Programming note: The New York Marshalls square off against the Armenia Eagles today beginning at 9 a.m. Pacific Time (17:00 Central European Time) on Chess.com/TV. With only one round remaining to determine which four teams make it to the PRO C...
GM Harika Dronavalli and GM Aleksandra Goryachkina are tied for first place at the Lausanne Women's Grand Prix after five rounds. Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun almost lost her second game on Friday. You can follow the Lausanne ...
GM Stanislav Bogdanovich (27) and his girlfriend Alexandra Vernigora (18), also a chess player, were found dead in a Moscow apartment on Thursday evening. This was reported by the Russian Telegram channel 112 and SportExpress. It seems that...
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is playing the FIDE Candidates Tournament after all, as GM Teimour Radjabov has withdrawn from the tournament. The news was posted on the FIDE website early Friday morning. In a statement to Chess.com, Vachier-Lagrave's...
The annual Nutcracker tournament is underway in Moscow, Russia. The young GMs Andrey Esipenko (17), Alexey Sarana (20), Daniil Yuffa (23), and IM Semyon Lomasov (18) are fighting against the experienced GMs Boris Gelfand (51), Evgeniy Najer (...
GM Harika Dronavalli joined the leaders at the Lausanne Women's Grand Prix as she outplayed Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun in an endgame. There's now a tie for first place among five players after three rounds. You can follow the Lau...
Palo Alto, Calif., February 26, 2020—Adding to the tremendous success of the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship and Junior Speed Chess Championship, ChessKid.com is announcing the first-ever ChessKid Youth Speed Chess Championship for Summer...
Growing concerns about the new coronavirus raise the question of whether players should still shake hands before and after a game of chess. In a new medical security protocol, FIDE recommends against it. With 3,200 people killed by the coro...
GM Nana Dzagnidze and GM Aleksandra Goryachkina share the lead at the Lausanne Women's Grand Prix after winning their games in round two. The tournament is the third of four Grand Prix events where the winner and the runner-up will quali...
Two weeks before the start of the FIDE Candidates Tournament, we provide the latest news and address the question that is on everyone's mind: Who will win? This article, originally posted on March 3, has been updated on March 6 to reflect t...
The Lausanne Women's Grand Prix started with six draws in the first round on Monday. The tournament is the third of four Grand Prix events where the winner and the runner-up will qualify for the 2021 Women's Candidates Tournament. You ...
GM Predrag Nikolic won the Old Masters rapid tournament ahead of GM Anatoly Karpov, GM Robert Huebner, and GM Jan Timman. The tournament was held over the weekend alongside the 80th Noteboom Tournament in Leiden, the Netherlands. The annual...
The third tournament in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019-2020 will begin Monday in Lausanne, Switzerland. The top seed is GM Ju Wenjun, while GM Aleksandra Goryachkina and GM Alexandra Kosteniuk will have a chance to topple the Gran...
GM Gennady Kuzmin, a very strong Soviet grandmaster in the early 1970s and a coach of Women's World Champion Maia Chiburdanidze, died on Feb. 28 at the age of 74 in his home in Lugansk, Ukraine. The sad news was confirmed by the Ukrainian Chess ...
The World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and the winner of the Candidates Tournament is almost certainly going to be held in Dubai, but not in November. At the FIDE Congress in Abu Dhabi, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has mentioned D...
Update: A Thursday match featuring GM Ian Nepomniachtchi's Russia Wizards vs. GM Ray Robson's Chicago Wind will begin at 9 a.m. Pacific Time (18:00 Central European Time). Starting Monday, ten teams will be fighting to keep their PRO Chess ...
It was his compatriot, GM Rauf Mamedov, who was leading the tournament from the start, but with a better tiebreak, 14-year-old Aydin Suleymanli of Azerbaijan ended up as the sensational winner of the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. A year ago, th...
The Prague Chess Festival was a joy for chess fans in an otherwise quiet month for top chess. The Masters tournament was won by 16-year-old wunderkind GM Alireza Firouzja. GM Jorden van Foreest clinched the Challengers as both sections provided gr...
GM Nigel Short won the Bunratty Chess Festival's Masters, held over the weekend in Bunratty, Ireland. The English grandmaster finished in clear first place with 5/6 and scored a nice, quick victory against the 76-year-old Czech legend GM Vlastimil...
Update 3/2/2020 9:24 A.M. PST: The Regium Kickstarter campaign has been suspended. Chess.com is a company founded by chess lovers. Like you, we get excited at the prospect of bold, revolutionary innovations that will help chess evolve. Re...
Top seed GM Hikaru Nakamura won the 2019 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship, presented by Regium Chess, last Friday. The American speed demon jumped away in the bullet section after GM Wesley So had put up a great fight in the five-...
GM Alireza Firouzja won the Prague Chess Festival's Masters tournament after beating GM Vidit Gujrathi 2-0 in a playoff. The two had the best tiebreak in a group of five players finishing on 5/9. GM Jorden van Foreest emerged as t...
In an incredible turnaround, GM Vidit Gujrathi spoiled a winning position and ended up losing to GM David Navara in round eight of the Prague Chess Festival's Masters tournament. Instead of winning the tournament with a round to spare, t...
With a second win in round seven GM Alireza Firouzja moved to shared second place in the Prague Chess Festival's Masters, where GM Vidit Gujrathi still leads by a full point. GM Sam Shankland scored his first win. GM Hannes S...
