tania Sachdev. The first Speed Chess Championshi...
The FIDE Candidates Countries Youth Online Chess Tournament was won by the team representing the International Chess Federation, closely followed by China. The tournament took place on April 18-19 on Chess.com. It was an expected victory for "Te...
Leela Chess Zero defeated Stockfish with a score of 106-94 in the final of the 13th Chess.com Computer Chess Championship that finished earlier this week. The match, played on the Chess.com server, saw 26 decisive games. The final was the culmin...
GM Vladislav Artemiev of Russia won the $5,000 first prize in the Abu Dhabi Super Blitz Challenge on Wednesday. The Russian grandmaster defeated GM Oleksandr Bortnyk of Ukraine in the knockout final; GM Daniil Dubov came third. Organized by the ...
Update: The first-event premium arena will now take place Wednesday, June 3 at 9 a.m. Pacific Time (18:00 CEST)! Register for the Arena beginning one hour before it begins here: https://www.chess.com/live#r=212024 After postponing the original...
GM Salem Saleh's preparation for today's Abu Dhabi Super Blitz Challenge couldn't have been better. The UAE resident won April's second Titled Tuesday tournament alone with 8.5/9 after winning his first eight games. With another Titled Tuesday y...
The FIDE Candidates Countries Youth Online Chess Tournament is a team match for youth players representing China, France, Netherlands, Russia, USA, and FIDE. It will be played on Chess.com on April 18 and 19. Since all over-the-board tournaments...
The Blitzstream Cup, organized by Kevin Bordi and held over Easter Weekend, raised 11,250 euros for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). With the participation of GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, the event was a su...
SSON, the chess club from Selfoss, Iceland, won the first Nordic Internet Club Cup, played over the Easter Weekend on Chess.com. Vikingaklubburinn, also from Iceland, came second, ahead of Oslo (Norway). The top seed in the inaugural Nordic Inte...
Chess.com is thrilled to announce our first official league for club competition, the Chess.com Clubs League. Chess.com has been home to outstanding community leagues for more than a decade. We have thriving leagues for rapid, blitz, bullet, daily...
Note: Registration is now closed. The inaugural Sunway Sitges International Online Chess Open tournament, likely the first-ever classical open tournament played online, will start Friday, April 17 on Chess.com. Questions about this event can be ...
GM David Smerdon (@smurfo) defeated chess engine Komodo (@PlayKomodo), playing with knight odds, 5-1. The Man vs. Machine rapid match was played on Chess.com on April 10 and 11 and provided more insight into the effect of material imbalance in hum...
