A bit more than $6,000 was raised for India's Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund to fight COVID-19 in a Chess.com on Saturday with GM Viswanathan Anand and other top Indian grandmasters. The sim...
Chess.com's Team Battle series continues on Saturday, April 11 at 12 p.m. Pacific Time (20:00 Central European Time) on Twitch.tv/Chess. This month's theme, Zoomers Play Chess will feature a teenage clash between Chess.com's top tee...
Hey, chess fans! Last month was crazy at Chess.com—and everywhere. As our normal lives and routines were suddenly interrupted, we were fortunate to still be able share in the fun and community of chess online. The Chess.com team kept bus...
19-year-old GM Haik Martirosyan of Armenia won this month's Titled Tuesday tournament. With 888 titled players, including top GMs Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Hikaru Nakamura, it was by far the biggest...
The Nordic Internet Club Cup, an online competition for Nordic chess clubs organized by the Icelandic Chess Federation, starts today on Chess.com. Russian talent GM Andrey Esipenko and Africa's number-one GM Bassem Amin are among the top players. ...
Making an appearance in Lex Fridman's Artificial Intelligence Podcast, DeepMind's David Silver gave lots of insights into the history of AlphaGo and AlphaZero and deep reinforcement learning in general. Today, the finals of the Chess.c...
Still not able to fly back home and unite with his family, GM Viswanathan Anand has posted a video message related to the COVID-19 crisis as other Indian players are also speaking out. Anand has now been in Germany for just under a month, unable...
Resuming our Man vs. Machine series, this week Chess.com is hosting a match between Australian grandmaster David Smerdon and Komodo. The chess engine will be playing with knight odds. The match, held in conjunction with a special anniversary iss...
The Abu Dhabi Chess & Culture Club and Chess.com announce the first Abu Dhabi Super Blitz Challenge, on Wednesday, April 15. The tournament features a prize fund of $10,000 and is open to all titled players. Early entries include GM Hikaru Nak...
A group of young French chess players was quarantined in Murmansk, Russia when one Irish participant of their tournament was tested positive for the coronavirus. After two weeks, the French players were finally able to travel back home. The tour...
The 2020 Grand Chess Tour has been canceled. The Saint Louis Chess Club stated that events planned for August-September in St. Louis might still happen if the situation has improved enough by that time. After a meeting on Friday, the Grand Chess...
Much has been said about the FIDE Candidates Tournament, the postponement of the second half and the situation regarding GM Teimour Radjabov. It's easy to forget that chess fans saw a marvelous (half) tournament, one that provided a wealth of grea...
Six of India's best players will offer simultaneous exhibitions on Chess.com to support the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund. Set to start on Saturday, April 11, at 6 am Pacific Time (...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi is the new number four in the world rankings. The Russian grandmaster reached a career-high rating in the April FIDE rating list, published by the International Chess Federation on Wednesday. Note that the new ratin...
Edited April 2, 2020: Happy April Fool's everyone. Stay safe! The chess world was universally saddened by the postponement after seven rounds of the FIDE Candidates Tournament due to the escalating COVID-19 pandemic and the rapidly impending clo...
Arianne Caoili, a former Oceania women's chess champion, Woman International Master, and an incredibly versatile human being, has died due to the consequences of a car crash. Caoili, the wife of Armenia's number-one grandmaster Levon Aronian,...
The second Femme Batale show, a women's continental clash between Europe and North America held last Saturday, raised $3,397 for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. The match starred IM Anna Rudolf, WGM Jennifer Shahade, WFM Alexandra Bote...
While the FIDE Candidates tournament was stopped at the halfway point and almost all players are now back home, the situation surrounding GM Teimour Radjabov is still the talk of the town. In this report we've collected comments in other media sou...
Today, half a century ago, one of the greatest chess events of the 20th century started in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Virtually all of the top players in the world participated in this match between the Soviet Union and the Rest of the World. The eve...
Members of the national chess team of Azerbaijan have written an open letter in which they demand that FIDE puts GM Teimour Radjabov back into the Candidates tournament. Meanwhile, GM Sergey Karjakin has expressed his support for Radjabo...
GM Teimour Radjabov is considering legal action now that the second half of the FIDE Candidates tournament has been postponed amidst the coronavirus crisis. The Azerbaijani grandmaster, who predicted big problems and withdrew before the tournament...
The second half of the FIDE Candidates Tournament has been postponed. The imminent interruption of air traffic between Russia and other countries forced the decision, according to a statement by FIDE. The players were informed of the postpo...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in round seven of the FIDE Candidates Tournament in Yekaterinburg. As the first tiebreak is mutual score, the French player is now the new leader halfway the tournam...
Chess.com's Team Battle series continues on Saturday, March 28 at 12 p.m. Pacific Time (20:00 Central European Time) on Twitch.tv/Chess. This month's theme, Femme Batale will feature a women's continental clash between Europe and No...
